Joan Josep Cerdà
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CV
Abbreviated CV (106 KB)
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Areas of Research
- Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
- New algorithms for long range interactions
- Ferrofluids
- Other colloidal & polymeric systems.
- Biophysics.
Current research at a glance: most recent capital ships
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Juan J. Cerdà, Vincent Ballenegger, Olaf Lenz, Christian Holm.
P3M algorithm for dipolar interactions.
The Journal of Chemical Physics 129:234104, 2008.
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Juan J. Cerdà, Tomás Sintes, C. Holm, C. M. Sorensen, A. Chakrabarti.
Shear effects on crystal nucleation in colloidal suspensions.
Physical Review E 78(3):031403, 2008.
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Juan J. Cerdà, Tomás Sintes, Raúl Toral.
Spherical brushes within spherical cavities: A self-consistent field and Monte Carlo study.
The Journal of Chemical Physics 131(13):134901, 2009.
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Juan J. Cerdà, Baofu Qiao, Christian Holm.
Modeling strategies for polyelectrolyte multilayers.
European Journal of Physics Special Topics 177(1):129–148, 2009.
[PDF] (971 KB) [DOI]
All published works
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Teaching
Intro to Statistical Physics: Parts 0 and 1. (561 KB)
Intro to Statistical Physics: Boltzmann distribution and Helmholtz Free Energy. (128 KB)
Mesoscopic Methods, Intro Part-I (185 KB)
Summary notes about Brownian Hydrodynamics (150 KB)
Lecture notes about an introduction to Finite Elements (165 KB)
Tutorial about an introduction to Finite Elements (97 KB)
Tutorial about error analysis (48 KB)
Tutorial about long range forces and Ewald summation (115 KB)
Educational Area
Polymer&Colloidal Physics + Simulations
Macrogalleria: "the cyberwonderland of polymer fun"
Statistical Physics and simulations
Thermal and Statistical Physics
Physics in General
PhysNet: Educational Physics Resources
PhysNet: Links on other available Services on Physics and related Fields
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Mathematical tools for Physicists
Electromagnetic fields and energy book from MIT
Cambridge Teaching and Learning Packages
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Learner.org: The Mechanical Universe and beyond, very nice series of lectures in Physics
Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks by B. Crowell (a wonder)
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SKlog: Wiki dedicated to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Physical Sciences Resource Center
The Physics arXiv blog: explanatory repository of interesting physics articles
Physically incorrect: Physical and Mathematical puzzles
Chemistry in General
Course of Chemistry I, II, Chemtutor
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IUPAC Gold Book, Green Book, Orange Book
IUPAC Nomenclature I, IUPAC Nomenclature II, Nomenclature III
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The Learner.org: The world of Chemistry. A nice series of videos about Chemistry.
Mathematics in General
Introduction to Probability (free open book by C.M.Grinstead and J.L. Snell)
Discover Science
Blogs & Newspapers dealing with Science
Science Blogs: a page devoted to highlight information from scientific blogs
Physorg: detailed blog about scientific news
Wired Science: a blog reporting novelties in science
Malditaciencia: a nice blog about scientific topics (language: Castellano)
Blog of Jose Manuel Nieves about science and technology (language: Castellano)
Neofronteras: kind of journal for general public about science (language: Castellano)
Centpeus: blog discussing about scientific issues (language: Catalan)]
El tao de la fisica: a blog about Physics (language: Castellano)
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ABC Newspaper - Science & Technology section (language: Castellano)
"El Pais" Newspaper - Science & Technology section (language: Castellano)
Critical Science
The Scientific Cartoonist: a humorous point of view. (language: English/Castellano)
Resources for Teachers
The Learner.org: Teacher professional development and teacher resources across the curriculum
Free Books and Manuals
NIC-Series: Computational techniques applied to Science
Numerical Recipes, Abramowitz-Stegun, ...
Free books on Science&Technology
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Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks by B. Crowell (a wonder)
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PSU's Electronic Classics Site
Free Software
Useful free software for the Physicist
GSL: The GNU Scientific Library