9th Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter @ Murdoch
Murdoch University’s School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics last week hosted the Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter.
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Open letter in regards to the termination of Professor Manuel Graeber’s employment
Post-doctoral position and PhD Scholarship: Development and Nanooptics of butterfly nanostructures
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher and for a PhD student for an interdisciplinary research project addressing butterfly nanostructure development, insect biophotonics and gyroid nanooptics, and ultra- and in-vivo microscopy methods for the investigation of natural nanostructures.
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‘Knitting is coding’ – New York Times article about Sabetta Matsumoto’s work
Check out this New York Times article about Sabetta Matsumoto’s amazing work. (I am not associated with this work, but love it).
Self-Assembly of Biomolecules and Soft Matter
See all the info here: https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/e/
AIP Congress in Perth
The 2018 AIP Congress in Perth just finished. Thanks to all 780 or so delegates who came over to Perth for it, and made it a special event. More updates to be posted; for now check out www.aip2018.org.au or follow the tweets on #aipcongress2018
When mixed with oranges, pears prefer Diamonds….
… over Gyroids. Philipp Schönhöfer has completed a nice piece of work to extend on the pear-shaped particle simulations that we have been doing in collaboration with Doug Cleaver and Matthieu Marechal. Previously we had simulated a system of nearly hard pear-shaped particles and found that they form the Gyroid geometry. Now, it turns out that the addition of a small number of spherical particles leads to the formation of the double diamond phase, at least in relatively small simulation boxes.
3′ Scope TV piece on Butterfly Colour
Scope TV aired this little episode a few months ago, describing some of our work on butterfly coloration. Special thanks to Bodo Wilts and to Michael Thiel for provision of some images. Read more
Herr Dr Simon Weis : Wet sand castles inside out
Congratulations to Simon Weis for the successful completion and defense of his PhD thesis “Structural analysis of particulate systems using X-ray tomography”, at the FAU in Erlangen. In only 3 years, Simon performed some great work on the properties of aspherical and wet granular packings and on Set Voronoi diagrams, under my and Matthias Schröter’s supervision. Read more