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Conferences Research 

Andrew Mascioli presents a poster at NEW.Mech

October 18, 2014June 9, 2015 Andrew Mascioli

NEW.Mech was a first for many things. For me it was my first conference, my first poster presentation, and first

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Chris Burke participates in Tufts’ Graduate Institute for Teaching

June 9, 2014July 14, 2014 Christopher Burke

For the past three weeks I’ve been taking part in Tufts’ Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT). GIFT is a two

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Publications 

New publication: “Simulating Defect Textures on Relaxing Nematic Shells”

May 19, 2014October 23, 2015 Badel Mbanga

In this paper, we study the evolution of defects on a deforming, curved interface endowed with liquid crystalline order. Two

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News Outreach 

Chelsea High School Science Fair

February 27, 2014March 12, 2014 Timothy Atherton

It was with great pleasure that I went to Chelsea High School today to be a judge for their annual

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Education Outreach 

“Letters to a Young Scientist” Book Review for Physics Today

February 20, 2014February 20, 2014 Timothy Atherton

I was asked last year to write a review for Physics Today magazine of famous entomologist Edward O. Wilson‘s book “Letters to

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Group Holiday Lunch 2013

December 19, 2013January 6, 2014 Timothy Atherton

Group members Tim Atherton, Badel Mbanga, Chris Burke, Kate Voorhes and Ian Hunter got together today for a wonderful holiday

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Conferences Research Talks 

New England Complex Fluids Group at Boston University

December 13, 2013December 16, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Badel Mbanga and Chris Burke today presented at the 57th New England Complex Fluids Workshop, held at Boston University and

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Education News Outreach 

Fenway High School Science Fair at the Boston Museum of Science

December 9, 2013December 16, 2013 Timothy Atherton

I was delighted to spend the morning today at the Boston Museum of Science judging high school senior science projects from Fenway

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Conferences Research 

Materials Research Society 2013

December 6, 2013January 6, 2014 Timothy Atherton

Our friends in the Cebe group presented some of the results of our collaboration this week at the Materials Research

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News 

Our Australia Residency is featured in the Tufts A&S News!

November 5, 2013November 7, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’re grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences at Tufts for writing a nice article featuring our recent residency

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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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