This year, our conversations will focus on the key challenges and opportunities in soft matter design, including living materials, nanomaterials, and the macroscopic behavior of soft systems. Each seminar will be held from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Olin 128 with a 30-minute presentation followed by 20 minutes of discussion. From 1:00-2:00 p.m., we will host an optional extended session for one-on-one or small group conversations with the speaker, Cornell faculty, postdocs, and graduate researchers. You are welcome to leave after 1:00 if your schedule requires it, but we hope you will stay for this additional dialogue, which we view as an essential part of the series.

We look forward to your participation and to another year of discovery and exchange.

Organizers: Sarah Hormozi, Itai Cohen, Eric Dufresne, Nick Abbott, Uli Wiesner
Coordinators: Taylor Parente and Mehryar Jannesari Ghomsheh
Cornell Soft Matter Hub
 

Please email Mehryar Jannesari Ghomsheh to be added to the soft matter email list.
 

Tomás Arias
Professor, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Department of Physics
Cornell University

Bio: Tomás Arias is a professor and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of Physics at Cornell University. He received his B.Sc. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1992. The focus of the Arias research group is to calculate ab initio (from first principles) how the rich variety of complex phenomena in condensed matter systems arises from the well-understood, simple underlying interactions among electrons and nuclei. This work is multi-faceted and involves developing understanding of interacting many-body systems, unraveling physics spanning wide ranges of length- and time- scales and learning how to describe thermal effects occurring in phase spaces with complex topologies. Answering the questions which underlie these issues requires work in a broad range of disciplines including mathematics, numerical analysis, software development and supercomputer architecture, many-body theory, and condensed matter physics. His students contribute to a rich mix of applications and more far-reaching theoretical problems of their own choice according to their tastes and talents.