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- The Physics Department recently highlighted some the department’s research areas in a serious of beautiful videos. See Karen Daniels describe the lab’s work in the one posted here. Physics major and filmmaker Patrick Pfeiffer and Professor Emeritus Michael Paesler deserve huge kudos for their hard work on this project. (September 2016)
- Some of our undergraduate alumni have graduated and are off on exciting adventures this fall. José Medrano will be teaching physics at the International Leadership Charter High School in New York City, Mia de los Reyes has a Churchill Scholarship to complete a Master’s degree at Cambridge University before pursuing her PhD at Caltech, and Michael Mann is headed to Cornell to pursue a PhD in geophysics. Best of luck to all of them! (September 2016)
- Welcome to two new group members: Arne te Nijenhuis, visiting Master’s student from Twente, and new physics NCSU physics graduate student Shih-Yuan Chen who comes to us from Taiwan. (August 2016)
- This summer, we hosted two visitors in the field of active matter: Gustavo Ramirez from Hunter College, through the Triangle MRSEC REU program, and Marcel Workamp, a visiting PhD student from the Dijksman group in Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter in Wageningen (Netherlands). (August 2016)
- Congratulations to Ephraim Bililign on taking 1st prize in the Physics Department’s annual McCormick Symposium. His poster was entitled “Measuring Temperature-like State Variables in History-Dependent Jammed Granular Systems”. He’ll be spending the summer conducting experiments on x-ray tomography in Erlangen, Germany. (April 2016)
- We are amused to discover that, once again, our lab alumni are headed to do great things in Pennsylvania. This fall, Ted Brzinski will starting building his own lab as an Assistant Professor at Haverford College, and Stephen Strickland will join Dickinson College as a Visiting Assistant Professor. (April 2016)
- With colleagues at the MPI-DS in Göttingen, Germany we have developed a new index-matching liquid suitable for n > 1.7, in order to improve our ability to work with ruby particles for detecting forces. You can read a short summary of how this same liquid will also aid in the development of high-resolution microscopy in LaserFocusWorld (March 2016) and Spotlight on Optics (May 2016)
- Alumni report: James Puckett (PhD 2012) is building a research program as an Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College. Read more about his adventures on the Physics of Fish here (February 2016)
- Welcome to postdoc Jonathan Kollmer, who comes to us after completing his PhD in Erlangen, Germany. He’ll be working on networks in granular materials, and is also interested in how to apply these ideas in space, particularly on asteroids. (January 2016)
- Interested in learning experimental techniques in granular physics? Join us at the “Imaging Particles” workshop in Erlangen, Germany (4-8 April 2016): http://www.imaging-particles.de