Prof. Robert Holyst Research areas:

Simple fluids: many body correlation functions, freezing, wetting, density functional theories, kinetic theories
Liquid crystals: surface ordering, density functional theories, phase transitions in model systems,x-ray scattering, structure of thin films
Microemulsions: wetting, bulk structure and correlations, ordering in restricted geometries
Polymers: phase transitions and correlations in bulk liquid crystalline polymers, polymer brushes, general aspects of statistical mechanics of polymers, critical phenomena in polymers, structuralordering in systems of copolymers, light scattering on polymer melts, spinodal decomposition, kinetics of the order-disorder phase transitions in polymer melts
Brownian motion. 2D systems and conformal invariance.
Topology and geometry of surfaces. Minimal surfaces
Wormhole passages in lamellar phase
Front propagation, ferroelectric smectics.
Cellular organization of inner membranes in cells, biological logistics

Institute of Physical Chemistry