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The SMRLab

"Like sculpting, being an experimental scientist is about chiseling away at the unnecessary, at the external, to expose the truth and beauty within. "

The SMRLab

Physics of Complex Systems

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  • Friction of the Third Body

    Particles trapped between two rough surfaces generate friction between them.

  • Visualizing an Interface using TIR

    Totally Internally Reflected (TIR) light within a glass plate highlights the contact points of a rough rubber sample.

  • Vortex Ring Collisions

    Colliding underwater vortices produce exquisite ordered patterns and turbulence.

  • Biofilm Collective Dynamics: Plumes

    A laser sheet reveals the collective behavior of bacterial cells underneath a liquid-air biofilm.

  • Biofilm Structure

    A close-up of a fluorescently-tagged bacterial biofilm shows red motile cells swimming along highways of green matrix cells.

Our interests are in experimental, out of equilibrium, and non-linear physics:

hydrodynamics, soft matter physics, mechanics, statistical physics, and when all else fails...biology.

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