I am grateful to Greg Grason for organising a very interesting “Chirality in Polymers and Soft Matter” focus session at the APS March Meeting 2019. For those interested in my talk slides, I’ve uploaded them at the APS site, click here.
See all the info here: https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/e/
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!
Always good to be back in New Orleans … this time a couple of weeks after Mardi Gras. This year’s APS March meeting was an excellent success with the GSOFT focus group more visible than ever, and many great sessions in the GSOFT, DPOLY, DBIO, SPNP and other sections, including our own focus session “New Mesophase Symmetries and Topologies in Self-Assembled Soft Matter“.
Below is the abstract of an after-dinner speech I gave at the Australian Institute of Physics WA Branch annual general meeting and dinner, on 16 Nov 2016 (see also national AIP newsletter)
“Women in Physics Day 2016” – a lecture by Italian-Romanian physicists Dr Catalina Curceanu, a panel discussion featuring some of Perth’s finest physicists and about 20 experiments on Bush Court including the ‘Walk on Water’ Non-Newtonian starch bath. Attendance with almost 600 high school kids well surpassed our wildest expectations. Need to do it again next year!
We hosted organised the 2016 Boden Research conference “Animal, Vegetal, Mineral”, held in Yallingup / Western Australia, from 19-23 Sept 2016, on the emergence and function of complex nanostructures in biological tissue and synthetic self-assembly. Here’s the final report and what attendees had to say about it: Read more
Held in the picturesque Black Forest region of Germany from 7-11 September 2015, this conference will cover the mathematics and physics of disordered spatial structures and systems. Keynote speakers at this event include: Anton Bovier, Paul Chaikin, Wiebke Drenckhan, Matthew Kahle, Randall Kamien, Domenico Marinucci, Frank den Hollander and Rien van der Weygaert. We’re still accepting poster abstracts for this conference, see www.gpsrs.de
We’re still accepting abstracts for what shapes up to be an exciting international conference on real-world materials, dead and alive, with complex spatial microstructures. An interdisciplinary discussion meeting on patterns and geometry, and their role in biological and synthetic microstructured materials and tissue. We invite contributions from biology, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, physics and related fields addressing the genesis, properties and function of complex nano-scale geometries, as well as underlying geometric and topological concepts for the study of complex structure and shape. More information can be found on www.shape-up.academy. See you in Berlin! Read more