Our paper on the mechanics of twist filaments in collaboration with Julien Chopin and Animesh Biswas is out: Phys. Rev. E 109, 025003 (2024) journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

Looking forward to the APS March meeting in Minneapolis and kick-off Squishy Science outreach event. Graduate students Amit Dawadi and Sohum Kapadia will be demonstrating Vortex Cannon, Ferrofluids among others. Please stop by #apsmarch

Vortex formation can be visualized using smoke rings! Sohum Kapadia from Clark University demonstrates how vortices form – one of the most popular demonstrations at #SquishyScienceSunday. Everyone wanted to try it! 🤩

We are participating in the Soft and Living Matter in Geophysical Flows session starting at 8:00AM CST organized by Amir Pahlavan #APSMarch 2024 in Minneapolis and will be discussing active matter transport in porous medium. Hope to see you there.

The sessions are recorded. You can find the talk on the meeting site #apsmarch if you missed it.

Animesh Biswas will be discussing bundle formation in elastic filaments and yarns with elasto-geometric modeling in Session S34: Mechanics and Self-Assembly of Knots and Tangles: From Knitted Fabrics to Polymer Melts #APSMarch march.aps.org/sessions/S34 at 9:12AM in 102F

Clark Graduate Student Sohum Kapadia will be discussing entangling and localization of active filaments in square wells today #APSMarch 12:30 p.m. – 12:42 p.m. CST in 102F. march.aps.org/sessions/T34/4

Clark graduate student Amit Dawadi will be discussing reversible and irreversible transformation of a elastoplastic sheet under cyclic twisting today at 3:24 p.m. CST - Room 103A in the session W35: Soft Metamaterials II: Instabilities #APSMarch march.aps.org/sessions/W35/3

We had a great time visiting alum Professor Moumita Dasgupta's lab in Augsburg University while at the APS March meeting and seeing all the fun and exciting experiments she has going including with Daphnia Magna

Story in the Telegram on Clark's most famous alum: telegram.com/story/news/his…

Once in a lifetime experience

The 20th annual Northeastern Granular Materials Workshop will be held on June 7th, 2024 at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester. Please join us. Registration is free. gibbs.ccny.cuny.edu/NEGW/ Speakers include Karen Daniels, Sara Hashmi, Ken Kamrin, and Erin Teich.

Complex Matter & Nonlinear Physics Lab lost honorary member Abdul Azeem Kudrolli lawyer, author, translator of poetry, and a life long student of physics on June 7. He advocated the primacy of knowledge and creativity while fighting for the underdog till the very end. His love for humanity touched many.

These crumpled structures would repeatedly fold along the same creases when crushed cyclically was a major surprise to those of us trained to think that nonlinearly leads to chaotic behavior. But that is not all to the story.

Camera obscura at the Virupaksha Temple constructed around 1440AD in Hampi India is amazing. An inverted image of the gateway pictured forms an inner wall in the complex after passing through the "pin hole". Not aware of an older existing example if this was not added later.

Famed granite columns in the Vijaya Vittala Temple in Hampi, India make a range of sounds corresponding to Indian instruments and music scale. Needs a clear explanation for the wide range of sounds they produce. They are not hollow and are roughly similar in length diameter.

New preprint out on self-propelling melting ice blocks arxiv.org/abs/2412.16010. This work was led by Michael Berhanu and it was a pleasure to be a part off along with amit dawadi at #ClarkUniversity, and Martin Chaigne, and Jerome Jovet at University Paris Cite.

Check out our new preprint on bundling architecture in elastic filaments where we investigate the formation of helical multifilament bundles and the torque required to achieve them as a function of applied twist. arxiv.org/abs/2501.04650

Blackworms are observed to be dynamically trapped at concave corners. Clark graduate student Sohum Kapadia reports a kinematic model as well as simulations to explain the observations in a new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.10783

Congrats Amit!