Physics 464: Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group

Term essays 2000

These are in PDF format.  For technical reasons that I do not fully understand (probably due to fonts), these tend to look worse on screen than they do when printed out.

• Multifractality and Multifractal Phase Transitions in Turbulence by Sebastien Boutet
• Phase Transitions in Membranes by Abdel Tahari
• Randomly Crosslinked Macromolecular Networks by Tommy Angelini
• Equilibrium Crystal Shapes by Leonard Basile
• Phase Transitions in Porous Media by John Carpenter
• Helix-Coil Transitions in DNA by Dyutiman Das
• Wall Bounded Turbulent Shear Flow: Has the Law of the Wall Been Broken by Kenneth Esler
• Critical Behaviour at the Onset of Black Hole Formation by Hector Garcia Martin
• Phase Transitions in Protein Folding by Edgar Larios
• The Nematic to Smectic A Transition in Liquid Crystals by Michael Lawler
• Critical Behaviour in Population Biology by Zigurts Majumdar
• Colossal Magnetoresistance in the Perovskite Manganites by Akilan Palanisami
• Quantum Phase Transitions by Sanghyun Park
• Universality and Extreme Value Statistics by Taras Pogorelov
• Phase Transitions in Silicon Clusters by Gefei Qian
• Log-periodic Scaling in Dynamical Systems by Kapil Rajaraman
• Protein Folding Modelled Through Spin Glasses by Dominic Ricci
• Ground State Phase Diagram of the One Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model by Nichols Romero
• Scaling in Surface Growth by Elliot Tan
• Phase Transitions in Granular Material by Mary Upton
• Traffic Flow by John Veysey II
• Disorder Induced Critical Phenomena Far From Equilibrium by Robert White