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LEARNING FROM NON-EQUILIBRIUM EXCURSIONS

We develop and use tools of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics to understand the behavior of complex systems in physical chemistry,
soft condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Specific research directions
include: Statistical mechanics of driven systems and self assembly out of
equilibrium, information processing and control in biology, and studies of
aqueous fluctuations in heterogeneous environments with the goal of developing
coarse grained models for efficient multiscale chemical and biophysical
simulations.


RECENT NEWS

 * Many updates from 2021 ! Checkout our new papers (on time dependent assembly,
   thermodynamics of cytoskeletal patterning, non-equilibrium associative memory
   and much more !). Also welcome to new group members, Agnish (2020), Frank
   (2020), Cal (2021), Tyler (2021) and Lissa (2021).
   
   

 * December 2020: Checkout Zhenghan and Laura's new papers (in the publications
   page !)
   
   

 * April 2020: The group was just awarded a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar
   award !
   
   

 * March 2020: Zhenghan's paper on rectification of energy and motion in parity
   violating metamaterials gets accepted for publication at Physical Review X !
   
   

 * January 2020: Clara's paper on robustness in multicyclic models of
   biochemical oscillators gets accepted for publication at the Journal of
   Chemical Physics and get chosen as an Editor's pick !
   
   

 * December 2019: Clara's paper detailing how energy dissipation can increase
   robustness of oscillations accepted for publication at Physical Review E !
   
   

 * December 2019: Paper with Etienne and Takahiro showing how dissipation can be
   used to control phase transitions and mobility accepted for publication at
   New Journal of Physics !
   
   

 * October 2019: Zhenghan's paper on mechanisms for anomalous transport in
   chiral active liquids chosen as an Editor's pick !
   
   

 * October 2019: Paper with Laura, Etienne and Takahiro accepted for publication
   in Physical Review X !
   
   

 * September 2019: New work with Etienne and Takahiro exploring connection
   between dissipation and organization submitted !
   
   

 * September 2019: Zhenghan's new paper on mechanisms for anomalous transport in
   chiral active liquids submitted !
   
   

 * September 2019: Clara's new paper investigating robustness in biological
   clocks submitted!
   
   

 * September 2019: Nick's paper with Kinjal on the dynamics of tactoid droplets
   submitted!
   
   

 * July 2019: Zhenghan's paper posted on the arxiv!
   
   

 * May 2019: Kinjal's paper with the Gardel group gets accepted for publication
   in PNAS!
   
   

 * April 2019: Clara's paper gets highlighted by JCP
   
   

 * Feb 2019: Nick and Kinjal's paper on screening in dense ionic liquids gets
   included in the JCP Editors' choice 2018 collection !
   
   

 * Feb 2019: Group welcomes a new postdoc! Yuqing Qiu will be a joint postdoc
   along with the Dinner group. Welcome Yuqing !
   
   

 * Jan 2019: Clara's paper on interfacial fluctuations in driven liquids get
   picked to be highlighted as an Editor's pick !
   
   

 * Jan 2019: Clara gets a poster prize for her poster describing her work on
   oscillations in non-equilibrium biochemical networks. Congrats Clara !
   
   

 * Jan 2019: Suri gave a talk on dissipation induced transitions in membranes at
   the Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting
   
   

 * December 2018: The group was just awarded the NSF CAREER award!
   
   

 * Postdoctoral positions available. Email svaikunt@uchicago.edu for details