Latest updates from the Vaikuntanathan Group.
2023
November / December 2023
Agnish's work on how associative memory properties may be improved by activity/active dynamics accepted for publication at Physical Review X!
November 2023
New work by Lissa Rennert on a thermodynamic theory for the adaptive behavior of branched actin networks has been posted on the bioRxiv!
October 2023
New collaborative work with the Anderson group is now out in JACS! Agnish proposed a percolation-like theory to explain some of the phenomenology seen in experiments. Check it out!
October 2023
Check out work by Cal Floyd on how "odd" viscoelasticity helps support a new mechanism for pattern formation! Posted on the arXiv!
October 2023
Check out new work by Yuqing Qiu (in collaboration with the Dinner group) showing how representation learning helps inform a minimal physical theory for flows in actin networks due to active stresses and turnover! Posted on the arXiv!
July 2023
Check out new work by Matt Du on how activity modulates retrieval dynamics. Posted on the arXiv!
June 2023
Check out new work by Frank Gao (in collaboration with the Riesenfeld group) on a new method to extract meaningful cell transition data from RNA velocities! Posted on the bioRxiv!
June 2023
Cal's work with the Bhamla group on a model for the dynamics of ultrafast contraction in systems with myonemes is now out in PNAS!
April 2023
Suri gave a KITP Chalk talk on active associative memory. Check it out here:
YouTube link
February 2023
Suri was awarded the ACS PHYS early career prize in theoretical chemistry!!
2023
Collaborative projects with the Park group and the Talapin group published in JACS and Science!
2023
Many new people in the group! Welcome Jordan, Deb, Matt and Aditya!
2020
December 2020
Checkout Zhenghan and Laura's new papers (in the publications page!)
April 2020
The group was just awarded a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar award!
March 2020
Zhenghan's paper on rectification of energy and motion in parity violating metamaterials gets accepted for publication at Physical Review X!
January 2020
Clara's paper on robustness in multicyclic models of biochemical oscillators gets accepted for publication at the Journal of Chemical Physics and gets chosen as an Editor's pick!
2019
December 2019
Clara's paper detailing how energy dissipation can increase robustness of oscillations accepted for publication at Physical Review E!
December 2019
Paper with Etienne and Takahiro showing how dissipation can be used to control phase transitions and mobility accepted for publication at New Journal of Physics!
October 2019
Paper with Laura, Etienne and Takahiro accepted for publication in Physical Review X!
September 2019
New work with Etienne and Takahiro exploring connection between dissipation and organization submitted!
September 2019
Zhenghan's new paper on mechanisms for anomalous transport in chiral active liquids submitted!
September 2019
Clara's new paper investigating robustness in biological clocks submitted!
September 2019
Nick's paper with Kinjal on the dynamics of tactoid droplets submitted!
July 2019
Zhenghan's paper posted on the arXiv!
May 2019
Kinjal's paper with the Gardel group gets accepted for publication in PNAS!
February 2019
Nick and Kinjal's paper on screening in dense ionic liquids gets included in the JCP Editors' choice 2018 collection!
February 2019
Group welcomes a new postdoc! Yuqing Qiu will be a joint postdoc along with the Dinner group. Welcome Yuqing!
January 2019
Clara's paper on interfacial fluctuations in driven liquids gets picked to be highlighted as an Editor's pick!
January 2019
Clara gets a poster prize for her poster describing her work on oscillations in non-equilibrium biochemical networks. Congrats Clara!
January 2019
Suri gave a talk on dissipation induced transitions in membranes at the Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting
2018
December 2018
The group was just awarded the NSF CAREER award!
October / November 2018
Suri visited UMD (Stat Phys seminar), UCSD, Utah (Chemistry Seminars), MIT (Biophysics seminar) and Northwestern (Applied Math Seminar).
September 2018
Suri gives a talk on stochastic thermodynamics of growing membranes @STET18, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden!
August 2018
Suri gives a talk on dissipation induced phase transitions @ EIOSM2018, ICTS, Bengaluru!
August 2018
New paper with Kim, Kinjal and Tom and Margaret has been posted!
August 2018
New paper with Laura, Etienne and Takahiro has been posted!
August 2018
Clara's new paper has been posted!
July 2018
Suri gives a talk on dissipation induced phase transitions @Telluride!
July 2018
Kinjal accepts faculty position @ UC Merced! Congrats Kinjal!!
June 2018
Nick's new paper on a lattice model for ionic liquids has been submitted!
May 2018
Michael awarded the Anthony Turkevich award, congratulations!
May 2018
Suri gives a talk on Topological modes in non-equilibrium systems at a workshop on topological protection in messy systems @GeorgiaTech!
April 2018
Suri gives a talk on non-equilibrium self-assembly @Brandeis!
March 2018
Michael's new paper has been posted!
March 2018
Clara's new paper has been posted!
February 2018
New paper in collaboration with Vincenzo Vitelli's group posted!
February 2018
Clara and Laura's paper on energy flows in driven liquids has been accepted for publication at PNAS, congrats!
February 2018
Suri gives a talk at a symposium on non-equilibrium dynamics and information processing at Okinawa.
January 2018
Suri gives a talk at Active Matter Session at UC Berkeley.
2017
October 2017
Clara awarded Arts, Science and Culture Fellowship. Congratulations!
July 2017
Suri organized the Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry (with Toru Shiozaki, Joan-Emma Shea, and Tom Miller).
May 2017
Suri gives a talk at the CNLS meeting on Statistical Mechanics.
March 2017
Michael awarded NSF Fellowship. Congratulations, Michael!
March 2017
Laura Tociu joins the group. Welcome!
February 2017
Suri gives a talk at the Department of Physics, UIC.
February 2017
Congratulations to the group for being awarded the
2017 Sloan Research Fellowship! Congrats also to the Dickinson group @ UChicago Chemistry for the same award.
January 2017
Kinjal's paper in collaboration with Gardel group accepted in PNAS
January 2017
Kinjal and Nick's paper in collaboration with Talapin group accepted in Nature
2016
November 2016
Nick is awarded the MRSEC Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
October 2016
Suri gives a talk at the Applied Physics Department, Harvard University.
October 2016
Suri gives a talk at the Material Science and Engineering Department, UIUC.
October 2016
Michael's paper on non-equilibrium self-assembly accepted at PNAS. Congratulations, Michael!
October 2016
Manuscript on Topological Modes with Arvind accepted at Nature Communications.