1/31/18 Physics featured a recent paper titled “Soft yet Sharp Interfaces in a Vertex Model of Confluent Tissue” The paper was written by Physics postdoc, Daniel M. Sussman, and Physics Professor’s J. M. Schwarz, M. Cristina Marchetti, and M. Lisa Manning and Continue reading Recent group paper appears in Physics
Cristina Marchetti is honored at the 118th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Dec. 17-19, 2017 at Rutgers University.
APS News November issue featured the work of Suraj Shankar, Mark Bowick, and M. Cristina Marchetti titled, Topological Sound and Flocking on Curved Surfaces.
9/26/17 David Yllanes, Marco Leoni, and Cristina Marchetti’s paper was accepted in the New Journal of Physics on September 25, 2017. The accepted manuscript titled, “How many dissenters does it take to disorder a flock?” can be found here.
Several group members participated in the 2017 Soft Matter GRS and GRC at Colby-sawyer and presented their work.
Cristina Marchetti gave an invited talk on “Dynamics and Topology of Active Liquid Crystals’’ at the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry & Physics of Liquids in Holderness, NH.
Cristina Marchetti presented lectures on Active Matter at the XIV International Summer School on Fundamental problems in Statistical Physics in Bruneck, Italy
Graduate student, Suraj Shankar was one of six graduate students to be selected as a KITP Graduate Fellow for the Fall of 2017. This is a highly competitive, prestigious fellowship, and a unique opportunity for a select group of physics Continue reading KITP APPOINTS SURAJ SHANKAR FOR FALL GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Adam Patch founds new Graduate Science Policy Group at SU
Cristina Marchetti signs the Ehrenfest wall after delivering the Colloquium Ehrenfestii in Leiden on April 19, 2019. See here for the long and illustrious history of the Colloquium that was started by Paul Ehrenfest in 1912. The colloquium culminates with the Continue reading
