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Visualizing Quantum Mechanics with Mathematica

December 21, 2012May 29, 2013 Timothy Atherton Mathematica

Last semester, I saw a colloquium by Judah Schwartz from the Education department at Tufts University. Judah was one of

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Education 

Digital Storytelling Video Projects from Physics 13 Fall 2012

December 20, 2012May 14, 2013 Timothy Atherton

A signature component of Tim Atherton’s introductory classes for several years now has been the incorporation of Digital Storytelling video

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Pete Vukusic visits Tufts

October 25, 2012May 22, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to welcome today Prof. Pete Vukusic (here pictured next to one of Tufts quirkier pieces of history, the anti-gravity stone) from

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Publications 

New Paper “Competition of Elasticity and Flexoelectricity for Bistable Alignment of Nematics on Patterned Substrates” now in print

October 18, 2012May 13, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to announce that our new paper has been published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review E. This paper is

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Publications 

Collaborative Paper “Neuronal alignment on asymmetric textured surfaces” now published in Applied Physics Letters

October 2, 2012May 13, 2013 Timothy Atherton

A new paper that we’ve contributed to has just been published in Applied Physics Letters, describing how specially patterned surfaces

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Publications 

New paper “Competing Alignments of Nematic Liquid Crystals on Square Patterned Substrates”

October 1, 2012May 13, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Our latest paper has just been published in the journal Physical Review E. This is a collaboration with Doug Cleaver

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Seminar Series 

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series Fall 2012

September 10, 2012May 20, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’re continuing with the Tufts Condensed Matter Physics Seminars this semester, which feature researchers from other departments at Tufts as well

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Education 

Tim Atherton announced as a CELT Faculty Fellow for Fall 2012

September 1, 2012May 29, 2013 Timothy Atherton

The Tufts Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching has announced that Tim Atherton is one of several Tufts

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News Talks 

iMiD 2012 in Daegu, Republic of Korea

August 31, 2012May 21, 2013 Timothy Atherton

 Daegu, Korea—I just gave today an invited presentation, “Multistable Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals on Patterned Surfaces” as part of a

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New YouTube video on Nanografting

July 18, 2012August 2, 2012 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to see the finished version of an amazing new video from Cristian Staii‘s group describing the nano grafting technique.

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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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