Department of Chemistry, Duke University
Our review on amorphous sphere packings has just been published in a new RSC volume on packing, announced recently in an elegant press release. Congratulations to my collaborator, Peter Morse, for making this happen! If you’d like a personal copy Continue reading Amorphous Packings of Spheres
As of July 1, 2025, Patrick Charbonneau is Professor of Physics at Duke University.
Over the summer, Professor Charbonneau had the privilege of visiting MOTAT in Auckland, New Zealand, where the Cambridge Meccano model differential analyzer can now be found. He also got to give a talk to museum staff and volunteers about his Continue reading Travel News
Congratulations, Dr. Mingyuan Zheng, for her work on the not-so-glass-like behavior of active matter being accepted in PRL! It’s a nice bow in our recent gathering in Suzhou. Updated June 4, 2025: Published!
Professor Charbonneau is the next Lead Editor of PRE, starting this coming January. Stay tuned for more on this theme…
Our long-thermalizing review on colloidal hard spheres is now out! In the (authors-revised) words or the publisher: “Hard spheres—simple particles that cannot overlap, like billiard balls—may at first glance seem to be a rather abstract model of matter. However, the Continue reading Hard spheres in focus
The Scientific Vision of Women, an exhibit currently presented in the Mary Duke Biddle Room (until February 15, 2025) features an entry about Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier by Prof. Charbonneau and Prof. Hepler-Smith. The entry is derived from material presented in Continue reading Library Exhibit
Last year, Prof. Charbonneau was interviewed about his project of tracing back the history of sucre à la crème, a confection he regularly uses in courses at Duke as well as in public (or conference) demonstrations to illustrate the importance Continue reading History of grained confections
It’s a pleasure to celebrate the research achievements of Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Leticia Cugliandolo, and Jorge Kurchan with the 2025 Lars Onsager Prize and those of Andrea Liu with the 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize.
The first oral history interview I recorded for the History of RSB project was with this year’s Nobel Prize winner, John J. Hopfield. As a result, this prize feels more special than usual. To find out more, note that a Continue reading Nobel Prize for Prof. John Hopfield
