Amorphous solids often carry residual internal stresses as a nonequilibrium signature of the preparation history, that are important in modern applications such as smartphone glass covers. Together with a number of groups, combining experiments, computer simulation and theory on model colloidal glasses, help to unravel the physical mechanisms behind residual stresses.
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The referees votum is to fully fund the renewal proposal for the DFG Research Unit FOR1394 "Nonlinear Response to Probe Vitrification", with only minor cuts in non-salary costs. In the coming weeks, this votum will be presented to the DFG senate for a final decision. Our research group participates in project P3 of the research group, with one PhD student to start in the coming months.

The editors of the American Physical Society journals have recognized Thomas Voigtmann as an "Outstanding Referee".
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Thomas Voigtmann was awarded a prize for excellent teaching at the University of Konstanz.
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In the winter term 2012/13, we will teach a Master degree course on Classical Field Theory at the University of Konstanz. The 4hrs/wk course is supplemented by 2hrs/wk tutorials and covers a broad mathematical introduction, continuum mechanics, Lagrangian classical field theories (in particular Maxwell's theory of electro-magnetism), and some general relativity.

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