January 2024
Our paper on flow states of two dimensional active gels driven by external shear was published, featuring our artwork on the cover.
November 2023
There were 47 talks from the Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics at the 2023 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Mechanics Meeting. Federico, Pranay, and Tom represented the Powers group. Also, postdoctoral alumnus Saverio Spagnolie gave a nice invited talk on liquid crystals.
August 2023
Our paper on chiral fluid membranes with orientational order and multiple edges has appeared.
July 2023
Wan Luo successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations Wan!
May 2023
Lijie Ding returns to Brown for his Commencement Ceremony. Congratulations Lijie!
Yutian He graduates with with an ScM. Congratulations Yutian, and good luck at the UMass Amherst Physics PhD program!
March 2023
Bin Liu’s case for promotion to associate professor of physics with tenure in at UC Merced has been approved!
Marcelo Dias’s case for promotion to Reader in Structural Engineering at the University of Edinburgh has been approved!
Congratulations Bin and Marcelo!
February 6–9, 2023
Pranay, Tom, Wan, Yutian , and Zifei attended the Brandeis MRSEC Winter School at the Appalachian Mountain Club Highland Center in NH.
September 1, 2022
Federico Cao has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship (Doctoral). Congratulations, Federico!
July 4, 2022
Boulder School 2022: Hydrodynamics Across Scales starts today! You can access the lectures and other materials here.
June 16, 2022
Group lunch
June 14, 2022
Lije Ding has defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
June 1, 2022
Jasper Chen, Zifei Liu, and Jasper Chen have joined the group. Welcome!
December 31, 2021
Harsh Soni has joined the faculty of the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Mandi. Congratulations, Harsh!
Dan Beller has joined the faculty of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Congratulations, Dan!
December 14, 2021
Our 2009 paper on hydrodynamic synchronization has been selected by the editors of Physical Review E as part of a PRE Spotlight on Hydrodynamic Synchronization at Low Reynolds Number (click here and scroll down before 30 January 2022—the spotlight is for a limited time only!)
September 20, 2021
Federico Cao has joined our research group. Welcome Federico!
September 7, 2021
Our paper on how rods disperse in a pressure-driven shear flow has been published. It was chosen as an Editor’s suggestion.
July 2, 2021
New paper on the deformation and stability of membranes of fixed area and a resistance to bending in the classic geometry used to study soap films. Leroy Jia’s artwork made the cover!
July 1, 2021
Two new faculty members have joined the Fluids and Thermal Sciences group. Welcome Monica and Mauro!
June 14, 2021
Our new paper on geometric frustration in chiral membranes with free edges has appeared.
June 8, 2021
Lijie Ding has been awarded the 2021–2022 Physics Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations Lijie!