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.

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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

Prof. Cristina Marchetti's presentation at KITP.
http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/sheets16/marchetti/

Christina Marchetti, Syracuse, Jamming in cell monolayers

Prof. Joey Paulsen's presentation at KITP. http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/sheets16/paulsen/

Joseph Paulsen, UMass & KITP, The wavelength of wrinkles in curved tensioned sheets

Active and Smart Matter: A New Frontier for Science and Engineering
Syracuse University, June 20-23, 2016

http://activematter2016.syr.edu/

2016 Active and Smart Matter Active and smart matter bridges science with engineering by searching for collective and programmable effects in such systems as spherical rafts of fire ants, chromatin inside the cell nucleus, collections of micro-bots, and actively catalyzed colloidal molecules. This conference will allow scientis…

There is still room to add this class. You do not need a physics background and it will change the way you think about matter both fundamental and applied.

Sign up for Prof. Bowick's fun new class!

http://news.syr.edu/physicist-scores-back-to-back-articles-in-top-journals-93508/

Syracuse University News » » Physicist Scores Back-to-Back Articles in Top Journals A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has published back-to-back articles in two of the field’s most prestigious journals.

Congratulations to Prof. Lisa Manning!
http://syrsoftmatter.syr.edu/lisa-manning-awarded-a-nih-grant/

Lisa Manning awarded NIH grant | Soft Matter @ Syracuse University Lisa Manning awarded NIH grant Posted on August 4, 2015 by Michelle Lissner Prof. Lisa Manning has been awarded a RO1 grant for the NIH in the amount of $1,020,785 over 4 years. This grant will support the Manning group on a project titled “Quantitative Modeling of Cell Shape Changes During Organo…

Congratulations to Prof. Cristina Marchetti!
http://syrsoftmatter.syr.edu/447/

Cristina Marchetti receives funding through the Simons Foundation | Soft Matter @ Syracuse... The Simons Foundation has approved funding for Prof. Cristina Marchetti’s research proposal in the area of Mathematical Models of Living Systems. The project is titled “Models of collective c…

Check out a new paper posted on arXiv and videos by Soft Matter Graduate Student, Tao Zhang in collaboration with Duanduan Wan, Prof. Jennifer Schwarz and Prof. Mark Bowick
http://syrsoftmatter.syr.edu/resources/

Resources | Soft Matter @ Syracuse University Resources Soft Matter World Electronic Archive New paper posted on arXiv by Graduate Student, Tao Zhang in collaboration with Duanduan Wan, Prof. Jennifer Schwarz and Prof. Mark Bowick: Shape-shifting droplet networks (supplementary movies)