Thesis defense
Vaibhav defended his PhD thesis entitled "Experimental studies of the inetrfacial and structural dynamics of non-equilbrium colloidal and athermal materials".
Congratulations Dr. Parmar!
Conference organised
We organised the Discussion Meeting on Glassy, Disordered and Nonequilibrium Soft Matter on 10-11 April, 2025
The themes of the meeting were: Memory and Yielding, Machine Learning in Amorphous Soft Matter.
Here is the link:
https://www.rri.res.in/meetings/discussion-meeting-glassy-disordered-and-non-equilibrium-soft-matter
Other news
Ranjini was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in January 2025.
Read the post here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2076657926173510&set=a.279430195896301
Outreach activities: our recent research
on the microrheology, aging and cracking of clays
Vaibhav received the second prize for his oral presentation at the conference on
Interdisciplinary Applications of Magnetic and Optical Tweezer, 2024, at IIT Bombay
He spoke on the RheoDLS team's work on optical tweezer based active microrheology that was published in Soft Matter
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sm/d2sm01457b
A short video on our work on crack formation
Link to paper:
A short video on our work on adsorption
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/SM/D2SM01457B
An article by PIB on our work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biEkFAkdw9Y
A recent popular talk on the flow of soft matter
A popular article on the flow of soft matter
A popular article on our work on drug delivery capsules
Our paper from 2014 was selected to appear in the special issue of Nature India that RRI brought out to commemorate 75 years of cutting-edge research.
Read the original paper here:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/la304836e
Read the entire issue of Nature India commemorating RRI's glorious 75 years: 'Lighting the way in physics' here:
https://www.nature.com/collections/dbgebhhfig