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The Soft Matter Theorists Attend GBASM

November 16, 2017November 20, 2017 Mathew Q. Giso

An important lesson for a burgeoning graduate student is treat it like a job. That means getting there at nine

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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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Conferences Research Talks 

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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Conferences Research Talks 

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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Tim Atherton gives Colloquium at Kent State University

October 9, 2013October 12, 2013 Timothy Atherton

Today, I gave the invited colloquium at the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University. It’s quite wonderful to be

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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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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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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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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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News Talks 

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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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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