Center for Polymer Studies

Welcome to the Center for Polymer Studies (CPS), a scientific visualization research center in the Physics Department and Science and Mathematics Education Center at Boston University. We are devoted to interdisciplinary research in aspects of polymer, random, and fractal systems and we utilize our expertise in this area to develop experimental and computational materials for high school and undergraduate education.

Research Projects
Interdisciplinary science research including cardiac dynamics, statistical mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease, and simulations of liquid water

Science Education Projects
Education outreach projects include curriculum development, teacher professional development, and building collaborations with other researchers.

Recent News

Website Redesign
(3.30.10) We are currently in the process of redeploying the site to a modern platform. Most of the current site was developed nearly 16 years ago as one of the initial sites on the Web. The new site will have multimedia features with regularly updated images, news, research papers, content specific blogs, and much more!

Science Education Summer Workshops
(03.25.10) The Polymer Center Science Education Group is pleased to announce our upcoming summer workshop schedule. For information, contact Paul Trunfio.

Graduate Program in Neuroscience
(03.01.10) The new Boston University program includes student teaching and outreach opportunities led by Paul Trunfio.

The Virtual Molecular Dynamics Laboratory 2.0!
(07.13.09) The highly popular Virtual Molecular Dynamics Laboratory is undergoing a complete revamp. For information, contact Paul Trunfio.

Econophysics and the Current Economic Turmoil
(12.08.08) Gene Stanley writes a guest editorial for APS News (Vol. 17, No. 11).

Real-time simulation of cross-linked polymers available through our Virtual Molecular Dynamics Laboratory education efforts.

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