Materials Science

The unique electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of 2D materials have recently sparked an extraordinary level of activity in the materials science community. Interest in the mathematics community has recently emerged to develop rigorous foundations, improved models, and computational methods for electronic structure, transport, plasmonics, and mechanics.

Another area of prime interest concerns the physics of soft condensed matter, where mathematical methods for solids and liquids coexist and further develop. In particular, the problem of the organization of soft matter to perform certain functions and sustain properties of interest spans from synthetic compound materials to biological ones.