Soft Matter Program at Syracuse University

Congratulations to Kazage Utuje who successfully defended his thesis, titled “Continuum Models of Collective Migration in Living Tissues.” He was advised by Professor Cristina Marchetti in the Soft Matter Program.

Congratulations to Prashant Mishra, who successfully defended his thesis, titled “Pattern formation in active nematics”! Prashant was advised by Professor Cristina Marchetti in the Soft Matter Program. He will be taking on a position at the Galloway School in Atlanta.

Did you see?

Our SMP Graduate Student Michael Czajkowski explains the physics of bottle-flipping for The Syracuse Museum of Science and Technology. The MOST creates an educational video every few months. These “Science Minutes” are meant to be a simple reminder of how science influences our daily lives.

Check out Michael's video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n96xEVEYtg0

http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_2017/releases/suraj_shankar_award.html

Physics Student Named Kavli Graduate Fellow NEWS of the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University , a Ph.D. candidate in Syracuse’s Department of Physics, will use the prestigious, six-month fellowship to study theoretical soft condensed matter, starting in July. Boris Shraiman, a world-renowned theoretical physicist and permanent member of the KITP scientific staff, will be his mentor.

Congratulations to SMP graduate student, Suraj Shankar who was selected as a KITP Graduate Fellow. He will be spending the Fall semester at UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

read more here: http://bit.ly/2qBezQR

Soft Matter @ Syracuse University

http://syrsoftmatter.syr.edu/cristina-marchetti-signs-the-ehrenfest-wall/

Cristina Marchetti signs the Ehrenfest wall – Soft Matter @ Syracuse University 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 speaker signing the “Ehrenfest’s wall”,…

"A new composition for string quartet takes listeners on a journey into the weird world of soft matter."

http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/92

Arts & Culture: A Quartet for Soft Matter A new composition for string quartet takes listeners on a journey into the weird world of soft matter.

http://activematter2016.syr.edu/

Concert by JACK Quartet featuring the World Premiere of Hexacorda Mollia, a new piece by Andrew Waggoner.

Wednesday, June 22 at 8 pm in the Life Sciences Atrium.

Free and open to the public!

http://activematter2016.syr.edu/

Prof. Lisa Manning has been selected for recognition with a “Young Scientist Award” by the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Prof. Manning has been invited to present her work in Lyon, France at this summer’s StatPhys meeting. Congratulations!

Profs. Mark Bowick and Jen Schwarz's recent work on, "Shape-Shifting Droplet Networks" was featured in Physical Review Letters..

http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.108301

http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_2016/releases/mark_bowick_water_droplets.html

Prof. Mark Bowick's presentation at KITP.
http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/sheets16/bowick/

Mark Bowick, Syracuse, The Statistical Mechanics of Sliced Graphene Ribbons