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Digital Storytelling Video Projects from Physics 13 Fall 2011

December 23, 2011May 14, 2013 Timothy Atherton

One of the most important things scientists can do is to explain science to the general public. It’s also one

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Tim Atherton’s talk at the 49th NECFG

December 2, 2011August 2, 2012 Timothy Atherton

Tim Atherton today gave a soundbite talk at the 49th New England Complex Fluids Workshop held at Harvard University. Here’s

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Research 

Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals

November 15, 2011May 22, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’ve studied pattern formation theoretically in a variety of liquid crystal systems; this post describes one example. Pentacyanobiphenyl (5CB) is

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3D Anaglyphs for Physics Education

October 29, 2011May 30, 2013 Timothy Atherton Mathematica

Many of the mathematical objects I work with are extremely hard to visualize in your head. Tools like Mathematica are

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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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