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Physics Colloquium with Cacey Bester
Nov
16
2026
All Day
On Campus Event - Park Science, Park Science 243
Title: How granular materials creep, jam, and fail
Abstract: Professor Bester is an associate professor of physics researching experimental soft matter physics. Her work explores how granular materials—collections of rigid grains like sand, cereal, and rocks—transition between solid-like stability and fluid-like flow. These granular systems display intricate mechanical behaviors that remain unsolved problems. Her lab uses high-resolution imaging and photoelastic techniques to peer inside granular packings and map the force networks that drive these material transitions.
Reception starts at 3 pm; talk at 3:15
Audience: BMC Community
Type(s): Seminar/Colloquium
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Contact:
Nina Fichera
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