Twitter account of Oxford's Mathematical Observatory. Tweets by Dominic Vella
Oxford, England
Joined November 2016
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WE'RE RETURNING FOR 2023! You are now able to book for the Oxford Maths Festival, taking place 13-14 May. It's great for families with kids aged 5-13. Take a look at our programme for this year and get yourself booked. mathsfest.web.ox.ac.uk/whats… #Maths #Family #OxMathsFest
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Please RT: seeking a postdoctoral researcher with skills in Abaqus (or similar) to study metal spinning. Deadline 19/Aug, informal enquiries to [email protected].
📢#JobFairy Exciting opportunity to join the @MACSIMaths and @Confirm_Centre @scienceirel teams @UL_Research as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematical Modelling of Metal Spinning with @DoireannOKiely
👉Details: ul.ie/hrvacancies
📌Job ID: 053508
⌚️Closing: 19th Aug
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Scientists have long tried to create objects that can transform their shape, so-called morphing structures.
But this is problematic. Just think about wrapping an orange with a piece of tissue paper: extra area has to be wasted in folds.
Our way around:
maths.ox.ac.uk/node/40772
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Beautiful work (literally) from PT Brun and colleagues!
Fresh off the press: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Soft robots are "life-like" robots 🦑🤖. Our "bubble-based" method is an easy way to fabricate and program them, e.g. to fetch a ball (w/@Trev_J_Jones , @EJambonP and @biosoftact). @Nature
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[#Séminaire #IUSTI] le 19/10 à 14h : "Snap to morph",
Lucie Domino @UvA_Amsterdam will present #morphing #structures made from bi stable elements (thin elastic shells) embedded in a flat elastic sheet...
➡️federation-peiresc.cnrs.fr/s…
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Have you checked our portal? Browse "𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀": guides to well defined practicals; "𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀": more open-ended experiments, which might require purchase or building of some apparatus, and "𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴": short contributions open for discussion.
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Please retweet - we’re hiring! Funded PhD on the Biomechanics of wear in insect mouthparts, and its behavioural consequences. If you like animals, materials, physics and want to work in a supportive and collaborative environment, this is for you! Details: evo-biomech.ic.ac.uk/wp-cont…
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Our recent paper about the snap-through in #Graphene #nanochannels just published in @ACS_AMI. We investigate the fluid-solid coupling #instabilities at nanoscale, and demonstrate the application in #fluidic control and #molecule selection. Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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DSOFT Virtual Social Hour originally scheduled for this Friday has been rescheduled for Oct 30 (Fri) from 3 - 5 pm.
Reminder: Please submit abstracts by Oct 23 for the APS March Meeting 2021. Sorting categories in DSOFT sessions are available here: march.aps.org/sorting-catego….
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Our new paper on the indentation of suspended two-dimensional solids is out now in JMPS (@Elsevier_Eng), with Dominic Vella (@MathObservatory)
Can discrepancies in reported material parameters be explained by geometrical or material nonlinearities? authors.elsevier.com/c/1bfug…
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How does the geometry of soft membranes in lymphatic channels optimize the transport of lymph and how a better understanding of this mechanism could lead to new microfluidic and soft robotic systems? More info here: journals.aps.org/prfluids/ab…
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With Derek Moulton, we have been working on a theory of plant tropism for years. We wanted to model the motion of plants in 3D, subject to mechanics, contact, and multiple stimuli. This is the resulting preprint with Hadrien Oliveri
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Gravitropism
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Cloaking by coating: how effectively does a thin, stiff coating hide a soft substrate? Finn Box et al., ow.ly/sHpN50zMnL6
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Breaking a soap film surrounding an elastic ring causes the ring to buckle go.aps.org/2Z1skIG
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This guide to computational fluid mechanics introduces beginning graduate students to the subject’s standard methods and common pitfalls - ow.ly/g2Qa50z8Bk5
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Thin, flexible sheets in many different geometries go through a similar transition as they are stressed or distorted: from many small wrinkles to a few large "crumples." @SyracuseU go.aps.org/2VoNxIP
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Join us Wednesday evening to learn about mathematical modeling and pandemics @OxUniMaths. Reproduction number? Herd immunity? Outbreak? These notions have been discussed in the news. What do they mean?
Please RT widely @stevenstrogatz @sautoy @Al_prof @mcapellanus @wtgowers
Models. They are dictating our #Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear about the end result, but how is it put together? And how accurate can it be?
@RobinNThompson is at the forefront of current #Covid19 modelling. He will explain.
Watch here on Twitter.
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Today @AlexBradley14 publishes his first post for Softbites! He tells us how scientists can generate 3D shapes just by inflating some specially designed soft rubber pieces.
softbites.org/2020/02/06/bar… #softmatter #scicomm
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Phys. Rev. E 101, 013001 (2020) - Mechanics-based model for the cooking-induced deformation of spaghetti journals.aps.org/pre/abstrac…
