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Author: Andrew A. DeBenedictis

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A chat with a physicist at Somerville High

May 24, 2018 Andrew A. DeBenedictis liquid crystals, Outreach, somerville

Group member Andrew DB stopped by Somerville High School on Tuesday to share with students his path to becoming a PhD

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New publication: “Modeling deformation and chaining of flexible shells in a nematic solvent with finite elements on an adaptive moving mesh”

March 6, 2018 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

In collaboration with Andrea Rodarte and Linda Hirst from UC Merced, Andrew and Tim published a new paper in Phys

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Helping out at the Fenway High science fair

December 11, 2017 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Fenway High School has a longstanding partnership with the Museum of Science. Students regularly spend portions of the school day

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New publication: “Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: triplet shape and restructuring”

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 Andrew A. DeBenedictis restructuring, soft matter, UNSW

The ongoing collaboration between our SoftMatterTheory team and the Spicer group at the University of New South Wales unveiled its

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Recap of the SoftMatterTheory residency at the University of New South Wales

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017 Andrew A. DeBenedictis collaboration, travel

Back in August of 2016, Tim, Chris, Andrew DB, and Andrew M spent two weeks in residency at the University

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Publications Uncategorized 

New publication: “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals”

August 1, 2016August 5, 2016 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Andrew DeBenedictis and Tim Atherton have just published a paper on “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals” in a special

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Education News Outreach 

Andrew DeBenedictis helps judge Fenway High science fair

December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Softmattertheory’s Andrew DeBenedictis stopped in at the Museum of Science on Friday to join the panel of volunteer judges for Fenway High

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Conferences 

Softmattertheory at the New England Complex Fluids meeting

December 9, 2015December 14, 2015 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Several members of the Softmattertheory group attended the 65th meeting of the New England Complex Fluids workgroup this past Friday. The

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Publications Research Uncategorized 

New publication: “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals”

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Graduate student Andrew DeBenedictis has just published his paper “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals”

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News 

Andrew DeBenedictis named inaugural Graduate Summer Scholar

June 3, 2015June 11, 2015 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Group member Andrew DeBenedictis has been selected by the Tufts University GSAS (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) Dean’s Office

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Recent Blog Posts on Education

  • New publication “Developing a project-based computational physics course grounded in expert practice”
  • Video projects from Physics 12 Fall 2016
  • New publication: “Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum”
  • Tim Atherton’s Teaching Highlighted in a Video
  • Physics 12 Video Projects Fall 2015

Recent Blog Posts about Publications

  • SoftMatterTheory Residency at the University of New South Wales 2018
  • New Publication: Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms
  • New publication: “Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum”
  • New publication: “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals”
  • New publication: “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals”

Recent Blog Posts

  • Summer Research in the softmattertheory group
  • Postdoctoral Scholar/Programmer Opportunity
  • Postdoctoral Scholar Job Opportunity
  • New Publication: “Crystal Comets: A Geometric Model for Sculpting Anisotropic Particles from Emulsions”
  • Physics 12 Video Projects Fall 2018

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