Andrew DeBenedictis and Tim Atherton have just published a paper on “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals” in a special 30th anniversary issue of Liquid Crystals. Wanting to present a forward-looking picture, the journal’s editor reached out to young experts across the field, including professor Atherton, to present their latest exciting work. As […]
Soft Matter Theory graduate student Chris Burke successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Order and Jamming on Curved Surfaces” before his committee. Chris is the first graduate student to graduate from the group, and set a high standard for subsequent students, being highly praised for the quality of his thesis and presentation. His thesis has been […]
Grad student Chris Burke has received an award for “Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education” from the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Science. You can read more here.
The Tufts Department of Education has been creating a number of resources for faculty to help them develop their teaching practices, and has recently launched a set of video interviews with faculty who use a student-centered approach to pedagogy. Softmattertheory PI Tim Atherton and his Physics 12 General Physics II class was selected as […]
The Kavli Institute is one of the most renowned centers for Theoretical Physics in the world. Located at the University of California Santa Barbara, it hosts programs that bring physicists together from all over the world to work on common problems. By having people co-located in one place, they’re able to collaborate and interact in […]
A signature component of Tim Atherton’s introductory classes for several years now has been the incorporation of Digital Storytelling video projects. Students in my General Physics II class at Tufts were asked as a final project to collaboratively create a short YouTube video explaining a topic within the scope of the class to a high school audience. This […]
Softmattertheory’s Andrew DeBenedictis stopped in at the Museum of Science on Friday to join the panel of volunteer judges for Fenway High School‘s Senior Science Fair. The event, held annually at the museum since 1997, showcased the experimental research work of 71 Fenway High seniors. Their research covered a wide range of topics including […]
Several members of the Softmattertheory group attended the 65th meeting of the New England Complex Fluids workgroup this past Friday. The event, which is held quarterly at different institutions throughout New England, was hosted by Harvard University. The gathering provides a forum for undergraduates, graduates, and professors, to interact with peers in the area doing related […]
Tim Atherton gave a talk today about new results on sphere packing on arrested surfaces at the Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting. The meeting, hosted by Brandeis University, brought together about 100 researchers from the New England area to discuss interesting new results on active matter, out of equilibrium systems and packing spheres on […]
After being informed of the opportunity to go, I eagerly submitted my application to present a poster at this year’s 6th annual NEW.Mech conference hosted by Boston University on October 2nd. I was especially intrigued to see the key note speaker Prof. Katherine Zhang’s presentation on Arterial Mechanobiology. I anticipated it would investigate the […]
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