Eric R. Weeks (born 1970 in

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) is an American

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. He completed his B.Sc. at the

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in 1992. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the

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in 1997, working under

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, and later completed post-doctoral research with David Weitz and Arjun Yodh at

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and the

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. He is currently a full professor at

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, Georgia (as of September 2010).
Eric Weeks' Information Page at Emory University He is most well known for his work on various aspects of the

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phenomenon, specifically in colloidal glasses and colloidal supercooled liquids, although his research interests extend broadly into other types of complex fluids, as well as microrheology and

granular material A granular material is a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact (the most common example would be friction when grains collide). The constituents that compose gra ...

s. During his PhD in Texas, he studied Nonlinear Dynamics. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. (search on year=2011 and institution=Emory University)

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External links

Eric R. WeeksWeekslab HomepageEmory Department of Physics"A Window into Glass Formation""Witnessing transition at a crystal/liquid interface"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weeks, Eric 21st-century American physicists Emory University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society 1970 births Living people