Author Archives: pcs2000

Our group is interested in the emergent behavior of soft and biological materials that are driven out of equilibrium by an external drive, internal activity or quenched disorder.  We use theory and computation to investigate the rich dynamics of a Continue reading →

Marchetti to deliver a plenary talk at STATPHY27 in Buenos Aires  

Suraj Shankar gives an invited talk at the Workshop Geometry of Soft Matter at IIT, Natal, Brazil.

Marchetti speaks at the Lorentz Center Workshop Topology in Complex Fluids, May 22-25, 2018

The article Geometric frustration and solid-solid transitions in model 2D tissue has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. In this work, we develop a continuum theory of the Vertex Model and identify a transition between a soft elastic solid Continue reading Article by Michael Moshe, Mark Bowick and Cristina Marchetti to appear in Physical Review Letters.→

Postdoc David Yllanes is moving to a new job at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. Good luck, David. We’ll miss you!

Cristina Marchetti gave an invited talk at the Aspen Winter Conference Fundamental Problems in Active Matter, held at the Aspen Center for Physics Jan 29-Feb 2, 2018 http://fpam.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr Marchetti’s talk titled, Rigidity and flocking transitions in dense tissues

On January 31, 2018, Cristina Marchetti delivered a Public Lecture on The Physics of Flocking at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen Colorado.

A paper, Low-noise phase of a two-dimensional active nematic system by Suraj Shankar, Sriram Ramaswamy, and M. Cristina Marchetti.  Was listed in PRE as an Editor’s suggestions: https://journals.aps.org/pre

Congratulations to Suraj Shankar, poster prize winner at the Aspen Winter Conference Fundamental Problems in Active Matter