| 29 Apr 2025 |
I served as a co-organizer for U. Chicago’s second annual AI in Science Hackathon. Congratulations to all the participants!
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| 31 Mar 2025 |
My preprint on the mechanics and dynamics of growing vesicles, written in collaboration with Suri Vaikuntanathan, Petia Vlahovska, and Aaron Dinner, is now on arXiv. Check it out!
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| 20 Mar 2025 |
I presented a talk about my work on the thermodynamics of growing vesicles at the APS Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, CA.
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| 16 Oct 2024 |
I gave a talk about my work on critical composites at the 95th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology in Austin, TX.
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| 05 Oct 2024 |
I led a hands-on demo on non-Newtonian fluids at U. Chicago’s South Side Science Festival, as part of the NSF Center for Living Systems tent. Check out our poster!
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| 27 Sep 2024 |
I attended the Schmidt Sciences AI4Matter Symposium at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from Sep 23-27.
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| 30 Jul 2024 |
I presented a poster entitled Thermodynamics of morphological transitions in growing membranes at the 8th International Soft Matter Conference in Raleigh, NC.
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| 28 Jul 2024 |
Our preprint exploring mechanical criticality in network-based composites is now on arXiv.
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| 26 Jul 2024 |
Our paper characterizing the nonlinear Poisson effect in semiflexible polymer gels is now published in Physical Review E.
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| 27 May 2024 |
Our paper on the effects of matrix incompressibility on the rheology of composite gels was published in The European Physical Journal E.
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| 09 May 2024 |
I served as a co-organizer for U. Chicago’s first AI in Science Hackathon, which had more than 50 participants. Congratulations to the winning teams and all participants!
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| 02 Feb 2024 |
Our paper on molecular motor-controlled elastic effects in active liquid crystals was published in Soft Matter.
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| 24 Nov 2023 |
On Nov. 24, I gave a talk at the Isaac Newton Institute entitled “Dynamics and instabilities in growing fluid membranes.”
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| 04 Nov 2023 |
From Nov. 4-26, I am visiting the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge to participate in the program “New Statistical Physics in Living Matter.”
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| 26 Oct 2023 |
Our paper investigating slow dynamics in strained fiber networks is now published in Physical Review Letters.
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| 14 Sep 2023 |
I gave a talk on Morphological transitions in growing membranes during the workshop “Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks” at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, CA.
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| 21 Jul 2023 |
I served as a co-organizer for U. Chicago’s second annual AI in Science Summer School (Jul. 17-21), which hosted 10 invited speakers and more than 90 attendees from around the country.
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