David R.M. Williams Head, Department of Applied Mathematics ARC Senior Research Fellow e-mail: [E-mail] drw110@rsphysse.anu.edu.au Tel:+61-26 125 06 80 Fax: +61-2-6 125 07 32 Information about the 2nd AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PHYSICS COMPETITION, Dec2-3, 2004 Images from the Inaugural AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PHYSICS COMPETITION, Dec3-4, 2003 Results from the Inaugural AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PHYSICS COMPETITION, Dec3-4, 2003 Sample Questions from Inaugural AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PHYSICS COMPETITION, Dec3-4, 2003 Questions for the 2nd Australian National Physics Competition, Dec2-3, 2004. Questions for the 3rd Australian National Physics Competition, Dec1-2, 2005. Capillarity Notes from Soft Matter Physics Course Liquid Crystal Notes from Soft Matter Physics Course Thermodynamics and Stat. Mech. Notes for Soft Matter Physics Course 2001 Exam for Soft Matter Physics Course Assignment 2 for Soft Matter Physics Course Click Here for a Full Publication List Sorted Chronologically Click Here for a Full Publication List Sorted by Journal Click Here for a Discussion of my Research Click Here for a Brief Career History Personal Pages are here Top five publications Polymers Grafted onto Strongly Adsorbing Surfaces in Poor Solvents: Stretching, Fission, Phase Separation and Globular Micelles in 2D. E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams, Physical Review Letters, 82, 2701-2704, (1999). Corrugational Instabilities of Thin Copolymer Films. D.R.M. Williams. Physical Review Letters, 75, 453 (1995). Collision of a Field-Driven Polymer with a Post: Electrophoresis in Microlithographic Arrays. E.M. Sevick and D.R.M. Williams, Physical Review Letters, 76, 2595 (1996). Diblock copolymer thin films on heterogeneous striped surfaces: Commensurate, incommensurate and inverted lamellae. G.G. Pereira and D.R.M. Williams, Physical Review Letters, 80, 2849-2852 , 1998. Why DLVO is wrong. Bostrom, Williams and Ninham, PRL 2002 Research interests Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics: Theory and Simulation polymers (polymer grafting, block copolymers, biopolymers, DNA Condensates) liquid crystals granular materials surface growth phenomena

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