Thomas A. Witten*

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            name: THOMAS ADAMS WITTEN
           phone: (773) 702-0947
	   title: Homer J. Livingston Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Physics, James Franck Inst., and the College
             URL: http://home.uchicago.edu/~tten
        email to: t-witten@uchicago.edu 
       secretary: Ms. Eileen Sheu esheu@uchicago.edu 
                  (773) 702-9971
 mailing address:  James Franck Institute
                :  929 East 57th Street #E227
                :  Chicago IL 60637  
                :  USA
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as of January 2020

identifying information

from University phone book

from the University's Physics Department

from James Franck Institute faculty page.

from wikipedia

from Google Scholar

Open Research Contributor ID ORCID

affiliations

research

We predict ways to induce organized structure in materials by programmed external forcing.

Chiral motion in colloidal dispersions

Crumpling

Evaporative Deposition

Granular packing

Weather Harmonics

Chicago Materials Research Center

an index of web pages

search ArXiV.org for my preprints

physics community

American Physical society

Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, GSNP

book

Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants, Oxford University Press 2004, 2010

Non-research articles

Chicago Physics 1986-2017, a historical sketch

course web pages

Physics 261, winter 2013: introduction to structured fluids

Physics 251, Fall 2012, Chaos, complexity and Computers

Physics 361, Fall 2009, graduate solid state physics

Physics 316, fall 2005: graduate classical mechanics

Chile exchange project 2003-2013

Bulletins

8 Feb 2022 US NAS and US MRS. APPLY TO GIVE A LIGHTNING TALK: Ideas for the Future of Materials Research

May 2020 How Google Scholar boosted my clout

newest page

It's supposed to take you to my most recently updated page. Sometimes it works. experimental 3/2003

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