Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods" was published in the latest issue of Physical Review E .
Today Robert Blackwell successfully defended his PhD thesis in Physics. His dissertation title is "Modeling cytoskeletal active matter systems." Congratulations Dr. Blackwell!
Robert Blackwell's paper (with Tony Gao) "Multiscale modeling and simulation of microtubule/motor protein assemblies" was published in Physical Review E .
Garrek Stemo received a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) award and joined the group. His project title is “Generation of active stresses in microtubule-motor mixtures”.
Hui-Shun Kuan's paper "Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods" was accepted for publication in Physical Review E .
Robert Blackwell's paper "Microscopic origins of anisotropic active stress in motor-driven nematic liquid crystals" was published online in Soft Matter.
Meredith Betterton was awarded a National Science Foundation grant DMR 1551095, "EAGER: Biophysical theory of mitotic spindle length instability and self assembly."
Robert Blackwell's paper (with Tony Gao) "Multiscale polar theory of microtubule and motor-protein assemblies" was published in Physical Review Letters .