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SoftMatterTheory Residency at the University of New South Wales 2018

November 19, 2018November 19, 2020 Mathew Q. Giso

This summer, SoftMatterTheory members Tim, Zhaoyu and I visited Patrick Spicer’s lab at University of New South Wales (UNSW) in

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Education Outreach Uncategorized 

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 Outreach 

Tim Atherton’s Teaching Highlighted in a Video

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 Timothy Atherton

The Tufts Department of Education has been creating a number of resources for faculty to help them develop their teaching

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Education Outreach 

Physics 12 Video Projects Fall 2015

December 31, 2015 Timothy Atherton

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

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Education News Outreach 

Andrew DeBenedictis helps judge Fenway High science fair

December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Softmattertheory’s Andrew DeBenedictis stopped in at the Museum of Science on Friday to join the panel of volunteer judges for Fenway High

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Outreach Talks 

Tim Atherton presents at “A Pint of Science” festival

May 19, 2015June 8, 2015 Timothy Atherton

Tim Atherton, PI of the soft matter theory group, today gave a public talk as part of the “Pint of

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Education Outreach 

Digital Storytelling Video Projects from Physics 12 Fall 2014

December 23, 2014June 9, 2015 Timothy Atherton

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

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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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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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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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