Recognition for writing code in Mathematica
John Ryan-Purcell's use of Mathematica for our 2023 publication "A continuum description of the buckling of a line of spheres in a transverse harmonic confining potential" was picked up by Wolfram Research. It now features on the Wolfram Community website.
Forthcoming book (Autumn 2025)
Packing problems, which are concerned with optimal arrangements of objects in space, are cross-disciplinary in nature and are encountered in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and architecture. Such problems form a subject of interest in its own right, providing intriguing intellectual challenges, but are also at the heart of many material properties of condensed matter. This book provides a broad and authoritative overview of current research.
Our longest-running experiment continues to inspire physicists around the world.
An article about our famous long-running Pitch-Drop Experiment was featured in the Brazilian science website Super Interessante. The demonstration experiment itself can be seen in the School of Physics Fitzgerald Library.
Buckling Necklace
The goldsmith Tom Stemmer crafted a necklace featuring a buckled chain of spheres, the system studied in detail in the group's current work (see below Mughal et al. 2021, Hutzler et al. 2020, Weaire et al. 2020). Tom thus joins the list of artists and designers who are inspired by the physics developed in our group. More of Tom's work can be found at his website: https://stemmer-goldschmiedeatelier.de/.