Applications are open for the 2024 Future Faculty Workshop on Soft Matter, U.S. National Science Foundation sponsored and hosted by Univ. of Minnesota! See below for information! #SoftMatter #Polymers Thomas Epps LaShanda Korley Herdeline Ardoña (Digs) #TimLodge Rachel Letteri Alexa Kuenstler and others!

The wonderful ECRs in Polymer Physics Slack team

TPC2024's Discussion Leaders...look at this star-studded group of polymer professors! Register now for the best polymer conference of the year! :) tpc2024.virtualbyvario.com/agenda/

Outstanding defense by Kathryn Wilcox, PhD. Just beautiful work. I am sure Sveta Morozova is a proud mentor!

(the answer is no) read here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.ma… feel free to DM if you cannot access!

Friends, please consider nominating yourself or others to an American Physical Society committee. Clearly, APS needs some fresh blood. aps.org/about/news/202… The nomination deadline is July 1st. Please spread the word!

Postdoc opening in 3D printing, starting in Oct/Nov. The candidate should have a PhD in material sci., civil, environmental or mech. eng. Experience in mineralization, biomass synthesis, and bacterial/algae growth is a plus. Pls send CV, letter of interest, 2 selected papers.

Hey all of you #polyelectrolyte folks out there. Mark your calendar for the next International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes for July 2025 in Brazil! Also, if you're a young investigator, please consider applying for the inaugural Paul Dubin Award! isp25.com/isp2025/page/4…

It's been a long time coming but... ✅ Graduated with a PhD from an awesome advisor ✅ Obtained a job at a great company ✅ Excited to co-chair the Polymer Physics Gordon Research Seminar in ~1 day So excited for the future and to see some old faces that got me here! 🤩

Reminder: Registrations due for Lorentz Center workshop "Breaking Barriers in Polymer Materials Design", lorentzcenter.nl/breaking-barri… on Aug 1st! The workshop will be on October 21-25, 2024 in Leiden and we still have a few spots open, particularly for early-career researchers!

Did you know that LAMMPS comes with a Graphical User Interface ? It's perfect for beginners. You can download precompiled versions here for Linux, MacOS, and Windows : download.lammps.org/testing/ Feel free to provide your feedback to the LAMMPS dev on matsci.org

Pleasant morning read in ACS Macro Journals ACS Macro Lett on "Statistical Copolymerization-Induced Self-Assembly" - another cool use of Compositional Drift program by Ting Xu to show how charged "solid" self-assemblies outperform block polymers 😍 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We are hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral scholar, with experience in organic synthesis, coordination chemistry, and/or porous materials and their characterization. Come to Texas, get a cowboy hat, enjoy Houston's amazing food and weather ;) Email me to apply. RT, please

Join us on Tuesday, August 6th, for the final session of the Special Condensate Colloquium Summer Series! 🌞🔬 This week's talks feature "Structure and Sequence in Charge-Driven Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation" by Sarah Perry (Sarah Perry (she/her)) and Charles E. Sing (Charles Sing).

Postdoc applicants, if you are interested and eligible for this fellowship, we can collaborate to develop a proposal. Deadline Oct. 18 postdocs.upenn.edu/provosts-fello…

I was excited to read this Soft Matter perspective by Heinrich Jaeger and colleagues UChiPhysics --- and it didn't disappoint! Training physical matter to matter - now published in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Community engagement post: What is your favorite review article on polymers that you've recently read?