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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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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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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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Publications Research 

Collaborative Paper “Neuronal growth as diffusion in an effective potential” now published

October 22, 2013October 22, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to announce that our new paper, published in collaboration with Cristian Staii’s lab is now available online at Physical Review

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SoftMatterTheory at New.Mech 2013

October 12, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Several members of the Soft Matter Theory group today attended New.Mech 2013, a one day workshop on the Mechanics of

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Kate Voorhes presents at the Tufts Summer Scholars Poster Session

October 2, 2013October 3, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Undergraduate researcher Kate Voorhes today presented research from her summer project at the Summer Scholars Poster Session. Kate received a scholarship

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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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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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Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals

November 15, 2011May 22, 2013 Timothy Atherton

We’ve studied pattern formation theoretically in a variety of liquid crystal systems; this post describes one example. Pentacyanobiphenyl (5CB) is

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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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