The wonderful ECRs in Polymer Physics Slack team

TPC2024's Discussion Leaders...look at this star-studded group of polymer professors! Register now for the best polymer conference of the year! :) tpc2024.virtualbyvario.com/agenda/

Outstanding defense by Kathryn Wilcox, PhD. Just beautiful work. I am sure Sveta Morozova is a proud mentor!

(the answer is no) read here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.ma… feel free to DM if you cannot access!

Friends, please consider nominating yourself or others to an American Physical Society committee. Clearly, APS needs some fresh blood. aps.org/about/news/202… The nomination deadline is July 1st. Please spread the word!

Got published and I'm first author! 😊

Postdoc opening in 3D printing, starting in Oct/Nov. The candidate should have a PhD in material sci., civil, environmental or mech. eng. Experience in mineralization, biomass synthesis, and bacterial/algae growth is a plus. Pls send CV, letter of interest, 2 selected papers.

Hey all of you #polyelectrolyte folks out there. Mark your calendar for the next International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes for July 2025 in Brazil! Also, if you're a young investigator, please consider applying for the inaugural Paul Dubin Award! isp25.com/isp2025/page/4…

It's been a long time coming but... ✅ Graduated with a PhD from an awesome advisor ✅ Obtained a job at a great company ✅ Excited to co-chair the Polymer Physics Gordon Research Seminar in ~1 day So excited for the future and to see some old faces that got me here! 🤩

Reminder: Registrations due for Lorentz Center workshop "Breaking Barriers in Polymer Materials Design", lorentzcenter.nl/breaking-barri… on Aug 1st! The workshop will be on October 21-25, 2024 in Leiden and we still have a few spots open, particularly for early-career researchers!

Did you know that LAMMPS comes with a Graphical User Interface ? It's perfect for beginners. You can download precompiled versions here for Linux, MacOS, and Windows : download.lammps.org/testing/ Feel free to provide your feedback to the LAMMPS dev on matsci.org

Pleasant morning read in ACS Macro Journals ACS Macro Lett on "Statistical Copolymerization-Induced Self-Assembly" - another cool use of Compositional Drift program by Ting Xu to show how charged "solid" self-assemblies outperform block polymers 😍 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Join us on Tuesday, August 6th, for the final session of the Special Condensate Colloquium Summer Series! 🌞🔬 This week's talks feature "Structure and Sequence in Charge-Driven Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation" by Sarah Perry (Sarah Perry (she/her)) and Charles E. Sing (@SingLabUIUC).

I was excited to read this Soft Matter perspective by Heinrich Jaeger and colleagues UChiPhysics --- and it didn't disappoint! Training physical matter to matter - now published in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Community engagement post: What is your favorite review article on polymers that you've recently read?

The 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry was a Polymer Physics article on active polymers 😲 Improbable Research

Check out our new paper on unusual structure formation and dynamics exhibited by liquid crystals during phase separation. Great work by Yuma Morimitsu and Chris Browne, among others. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Penn Penn Engineering pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Are you interested in doing postdoctoral work in the intersection of advanced MD, machine learning and software development in collaboration with the GROMACS team? Last chance to apply this weekend! kth.se/lediga-jobb/74…

Last year, the tshirt design below won the inaugural competition. APS DPOLY t-shirt design competition is back for the 2025 American Physical Society Global Physics Summit. All DPOLY members are welcome to submit designs by Jan 5th, 2025: forms.gle/9dy779UXuCaRoX…