News Archive
News Archive 2022:
19/12/2022: Abhinav Naga has been awarded a National Fellowship in Fluid Dynamics by EPSRC. Congratulations for Abhinav!
16/12/2022: Halim gave an invited colloquium talk for DFG Priority Programme "Dynamic Wetting of Flexible, Adaptive, and Switchable Surfaces” (SPP 2171)
9/12/2022: The UKCOMES (UK Consortium on Mesoscale Engineering Sciences) proposal will be funded by EPSRC under the High End Computing Consortia call. Halim is work package leader on Multiphase and Interfacial Flows.
7/12/2022: The proposal 21ENGBIO - Converting a cellular dustbin into a protein storing organelle will be funded by BBSRC. Halim is a Co-I in this project led by Prof Lorenzo Frigerio at the University of Warwick.
14-15/11/2022: Halim, Abhinav and Ben Xu (Northumbria) organised "Bio-Inspired and Smart Surfaces" SIG event. Day 1 focuses on the science while day 2 is dedicated for ECR careers.
25/10/2022: Halim and Omer attended a QEVEC-CCPQC workshop in Manchester.
20/10/2022: Halim visited Oxford and gave an invited seminar as part of the Industrial and Applied Mathematics Seminar.
13/10/2022: Halim gave an online invited talk at the 3rd International Conference on Chemistry and Science Education held in Padang, Indonesia.
3/10/2022: Szymon Oramus is joining our group for his L4 project. Szymon will work with Halim and Abhinav on liquid infused surfaces.
3/10/2022: Xiaotian Ma is joining our group for his PhD. Xiaotian will work with Halim and Mark Miller on liquid-liquid phase separation.
30/9/2022: Michael's paper on "3D-Printed Liquid Diodes with Tunable Velocity: Design Guidelines and Applications for Liquid Collection and Transport" in collaboration with the Pinchasik group has been accepted for publication in Physics of Fluids.
26/9/2022: Raymond's paper on "Modelling the Dynamics of Partially Wetting Droplets on Fibres" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids.
6-8/9/2022: Halim, Abhinav and Jack are attending and giving talks at the UK Fluids Conference 2022 in Sheffield.
28/8/2022: Halim gave an invited talk for the Physics and Mathematics Cluster in Forum Cendekia Kelas Dunia 2022 (online, Indonesia)
22-26/8/2022: Halim attended (online) and gave a contributed talk at the 2022 Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics conference (Soochow University, China)
17-19/8/2022: Halim attended (online) and gave an invited talk at the Nature Inspired Surface Engineering 2022 conference (Seoul National University, South Korea)
1/8/2022: Welcome to Omer Rathore, who will start his PDRA as part of the QEVEC project.
29/7/2022: Jack's paper with Chris Prior (Durham Maths) on "A Minimal Model of Elastic Instabilities in Biological Filament Bundles" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
18/7/2022: Alvin's paper on "Spontaneous Phase Separation of Ternary Fluid Mixtures" has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter.
13/7/2022: Sarah Goodband passed her PhD Viva. Thanks to Aidan Hindmarch and Fouzia Ouali who examine Sarah's thesis.
30/6/2022: The proposal on NSF GEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: A general model for bubble nucleation and growth in volcanic systems has been awarded for funding by NSF and NERC. Halim is a Co-I in this interdisciplinary project involving Durham, Lehigh, Texas and Lafayette Universities.
30/6-1/7/2022: Halim is co-organising an LMS DOS network meeting on Anisotropic Materials. Speakers include Apala Majumdar (Strathclyde), Stephen Morris (Oxford), Andrew Krause (Durham), Tyler Shendruk (Edinburgh), Devesh Mistry (Leeds), and Halim Kusumaatmaja (Durham)
28/6/2022: Alvin Shek passed his PhD Viva. Well done Alvin! Thanks to Kislon Voitchovsky and Rodrigo Ledesma who examine the thesis.
20/6/2022: Sami Al-Izzi from UNSW is visiting the group and giving a seminar on "Ordered Structures and Flows in Living Matter: Actomyosin and Tissues"
15/6/2022: Chiu-Fan Lee from Imperial College London is visiting the group and giving a CMP seminar on "Conversion-limited phase separation in biological cells".
6/6/2022: Thomas Williamson and Alex Moorhouse are starting their summer projects in the group. Welcome Thomas and Alex.
1/6/2022: Halim is co-organising a SIG online event. Speakers include Chiara Neto (Sydney), Prashant Agrawal (Northumbria), Matthew Moore (Hull), and Daniel Orejon (Edinburgh)
3/5/2022: A new paper on "Using Shape Fluctuations to Probe the Mechanics of Stress Granules" has been posted on bioRxiv.
3/5/2022: A new paper on "Systematic Characterization of Effect of Flow Rates and Buffer Compositions on Double Emulsion Droplet Volumes and Stability" has been accepted for publication in Lab on a Chip. This is joint work with Polly Fordyce and Gerald Fuller's groups at Stanford [www] [bioRxiv].
3/5/2022: Halim attended and gave a talk at the SOFI/SOFI2 CDT Industry Network Event.
11/4/2022: A new paper on "3D-Printed Liquid Diodes: Design Guidelines and Applications to Liquid Collection and Transport" has been submitted for publication. This is a joint work with the Pinchasik group from Tel-Aviv University.
31/03/2022: A new paper on "Spontaneous Phase Separation of Ternary Fluid Mixtures" has been submitted for publication. This is a joint work with Alvin Shek [arXiv].
17/3/2022: A new paper on a novel "Binary Image Transition State Search" method has been submitted for publication. This is a project with Sam Avis and Jack Panter.
16/3/2022: Halim visited the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Hull and gave an invited seminar.
7/3/2022: A new paper on "Systematic Characterization of Double Emulsion Droplets for Biological Applications" has been submitted for publication and posted on bioRxiv [www]. This is joint work with Polly Fordyce and Gerald Fuller's groups at Stanford.
7/3/2022: Ke Sun will work with Halim and Prof Kislon Voitchovsky for her PhD starting in April 2022. Ke is part of cohort 3 of SOFI2 CDT. Welcome Ke!
2/3/2022: Halim visited the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge and gave an invited seminar.
25/2/2022: Halim has been selected in APS' 2022 list of outstanding referees [www].
17-18/2/2022: Halim is attending and giving an invited talk at UKCOMES Spring International Workshop on Mesoscale Modelling and Simulation.
10/2/2022: We have an opening for a PDRA position to work on "Quantum Algorithms for Fluid Simulations [www].
25/1/2022: Andrew Christy has passed his viva. Congrats Andrew!
News Archive 2021:
15/11/2021: Dr Abhinav Naga is starting his PDRA in the group. Abhinav was previously a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Welcome Abhinav!
2/11/2021: Halim is giving an invited seminar at the University of Strathclyde as part of the Continuum mechanics & industrial mathematics seminar series.
11/10/2021: Dr Jack Panter is starting his PDRA in Halim's group. Jack was previously a PDRA in Cambridge with Prof David Wales FRS and a PhD student in Halim's group. Welcome back Jack!
4/10/2021: Michael Rennick and Alexander Brown are starting their PhDs in the group. Michael will be part of Halim's EPSRC Fellowsip project, while Alex is funded by the MoSMed CDT in collaboration with RWTH Aachen. Michael and Alex were previously 4th year project students in the group. Welcome Michael and Alex!
4/10/2021: Xiaotian Ma is starting his 4th year project in the group. Welcome Xiaotian!
28/9/2021: Finlay submitted his Master's thesis entitled "Colloidal Crystals on Conical Surfaces". Finlay is off to Cambridge to do a PhD.
13-17/9/2021: Halim attended the DSFD conference. [www]
13/9/2021: Halim attended the LMS DOS network meeting organised by Dr Elsen Tjhung from Durham. This network is funded by the London Mathematical Society and includes Durham, Oxford, Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities.
9/9/2021: Sam's paper "Tailoring the Multistability of Origami-Inspired, Buckled Magnetic Structures via Compression and Creasing" has been accepted for publication in Materials Horizon. This is joint work with the groups of Teng Zhang (Syracuse) and Xueju Wang (Connecticut). [www]
8-10/9/2021: Halim attended and giving a talk at the 2021 UK Fluids Conference. [www]
19/8/2021: A new paper "Apparent Contact Angle of Droplets on Liquid Infused Surfaces: Geometric Interpretation" has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter. This is joint work with Ciro Semprebon, Subkhi Sadullah and Glen McHale [www]. This paper has been chosen for a journal front cover! Well done Ciro and Subkhi for designing the cover.
16-18/8/2021: Halim will attend and present at the Droplets 2021 meeting to be held in hybrid format, online and in Darmstadt, Germany.
4/8/2021: A new paper entitled "Wetting of Phase-Separated Droplets on Vacuole Membranes Leads to A Competition between Tonoplast Budding and Nanotube Formation" has been accepted for publication in PNAS. This is joint work with Alex May, Mistianne Feeney, Joe McKenna, Noboru Mizushima, Lorenzo Frigerio and Roland Knorr. [www]
30/7/2021: Halim is Co-I on a new EPSRC £1M ExCALIBUR project "Quantum Enhanced and Verified Exascale Computing" led by Viv Kendon. Our group's part concerns with how we may exploit quantum computing algorithm(s) for the lattice Boltzmann method. This involves collaboration between Durham, UCL, Warwick and London South Bank Universities. [www]
29/7/2021: A new perspective article "Intracellular Wetting Mediates Contact between Liquid Compartments and Membrane-Bound Organelles" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cell Biology. This is joint work with Roland Knorr and Alex May. [www]
26-28/7/2021: Halim attended the Physics Meets Biology 2021 conference. Halim presented a poster based on Carl Jones' work on stress granules.
23/7/2021: A new paper entitled "Apparent Contact Angle of Droplets on Liquid Infused Surfaces: Geometric Interpretation" has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter. This is joint work with Ciro Semprebon, Glen McHale and Subkhi Sadullah.
21-22/7/2021: Halim and Alvin the UKCOMES International Summer Workshop. Alvin presented his work on ternary phase separation.
28/6/2021: Michael Rennick is starting his summer project funded by CCP5. This project is in collaboration with Dr Jianping Meng from STFC.
28/6/2021: A new paper entitled "Reconfiguration of Multistable 3D Ferromagnetic Mesostructures Guided by Energy Landscape Surveys" has been accepted for publication in Extreme Mechanics Letters. This is a joint work with the groups of Teng Zhang (Syracuse) and Xueju Wang (Connecticut). [www]
22-25/6/2021: Halim attended and gave an invited talk at the TSRC workshop on Complexity in the Chemistry and Physics of Lipid Membranes [www]
14-16/6/2021: Halim attended the IOP conference on Designed Assembly of Colloids at Interfaces.
10/6/2021: Halim attended the IOP Theory of Condensed Matter Theory Day.
9/6/2021: Halim gave a invited seminar for the Materials and Biological Physics group, University of Sheffield.
31/5-2/6/2021: Halim attended SoftComp Annual Meeting and gave a talk on Superselective Binding on 3D hosts. Sarah presented a poster on liquid infused surfaces as well.
12/5/2021: A new paper on "Apparent Contact Angle of Droplets on Liquid Infused Surfaces: Geometric Interpretation" is now on arXiv [www]. This is joint work with Ciro Semprebon, Muhammad Subkhi Sadullah and Glen McHale.
6/5/2021: Congratulations to Sarah for coming up as runner up in the 2021 Durham Three Minute Thesis competition.
20-22/4/2021: Halim attended the workshop on Roadmapping of Quantitative Understanding and Modelling of Cleaning and Decontamination.
6-9/4/2021: Halim attended the BMC BAMC 2021 conference and gave a talk on Phase transitions on non-uniform curved surfaces: Coupling between phase and location in MS21: Mathematical and Physical Challenges in Anisotropic Soft Matter.
6/4/2021: Halim gave an invited seminar on "Biomimetic Wetting and Interfacial Phenomena: Where Physics and Engineering Meet Chemistry and Biology" for I4's Materials Science and Engineering cluster.
26/3/2021: Congratulations for Dr Carl Jones for passing his PhD viva!
25/3/2021: Halim has been awarded a £1.1M EPSRC Fellowship with a project entitled "Multiphase Multicomponent Lattice Boltzmann Method for Modelling Wetting on Liquid Infused Surfaces". There will be open postdoc and PhD positions associated with this Fellowship project in due course. [www]
22/3/2021: Halim gave a contributed talk at mini symposium Structural Instabilities: From Failure to Function in ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference.
10/3/2021: Halim gave an invited online seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics seminar series, University of Manchester.
29/1/2021: Halim attended and gave an invited talk at an online workshop "Mesoscale Modelling of Interface Fluids" organised by ExxonMobil.
21/1/2021: Halim gave an invited online seminar for the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional group at the University of Lisbon.
News Archive 2020:
22/12/2020: Marianna's paper on "Modelling Ternary Fluids in Contact with Elastic Membranes" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E [arXiv].
22/12/2020: Alvin's paper on "Capillary Bridges on Liquid Infused Surfaces" has been accepted for publication in Langmuir [www][arXiv].
16/12/2020: Congratulations to Finlay for winning the Arthur Browne Scholarship.
14/12/2020: Halim gave an invited talk on "Modelling Liquid Repellent Surfaces Using Diffuse Interface Models" at UKCOMES 2020 International Workshop.
9/12/2020: Andrew's paper on "Control of superselectivity by crowding in three-dimensional hosts" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. This is joint work with Mark Miller [www][arXiv].
7/12/2020: A new paper "Predicting Hemiwicking Dynamics on Textured Substrates" has been accepted for publication in Langmuir. This is joint work with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering.
23/10/2020: Congratulations to Dr Jack Law for passing his PhD viva!
1/10/2020: Welcome to Allen Drews and Finlay Gerrand who are joining the group.
4/9/2020: A new paper "Reconfiguration of Multistable 3D Ferromagnetic Mesostructures Guided by Energy Landscape Surveys" has been submitted for publication. This is joint work with the groups of Teng Zhang (Syracuse) and Xueju Wang (Connecticut).
3/9/2020: Halim gave a keynote talk at the "International Conference on Research and Learning of Physics" organized by Universitas Negeri Padang.
11/8/2020: Subkhi's paper on "Bidirectional motion of droplets on gradient liquid infused surfaces" has been accepted for publication in (Nature) Communications Physics [www]. Thanks to all the co-authors for their contributions!
6/8/2020: Jack Law's paper on "Phase transitions on non-uniform curved surfaces: Coupling between phase and location" has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter [www]. This is joint work with Mark Miller.
21/07/2020: Subkhi's paper on "Factors controlling the pinning force of liquid droplets on liquid infused surfaces" has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter [www]. It has also been chosen as Front Cover.
24/6/2020: A new paper "Self-propelled droplet transport on shaped-liquid surfaces" has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. This is joint work with Gaby Launay, Glen McHale, Rodrigo Ledesma and Gary Wells. [arXiv]
17/6/2020: Subkhi has passed his PhD viva. Congrats Subkhi!
2/6/2020: Jack Panter's paper on "Critical pressure asymmetry in the enclosed fluid diode" has just been accepted for publication in Langmuir. This is a joint collaboration with Yonas Gizaw from P&G. [arXiv]
18/5/2020: Halim's paper on "Axisymmetric flows on the torus geometry" has been accepted for publication in JFM. This work is a collaboration with Sergiu Busuioc and Victor Ambrus.
30/4/2020: Sam Avis and Halim contribute to a new paper on OpenLB, which has now been accepted for publication in Computers and Mathematics with Applications.
23/4/2020: A new paper on "Unrestrained ESCRT-III drives chromosome fragmentation and micronuclear catastrophe" has been accepted for publication in Nature Cell Biology [arXiv].
20/4/2020: Welcome to Jack Parker who will work with Halim and Dr Margarita Staykova for his PhD. Jack is part of cohort 1 of SOFI2 CDT.
10/4/2020: Ningning's paper on "Modelling double emulsion formation in planar flow-focussing microchannels" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics [arXiv].
9/4/2020: Subkhi's paper on "Bidirectional motion of droplets on gradient liquid infused surfaces" has been submitted for publication. It is a joint work with the group of Gary Wells from Northumbria University [arXiv].
23/3/2020: Will Foster has passed his PhD viva. Congrats Will!
13/3/2020: Sarah's paper on "The Effect of Ageing on the Structure and Properties of Model Liquid Infused Surfaces" has been accepted for publication in Langmuir [www] [arXiv].
13/2/2020: Jack Panter's paper on "Critical pressure asymmetry in the enclosed fluid diode" has just been submitted for publication. This is a joint collaboration with Yonas Gizaw from P&G.
12/2/2020: Will Foster's new paper on "Self-assembly of small molecules at hydrophobic interfaces using group effect" has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale. [www]
17/1/2020: Jack Panter has passed his PhD viva. Congrats Jack!
News Archive 2019:
18/12/2019: Our paper on "Multicomponent flow on curved surfaces: A vielbein lattice Boltzmann approach" has been published in Physical Review E. This is joint work with Victor Ambrus, Sergiu Busuioc, Alexander Wagner and Fabien Paillusson. [www]
29/11/2019: A new paper with Victor Ambrus and Sergiu Busuioc on "Axisymmetric flows on the torus geometry" has been submitted for publication. [arXiv]
29/11/2019: Jack Panter's paper on "Harnessing energy landscape exploration to control the buckling of cylindrical shells" is now published in (Nature) Communications Physics. This is joint work between Halim and Jack with Teng Zhang and Junbo Chen from Syracuse University. [www][arXiv]
26/11/2019: Our paper on "Learning dynamical information from static protein and sequencing data" is now published in Nature Communications [www]. It is a joint work with Phil Pearce, Francis Woodhouse, Aden Forrow, Ashley Kelly and Jörn Dunkel. Ashley was a summer student funded by the Biophysical Sciences Institute.
21-30/11/2019: Dr Irwan Ary Dharmawan is visiting our group from Padjajaran University (Bandung, Indonesia).
7/10/2019: We welcome three new PhD students in the group: Sam Avis, Listra Ginting and Fandi Oktasendra. Sam is funded by EPSRC DTA, while Listra and Fandi won the BPPLN scholarships from the Indonesian government.
7/10/2019: We welcome Tom Lark who will carry out his MPhys project in the group.
1/10/2019: Well done to Carl Jones for winning the best poster prize at the Fifth Annual NORBIS conference.
30/9/2019: Jack Panter handed in his PhD thesis. Well done Jack! He will stay on in the group as a PDRA for the next 6 months.
30/9/2019: A new paper on "Morphological analysis of chiral rod clusters from a novel coarse-grained chiral potential" has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter. This is joint work with the group of David Wales in Cambridge.
20/9/2019: Halim is attending and giving a talk at the one day meeting on Physics of Living Systems [www].
16-18/9/2019: Halim and Ben Xu are the theme organisers for Textured, Patterned and Smart Surfaces in Droplets 2019. Halim will also give a contributed talk in Droplets 2019 [www].
15/9/2019: Halim and Ben Xu organise a satellite meeting to Droplets 2019 on Smart Surfaces [www].
12/9/2019: Sam Avis and Halim contribute to a new paper on OpenLB. Sam implemented our ternary free energy model into OpenLB as part of his MPhys final year project [www].
23/8/2019: We are pleased that Listra Yehezkiel Ginting and Fandi Oktasendra from Sumatra Institute of Technology and Padang State University have been awarded scholarships by the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education to do their PhD in our group.
21/8/2019: Halim gives a public lecture "On Liquid Repellency: When Physics and Engineering Meet Chemistry and Biology" at Padang State University, Indonesia. Halim will also lead a workshop on how to write scientific articles.
20/8/2019: Halim gives a public lecture on "Building an Academic Career Abroad" at Padang State University, Indonesia [www] [www].
18-25/8/2019: Halim participates in the World Class Scholar Symposium in Jakarta organised by the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education [www].
6/8/2019: Finlay Gerrand (Imperial College London) is starting a 7-week summer project in our group.
1-10/8/2019: Dr Yudi Rahmawan from Pertamina University is visiting our group.
29/7-11/8/2019: Dr Irwan Ary Dharmawan from Padjadjaran University is visiting our group.
29/7/2019: Alex Lea (Durham University) is starting a 6-week summer project in our group, funded by the Laidlaw Scholarship scheme. He will be with our group next year as well.
25/7/2019: A new paper "Wetting boundaries for ternary high density ratio lattice Boltzmann method" has been published by PRE. It has been chosen as Editors' Suggestion. [www]
23-26/7/2019: Halim is attending and giving an invited talk at the "16th International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science" [www].
8-10/7/2019: Halim is attending and giving a talk at the "Physics of Evolution" workshop [www].
5/7/2019: Prizes for group members this week! Jack Panter won the Graham Russell prize, Sam Avis won the J. A. Chalmers prize, Sarah Goodband won a poster prize at the SOFI Showcase, and Will Foster won a poster prize at the Manchester Microscopy conference. Well done guys.
3/7/2019: A new paper "Wetting boundaries for ternary high density ratio lattice Boltzmann method" has been accepted for publication by PRE.
27/6/2019: Halim and several others in the group are attending the SOFI Industrial Showcase Event [www]. Several group members are presenting.
26/6/2019: Halim has been selected to participate in the World Class Scholar Symposium in Jakarta (18-25 August 2019) organised by the Indonesian Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education [www].
23/6/2019: Jack's paper on Multifaceted Design Optimisation for Superomniphobic Surfaces with Yonas Gizaw (P&G) and Halim is now out in Science Advances [www] [arXiv].
5/6/2019: The paper on "Multicomponent flow on curved surfaces: A vielbein lattice Boltzmann approach" has been submitted for publication. This is joint work with Victor Ambrus, Sergiu Busuioc, Alexander Wagner and Fabien Paillusson [arXiv].
4/6/2019: Gaurav Agarwal from IIT Kharagpur is starting an 8-week summer project in our group, with bursary from Durham's Biophysical Sciences Institute. Gaurav will work on elastocapillary phenomena.
3/6/2019: Ningning's paper on "Modelling double emulsion formation in planar flow-focussing microchannels" has been submitted for publication. This is joint work with Haihu Liu, Chuhua Zhang and Ciro Semprebon [arXiv].
28/5/2019: Jack Panter's paper on "Harnessing energy landscape exploration to control the buckling of cylindrical shells" has been submitted for publication. This is joint work between Halim and Jack with Teng Zhang and Junbo Chen from Syracuse University.
27/5/2019: Marianna's paper on "Modelling ternary fluids in contact with elastic membranes" has been submitted for publication [arXiv]. This is joint work with Halim, Alvin, Ciro Semprebon and Timm Krüger.
20/5/2019: Sam Avis (a final year project student) and Halim have contributed to the new release of openLB [www]. Well done Sam for being a co-author of openLB.
20/5/2019: Jack Law's paper on "Phase transitions on non-uniform curved surfaces: Coupling between phase and location" with Halim, Jacob Dean and Mark Miller has been submitted for publication.
16-17/5/2019: Halim is attending the "Droplet Interactions and Surfaces" meeting at the University of Edinburgh. The meeting is part of UKFN SIG activities on Droplet and flow interactions with bio-inspired and smart surfaces.
13-15/5/2019: Halim is attending and giving an invited talk at the "2nd International ICMM Workshop on Mathematical Modelling", University of Loughborough.
29/4/2019: Subkhi and Halim are co-authors in a new submitted paper "Self-propelled droplet transport on shaped-liquid surfaces". This is a joint work with Gaby Launay, Glen McHale, Rodrigo Ledesma and Gary Wells. [arXiv]
15/4/2019: Marianna and Halim are co-authors in a new submitted paper "Wetting boundaries for ternary high density ratio lattice Boltzmann method". This is a joint work with Neeru Baala, Ciro Semprebon and Ilya Karlin.
12/4/2019: Halim gave an invited talk entitled "Modelling Drops on Liquid Infused Surfaces" at the Heraeus meeting on Wetting on Soft or Microstructured Surfaces [www].
10/4/2019: Halim wrote an essay entitled "Interdisciplinary Science: The Case of Soft Matter" for the book Bunga Rampai Kontribusi Ilmuwan Diaspora Dalam Pengembangan Sumber Daya Iptek & Dikti di Indonesia (rough translation: Contribution of Indonesian Diaspora to the Development of Science, Technology and Higher Education in Indonesia) edited by Deden Rukmana and Alan Koropitan [www] (see page 113-118).
8/4/2019: Jack Panter's paper on Multifaceted Design Optimisation for Superomniphobic Surfaces with Yonas Gizaw (P&G) and Halim has been accepted for publication in Science Advances [arXiv].
29/3/19: Roland Knorr from MPI Colloids and Interfaces and University of Tokyo is visiting our group.
26/3/19: Halim gives an invited seminar at the Department of Physics, University of Exeter.
23/3/19: Together with Kislon Voitchovsky and Margarita Staykova, Halim gave a public talk on soft matter physics as part of Durham University's Saturday Morning Science series [www].
19/3/19: Halim visited Jianping Meng at Daresbury Laboratory and gave an invited talk on ternary lattice Boltzmann method.
4/2/19: Raymond Christianto has just joined our group as a PhD student. Raymond is part of the newly established Global Challenges Research Fund Centre for Doctoral Training in Durham.
14/1/19: Halim gave an invited talk at the workshop "Optimal design of complex materials" at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
News Archive 2018:
17/12/18: Halim attends the UKFN SIG meeting on "Fluid Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials" at the University of Loughborough.
14/12/18: Halim gives an invited talk at the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, University of York.
3-7/12/18: Robin Trunk from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is visiting our group.
28/11/2018: Halim gives an invited seminar at the Fluid Dynamics Research Centre, University of Warwick.
26/11/2018: A new paper on "Unrestrained ESCRT-III drives chromosome fragmentation and micronuclear catastrophe" has been submitted for publication.
21/11/2018: A new paper on "Measuring Bilayer Surface Energy and Interface Curvature in Asymmetric Droplet Interface Bilayers" is published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. It is a joint work with Nate Barlow, Ali Salehi-Reyhani, Nick Brooks, Laura Barter, Oscar Ces (Imperial College) and Anthony Flemming (Sygenta) [arXiv] [www].
21/11/2018: Halim gives an invited seminar at the School of Physics, University of Bristol.
30/10/2018: Halim gives an invited seminar at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Loughborough.
3/10/2018: Halim gave an invited seminar at the School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Lincoln.
18-19/9/2018: Halim gave invited lectures on the lattice Boltzmann method in the summer school on Computational Modeling in Geoscience held in Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia [www].
17/9/2018: Will's paper with Juan Aguilar, Halim and Kislon Voitchovsky on In-situ molecular-level observation of methanol catalysis at the water-graphite interface has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces [arXiv][www].
17/9/2018: Halim visited Universitas Padjajaran in Bandung, Indonesia and gave a talk on Liquid Repellent Surfaces [www].
12-13/9/2018: Halim, Ciro Semprebon and Rodrigo Ledesma are organising a workshop on Multiscale Modelling of Wetting Phenomena [www]. This workshop is a UKFN SIG “Droplet and Flow Interactions with Bio-Inspired and Smart Surfaces” event.
29-30/8/18: Halim attended and gave a talk at the UKFN SIG meeting on Fluid Mechanics of Cleaning and Decontamination [www].
26-27/8/18: Prof Haihu Liu from Xi'an Jiaotong University is visiting our group.
20-24/8/18: Kristian Thijssen from Julia Yeomans' group in Oxford is visiting our group.
6-10/8/2018: Martin Bauer from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is visiting our group.
3/8/2018: A new paper on "Inference of complex state transition networks via reconstructed high-dimensional energy landscapes" has been submitted for publication. It is a joint work with Phil Pearce, Aden Forrow, Jörn Dunkel (MIT), Francis Woodhouse (Cambridge) and Ashley Kelly (former summer student). [bioRxiv]
30/7-24/8/2018: George Fearnley, a Durham Physics UG, is doing a summer project in our group.
13/7/2018: Halim is speaking at the BSI Research Showcase event [www].
9/7/2018: Sarah Goodband from SOFI cohort 4 is joining our group as a PhD student. She will work with Halim and Dr Kislon Voitchovsky on liquid infused surfaces. Her project is partially funded by AkzoNobel.
4-5/7/2018: A few of us from the group are attending the SOFI showcase at the University of Edinburgh [www].
28-29/6/2018: Halim gives an invited talk at a UKFN-ECMI workshop on "Nematics at the Meeting Point of Solid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics: New Perspectives and Challenges" at the University of Bath [www].
25-27/6/2018: Halim gives an invited talk at a CECAM workshop on "Nano-structured soft matter: a synergy of approaches to amphiphilic and block copolymer systems" at the University of Lincoln [www].
25-26/6/2018: Halim is quoted in a couple of online articles from detik.com [1][2].
12/6/2018: Subkhi's paper with Ciro Semprebon and Halim on "Drop dynamics on Liquid Infused Surfaces: The Role of the Lubricant Ridge" has been accepted for publication in Langmuir. [arXiv] [www]
7/6/2018: Halim will attend the IOP Theory of Condensed Matter Annual Meeting at the University of Warwick.
2-17/6/2018: Irwan Ary Dharmawan from University of Padjajaran is visiting our group.
24-26/5/2018: Halim gives a plenary talk at the "TIM18 Physics Conference" at Timisoara, Romania [www]
21-22/5/2018: Halim gives an invited talk at a workshop on "Mathematical Modelling: From Bio to Quantum" at ICMM, University of Loughborough [www]. Halim is also a scientific advisory board member for ICMM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical Modelling).
15/5/2018: Jack Law's paper with Alex Wong, Mark Miller and Halim on "Nucleation on a sphere: the roles of curvature, confinement and ensemble" has been accepted for publication in Molecular Physics (Special Issue for Daan Frenkel). [arXiv] [www]
14-18/5/18: Halim will attend and give a talk at a workshop on "Modeling and Simulation of Interface Dynamics in Fluids/Solids and Applications" in Singapore [www].
9/5/2018: Moritz's paper with Ciro Semprebon, Ali Mazloomi, Ilya Karlin and Halim on "Ternary free-energy entropic lattice Boltzmann model with high density ratio" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. [arXiv] [www]
7/5/2018: Benjamin's paper with Jack Law, Buddho Chakrabarti and Halim on "Dynamic Morphologies and Stability of Droplet Interface Bilayers" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. [arXiv] [www]
21/4/2018: Halim attended UKFN SIG meeting on "Structural surfaces and liquid/surface interactions" in Edinburgh.
19-23/3/2018: Halim will attend and give a tutorial on Multiphase LBM at "Lattice Boltzmann Methods with openLB Software Lab" in Karlsruhe, Germany.
26/2/2018: Halim attended the Royal Society's Artificial Cell meeting at Chicheley Hall.
5-16/2/2018: Victor Ambrus from from West University of Timisoara is visiting our group.
1/2/2018: Peter Pan from National Taiwan University is visiting our group.
30/1-1/2/2018: Aden Forrow from MIT is visiting our group.
23/1/2018: Our LBM book is in Springer's Top Downloaded New Books in Physics [www].
News Archive 2017:
17-22/12/2017: Halim was invited to the "World Class Scholars Symposium" organised by the Indonesian's Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education.
19/12/2017: Halim gave a seminar on "Interfacial Phenomena in Soft Matter and Biophysics" at Bandung Institute of Technology (Bandung, Indonesia).
18/12/2017: Halim gave a seminar on "Liquid Repellency" at Pertamina University (Jakarta, Indonesia).
29/11/2017: Halim attended and helped organise the workshop "Industry Day - Smart materials and surfaces powered future engineering solutions” at Nottingham Trent University.
25/10/2017: Halim is co-organising a one-day workshop on "Droplet Coalescence" at Durham University on the 25th of October 2017. Academics and industrialists are invited to attend.
9/10/2017: Seth Price, Jayne Parle, James Pointon and Jonathan Rees are carrying out their Level 4 projects in our group. Welcome!
3/10/2017: Halim is promoted to an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Durham University.
3/10/2017: Clara Despard is starting her PhD with Suzanne Fielding and co-supervised by Halim.
5/9/2017: Ningning Wang is visiting our group for the coming academic year from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
28/8-1/9/17: Halim is co-organising a CECAM workshop on "Addressing metastability in interfacial phenomena across multiple time and length scales" in Lausanne, Switzerland [www].
10/8/2017: Jorge's paper with Fabien Paillusson and Halim on "On the Critical Casimir Interaction between Anisotropic Inclusions on a Membrane" has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. [arXiv] [www]
10-14/7/2017: Halim gave an invited talk at the 26th International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics (DSFD 2017) entitled "Modelling Ternary Fluids with High Density Ratio". Muhammad Sadullah also gave a contributed talk on "Study Of Factors Influencing Droplet Mobility On Liquid Infused Surfaces". [www]
5-7/7/2017: Halim is attending the SOFI CDT Soft Matter Conference. [www]
26-30/6/2017: Halim attended a workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Interfacial Dynamics in Complex Fluids at Banff International Research Station and gave an invited talk on "Modelling Ternary Fluids with High Density Ratio". [www]
21/6/2017: Halim attended and spoke at the UKCOMES Annual Meeting at Daresbury Laboratory.
15/6/2017: Halim is speaking at a one-day event organised by the NODES research & training centre. [www]
6/6/2017: Halim co-organises the IOP Theory of Condensed Matter Annual Meeting in Warwick. [www]
5/6/17: A joint paper with Ewan Hemingway and Suzanne Fielding on "Edge Fracture in Complex Fluids" is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. [arXiv] [www]
24/5/2017: Halim visited Loughborough Applied Mathematics and gave a talk on "Modelling drop dynamics and contact line motion using diffuse interface models".
8-12/5/2017: Halim visited MIT Mathematics and gave a Physical Mathematics Seminar on liquid infused surfaces and phase separation in bicontinuous cubic phase.
12/4/2017: Halim co-organises the kick-off meeting for UKFN's Special Interests Group on “Droplet and flow interactions with bio-inspired and smart surfaces”.
6/4/17: Halim gave a Soft & Biological Matter Seminar at the University of Leiden on liquid infused surfaces and phase separation in bicontinuous cubic phase.
23/3/17: Halim gave a talk at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol on "Liquid Repellent Surfaces".
6/3/17: We are pleased that Alvin Shek and Andrew Christy have chosen to carry out their PhDs in our group. Alvin and Andrew are part of the Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces Centre for Doctoral Training, and they will start in April.
1/3/17: Jack Panter's paper with Halim has been highlighted in JPhys+ blog [www]. The aim of JPhys+ is to highlight high quality papers published in any of the Journal of Physics journals. Well done Jack!
27/2/17: Halim and Jörn Dunkel (MIT) have been awarded a Royal Society International Exchanges grant to collaborate on a new project "Translating Sequencing Data Into Representative And Predictive Fitness Landscape".
14/2/17: Halim visited Institut Lumière Matière, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and gave a talk on wetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces and phase separation in bicontinuous cubic phase.
13/2/17: Moritz Wöhrwag is visiting our group from ETH Zurich until the end of March. Moritz will work on ternary lattice Boltzmann method.
16/1/17: Our new paper on "The Impact of Surface Geometry, Cavitation, and Condensation on Wetting Transitions: Posts and Reentrant Structures" is published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter [www][arXiv]. Special issue on Complex Fluids at Structured Surfaces.
News Archive 2016:
21/12/16: Our new paper on contact angle and contact angle hysteresis on liquid infused surfaces is published in Soft Matter [arXiv][www]. Emerging Investigator Special Issue. Chosen as Cover [www].
13/12/16: Our CECAM workshop on "Addressing metastability in interfacial phenomena across multiple time and length scales" has been approved. The dates are 29 August - 1 September 2017 at CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland [www].
2/12/16: Halim gave the condensed matter theory seminar in Oxford on liquid infused surfaces and phase separation in bicontinuous cubic phase.
1/12/16: Our proposal for a special interests group (SIG) on “Droplet and flow interactions with bio-inspired and smart surfaces” for the UK Fluids Network has been approved. Halim is co-leading the SIG with Glen McHale and Ben Xu (Northumbria).
28/10/16: Halim's project on "Wetting of Elastic Fibres: A Novel Immersed Boundary-Lattice Spring-Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Approach" is approved for funding by EPSRC[www].
17-19/10/16: Jack Panter, a PhD student in our group, is attending the Liquids @ Interfaces conference in Paris. Jack will present a poster on "The impact of Surface Geometry, Cavitation and Condensation on Wetting Transitions on Superamphiphobic Surfaces".
20-23/9/16: Halim is attending and giving a talk on liquid infused surfaces in a CECAM workshop Non-equilibrium dynamics of thin films- solids, liquids and bioactive materials.
12-16/9/16: Muhammad Sadullah, a PhD student in our group, is attending the 4th International Soft Matter Conference in Grenoble. Subkhi will present a poster on "Lattice Boltzmann simulations of Lubricant Infused Surfaces".
1/9/16: Our paper on the Thomson problem and its connection to Smale's 7th problem is published in Physical Review Letters [arXiv] [www]. Chosen as PRL Editors' Suggestion. News Article. Phys.Org Article. CMP highlight. AMS Math in the Media.
4/8/16: Halim's book with Timm Krüger, Alexander Kuzmin, Orest Shardt, Goncalo Silva and Erlend Viggen, "The Lattice Boltzmann Method: Principles and Practice", can now be ordered online here.
26/7/16: Halim's paper with Fabien on phase separation on bicontinuous cubic phases is published in Physical Review Letters [arXiv] [www]. This paper also includes contribution from a Durham undergraduate summer student, funded by the BSI.
18-22/7/16: Jorge Benet, a PDRA in our group, is attending StatPhys26 in Lyon. Jorge will give a talk on "Demixing transitions in bicontinuous cubic phase close to the critical point".
29-30/6/16: Halim, Jack Law and Will Foster are going to the Soft Matter Showcase and SOFI Industry Day in Leeds.
8-10/6/16: Halim gave an invited talk at the Lattice Boltzmann 2016 workshop at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
29/5-5/6/16: Halim visited Institut Lumière Matière, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and gave a talk there.
25/5/16: A new paper on dense packings of particles on spherical surfaces is published in Soft Matter [arXiv][www].
11-13/5/16: Halim visited the Department of Mathematics, Penn State University and gave a talk there.
8-10/5/16: Halim gave an invited talk at the 115th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University [www].
18/4/16: We welcome two new PhD students, Jack Law and Will Foster. Jack will work with Halim and Mark Miller, while Will with Halim and Kislon Voitchovsky.
11/3/16: A new paper on ternary free energy lattice Boltzmann is published in Physical Review E [arXiv][www]. One of the images was chosen for PRE Kaleidoscope [www].