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SoftMatterTheory Group Judging the Science and Engineering Fair in Somerville High School

March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Zhaoyu Xie

The SoftMatterTheory group of Department of Physics and Astronomy of Tufts University, led by Timothy J. Atherton accompanied by Mathew

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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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The Soft Matter Theorists Attend GBASM

November 16, 2017November 20, 2017 Mathew Q. Giso

An important lesson for a burgeoning graduate student is treat it like a job. That means getting there at nine

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Publications Research 

New Publication: Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms

August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to announce the publication of a new paper in collaboration with Applied Mathematicians at Tufts, Oxford and Memorial

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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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Education News Research 

New publication “Developing a project-based computational physics course grounded in expert practice”

March 15, 2017June 27, 2017 Timothy Atherton

Over the summer of 2014, Soft matter theory PI Tim Atherton and grad student Chris Burke designed a brand new

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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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Soft Matter Theory PI Tim Atherton awarded NSF CAREER grant

February 1, 2017June 27, 2017 Timothy Atherton

Tufts University announced today that Soft Matter Theory PI Tim Atherton was one of four faculty members who earned 2017 Faculty Early

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Video projects from Physics 12 Fall 2016

December 30, 2016 Timothy Atherton

Every year, students in my Physics 12 General Physics II class make video projects about electromagnetism. Here are this years

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Education News Publications 

New publication: “Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum”

August 19, 2016 Timothy Atherton

I‘m delighted to announce that our new paper, “Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum” has just

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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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