We are an experimental group interested in the physics of complex, nonlinear, disordered & far-from-equilibrium soft matter systems. PI @YLahini (student-run)
Excited to release arxiv.org/abs/2307.11827, led by @abigail_plummer & former undergrad Caroline Adkins in collaboration with Andrej Košmrlj!
We studied how the growth/expansion of a body is altered (often in surprising ways!) by obstructions. 🧽🎆
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How should we model the dynamics of root growth as it turns towards gravity?
As physicists, we tried using a damped harmonic oscillator. And it works! In small angles.
Check out our new @JXBot paper, with @mthrvr and @MerozLab:
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad383
📢 Postdoc Job Alert! Join us @EPFL_en, in gorgeous Lausanne, Switzerland. We are a curiosity-driven team exploring the wonderful mechanics of slender structures, focusing on experiments, together w/ theory and computation.
Deadline: July 1st. More info: recruiting.epfl.ch/Vacancies…
Meet the 2023 APS DSOFT ESME finalists! Come learn about their research at the DSOFT early career and student awards session at march meeting on Tuesday March 7th, 8-11 am at room 208!
Amorphous, complex matter can store long-lasting memories of past mechanical perturbations. We show that these can be tracked and quantified using a global observable - just measure dissipation!
journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
Beautiful work from @Gulliver_lab, with contribution by our lab member Dor Shohat! Dor’s stay at @ESPCI_Paris was funded by the Chateaubriand Fellowship awarded by the French Embassy and the French Institute in Israel.
The @BioSoft3 center’s two-day retreat is off to a great start! 98 participants from different faculties across campus meet to learn about each other’s research and initiate collaborations.