Recap of the SoftMatterTheory residency at the University of New South Wales
Back in August of 2016, Tim, Chris, Andrew DB, and Andrew M spent two weeks in residency at the University
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Video projects from Physics 12 Fall 2016
Every year, students in my Physics 12 General Physics II class make video projects about electromagnetism. Here are this years
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New publication: “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals”
Andrew DeBenedictis and Tim Atherton have just published a paper on “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals” in a special
Read moreChris Burke wins an award for undergraduate education
Grad student Chris Burke has received an award for “Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education” from the Tufts Graduate School of
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Softmattertheory rocks out the Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics meeting
Tim Atherton gave a talk today about new results on sphere packing on arrested surfaces at the Greater Boston Area Statistical
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Ian Hunter presents a poster at NEW.Mech
After being informed of the opportunity to go, I eagerly submitted my application to present a poster at this year’s
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New publication: “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals”
Graduate student Andrew DeBenedictis has just published his paper “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals”
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Foundations of Nonlinear Optics Conference 2015
Tim Atherton and grad student Chris Burke recently attended the conference “Foundations of Nonlinear Optics” (FoNLO), hosted at Lehigh University
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New publication: “The role of curvature anisotropy in the ordering of spheres on an ellipsoid”
Grad student Chris Burke has just published his paper “The role of curvature anisotropy in the ordering of spheres on an ellipsoid” in the journal Soft Matter along with co-authors Badel Mbanga,
Read moreChris Burke receives an honorable mention at Tufts’ Graduate Student Research Symposium
Group member Chris Burke recently participated in Tufts University’s annual Graduate Student Research Symposium. This symposium is an opportunity for
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