NEWS & EVENTS

  • Prof. O'Hern's travels for the Summer and Fall 2012 include the Physics Colloquium and seminar at the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems at Duke University in September 2012, the Minisymposium on "Comparison of plastiticity and intermittency in crystalline and amorphous solids," 22nd Annual International Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials in Baltimore, MD in September 2012, the Symposium on "Dynamics and Jamming in Complex Environments" at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Philadelphia, PA in August 2012, the Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-Fluid Flow in Davidson, NC in July 2012.

  • Prof. O'Hern was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2011.

  • Prof. O'Hern is co-organizing the STATPHYS25 satellite Meeting, "The Physics of Glassy and Granular Materials," at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, July 16-19, 2013.

  • Prof. O'Hern will co-organize with Robert Behringer (Duke) and Lou Kondic (NJIT) the Minisymposium, ``New methods to quantify the structural and mechanical properties of dense granular media'' at the 8th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference at Graz University of Technology, Austria in July 2012.

  • Prof. O'Hern will travel extensively over the Summer and Fall 2011 through the Spring 2012, including the Workshop on "Large Fluctuations and Collective Phenomena in Disordered Materials," University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2011; Summer School on "Granular Flows---From Simulations to Astrophysical Applications," University of Maryland, June 2011; Conference on "Sphere Packing and Amorphous Materials," Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, July 2011; Workshop on "Complex Dynamics of Dislocations, Defects, and Interfaces," Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2011; Workshop on the "Dissipative Rheology of Foams, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, January 2012; James A. Krumhansl School and Symposium, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, February 2012.

  • Prof. O'Hern will visit Profs. Ludovic Berthier and Francesco Zampoini and give presentations at the Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Universite Montpellier and Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure, respectively, in June 2011.

  • Prof. O'Hern will present a number of invited talks at conferences and workshops in the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011: Dynamics Days, UNC, January 2011; Recent Progress in the Physics of Dissipative Particles, Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, November 2010; New England Workshop on Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Harvard University, September 2010; Particulate Materials in Extreme Environments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, September 2010.

  • Prof. O'Hern will co-organize the summer 2011 program entitled "Fluctuations and Response in Granular Materials" at the Aspen Center for Physics along with Robert Behringer (Duke), Lou Kondic (NJIT), and Narayanan Menon (UMass-Amherst) and the Summer 2011 Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting "Dynamic DNA Packaging across Kingdoms" at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA in July 2011 with Lynne Regan (Yale) and Linda Kenney (UIC).

  • Prof. O'Hern's research has been highlighted by Yale's High Performance Computing Initiative, "A HPC pioneer at Yale."

  • Prof. O'Hern will give the condensed matter seminar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania on October 6, 2010.

  • Prof. O'Hern along with co-PIs Profs. Robert Behringer (Duke), Wolfgang Losert (Maryland), and Lou Kondic (NJIT) were awarded a grant, "Microstructure, Fluidization, and Control of Penetrator Trajectories in Granular Media", from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency with duration April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2015.

  • Along with Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis), Narayanan Menon (UMass-Amherst), Sriram Ramaswamy (IIsc-Bangalore), Martin van Hecke (Leiden), Prof. Corey O'Hern is co-organizing a week-long workshop "Fluctuations and Response in Active Materials: From Driven Granular Systems to Swarming Bacteria" in June, 2011 at the Lorentz Center at Leiden University to explore similarities between active and granular materials.
  • Prof. Corey O'Hern will spend much of the early summer 2010 attending national and international meetings including the Program on The Physics of Glasses (May 10-28, 2010), Special session, "Dense packings of non-spherical particles" at 25th annual Shanks Conference on "Optimal configurations on the sphere and other manifolds" (May 17-20), Special Session on "Topological and Computational Dyanmics" at the American Mathematical Society Eastern Section Meeting (May 22-23, 2010), the Mini-symposium on "Mesoscopic Self Assembly" at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (May 23-26, 2010), and the Conference on "Particulate Matter: Does Dimension Matter?" at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (May 31 - June 4, 2010).
  • Prof. O'Hern will visit the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory the week of April 26 and give a colloquium about his recent work on polymer collapse and protein folding.
  • Master's Physics student Thibault Bertrand from Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan will be a visiting assistant in research from April 15 - August 1,
    2010.  He will conduct simulations and experiments on anisotropic granular media.  
  • This year's American Physical Society March Meeting will be held in Portland, OR March 15-19, 2010.  The O'Hern group will present six talks from S. S. Ashwin, Rob Hoy, Mitch Mailman, Katja Schaefer, Carl Schreck, and Mark Shattuck.  Rob's presentation is an invited talk in the GSNP Focus Session on Jamming. 
  • Prof. O'Hern will give the condensed matter seminar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University on March 10, 2010.
  • The 42nd New England Complex Fluids Workshop will be held at Yale on March 5.  It is co-organized by Profs. Eric Dufrsne, Corey O'Hern, and Chinedum Osuji.  Please register and encourage your students and postdocs to sign up for sound-bites at http://www.complexfluids.org/necf/index.php.  Anticipated invited speakers include Michael Brenner (Harvard), Julio Fernandez (Columbia), and Michael Choma (Yale). 
  • Prof. Scott Milner from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University will visit the O'Hern Lab and give a Mechanical Engineering Seminar on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 2:30P in Mason Lab, Room 107.  Scott is an expert in theoretical polymer physics.
  • Prof. Corey O'Hern will participate in a DARPA sponsored workshop on granular science to identify breakthrough research areas February 17-18, 2010 in Arlington, VA.
  • Prof. Rohit Pappu from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis will give a special Sackler Discussion Group presentation on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 2:30P in Mason Lab, Room 107.  His talk is entitled "Effects of sequence context and chain length on aggregation of polyglutamine".  Rohit has significant expertise in computational studies of intrinsically disordered proteins and protein aggregation.
  • Prof. Corey O'Hern will visit Emory University and give the Physics Department colloquium on Friday, January 22, 2010. 
  • O'Hern group members Carl Schreck and Dr. S. S. Ashwin attended the Winter School on Glass Formers and Glasses at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research January 4-20, 2010.

  • Prof. Corey O'Hern and colleague Jerzy Blawzdziewz have been awarded a research grant "Collaborative Research: Experiment, Simulation, and Theory of Slowly Driven Granular Materials---From Microstate Statistics to Macroscopic Properties" from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems.  This collaborative work with experimentalist Prof. Mark Shattuck from the Department of Physics, CCNY will develop novel statistical mechanics descriptions for granular systems by decomposing macroscopic systems into small subsystems.  See the news item on the SEAS website.
  • We are happy to announce that Prof. Mark Shattuck from the Physics Department at CCNY will continue spending at least one day per week in Mason Lab at Yale SEAS.  This is part of an ongoing collaboration that began in 2007.  We are also looking forward to hosting Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty from the Physics Department at Brandeis University in the Spring 2011. 

  • Sixth year graduate student in Applied Physics will graduate in late spring 2010 with his Ph.D.  His thesis was entitled "Quasi-one-dimensional models for glassy dynamics".  He is seeking a postdoctoral position in computational physics.

Prof. Corey O'Hern | Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science | Department of Applied Physics | Department of Physics |
Graduate Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics | Integrated Graduate Program in Physical & Engineering Biology | Yale University

Email: corey.ohern [at] yale.edu | Url: http://jamming.research.yale.edu | Office Phone: 203-432-4258 | Lab Phone: 203-436-1318 | Fax: 203-432-7654

U.S. Postal Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering | Yale University | P. O. Box 208286 | New Haven, CT 06520-8286

Shipping Address: 9 Hillhouse Avenue | Mason Laboratory, Room 203 | New Haven, CT 06511-6815