- August 2024: Hari presented invited seminar talks at SeoulTech and KAIST, and a contributed talk at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Daegu, South Korea.
- June 2024: Hari organized the Active and Dissipative Systems session at the ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium. Bonus pic from Seattle: part of the 2024 NSF-PMP CAREER awardees cohort! Left to right: Ryan Poling-Skutvik (U Rhode Island), Alexandra Bayles (U Delaware), Maggie Qi (MIT) and Hari.
- June 2024: Jiayu and Thomas are hooded at the PhD commencement ceremony! Congrats to both.
- May 2024: Fizza is recognized with the Teaching Assistant Excellence Award by the College of Engineering. Congrats Fizza!
- May 2024: Hari’s paper on collective stability of rods embedded in membranes appears as a Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapids article.
- January 2024: Samantha Yan and Amirhossein Heiderzadeh join the group. Welcome Sam and Amir!
- January 2024: Thomas’s paper on cross-streamline migration of elastic fibers appears in Soft Matter.
- January 2024: Hari receives an NSF CAREER award!
- January 2024: Jiayu’ paper on liquid jet thinning with soluble surfactants is published (and selected into an Emerging Young Investigator collection!!). Read more here: Journal of Chemical Physics, 160, 024902 (2024).
- December 2023: Happy holidays from the math-bio-fluids team at Davis!
- December 2023: Jiayu Li presents his exit seminar, marking the first Ph.D. graduate from our group. Congrats, Jiayu!
- November 2023: Fizza, Thomas, Jiayu and Hari presented at the APS-DFD meeting in Washington, D.C.
- September 2023: Kira presents a research poster at the Good Food Conference in San Francisco.
- July 2023: Congratulations to Fizza, Kira and Joaquin on passing their Ph.D. qualifying exams!
- June 2023: Vishnu’s paper on non-Newtonian membrane hydrodynamics is published! Read more here: Physics of Fluids, 35, 063110
- January 2023: Thomas’ paper on flow-induced buckling of non-uniformly stiff microfilaments is published! Read more here: Frontiers in Soft Matter, 2, 977729 (2023).
- November 2022: Hari, Jiayu and Thomas will present recent work at the AIChE annual meeting in Phoenix.
- September 2022: We have been awarded a Discovery Grant by the Good Food Institute to study hydrodynamic effects on animal cells in cultivated meat!
- June 2022:
- Congratulations to Haruka, Rohit, and Vishnu for wrapping up their degrees and graduating at the Spring commencement!
- Congratulations to Haruka, Rohit, and Vishnu for wrapping up their degrees and graduating at the Spring commencement!
- January 2022: Kira Kiviat and Fizza Usmani join our team!
- December 2021: Congratulations to Vishnu for completing his dissertation! Vishnu is officially awarded his Master of Science and will move on to work for Intel in Portland.
- July 2021:
- Our first student-led publication is here: Influence of interfacial rheology on viscous fingering, J. Li & H. Manikantan, Physical Review Fluids, 6, 074001 (2021).
- Jiayu and Thomas have had their abstracts accepted for the AIChE annual meeting later this year in Boston.
- Abstract submission is open for the Annual Meeting of the APS-DFD at Phoenix. Hari is hosting a focus session on ‘Surfactants as Hidden Variables’, and contributed talks are welcome till the deadline of Aug 2, 2021.
- June 2021:
- Hari is awarded a Hellman Fellowship for 2021-22.
- Congrats to Jiayu and Thomas for passing their Ph.D. qualifying exams!
- After over a year of zoom group meetings, we are now all fully vaccinated and were excited to safely meet in person for a group lunch! Also a chance to take our first official group photo…
- May 2021: We are awarded a collaborative seed grant to study complex fluid mechanics and rheology in infected plant sap. More details and exciting results soon!
- Winter 2021: Samantha Wang joins our team.
- December 2020: The paper “Tunable collective dynamics of active inclusions in viscous membranes” has been published in Physical Review Letters.
- Fall 2020: Haruka Shudo and Rohit Mokkarala are the latest members of our team.
- Summer 2020: Congrats, Daniel Jiang for wrapping up at Davis. Daniel continues as a PhD student at the University of Southern California.
- May 2020: After 3 years in the making and at 115 pages, our invited perspective and review “Surfactant dynamics: hidden variables controlling fluid flows” is now available online. (updated Dec 2020 to open access, so it’s free for the world!)
- Fall 2019: A research group is born. Jiayu Li, Thomas Nguyen, and Vishnu Vig are the first generation of graduate students. Daniel Jiang joins us as the first undergrad in our group.
- Summer 2019: Hello world!
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