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Summer Research in the softmattertheory group

September 12, 2023 Timothy Atherton

We were delighted to host Paco Navarro, a student from Harvey Mudd college in CA, as an undergraduate summer researcher.

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Postdoctoral Scholar/Programmer Opportunity

August 23, 2021September 12, 2023 Timothy Atherton

Postdoctoral Associate/Programmer in Soft Matter  The Physics and Astronomy Department at Tufts University seeks a programming focussed postdoctoral scholar to

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Postdoctoral Scholar Job Opportunity

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Timothy Atherton

Theory/Computation Postdoctoral Scholar in Soft Matter  The Physics and Astronomy Department at Tufts University in Medford, MA seeks a postdoctoral scholar

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New Publication: “Crystal Comets: A Geometric Model for Sculpting Anisotropic Particles from Emulsions”

November 12, 2020November 19, 2020 Timothy Atherton

We’re delighted to announce the publication of a new paper in collaboration with our Chemical Engineering collaborators at the University

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Physics 12 Video Projects Fall 2018

December 24, 2018December 26, 2018 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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A chat with a physicist at Somerville High

May 24, 2018 Andrew A. DeBenedictis liquid crystals, Outreach, somerville

Group member Andrew DB stopped by Somerville High School on Tuesday to share with students his path to becoming a PhD

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New publication: “Modeling deformation and chaining of flexible shells in a nematic solvent with finite elements on an adaptive moving mesh”

March 6, 2018 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

In collaboration with Andrea Rodarte and Linda Hirst from UC Merced, Andrew and Tim published a new paper in Phys

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SoftMatterTheory Group Judging the Science and Engineering Fair in Somerville High School

March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Zhaoyu Xie

The SoftMatterTheory group of Department of Physics and Astronomy of Tufts University, led by Timothy J. Atherton accompanied by Mathew

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Helping out at the Fenway High science fair

December 11, 2017 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Fenway High School has a longstanding partnership with the Museum of Science. Students regularly spend portions of the school day

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New publication: “Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: triplet shape and restructuring”

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 Andrew A. DeBenedictis restructuring, soft matter, UNSW

The ongoing collaboration between our SoftMatterTheory team and the Spicer group at the University of New South Wales unveiled its

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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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