Group News
2024/05/24
Applying Physics!
Looking for new ways to apply physics? Check out our van Anders group talks at the CAP Congress.
2024/05/01
Welcome Kate!
Kate Iacobucci is joining the group for summer 2024 as an NSERC USRA student. Welcome!
2024/05/01
Welcome Irina!
Irina Babayan is joining the group for summer 2024 as an NSERC USRA student. Welcome!
2024/04/22
Congratulations Irina!
Irina Babayan received a Vector Institute scholarship. Congratulations!
2024/04/01
Congratulations Irina!
Irina Babayan received an NSERC scholarship. Congratulations!
2024/04/01
Welcome Connor!
Connor Sterne will join the group in September 2024 for his masters. Welcome!
2024/04/01
Welcome Irina!
Irina Babayan will join the group in September 2024 for her masters. Welcome!
2024/03/08
Taking a bite out of the Mini Apple!
Great physics conversation at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis.
2023/11/29
New Preprint!
2023/10/25
Welcome Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Schnekenberger will join the group in January 2024 for her masters. Welcome!
2023/10/25
Welcome Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Schnekenberger will join the group in January 2024 for her masters. Welcome!
2023/09/30
Congratulations Tola!
Tola Alabi successfully defended her MSc Thesis. Congratulations!
2023/09/27
Welcome Noel!
Noel Prangley is joining the group for 2023-2024 for his undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2023/09/22
Good luck Mira!
Mira Sheahan is heading to Cambridge for graduate studies in philosophy of physics. Good luck Mira!
2023/09/01
Welcome Irina!
Irina Babayan is joining the group for 2023-2024 for her honours physics thesis. Welcome!
2023/08/15
New Preprint!
2023/05/17
New Grant
We're eager to start working with collaborators Bas Vriens and Laura Rossi on a new NSERC Alliance International grant.
2023/05/01
Welcome Irina!
Irina Babayan is joining the group for summer 2023 as an NSERC USRA student. Welcome!
2023/05/01
Welcome Back Mira!
Mira Sheahan is continuing in the group for summer 2023 as an NSERC USRA student. Welcome!
2023/04/04
New Award
Greg won the 2023 Geoff Lockwood Award for Excellence in Teaching Physics.
2022/09/21
Welcome Aidan!
Aidan Sheedy is joining the group for 2022-2023 for his undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2022/09/21
Welcome Sam!
Sam Alexander is joining the group for 2022-2023 for his undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2022/09/21
Welcome Benjamin!
Benjamin Baker is joining the group for 2022-2023 for his undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2022/09/01
Welcome Sierra!
Sierra Cabrera is joining the group for 2022-2023 for her honours physics thesis. Welcome!
2022/09/01
Welcome Mira!
Mira Sheahan is joining the group for 2022-2023 for her honours physics thesis. Welcome!
2022/07/18
MRS Podcast!
2022/05/27
New Paper!
New collaborative work with the groups of Peter Schall and Laura Rossi is in Science Advances.
2022/05/01
Welcome Kaleb!
Kaleb Huneau is joining the group for summer 2022 as an NSERC USRA student. Welcome!
2022/05/01
Congratulations Rosy!
Former PhD student (with Sharon Glotzer) Rose Cersonsky has accepted a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations!
2022/05/01
Congratulations Chrisy!
Former PhD student (with Sharon Glotzer) Chrisy Du has accepted a faculty position at the University of Hawaii. Congratulations!
2022/05/01
Congratulations Erin!
Former PhD student (with Sharon Glotzer) Erin Teich has accepted a faculty position at Wellesley College. Congratulations!
2022/04/30
Congratulations Aidan!
Aidan Sheedy completed his engineering physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/30
Congratulations Benjamin!
Benjamin Baker completed his engineering physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/30
Congratulations Sam!
Sam Alexander completed his engineering physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/30
Congratulations Mira!
Mira Sheahan completed her honours physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/30
Congratulations Sierra!
Sierra Cabrera completed her honours physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/13
Congratulations Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Schnekenberger completed her engineering physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/13
Congratulations Gareth!
Gareth Bellinger completed his engineering physics thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/13
Congratulations Madison!
Madison Reed completed her honours thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/13
Congratulations Maeve!
Maeve Beckett completed her honours thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/13
Congratulations Monique!
Monique Rivard completed her engineering physics thesis. Congratulations!
2021/12/01
Congratulations Pheely!
Pheerawich Chitnelawong successfully defended his MSc Thesis. Congratulations! Pheely is continuing in the group to do his PhD.
2021/09/21
Welcome Monique!
Monique Rivard is joining the group for 2021-2022 for her undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2021/09/21
Welcome Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Schnekenburger is joining the group for 2021-2022 for her undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2021/09/21
Welcome Gareth!
Gareth Bellinger is joining the group for 2021-2022 for his undergraduate engineering physics thesis. Welcome!
2021/09/01
Welcome Madison!
Madison Reed is joining the group for 2021-2022 for her undergraduate physics thesis. Welcome!
2021/09/01
Welcome Maeve!
Maeve Beckett is joining the group for 2021-2022 for her undergraduate physics thesis. Welcome!
2021/05/01
Welcome Brianna!
Brianna Nix is joining the group for Summer 2021 to work on curriculum development. Welcome Brianna!
2021/04/28
Welcome Sam!
Sam Connolly is joining the group for Summer 2021 as an NSERC USRA Student. Welcome Sam!
2021/04/23
Congratulations Andrei!
Former PhD mentee Andrei Klishin was awarded the 2021 Kent M. Terwilliger Thesis Prize recognizing the most outstanding dissertation in Physics at the University of Michigan. Congratulations!
2021/04/19
Congratulations Rosy!
The American Chemical Society's Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry gave the 2021 Victor K. LaMer Award to former mentee (with Sharon Glotzer) Rose Cersonsky for her dissertation work. Congratulations!
2021/01/12
New Award
Greg won the 2020 Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Innovation in Teaching Award.
2020/10/13
Plenary Talk!
Greg gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics, hosted by the Landau Institute in Moscow.
2020/10/08
Congratulations Erin!
2020/08/31
New Paper!
2020/08/20
Welcome Hazhir!
Hazhir Aliahmadi will join the group post-covid. Welcome Hazhir!
2020/08/20
Welcome Tola!
Tola Alabi will join the group post-covid. Welcome Tola!
2020/08/19
Congratulations Andrei!
Andrei Klishin successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations! Andrei will start a postdoc in the Bassett Group at Penn in September.
2020/06/09
New Paper!
Andrei Klishin's work mapping when entropy promotes local organization is in Soft Matter.
2019/04/23
Congratulations Andrei!
Andrei Klishin has been awarded the Frank Sevcik award in Physics at the University of Michigan. Congratulations!
2019/04/11
New Grant!
We received a Discovery Grant and a Discovery Launch Supplement from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
2019/04/09
Congratulations Alec!
Former undergraduate student Alec Kirkley received the NSF Graduate Research fellowship and the DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
2019/04/01
Welcome Norman!
Norman Mackay will join the group as an NSERC USRA this summer. Welcome!
2019/03/21
Congratulations Erin!
Erin Teich received an honorable mention for the University of Michigan's ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Congratulations!
2019/03/01
Congratulations Andrei!
Andrei Klishin has been accepted to the 2019 Lindau Meeting! Congratulations!
2019/03/01
Congratulations Chrisy!
Chrisy Du has been accepted to the 2019 Lindau Meeting! Congratulations!
2019/02/26
Congratulations Rosy!
Rose Cersonsky has been awarded the 2019 Student Innovator award from the Biointerfaces Institute at the University of Michigan. Congratulations Rosy!
2019/02/15
Welcome Pheely!
Pheerawhich Chitnelawong from StFX will join the group as a graduate student in Fall 2019. Welcome Pheely!
2018/11/07
Congratulations Yina!
Yina Geng successfully defended her PhD disseration. Yina will start at Morgan Stanley in February. Congratulations Dr. Geng!
2018/10/03
Now Recruiting!
We are now recruiting for several MSc and PhD positions. Contact us if you're interested.
2018/09/24
Congratulations Erin!
Erin Teich has started a postdoctoral fellowship with Danielle Bassett at Penn. Congratulations Dr. Teich!
2018/09/24
Congratulations Chrisy!
Chrisy Du has started a postdoctoral fellowship with Michael Brenner at Harvard. Congratulations Dr. Du!
2018/08/24
Congratulations Andrew!
Andrew Karas has taken a position as a Senior Analyst at PNC Bank. Congratulations Dr. Karas!
2018/08/24
Congratulations Erin!
Erin Teich successfully defended her PhD disseration. Congratulations Dr. Teich!
2018/07/20
Congratulations Rosy!
Rose Cersonsky won an NSF Travel Award for her presentation at the 2018 FOMMS Meeting. Congratulations!
2018/07/01
Queens!
Greg has joined the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy at Queen's University.
2018/04/26
Congratulations Chrisy!
Chrisy Du successfully defended her PhD disseration. Congratulations Dr. Du!
2018/04/24
Congratulations Paul!
Paul Dodd successfully defended his PhD disseration. Congratulations Dr. Dodd!
2018/04/20
Congratulations Andrew!
Andrew Karas successfully defended his PhD disseration. Congratulations Dr. Karas!
2018/03/27
Congratulations Eric!
Group alum Eric Harper has been selected as an NRC Research Associate at AFRL. Well done Eric!
2018/03/07
Congratulations Rosy!
Rose Cersonsky received the DCP Student Travel Award and the DMP Ovshinsky Award at the APS March Meeting for her talk on Tunable Photonic Band Gaps in a High Pressure Entropic Crystal.
2018/03/07
Congratulations Erin!
Erin Teich was a finalist for the 2018 GSNP Student Speaker Award at the APS March Meeting for her talk on Identity Crises in Hard Polyhedral Glass Formers.
2018/03/05
Congratulations Jim!
Jim Antonaglia has received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, which supports outstanding doctoral candidates at UM.
2018/03/05
Congratulations Rosy!
Rose Cersonsky has received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, which supports outstanding doctoral candidates at UM.
2017/10/01
Congratulations Eric!
Eric Harper successfully defended his disseration. He is moving on to a postdoc at AFRL. Congratulations!
2017/05/05
Congratulations Rosy!
Rose Cersonsky's MRS talk "Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Shape Space" won second place in the CMS Student Presentation Contest. Congratulations Rosy!
2017/05/01
New Paper!
2017/04/11
Congratulations Andrei!
Andrei Klishin won the 2017 Franken Prize for outstanding achievement by a first or second year graduate physics student at UM.
2017/04/06
Congratulations Andrei!
Andrei Klishin successfully completed his preliminary examination.
2017/04/03
New Grant!
Greg received a grant from the ONR. The 5-year grant, from the Sea Platforms and Weapons Division (333), will support work in the group the on statistical mechanics and the design of electric ships.
2017/03/30
MCubed Project
MCubed awarded us funds to start a collaborative project with Heather Mayes and Sharon Glotzer (UM ChemE) on using Digital Alchemy for protein design.
2017/03/14
Congratulations !
Chrisy Du won the 2017 GSNP Student Speaker Award at the APS March Meeting for her talk on Entropy Driven Solid–Solid Transitions in Colloids.