The Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany will host a workshop entitled "Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter?" organized by Patrick Charbonneau, Karen Daniels, and Matthias Schroeter from May 31 - June 4, 2010. [Link] (October 2009)
Congratulations to sophomore Adam Keith and junior Kate Foco for winning Undergraduate Research
Awards which will support their work
in the lab. (October 2009)
Read mathematics PhD student Ellen Peterson's article on what happens when mathematicians go into a physics lab (ours): [Link] (Sept 2009)
First-year graduate student Carlos Ortiz was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship to support his research on jamming in microfluidic systems, which he will also be carrying out in collaboration with Prof. Robert Riehn. (May 2009)
Senior Laura Golick received the Physics Department's "Outstanding
Graduating Senior Award in Research", and senior Philip Boyne received the "Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Scholarly Achievement" at the Graduation ceremony. Laura will be pursuing at PhD in physics Emory University, and Philip will be teaching high school physics. (May 2009)
Our submission to the APS Gallery of Nonlinear Images was awarded an Honorable Mention at the APS March Meeting. Watch it here: [APS] [Local Copy] (March 2009)
The Jackson School of Geosciences (UT-Austin) provides a lay summary of our work on the granular behavior of faults: [Link] (January 2009)
Congratulations to sophomore Melissa Fender and junior Adele Lichtenberger for winning Undergraduate Research
Awards. (November 2008)
Kasey Phillips has been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
She will first attend the University of Cambridge to study Applied Mathematics, after which she will move to Harvard University to pursue a PhD in Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. (May 2008)
Coverage of our work with Bob Behringer at Duke University on shaken and sheared granular materials recently appeared in Science (March 2006)
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