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Patrick Charbonneau

Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Box 90347, Durham, NC 27708-0347
5329 French Science, 124 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Leiden Lorenz Institute Seminar · December 1, 2013 Lecture Leiden, Netherlands
ESPCI, PCT-Gulliver Seminar · December 1, 2013 Lecture Paris, France
Roskilde University Glass and Time Seminar · November 1, 2013 Lecture Roskilde, Denmark
Stanford Physical Chemistry Seminar · November 1, 2013 Lecture Stanford, CA
U Penn Chemistry Seminar · November 1, 2013 Lecture Philadelphia, PA
Caltech Chemical Physics Seminar · October 1, 2013 Lecture Pasadena, CA
Brandeis Physics Colloquium · October 1, 2013 Lecture Waltham, MA
UC Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Seminar · October 1, 2013 Lecture Berkeley, CA
UC Boulder Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminar · October 1, 2013 Lecture Boulder, CO
Oak Ridge National Lab Computational Science Seminar · October 1, 2013 Lecture Oak Ridge, TN
Penn State Physical Chemistry Seminar · October 1, 2013 Lecture State College, PA
Bucknell Physics Seminar · October 1, 2013 Lecture Lewisburg, PA
NYU Soft Condensed Matter Seminar · September 1, 2013 Lecture New York, NY
UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar · September 1, 2013 Lecture Los Angeles, CA
UCSB Physical/Theoretical Chemistry Seminar · September 1, 2013 Lecture Santa Barbara, CA
UW-Madison, Chemistry Seminar · September 1, 2013 Lecture Madison, WI
TU Berlin, IGRTG 1524 Colloquium · July 1, 2013 Lecture Berlin, Germany
7th international Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems · July 1, 2013 Lecture Barcelona, Spain
MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization Seminar · July 1, 2013 Lecture Goettingen, Germany
Daan Frenkel 65 Conference · July 1, 2013 Lecture Coventry, UK
Northwestern University Chemistry Department Seminar · May 1, 2013 Lecture Evanston, IL
CECAM: The Role of Interfaces in Crystallization · May 1, 2013 Lecture Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Chicago James Franck Institute Seminar · May 1, 2013 Lecture Chicago, IL
UIUC, Chemistry Department Seminar · May 1, 2013 Lecture Champaign, IL
University of Maryland Informal Statistical Physics Seminar · April 1, 2013 Lecture College Park, MD
APS March Meeting · March 1, 2013 Lecture Baltimore, MD
Washington University Physics Seminar · October 1, 2011 Lecture St. Louis, MO
CBB Annual Retreat · September 1, 2011 Lecture Wrightsville, NC
Sphere packing and amorphous materials workshop · July 1, 2011 Lecture Trieste, Italy
DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space Seminar · June 1, 2011 Lecture Koeln, Germany
École Normale Supérieure Paris Physics Seminar · June 1, 2011 Lecture Paris, France
Paris VI LPTMC Seminar · June 1, 2011 Lecture Paris, France
4th International Soft Matter Workshop · May 1, 2011 Lecture Cornwall, UK
Université du Luxembourg Physics Seminar · May 1, 2011 Lecture Luxembourg
International Workshop on Dynamics in Viscous Liquids · March 1, 2011 Lecture Rome, Italy
Department of Chemistry, Kansas University · December 21, 2009 Lecture
Department of Chemistry, University of Utah · December 21, 2009 Lecture
Department of Chemistry, McGill University · December 21, 2009 Lecture
Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA · December 21, 2009 Lecture
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University · December 21, 2009 Lecture
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina · December 21, 2009 Lecture
How can hard (hyper)spheres form glasses? · February 5, 2009 Invited Talk Surrey University, Surrey University
How can hard (hyper)spheres form glasses? · January 13, 2009 Lecture Surrey University, UK
How can hard (hyper)spheres form glasses? · January 13, 2009 Lecture Surrey University, UK
Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics IV · November 28, 2008 Lecture Kyoto, Japan
Dynamical Heterogeneity in a Glass-Forming Ideal Gas · November 28, 2008 Lecture Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics IV, Kyoto, Japan

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Co-curator - Seeing the Invisible · February 7, 2020 - November 24, 2020 Event/Organization Administration Duke University Libraries , Durham, North Carolina flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


Co-Organizer - CECAM: Recent advances on the glass problem · January 2022 Event/Organization Administration Lausanne, Switzerland
Co-Organizer - APS March Meeting GSNP Invited Session: Glassy dynamics: from simple models to biological tissues · March 2021 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - CECAM: Recent advances on the glass problem · January 2021 Event/Organization Administration virtual
Subcommittee Chair - APS March Meeting Task Force, Governance and Logistics · June 2020 - November 2021 Committee Service
Co-Organizer - Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem Virtual Seminar Series · May 2020 - December 2021 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - 40 Years of Replica Symmetry Breaking, 30 years of RFOT · September 2019 Event/Organization Administration Rome, Italy
Co-Organizer - APS March Meeting GSOFT/GSNP Invited Session: Marginal Stability in Amorphous Materials and Beyond · March 2019 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - KITP Workshop: The Rough High-Dimensional Landscape Problem · January 2019 - February 2019 Event/Organization Administration Santa Barbara, California
Co-Organizer - Boulder Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics: Frustrated and Disordered Systems · July 2017 Event/Organization Administration
GSOFT Program Chair - 2018 APS March Meeting · March 2017 - March 2018 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - APS March Meeting GSOFT/DBIO Invited Session: Biological Materials Self-Assembly · March 2017 Event/Organization Administration New Orleans, Louisiana
Co-Organizer - CECAM Workshop: Recent Advances on the Glass and Jamming Transitions · January 2017 Event/Organization Administration Lausanne, Switzerland
Co-Organizer - ICERM Workshop: Stochastic topology and thermodynamic limits · October 2016 Event/Organization Administration Providence, Rhode Island
Co-Organizer - CECAM Workshop: The Physics of Protein Self-Assembly · June 2015 Event/Organization Administration Lausanne, Switzerland
Co-Organizer - Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VI · May 2015 Event/Organization Administration Aspen, Colorado
Co-organizer - CUNY-GC Workshop: Shaping Amorphous Thoughts -- Recent Advances in Glass and Jamming Physics · May 2014 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - 2014 APS March meeting GSNP Focus session: A Soft Matter Perspective on Protein Assembly · March 2014 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - 2013 APS March meeting DCP Symposium: Physics of glasses and viscous liquids · March 2013 Event/Organization Administration
Editorial Board Member - Scientific Reports · 2013 - 2017 Editorial Activities
Co-Organizer - MPI Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter? · June 2010 Event/Organization Administration Dresden, Germany
Instructor - MolSim (CECAM Winter School on Molecular Simulations in Amsterdam) · December 21, 2009 Other
Co-Organizer - CTMS Multiscale Modeling Workshop · December 21, 2009 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer - Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association · May 2009 Event/Organization Administration

Service to Duke


Library Council (University) · September 2017 - June 2023 Committee Service Duke University Libraries,

committee chair, 2020-2023
Library 2030 chair, 2021

Faculty in Residence · July 2017 - May 2023 Other Blackwell Residence Hall

Professor Charbonneau and his family lived in a first-year residence hall on East Campus for many years. During that time, his signature weekly chocolate fondue gatherings have served as a focal point for many of his neighbors and guests. This series has even warranted him a 2023 award from Duke Housing and Residence Life.