Lab Teaching Assistants Orientation

*Special Topology Seminar*: "Topological Soft Matter"

Slobodan Žumer

We use the term “topological soft matter” for systems with stable defects in the orientational order-parameter field. In nematogenic liquid crystals the effects of confining geometry, chirality, or interplay of both…

Dissertation Defense: "Chirality and its spontaneous symmetry breaking in two liquid crystal systems"

Louis Kang

Dissertation Defense: "Deformation of Two-dimensional Amorphous Granular Packings"

Jennifer Rieser

Dissertation Defense: "Clogging of Granular Hopper Flows"

Charles Thomas

Dissertation Defense: A Search For B-L R-Parity-Violating Scalar Top Decays in √s=8 TeV pp Collisions With The ATLAS Experiment

Brett Jackson

Dissertation Defense: Spatially-dense, Multi-spectral, Frequency-domain Diffuse Optical Tomography of Breast Cancer

Han Y. Ban

Dissertation Defense: "Search for Weakly-Produced Supersymmetry in Same-sign Di-lepton Final State"

Elizabeth Hines

Dissertation Defense: Search for an Invisibly Decaying Higgs Boson Produced via Vector Boson Fusion

Rami Vanguri

Dissertation Defense: Unearthing the Anticrystal: Criticality in the Linear Response of Disordered Solids

Carl Goodrich