My Student Octavia Ailsworth presented her research work “Analyzing cholesteric liquid crystals' properties and their disordered helical textures“ in the Session AA05: V: Undergrad Research I.
Octavia did a fantastic job, I am very proud of her. With her talk, she made my day, week, month, and year.
You can find the abstract for the talk here
Presented the invited talk “Shape-morphing of topological liquid crystal elastomer kirigami” within the session “D13: Liquid Crystal Defect Cores: Order Parameters, Regularization, and Stabilization”.
Find the abstract here.
Presented the talk “Light-driven liquid crystal elastomer kirigami: fluttering with splay and topology”. Find the abstract in the bulletin of the American Physical Society (APS) here.
Attended this fully-online workshop for “new“ Physics and Astronomy faculty, organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Attended the DSOFT Workshop on “Topological Data Analysis.”
Also, presented the talk “Custom made actuation driven by smooth yet complex liquid crystal director microstructures.“
Find a link to the abstract in the bulletin of the American Physical Society (APS) here.
Had a great time serving as a judge and listening to various presentations by undergraduate researchers at the East Central Illinois (ECI) American Chemical Society (ACS) Undergraduate Research Conference. For visiting this virtual research conference, click here.
I am happy to see these type of initiatives moving forward and enhancing undergraduate research training. Thank you to the organizers Rebecca Ulrich and Selena Hernandez!
Despite March Meeting cancelation due to well-informed Covid-19 concerns, thousands of physicist around the world continue reaching out and sharing their research online. Among those, The DSOFT division self-organized into several informal virtual March Meeting sessions.
I had the chance to present the talk “Ordering hard-sphere particle suspensions by medium crystallization: Effect of size and interaction strength,“ at the DSOFT Virtual session on Directed/Self-Assembly.
You can also find the abstract (here) and presentation (here) as listed in the APS March Meeting Scientific Program.
A big thanks to the Soft Matter community for taking this great initiative. Particularly to Prof. Karen Daniels for taking the lead coordinating this heroic endeavor.
Spent two days listening talks at the APS March meeting and presented the talk “Patterning order and disorder with an angle: Modeling dual-phase nematic elastomer ribbons” on Thursday 03-07-2019.
Enjoyed a wonderful scientific program from outstanding professors. Also presented the poster “Dynamic modeling of advanced hybrid soft materials,” along with students/postdocs and attendants to the 2018 MEPHisTO Summer School.
Thanks to the organizing committee for preparing such energizing program. Above all, thank you for your sponsorship! More details about this school can be found here.
This year, colleague and collaborator Hillel Aharoni was awarded the International Liquid Crystal Society’s Early-career award Michi-Nakata. Many Congrats!!!
I am very honored and grateful to have our on-going work modelling a motorsport-shaped actuator, my name and face featured in his award lecture along with outstanding researchers as Y. Xia, S. Yang and R. Kamien.
You can find Hillel’s Michi-Nakata award lecture “Making Faces: Universal Inverse Design of Surfaces with Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets” here. Enjoy!
This time, ILCEC landed in the USA. I am quite grateful for the opportunity to present my work, chat with colleagues and collaborate. Moreover, thank you for your sponsorship.
You can find more info on this conference here.
Presented the poster: "Engineering out-of-plane actuation in thin-film polymer networks: an auto-origami box" at Gordon Research Seminar (Jun 17 and 18) and Gordon Research Conference (Jun 19 and 20).
Thank you for the opportunity to present my work and get mentoring. Last but not least, thanks for your sponsorship!
Gordon Research Conferences are amazing opportunities for researchers (all-ages) to share ideas, collaborate and boost research directions. More info can be found on their website grc.org.
Had a wonderful time volunteering as a judge in the Poster competition for Young Scientistas presenting their graduate/undergraduate research and chairing the "Academic Leadership TED talk panel."
I got very inspired by this new generation of scientists in training, as well as from listening the wise and powerful advice from the panelists: Diana Murray, Columbia University, Jennifer Ross, UMass Amherst and Shruti Naik, The Rockefeller University.
Thanks to Scientista Brandy Groove from Case Western Reserve University, for organizing this energizing event.
The Scientista Foundation offers a variety of professional development, mentoring and networking opportunities for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine (STEM) fields. Find more info on their website.
Presented the talks:
"Engineering out-of-plane actuation in thin-film polymer networks: an auto-origami box" Tuesday 03-14
"An insight on hierarchical nanoparticle order by polymer crystallization" Monday 03-13
In addition, participated in the GSOFT short-course on Fundamental Concepts and Tools in Computational Soft Matter Physics
Presented the poster "Nanoparticle ordering due to Polymer Crystallization."
Sponsored by
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Columbia University
Gave a talk "Nanoparticle Ordering in Semicrystalline Polymers," Monday 03-14
Also, attended the DPOLY short-course on Polymer Nanocomposites.