Read this if you are looking for Ph.D. thesis project in Soft Condensed Matter Physics.  
Ben Ocko, from the BNL Department of Physics, is looking for a grad student.  Here is 
a note he sent to me.  Please contact me or him directly if you are interested.
Laszlo
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GRADUATE ASSISTANT

The Soft-Matter Group (http://www.solids.bnl.gov/~scmg) in the Department of Condensed 
Matter Physics and Materials Science of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) anticipates 
an opening for a graduate student to work in the group. The scientific focus of the 
group is in confinement and template directed assembly in chemical and biomolecular 
materials.

We use atomic force microscopy, synchrotron x-ray scattering, and optical microscopy 
techniques to study fundamental properties of simple and complex fluids, macromolecular 
assemblies, and biomolecular materials under confinement and on templates.

The challenges are:
(1) to understand liquids under nano-confinement, 
(2) how templates and confinement can be used to direct the assembly, 
(3) to understand the fundamental interactions which give rise to similar self-assembly 
behavior for a wide variety of systems,
(4) how the resulting order correlates with the functional properties.

Interested candidates should contact Ben Ocko (ocko@bnl.gov).
BNL is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.