Georgetown Physicists Participate in USA Science and Engineering Expo

On October 23rd and 24th Professor Blair and his lab members participated in the first USA Science and Engineering Expo on the National Mall. Their exhibit was titled, “Squishy Science: The World of Soft Matter Physics. Demonstrations included granular compaction, the “Brazil-nut effect”, polymer gels, and shear-thickening fluids.

Members of the physics department who participated:

Richard Arevalo
Prof. Daniel Blair
Marguerite Brown
Sudeep Dutta
Pramukta Kumar
Armstrong Mbi
William Starshak