Here’s Myfanwy Evans‘ animation of her Surface Evolver study of diffusive coarsening. Diffusive coarsening is the process by which the cells of a random liquid foam grow or shrink as a consequence of slow gas diffusion through the cell membranes, driven by pressure differences between adjacent cells. Read more
Why hang out at the beach if you can do some maths instead? Check out the AMSI summer scholarship program if you’re interested in ‘trying out research’ for six weeks over summer. Also worthwhile looking for other similar options, there are many. Some are listed on my ‘Funding‘ tab.
The book “Tensor Valuations and Their Applications in Stochastic Geometry and Imaging”, edited by Eva Vedel Jensen and Markus Kiderlen, is out now. Click here! The topic of this book is the mathematics of the so-called Minkowski tensors, the stochastic geometry measures that we like applying for the purpose of structure and shape characterisation.
A public lecture in Murdoch University’s “Future Earth” series of talks and films, presented by visiting guest lecturer Professor Sabetta Matsumoto.
2017 Australian Institute of Physics “Women in Physics” Event
19 July 2017 Murdoch University
Come celebrate the fantastic contributions that female physicists and scientists are making to our world, and the universe! Join us for a day of physics fun and inspiration with the Australian Institute of Physics Award winning lecturer, visiting WA for one day only,
Everything you wanted to know about Dark Matter but were afraid to ask
Dark matter surrounds us and binds the galaxy together. But what is it really? Are we sure it exists at all? Can it really be explained by tiny invisible particles? Find out what we know, how we’re searching for it, and how it differs from the other big cosmic mystery, dark energy. Read more
More information and registration here: www.nbi.ku.dk/gtlc2017 This was a fun intense event a few years ago at RMIT in 2014 and at the Niels Bohr Institute in 2013. This school will be useful for anyone working with complex geometries or observing complex geometries – in materials, chemistry, physics or biology! (or indeed beyond including architecture, design, sculpture, ….)
Our report of the fortuitous finding of a very special Gyroid-like nanostructure in butterflies is out now: “Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development” (Science Advances, 2017). While being a solid static nanostructure, it looks as if it was a solidified 3D snapshot of the nanostructure, during the growth process. Read more
Thanks to all speakers and attendants of last week’s Dresden DPG-symposium
Bioinspired Functional Materials: From Nature’s Nanoarchitectures to Nanofabricated Designs.
Held as an interdisciplinary symposium at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) in Dresden from 19-24 March 2017, the symposium attracted all up around 300 or so attendants, for five excellent talk. The full program for this session is available here!
Here’s a neat little construction of the single gyroid as the union of perpendicular overlapping helices. All are equal-handed, clearly emphasizing the chiral nature of the single gyroid. Read more