Adam Law

Soft Matter Theory

Full name: Adam Daniel Law
D.O.B: 7th February 1986
Hometown: Beverley, United Kingdom.

Postdoctoral research associate at the Max Planck Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart in Abteilung Dietrich, investigating 'Capillarity near Criticality'.

2004-2007: BSc (Hons.) Physics, 1st Class at the University of Hull. Entry with Brynmor Jones Scholarship.
2007-2011: PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Hull (advisor: Dr D.M.A. Buzza), as part of the Surfactant & Colloid Group (lead by Prof. B.P. Binks).

2011: Speaker at the CMMP 11 Institute of Physics meeting, Manchester UK.
2011: Presenter, Liquid Matter Conference 2011, Wien Österreich.
2011: Invited speaker, Max Planck Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart.
2010: Invited Speaker at "Particles at Interfaces" Day, Warwick University
2010: Speaker at the 'Macro2010' 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress, Glasgow UK.
2010: Presenter at Gordon Research Conference on Polyelectrolyte, Macromolecular and Colloidal Solutions, Ventura, California, USA.
2010: Work presented at IOP Complex Fluid-Fluid Interfaces Meeting, London, UK.
2009: Presenter at UK Polymer Colloids Forum, Kingston Upon Hull, UK.
2009: Speaker at 13th IACIS International Conference on Surface & Colloid Science, New York, USA.
2009: Presenter at IOP Biological & Soft Matter, Warwick, UK.
2008: Presenter at Surfaces & Interfaces CCP5 Annual Meeting, London, UK.

1) A.D. Law* & D.M.A. Buzza, "Determination of interaction potentials of colloidal monolayers from the inversion of pair correlation functions: A two-dimensional predictor-corrector method.", J. Chem. Phys. 131, 094704 (2009)

2) A.D. Law* & D.M.A. Buzza, "Obtaining effective pair potentials in colloidal monolayers using a thermodynamically consistent inversion scheme", Langmuir 26, 7107 (2010).

3) A.D. Law, D.M.A. Buzza* & T.S. Horozov*, "Two-dimensional Colloidal Alloys", Physical Review Letters 106, 128302 (2011).

4) A.D. Law, D.M.A. Buzza* & T.S. Horozov*, "The Structure and Melting Transition of Two-dimensional Colloidal Alloys", Soft Matter 7, 8923 (2011).

5) A.D. Law*, D.M.A. Buzza & P. Cicuta, "Effective Interactions in Colloidal Particles at Fluid Interfaces", In progress, 2012.

Dr. Martin Buzza – University of Hull, UK.
Dr. Tommy Horozov – University of Hull, UK.
Dr. Pietro Cicuta – University of Cambridge, UK.
Dr. Joris Sprakel – Harvard University, USA.

2009-2011: Examiner of 'Physics within Computer Games' module.

2008-2010: Supervision of Undergradaute Final Year Projects. Undergraduate supervisee in 2008-2009 awarded top student project prize for work on ‘Hard Disk Simulations'.

2007-2011: Teaching and assessment of 2nd & 3rd year undergraduates in Physics Teaching Laboratories and assessment of 1st year ‘free elective' physics modules.