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    Recent News

    • Nov/Dec 2023: Agnish's work on how associative memory properties may be improved by activity/active dynamics accepted for publication at Physical Review X !
    • Nov 2023: New work by Lissa Rennert on a thermodynamic theory for the adpative behavior of branced actin networks has been posted on the bioRxv !
    • Oct 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 !
    • Oct 2023: Check out work by Cal Floyd on how ``odd" viscoelasticity helps support a new mechanism for pattern formation ! Posted on the arxiv !
    • Oct 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 bioRxv !
    • 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 on in PNAS !
    • 2023: Collaborative projects with the Park group and the Talapin group published in JACS and Science !
    • Feb 2023: Suri was awarded the ACS PHYS early career prize in theoretical chemistry !!
    • April 2023: Suri gave a KITP Chalk talk on active associative memory. Check it out here: Youtube link
    • Many new people in the group ! Welcome Jordan, Deb, Matt and Aditya !
    • Many updates from 2021 ! Checkout our new papers (on time dependent assembly, thermodynamics of cytoskeletal patterning, non-equilibrium associative memory and much more !). Also welcome to new group members, Agnish (2020), Frank (2020), Cal (2021) and Lissa (2021).

    • 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 get chosen as an Editor's pick !

    • 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!

    • April 2019: Clara's paper gets highlighted by JCP

    • Feb 2019: Nick and Kinjal's paper on screening in dense ionic liquids gets included in the JCP Editors' choice 2018 collection !

    • Feb 2019: Group welcomes a new postdoc! Yuqing Qiu will be a joint postdoc along with the Dinner group. Welcome Yuqing !

    • Jan 2019: Clara's paper on interfacial fluctuations in driven liquids get picked to be highlighted as an Editor's pick !

    • Jan 2019: Clara gets a poster prize for her poster describing her work on oscillations in non-equilibrium biochemical networks. Congrats Clara !

    • Jan 2019: Suri gave a talk on dissipation induced transitions in membranes at the Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting

    • December 2018: The group was just awarded the NSF CAREER award!

    • October/November 2018: Suri visited UMD (Stat Phys seminar), UCSD, Utah (Chemsitry Seminars), MIT (Biophysics seminar) and Northwestern (Applied Math Seminar).

    • Sept 2018: Suri gives a talk on stochastic thermodynamics of growing memrbanes @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 systesm @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 !

    • Feburary 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.

    • October 2017: Clara awarded Arts, Science and Culture Fellowship. Congratulations!

    • August 2017: Nick gives talk at the Gordon Research Seminar accompanying the GRC Liquids meeting

    • 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

    • December 2016: Lectures on information processing in biology at ICTS

    • November 2016: Nick is awarded the MRSEC Graduate Fellowship. Contratulations!

    • October 2016: Suri gives a talk at the Applied Physics Department, Harvard University.

    • October 2016: Suri gives a talk at the Material Science and Enginnering 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 Comm.

    • June 2016: Workshop on condensed phase dynamics at Telluride

    • May 2016: Rutgers statistical mechanics meeting

    • April 2016: Theory lunch at Harvard

    • November 2015: Large deviation workshop at Princeton

    • October 2015: Kinjal Dasbiswas and Michael Nguyen join the group. Welcome!