Posts by: Andrew A. DeBenedictis
Group member Andrew DB stopped by Somerville High School on Tuesday to share with students his path to becoming a PhD physicist. His discussion touched upon opportunities available to physicists, the challenges of decision-making early in one’s career, research in soft matter, and clean energy policy. After the brief talk, an extended Q&A session allowed students to […]
In collaboration with Andrea Rodarte and Linda Hirst from UC Merced, Andrew and Tim published a new paper in Phys Rev E last week. The paper uses simulation techniques developed by Andrew to better understand the deformation and chaining behavior of soft shells in a nematic liquid crystal solvent. These shells, which are formed by clustering nanoparticles, […]
Fenway High School has a longstanding partnership with the Museum of Science. Students regularly spend portions of the school day there throughout the year, and every December the museum hosts the school’s science fair. This year had ~70 participants covering a wide range of topics, and I spent my Friday morning helping to judge the event.
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The ongoing collaboration between our SoftMatterTheory team and the Spicer group at the University of New South Wales unveiled its most recent work last week in a publication in Soft Matter. The paper, authored by Prerna Dahiya of the Spicer group, adds to her existing work characterizing the coalescence of oil droplets. Specifically, she found […]
Back in August of 2016, Tim, Chris, Andrew DB, and Andrew M spent two weeks in residency at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The trip, made possible by a Tufts University travel grant, allowed the SoftMatterTheory team to work in person with longtime collaborator Patrick Spicer and fellow chemical engineer Stuart Prescott. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Graduate student Andrew DeBenedictis has just published his paper “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals” in Physical Review E. Featuring other coauthors Candy Anquetil-Deck, Doug Cleaver, David Emerson, Mathew Wolak, James Adler, and Tim Atherton, the paper represents a collaboration among physicists and mathematicians here at Tufts and at Sheffield […]
Group member Andrew DeBenedictis has been selected by the Tufts University GSAS (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) Dean’s Office to pilot the Graduate Summer Scholar program. In this role, Andrew is serving as a mentor to group undergraduate Summer Scholar Ian Hunter, whose summer project is titled “Active nematics on deformable surfaces”. This is […]
