Applied math lab at UNC’s Department of Mathematics. We combine theory and experiments to address problems that find motivation in physics and engineering.

Joined March 2020
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🚨 Galloping Bubbles 🚨 New spontaneous symmetry breaking causes bubbles to move perpendicular to the driving force. Congrats to @Jamesguan1990, @saifulitamim, and Connor Magoon for your excellent work! Thanks to H. Stone for collaborating! More to come! doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-5…
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🚨 Anderson Localization of Walking Droplets 🚨 We demonstrate that walking droplets over random submerged topography can spontaneously localize like a wave, similar to quantum particles in disordered media. journals.aps.org/prx/abstrac…
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Deadline for abstract submission extended until March 15 for 2nd Spanish Fluid Mechanics Conference: sfmc23.cimne.com. Eager to listen to our invited speakers M. Ávila @marcavila81 (ZARM), R. Fdez Feria (U. Málaga) and M. Rubí (UB). See you all in BCN! @la_UPC , @cimne

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Enhorabuena a nuestro antiguo alumno Pedro Javier Sáenz, licenciado en #IngenieríaMecánicaeIndustrial por la UR, que ha sido distinguido con una de las becas más prestigiosas del mundo, la que concede la fundación Alfred P. Sloan @SloanFoundation
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Conseguir una de las becas científicas más prestigiosas del mundo es complicado, pero no imposible. El riojano Pedro Javier Sáenz ha sido distinguido por la fundación Alfred P. Sloan. leer.larioja.com/l3vfl2
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Conseguir una de las becas científicas más prestigiosas del mundo es complicado, pero no imposible. El riojano Pedro Javier Sáenz ha sido distinguido por la fundación Alfred P. Sloan. leer.larioja.com/l3vfl2
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Congratulations to our alumnus, Dr Pedro Sáenz, who has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. Dr Sáenz graduated from @EdinburghUni with a PhD in fluid mechanics in 2014, and is now Assistant Professor at @unccollege. Full story: edin.ac/3IbCXgZ
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🎉 Congratulations to Nicholas Pégard and Pedro Sáenz, faculty members in the College, who have been awarded 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships, among the most prestigious awards given to early-career scientists. college.unc.edu/2023/02/sloa… @aps_unc @uncchmath #GDTBATH

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Honored by this award. Thank you to my mentors, collaborators and, especially, the @PhysMathLab members for your passion, creativity, and hard work. You are incredible. Thank you to the @SloanFoundation for supporting our research. #SloanFellow @uncchmath @unccollege @unc_our
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Honored by this award. Thank you to my mentors, collaborators and, especially, the @PhysMathLab members for your passion, creativity, and hard work. You are incredible. Thank you to the @SloanFoundation for supporting our research. #SloanFellow @uncchmath @unccollege @unc_our
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Congratulations to @Jamesguan1990 on WINNING the @APSphysics's Van Dyke Gallery of Fluid Motion Award at #APSDFD22!!!! @UNC @unccollege @uncchmath @PhysMathLab youtube.com/watch?v=0d_D6yvX…
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Here is the man of the day!!! @Jamesguan1990
Congratulations to @Jamesguan1990 on WINNING the @APSphysics's Van Dyke Gallery of Fluid Motion Award at #APSDFD22!!!! @UNC @unccollege @uncchmath @PhysMathLab youtube.com/watch?v=0d_D6yvX…
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Faraday waves are typically standing waves, but if you are careful you can make them "run" Run, Faraday, Run! Check out our entry to the 2022 APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion! Great teamwork by @Jamesguan1990 at the @PhysMathLab @UNC @unccollege youtube.com/watch?v=0d_D6yvX…
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Run, Faraday, Run! Check out our entry to the 2022 APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion! @PhysMathLab @UNC youtube.com/watch?v=0d_D6yvX…
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🎉 Congratulations to Roberto Camassa, Kenan Professor of Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences, for earning the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' Kruskal prize for his work to advance the understanding of nonlinear wave evolution. @TheSIAMNews @PhysMathLab
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📢🚨Excited to share our latest work just published in ⁦@Nature⁩ where we combine experiments and theory to show how wave-coupled particles lead to very rich collective phenomena. Thank you to all who contributed to this project! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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This is a collaboration between @uncchmath @UNC @unccollege with colleagues at @MIT, @MITMath, @gpucci_physics and @EPFL_en. Thank you all!
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