Members
Principal Investigator
Expertise: Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids; granular media and the jamming of granular flows; modeling the dynamical instability in microtubules.
Current Members
Alumni
- Dapeng "Max" Bi (2012), "Origin of Rigidity in Marginal Solids." Present position: Physics Fellow, Rockefeller University's Center for Physics and Biology.
- Dibyendu Das
- Michal Dichter
- Edwin Faican
- Allison Ferguson (2006) "Dynamical Heterogeneities and Signatures Of Jamming in Dense Granular Flow." Present position: Research Scientist, Bristol Aerospace, Winnipeg, Canada
- Ben Fisher
- Daniel Goldstein (2018)
- Lei Gu (1999), "Studies of Static and Dynamic Properties of a Compressible Ising Antiferromagnet on a Triangular Lattice."
- Prabu Gugagantha
- Silke Henkes (2008), "A statistical mechanics framework for static granular matter." Present position: Lecturer, Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
- Michael Ignatiev (1998), "Ergodicity Breaking and High-Frequency Response in a Simple Free-Energy Landscape."
- Zahera Jabeen
- Abhijeet Joshi
- Josh Kalb (2007), "Single Polymer Systems Under Geometric Confinement." Present position: Mathematician, Kingshow Games.
- Siqi Liu
- Ya Liu (2010), "Statics and Dynamics of Polymers in Confined Spaces." Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mitch Mailman (2011), "Jammed Packings of Soft Grains in 2D: Mechanical and Statistical Mechanical Properties." Present position: Scientist, Frontier Technology, Boston.
- Carl Merrigan (2020)
- Jishnu Nampoothiri (2022)
- David Olmsted (1999), "Elastic Effects in Binary Alloy Ordering."
- Michael Pollard
- Kabir Ramola
- Rajesh Ravindran
- Rafi Rubenstein
- Sumantra Sarkar (2016), "Origin of Rigidity in Athermal Materials." Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Jeremy Schmit
- Stefan Stanojevi
- Sumedha Sumedha
- Jetin Thomas (2019)
- Alex Williamson
- Zhigang Xi (1994), "Effective Medium Theory description of Ordering in Alloys."
- Yasheng Yang
- Hui Yin (2001), "The Study of a Frustrated Spin Model-Compressible Ising Anti-ferromagnet on a Triangular Lattice." Present position: Mentor Graphics, San Jose, California.