Salvatore Torquato

Research Interests: Statistical mechanics, soft condensed matter, and materials science; Theoretical understanding of crystals, quasicrystals and disordered phases of matter, ordered and  disordered jammed states of matter, sphere packings in high dimensions, hyperuniform states of matter, inverse statistical mechanics, self-assembly theory, percolation theory, degenerate ground states of many-particle and spin systems, and biophysics