News

 
  • March, 2024: Amir will give an invited talk at Tufts University Mechanical Engineering Colloquium (link).
  • March, 2024: Amir will give an invited talk in the 2024 APS March meeting on “Biofilm formation in confined environments” in the Focus session on “Phase Separation in Active Matter” (link).
  • March, 2024: Amir is organizing a Focus session on “Soft and Living Matter in Geophysical Flows” in the 2024 APS March meeting  (link).
  • Feb, 2024: Amir will give an invited talk in the MIT Soft Materials Structures and Devices (SMSD) seminar series.
  • Dec, 2023: Amir gave a talk at the 2023 American Geophysical Union annual meeting (link).
  • Nov, 2023: Amir gave an invited talk in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminar series at University of Southern California (link).
  • Nov, 2023: Amir gave an invited talk in the Physics Colloquium at Wesleyan University (link).
  • Oct, 2023: Amir gave an invited talk in the Fluids Seminar series at Brown University (link).
  • Sep, 2023: Amir gave an invited talk in the Porous Media Tea Time talk series on “Steering colloids across complex flow landscapes” (link).
  • June, 2023: Amir gave a talk in the 19th Northeastern Granular Materials Workshop at University of Massachusetts Amherst on steering colloids and crack patterns in drying suspensions (link).
  • June, 2023: Amir gave a talk in the 97th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, held at NC State University, on solute-mediated transport across complex landscapes (link).
  • April, 2023: Amir gave an invited talk in the Physics Colloquium at Clark University on “Steering colloids using solute gradients and flow across complex landscapes” (link).
  • March, 2023: Our group attends the 2023 APS March meeting in Las Vegas with three contributed talks by Haoyu on “Steering colloids using solute gradients and flow” (link), Mobin on “Diffusiophoretic transport and dispersion of colloids across complex landscapes” (link), and Xiaolei on “Crack patterns in drying binary-mixture suspensions” (link). We look forward to the conference and meeting everyone.
  • Nov, 2022: We are excited to head to the 2022 APS DFD meeting in Indianapolis with three contributed talks by Haoyu on “Diffusiophoretic focusing of colloids in a microfluidic T-junction” (link), Mobin on “Diffusiophoretic transport of colloids in periodic porous media” (link), and Xiaolei on “Crack patterns in drying suspensions of binary fluid mixture” (link). Amir is also going to chair the Focus session on “Transport phenomena in active biological networks” (link). 
  • Oct, 2022: Amir gives an invited talk in the 23rd Annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting held in UMass-Amherst on “Diffusiophoretic transport of colloids in disordered media” (link).
  • Sep, 2022: Hobart Chen and Aditya Pujari joined the group as PhD students. Welcome Hobart and Aditya!
  • May, 2022: Amir co-chairs the Gordon Research Seminar on “Active and Passive Transport Processes in Biological and Geophysical Flows” in Les Diablerets, Switzerland in July 2022 (link).  
  • April, 2022: Xiaolei Ma joins the group as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome Xiaolei!
  • March, 2022: We are attending the APS March meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Check out our Focus Session on “Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Environments: From Colloids to Active Matter” (link).
  • Feb, 2022: Mobin Alipour joins the group as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome Mobin!
  • Nov, 2021: We are attending the APS DFD meeting in Phoenix, Arizona; our first in-person conference in nearly two years (check out our three talks: talk1, talk2, talk3).
  • Oct, 2021: The SoFLivMat coffee hour at Yale gets started (link)
  • Oct, 2021: Amir chatted with Bill Weir of Yale News (link).
  • Sep, 2021: Haoyu Liu joins the group as the first PhD student. Welcome Haoyu!
  • Aug, 2021: Together with Christina Kurzthaler of Princeton University, Amir is co-organizing a Focus Session on “Transport phenomena in heterogeneous and dynamic environments” for the APS March meeting, 2022 (link).
  • July, 2021: Physics Magazine features our work on the evaporation of binary-mixture liquid droplets (link).
  • May, 2021: Amir gave an invited talk at UCSD Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series, presenting our work on the life and death of bubbles and drops (link).
  • March, 2021: Amir gave an invited talk at Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Mathematics group at the University of Strathclyde, presenting our work on the life and death of bubbles and drops (link).
  • Feb, 2021: Amir wrote a short note for the New Scientist magazine to explain the path instability of rising bubbles (link).
  • Amir will serve as the co-chair for the 2022 Gordon Research Seminar on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media (link).
  • Quanta Magazine featured our work on the singularity formation and universality (link).
  • PNAS highlighted our work on the bubble pinch-off (link).
  • MIT News highlighted our work on the breakup of bubbles in confinement (link).
  • Our work on the spreading of droplets is covered by MIT News (link).
  • Physics Focus highlighted our work on the droplet spreading (link).
  • Our work on the spreading of droplets is featured as MIT Homepage spotlight (link).