News
2024
Andrés presents work about magnetic interactions in living matter at OIST "Bioinspired magnetic active matter".
2023
Ze Frank shares on his True Facts series "The Science of Real-Life SuperPowers" . We acknowledge the hard work of Caitlin Cowie, and Ze. I thank Daniela Abegg for pointing out our work to Ze.
"Intrinsic chiral field as vector potential of the magnetic current in the zig-zag lattice of magnetic dipoles" published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations to the team lead by P. Mellado, and I thank F. Zapata and S. Duarte from UAI-DEC for their help in the process of building the first versions of the experimental setup.
2022
"Symmetries of altitudinal magnetic rotors " are studied in collaboration with J. Cisternas at Universidad de los Andes. Congratulations to Mariana (Master's student) for her first published article, and to S. Duarte from UAI-DEC.
more coming soon...
2021
"Bioinspired magnetic active matter and the physical limits of magnetotaxis" available on the arXiv.
The Velvet Worm is back. 🤓
Animalogic beautiful work is available at: The Velvet Worm Looks Like It’s From Another Planet
Kevin Hofhuis from Paul Scherrer Institute will be visiting Paula Mellado, and working in the laboratory (Aka Sukucho).
Study about the stability of solutions in the classical XY chain was published in PRB. Domain wall solutions that you can see and touch are now available.
In Memoriam of Jorge Concha Rojas (1936-2021)
Comment about the architecture national prize 2014.
2020
New technique for the measurement of magnetic interactions (magnetization) developed in the Condensed Matter i-Lab. Report coming soon.
Joint collaboration with J. Cisternas (U. Andes, Chile), F. Urbina (U. Mayor), P. Mellado (UAI), M. Carrasco (UAI), C. Portilla (Undergrad Student UAI), and myself was submitted on December 02. Submitted version available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04173 .
"Magnetoelectric effect in dipolar clusters" Published in Physical Review Letters. See: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.237602
2019
Fluid dynamics research highlights our work FDR prize.
Prueba III Electromagnetismo .
Anillo initiative is the next target.
Fondef Idea submitted in March. Collaborative effort between Jamie Paik, Stanley Best [March].
David Aguayo is now a PhD. in Complex systems (P. Mellado adviser) .
Andrés was promoted to associate professor in January 09 .
2018
Shengfeng Cheng from Virginia Tech will be visiting UAI in September.
Jamie Paik and Students from EPFL visited UAI during August . She delivered the talk "Hard problems in soft robotics" .
It was a pleasure to visit Hunter King and Ali Dhinojwala at Akron University, Ohio. We look forward for a productive collaboration.
At IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY. We acknowledge Mark Ritter for explaining in great detail how the IBMQ machine works. We are working in the simpler cooling system proposed during the visit.
From Left to right:
Quantum Computer
Nathalie
Juan Pablo
Andrés
Mark Ritter
The article "On angled bounce-off impact of a drop impinging on a flowing soap film" has been awarded the Fluid dynamics research award as outstanding paper of the 2017. The commendation ceremony will be held at the anual meeting of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics
Our recently published article "Designing Hysteresis with Dipolar Chains" has been highlighted by the Materials Research Society. The direct link to the MRS article is "Engineering magnetic hysteresis with dipolar chains"
"Designing Hysteresis with Dipolar Chains" published in Physical Review Letters
"Lens of Time" won a Webby award. Congratulations to the team, specially to Adrienne and Owen.
We have won the UAI innovation grant for education
In collaboration with Jamie Paik at EPFL we have been awarded an EPFL seed money grant
2017
Invited talk at Variational Models of Soft Matter . We will present work on fluid structure interactions
In collaboration with M. Bandi's group at OIST we have published the article "On angled bounce-off impact of a drop impinging on a flowing soap film".
2016
Biographic powered by the California Academy of Sciences highlights our work with a wonderful chapter of the serie "Lens of Time"
A talk titled "Bio-inspired microfluidics: The case of the velvet worm" was given at the APS March meeting 2016.
Press conference on the "ANIMAL INSPIRED TECH" section at the APS March meeting 2016.
Our work (Thanks Laura and Gonzalo) was highlighted at UAI.
2015
March
The New York Times Highlighted our recent work. Credit: James Gordon NyT.
The full article is available at: NyT ScienceTake article.
Our work on Bio-inspired micro-fluidics has been highlighted by:
National Geographics, Wired, Science, Harvard University, techtimes, Nature-Asia, and The New scientist
between others.
First paper of the condensed matter laboratory at UAI published in Nature Communications.
Andres will give an invited talk at A. Nuñez group.
It is a pleasure to announce that Natalia Perkins is visiting UAI.
Andres gave a talk at APS about Velvet worms.
Paula gave an invited talk at APS. If you are interested in Majoranas and gauge transformations see October News or check her webpage.
Andres will present at APS March Meeting work on Velvet Worms and work on elastic instabilities in graphene.
Mauricio Santillana form Harvard University will be visiting UAI in March.
February
David Aguayo received the Conicyt doctoral fellowship. Congratulations David!!
First generation of summer interns had a successful experience in the Condensed Matter Lab. First setups to study magnetic actuation, swimming strategies, and micro-fluidic devices are ready. We will continue our studies during the fall.
January
Bernal Morera-Brenes gave a talk about ¿Como los Onicoforos atrapan sus presas? . He is visiting as part of a project aimed to study elastic instabilities in living organisms, and use that knowledge to build bio-inspired devices.
Let's meet Paropisthopatus Umbrini
2014
December
First paper of the Condensed Matter Lab How the velvet worm squirts slime available on the ArxiV.
First meeting with summer interns: D. Aguayo, G. Iglesias and L. Cañete. They will be working in non-linear dynamics of magnetic particles and swimming strategies.
November
Bernal Morera-Brenes will be visiting us to study bio-inspired elastic instabilities.
Paula and Andres were part of the Explora science camps at UAI.
APS March Meeting Abstracts submitted.
High speed camera facility working at UAI.
October
First paper from the Condensed Matter Lab at UAI sent out for publication.
UAI Science Fair 2014, a beautiful event. Thanks to all people that made it possible.
Paula Mellado gave a talk on The Projective symmetry of partons in Kitaev's honeycomb model at Los alamos national laboratory USA (LANL). See also Trinity.
September
Paula Mellado, long term collaborator and member of the condensed matter laboratory at UAI will give an invited talk at the APS March meeting 2015. She will be giving a talk onThe Projective symmetry of partons in Kitaev's honeycomb model.
Adolfo Ibañez University Science Fair 2014. To be held on October 02-2014. Plenary talks by two National Medal of Science laureates and two distinguished researchers at UAI, hands on activities, and visits to the laboratories.
Collaborator M. Carrasco wins intel competition to become a "Galileo" developer.
August
Experiments being done at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science an Technology)
Former student Eduardo Cisternas receives Baden-Württemberg Fellowship to pursue studies at Heidelberg University, Germany.
July
Former Mahadevan's lab summer student, and current collaborator Reza Zarinshenas has been accepted for a research position at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Felipe Marin successfully defends his thesis-subject on Graphene-like acoustic meta-materials.