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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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Atherton Group Residency in Australia, Week 2

July 29, 2013February 20, 2014 Timothy Atherton

As reported in a previous blog post, the Atherton group has been awarded an International Research Grant  to be resident in

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Atherton Group Residency in Australia, Week 1

July 19, 2013February 20, 2014 Timothy Atherton

The Soft Matter Theory Group was recently awarded an International Research Grant from Tufts. These prestigious grants, funded by an anonymous

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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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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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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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The group welcomes Badel Mbanga

July 1, 2012May 19, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’d like to welcome the latest addition to our group, postdoctoral scholar Badel Mbanga who joined us today. Badel did

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Tufts Soft Matter Theory Hosts the 51st New England Complex Fluids Group!

June 22, 2012May 23, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We were delighted today to welcome members of the New England Complex Fluids Group for the 51st meeting, which is

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The group welcomes Chris Burke

June 1, 2012May 19, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to welcome Chris Burke, a graduate student in the PhD program at Tufts, to the Soft Matter Theory

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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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