Dr. Ahmed presents on “Quantifying nonequilibrium fluctuations in living matter” at the GRC for Stochastic Physics in Biology in Ventura, California.  This conference’s theme was “Fluctuations, Landscapes and Statistical Mechanics of Biological Heterogeneity”.  Below is a poster summarizing some of the talk.

Congratulations to Monika for winning a poster competition at the APS Far West Section!  You are racking up the awards!

Dr. Ahmed gave the Physics Colloquium at Harvey Mudd College! https://physics.hmc.edu/colloquium/623/

Congratulations to Sara for being highlighted by the Daily Titan: https://dailytitan.com/2018/10/cal-state-fullerton-graduate-war-syria-education/

Dr. Ahmed is giving a colloquium on active mechanics in cells at Cal State LA today! http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/physics/colloquia-and-events

Mauricio and Hunter presented their posters at the conference for Frontiers in Soft Matter and Macromolecular Networks.  We had a blast in San Diego! Check out their posters here.

Congrats to Monika and Paris for their successful international REU research in France this past summer.  See a highlight article about them here: http://news.fullerton.edu/2018su/physics-research-abroad.aspx  

Dr. Ahmed will give a plenary lecture at the APS Far West Section Meeting which takes place October 18-20! https://www.aps.org/units/cal/meetings/meeting.cfm?name=FWS18

Monika has been awarded the prestigious MARC Scholarship and will continue her exciting research in SLAMLab on cell dynamics http://www.fullerton.edu/marc/scholars/

SLAMLab welcomes back Sara Al Bassri to the lab as a Masters Student!  Sara graduated with honors in Biochemistry and conducted research in the lab as an undergraduate.  Now we welcome Sara back as a Physics student in the graduate program!