Randall Kamien
American physicist (born 1966)
Randall David Kamien (born February 25, 1966)[citation needed ] is a theoretical condensed matter physicist specializing in the physics of liquid crystals and is the Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania .[ 1]
Biography
Randall Kamien was born to economist Morton Kamien and Lenore Kamien on February 25, 1966, and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois on the outskirts of Chicago .[ 2] Kamien completed a B.S. and a M.S. in physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1988 and completed a PhD in physics at Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of David R. Nelson .[ 3] Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey , and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pennsylvania . Kamien was appointed assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and promoted to full professor in 2003.[ 4] Kamien is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[ 4] Kamien is the chief editor of Reviews of Modern Physics .[ 5]
Research
Randall Kamien studies soft condensed matter – and in particular liquid crystalline phases of matter – through the lens of geometry and topology.[ 6] In particular, Kamien has contributed to understanding Twist Grain Boundaries,[ 7] Focal Conic Domains,[ 8] and defect topology in smectic liquid crystals.[ 9] He is also known for his idiosyncratic naming conventions, such as “Shnerk’s Surface” [ 10] and “Shmessel Functions.”
Publications
Senyuk, B.; Liu, Q.; He, S.; Kamien, R. D.; Kusner, R. B.; Lubensky, T. C.; Smalyukh, I. I. (2013), "Topological colloids", Nature , 493 (7431): 200–205, arXiv :1612.08753 , Bibcode :2013Natur.493..200S , doi :10.1038/nature11710 , PMID 23263182 , S2CID 4343186 .
Honglawan, A.; Beller, D. A.; Cavallaro, M.; Kamien, R. D.; Stebe, K. J.; Yang, S. (2013), "Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 110 (1): 34–39, doi :10.1073/pnas.1214708109 , PMC 3538202 , PMID 23213240 .
Snir, Y.; Kamien, R. D. (2005), "Entropically driven helix formation", Science , 307 (5712): 1067, arXiv :cond-mat/0502520 , doi :10.1126/science.1106243 , PMID 15718461 , S2CID 14611285 .
Ziherl, P.; Kamien, R. D. (2001), "Maximizing entropy by minimizing area: Towards a new principle of self-organization", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B , 105 (42): 10147, arXiv :cond-mat/0103171 , doi :10.1021/jp010944q , S2CID 119467204 .
Kamien, R. D.; Selinger, J. V. (2001), "Order and frustration in chiral liquid crystals", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 13 (3): R1, arXiv :cond-mat/0009094 , doi :10.1088/0953-8984/13/3/201 , S2CID 93442372 .
Kamien, R. D.; Lubensky, T. C. (1999), "Minimal surfaces, screw dislocations, and twist grain boundaries", Physical Review Letters , 82 (14): 2892, arXiv :cond-mat/9808306 , Bibcode :1999PhRvL..82.2892K , doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2892 , S2CID 15354995 .
References
^ "Randall Kamien" . www.physics.upenn.edu . Retrieved 2022-05-05 .
^ In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Morton I. Kamien, 1938-2011 , retrieved 2022-05-05 .
^ Harvard PhD Theses in Physics: 1971-2000 , retrieved 2022-05-05 .
^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF) , retrieved 2022-05-05 .
^ APS Editorial Office: Reviews of Modern Physics , retrieved 2022-05-05 .
^ Kamien Group , retrieved 2022-05-05 .
^ Kamien, R. D.; Lubensky, T. C. (1999). "Minimal surfaces, screw dislocations, and twist grain boundaries". Physical Review Letters . 82 (14): 2892–2895. arXiv :cond-mat/9808306 . Bibcode :1999PhRvL..82.2892K . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2892 . S2CID 15354995 .
^ Alexander, G. P.; Chen, B. G.; Matsumoto, E. A.; Kamien, R. D. (2010). "The Power of Poincaré: Elucidating the Hidden Symmetries in Focal Conic Domains". Physical Review Letters . 104 (25): 257802. arXiv :1004.0465 . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.257802 . PMID 20867415 . S2CID 8291259 .
^ Machon, T.; Aharoni, H.; Hu, Y.; Kamien, R. D. (2019). "Aspects of Defect Topology in Smectic Liquid Crystals". Communications in Mathematical Physics . 372 (2): 525–542. arXiv :1808.04104 . Bibcode :2019CMaPh.372..525M . doi :10.1007/s00220-019-03366-y . S2CID 52435763 .
^ Santangelo, C. D.; Kamien, R. D. (2007). "Triply periodic smectic liquid crystals". Physical Review E . 75 (1 Pt 1): 011702. arXiv :cond-mat/0609596 . Bibcode :2007PhRvE..75a1702S . doi :10.1103/PhysRevE.75.011702 . PMID 17358168 . S2CID 119371099 .