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Our New Demonstration “Electric Field Lines Due to a Collection of Point Charges” added to the Wolfram Demonstrations Project

June 6, 2013June 6, 2013 Timothy Atherton

A couple of years ago, as part of my efforts to use interactive visualizations as a learning tool, I wrote

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Education News 

Tim Atherton awarded “Honorable Mention” at Tufts Teaching with Technology Symposium 2013

June 3, 2013June 3, 2013 Timothy Atherton

I was today one of 28 Tufts faculty to be awarded with an “honorable mention” at the 2013 Tufts Teaching

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Publications 

New Paper “Optimizing the second hyperpolarizability with minimally parametrized potentials” now published

May 3, 2013July 3, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Chris Burke celebrates his first journal article published today in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B. The

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Publications 

Collaborative paper “Silk Hydrogels as Soft Substrates for Neural Tissue Engineering” now in print

April 18, 2013May 12, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Our wonderful collaborators in the Kaplan Group in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tufts have just published a new paper

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Talks 

Talk “The role of geometry in directing self-assembly” at Brandeis

April 18, 2013June 11, 2013 Timothy Atherton

I was delighted today to visit the Physics department at Brandeis University to give a talk in their Materials Research Science

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Chris Burke wins a prize at the Tufts Research Visualization Awards!

April 17, 2013May 12, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Grad student Chris Burke today was awarded second place in the Photography and Illustration category of the Tufts Research Visualization

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Talks 

Talk “Soft Matter, Hard Problems” at Mount Holyoke College

April 11, 2013May 29, 2013 Timothy Atherton

I was delighted to visit today the Physics department at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Thanks to the

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Research 

How Tufts Collaborates

April 10, 2013May 22, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Undergraduate researcher Dan Fortunato has been working this semester on a project to use ideas from condensed matter physics to

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Talks 

American Physical Society March Meeting 2013

March 22, 2013May 17, 2013 Timothy Atherton

This week, our group went to Baltimore, Maryland to give a number of talks at the APS March Meeting 2013,

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Seminar Series 

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars Spring 2013

January 15, 2013May 20, 2013 Timothy Atherton

The Soft Matter Theory group is proud to announce the continuing program, now in its third semester, of Tufts Condensed Matter

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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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