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Alexander Grosberg

Professor

309 Tate, 624-7542, email grosberg @ physics.umn.edu
http://www.physics.umn.edu/~grosberg/
Grosberg

APS Fellow, 2004. Humboldt Research Award, 2006.

Co-organizer, workshop on "ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS IN POLYMERS, COLLOIDS, AND BIOPHYSICS," Minneapolis, 2001; co-organizer, workshop on "COULOMB EFFECTS IN SOFT CONDENSED MATTER AND BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE," Aspen, 2002; co-organizer, workshop on “ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS AND BIOPHYSICS,” Minneapolis, 2004; co-organizer, workshop on “PHYSICS INSPIRED BY BIOLOGY,” Aspen, 2006. Associate Editor, PHYSICA A (2001-). Editorial Board member, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & Theoretical (2002-)

Research Areas: Theoretical physics of polymers and biopolymers, theoretical biophysics. Professor Grosberg is not accepting students at this time.

Selected Publications

A.Y.Grosberg, and Y.Rabin, “Metastable tight knots in a worm-like polymer,”, Physical Review Letters (2007)

C.Alvarez-Lorenzo, J.Chuang, A.Concheiro, A.Y.Grosberg, Imprinting using smart polymers,”, Chapter 7 in: “Smart Polymers, Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine,” (2007)

L.Hu, A.Y.Grosberg, “Heteropolymer sequence design and preferential solvation of hydrophilic monomers: one more application of Random Energy Model,”, Physical Review E (2007)

E.Kussell, S.Leibler, and A.Y.Grosberg, “Polymer-population mapping and localization in the space of phenotypes,”, Physical Review Letters (2006)

S.Rapaport, Y.Rabin, A.Y.Grosberg, “Worm-Like Polymer Loops and Fourier Knots,”, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & General (2006)

N. Moore, R. Lua, A. Grosberg,, Topologically Driven Swelling of a Polymer Loop, Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci., 2004 [abstract]

P. Geissler, E. Shakhnovich, A. Grosberg, Solvation vs. freezing in a heteropolymer globule, Physical Review E, 2004 [abstract]

R. Lua, A. Borovinskiy and A. Grosberg , Fractal and statistical properties of large compact polymers: a computational study, Polymer, 2004 [abstract]

A. Grosberg, H. Frisch, Winding angle distribution for planar random walk, polymer ring entangled with an obstacle, and all that: Spitzer-Edwards-Prager-Frisch model revisited, J. Phys. A: Math. & Gen., 2003. [abstract]

A. Grosberg, T. Nguyen, B. Shklovskii, Colloquium: The Physics of Charge Inversion in Chemical and Biological Systems, Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002 [abstract]

Education

D.Sc. Physics, Moscow State University, 1982
Ph.D. Physics, Moscow State University, 1975
B.S. Physics, Moscow State University, 1972