Students of chemical physics, soft matter, biophysics, or anyone interested in understanding the visible world through a lens of its molecular constituents should check out Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Thermodynamics, available for preorder amazon.co.uk/Statistical-Mec…
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Join the UC Berkeley Physics Department! We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in soft condensed matter (broadly defined). Both experimentalists and theorists are encouraged to apply!
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Excited to join @WashUPhysics as an assistant professor in Fall 2025! My group will develop non-equilibrium statistical physics to study criticality in biology—biomolecular condensates, gene regulation & adaptive immune systems. DM for postdoc/grad openings! #myphysicsjourney
Students of chemical physics, soft matter, biophysics, or anyone interested in understanding the visible world through a lens of its molecular constituents should check out Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Thermodynamics, available for preorder amazon.co.uk/Statistical-Mec…
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Join the UC Berkeley Physics Department! We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in soft condensed matter (broadly defined). Both experimentalists and theorists are encouraged to apply!
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Excited to give the condensed matter talk today across Oppenheimer way @BerkeleyPhysics. Join if you want to hear about emergence in soft, warm materials driven away from equilibrium my group has been working on @UCB_Chemistry@KavliENSI
Don't miss the Condensed Matter Seminar on Monday, September 30 with David Limmer: Hydrodynamics of active fluids. Join us at 2:30 p.m. in 251 Physics North.
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check out Amr's @AmrDodin most recent collaboration with the Saykally group in which he explore how cations--like guanidinium-- can be selectively adsorbed to the air-water interface @UCB_Chemistryarxiv.org/abs/2408.15423
Kritanjan's latest takes a fresh look at an old problem: the molecular origin of the super-Maxwellian velocity distribution of evaporating helium from water, finding that it is due to an anomalously small friction at the air-water interface arxiv.org/abs/2408.10345@UCB_Chemistry
When is DNA like an asymmetric top? Check out @AsheshGhosh1's study on the twisted worm-like chain, a good model for DNA mechanics, whose Green's function is solved in a basis of Wigner D-functions, the eigenfunctions of the asymmetric top arxiv.org/abs/2408.08954@UCB_Chemistry
I'm excited to share that my article, 'Mystery Droplets Inside Cells May Play Vital Roles in Life,' has been published in Scientific American. In this piece, I discuss the physics of biomolecular condensates and reflect on my personal journey in the field. scientificamerican.com/artic…
Check out Jorge's latest, first in the group, in which he develops what we call variational time reversal, a formalism and algorithm to compute distributions of collective variables in nonequilibrium steady-states and active matter arxiv.org/abs/2406.01582@UCB_Chemistry@NSF
In molecular simulations, one often tries to add a force to a system to speed up a rare event. Nearly always their addition obscures the dynamics by which the event would occur naturally. In Aditya’s @gafnys arXiv post he solves this problem arxiv.org/abs/2402.05414
In particular he shows that adding a specific time dependent force related to the committor allows one to study a reactive path ensemble by generating it from a collection of driven trajectories. This is possible in practice even in interacting systems @UCB_Chemistry
If you are interested in the interplay of information, thermodynamics and fluctuations check out Songela's @songelachem first group paper, in which she shows how to control your autonomous clock or preserve your memory arxiv.org/pdf/2211.00670@UCB_Chemistry@KavliENSI