New publication from my group. Led by PhD student Soumyadeep Mondal and collaborator Pankaj Popli, both twitter-less. In this paper, we study how topological defects evolve in polar active materials (actin cytoskeleton) and create patterns. Link👇 Physics, IISc IISc Bangalore

As we near Pi day (3.14) I join the global community in mourning the loss of the greatest physicist of our era. #StephenHawking is free from the physical constraints of this earthly condition we all exist in and he is soaring above us now marveling at it all.