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Recap of the SoftMatterTheory residency at the University of New South Wales

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017 Andrew A. DeBenedictis collaboration, travel

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

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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New publication: “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals”

August 1, 2016August 5, 2016 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

Andrew DeBenedictis and Tim Atherton have just published a paper on “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals” in a special

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Chris Burke wins an award for undergraduate education

May 4, 2016 Christopher Burke

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

October 24, 2015November 1, 2015 Timothy Atherton

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

October 20, 2015 Ian Hunter

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”

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 Andrew A. DeBenedictis

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

August 7, 2015September 9, 2015 Christopher Burke

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”

June 17, 2015September 11, 2015 Christopher Burke

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,

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Chris Burke receives an honorable mention at Tufts’ Graduate Student Research Symposium

April 13, 2015May 29, 2015 Christopher Burke

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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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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