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Domenic McArthur

Graduate student Domenic McArthur presenting on the topic of water entry on ultra-elastic membranes at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2023. (Mathai Research group)
 

Rob Keane

Graduate student Rob Keane presenting data and a model about assembly at fluid interfaces at the American Physical Society DFD meeting 2022. (Dinsmore Research group and Mathai Research group)

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Dante Naylor

Undergraduate student Dante Naylor presenting about soft fluidic coupled oscillators at the American Physical Society DFD meeting 2022. (Mathai Research group)

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Graduate Student Kyle Sullivan (right) with Postdocs Mike Dimitriyev (middle) and Michael Wang (left)

Graduate Student Kyle Sullivan (right) with Postdocs Mike Dimitriyev (middle) and Michael Wang (left)

Students and postdocs gathered at the Soft Matter and Biophysics Friday Pizza Lunch

Students and postdocs gathered at the Soft Matter and Biophysics Friday Pizza Lunch

Graduate student Geunwoong Jeon speaking at the Weekly Soft matter and Biophysics Student Talks.

Graduate student Geunwoong Jeon speaking at the Weekly Soft matter and Biophysics Student Talks.

Graduate students from Soft matter and Biophysics groups gathered at the weekly Pizza talks event

Graduate students from Soft matter and Biophysics groups gathered at the weekly Pizza talks event

Rayleigh-Bernard convection patterns formed by rising and setting thermal plumes

Rayleigh-Bernard convection patterns formed by rising and setting thermal plumes. Mathai research group

a granular medium can store and recall complex memories of strains applied during slow compressions

Computer simulations like this show that a granular medium can store and recall complex memories of strains applied during slow compressions. Candela research group

competition between flow and surface alignment creates stripes

When lyotropic liquid crystals flow into a cell with vertical alignment condition, the competition between flow and surface alignment creates stripes with a periodicity comparable to the cell gap. Zhou research group