Dan Beller, Kamien Group Alum, Wins 2016 Glenn Brown Prize

Dan Beller, Physics and Astronomy alum, won the 2016 Glenn Brown prize from the International Liquid Crystal Society

The Honors and Awards Committee of the ILCS selected Dr. Beller for his thesis work:

For his outstanding theoretical work to identify the rich possibilities and outcomes of controlling defects in nematic and smectic liquid crystals under a variety of boundary conditions.  The demonstration of the well controlled disclinations and focal conics is expected to open up a novel route for self-assembly in soft-ordered materials.

You can read more about the prize on the ILCS website:  http://www.lcinet.kent.edu/ILCS/main/page101/page113/page21/page21.html