Posts by: Timothy Atherton
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 […]
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 […]
Tim Atherton, PI of the soft matter theory group, today gave a public talk as part of the “Pint of Science” festival here in Boston. Entitled “Ice Cream, Soap and TVs: The Science of Soft Materials”, the talk focussed on how inside everyday things such as soaps, food products, mayonnaise, liquid crystal displays—referred to […]
The Research Corporation for Science Advancement today announced that Tim Atherton would receive the prestigious Cottrell Scholarship. Atherton was one of fifteen physics and chemistry early-career faculty nationwide to receive this honor, which is presented to faculty who excel at both research and teaching. RCSA interim president Jack Pladziewicz noted that “funding goes to […]
It was with great pleasure that I went to Chelsea High School today to be a judge for their annual science fair. I was invited by a former student, Nora Paul-Schultz who’s teaching at the school and took my Modern Physics class a couple of years ago.
I was very impressed by the high standard […]
Group members Tim Atherton, Badel Mbanga, Chris Burke, Kate Voorhes and Ian Hunter got together today for a wonderful holiday lunch at local restaurant Oasis in Medford. We’d like to wish Happy Holidays to all of our blog readers!
