Menon research group

Menon group: Experimental nonequilibrium physics

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We are a research lab in the condensed matter physics group in the Physics Department at UMass Amherst. We do experimental work in nonequilibrium statistical physics, primarily on soft-condensed matter systems.

News

April 2006 Matt Marzilli was one of two Goldwater awardees from UMass this year. Matt is a Physics/Computer science major and works on the crumpling of thin polymeric sheets in our group.

February 2006 Michael Martini is an Intel Talent Search semi-finalist for his project entitled An Experimental Study of Random Loose Packing of Uniform Spheres

January 2006 Kyaw Zin Win submitted his Ph. D. thesis on high-pressure dielectric susceptibility measurements of supercooled liquids. KZ has left us for a postdoctoral position in Greg McKenna's lab at Texas Tech.

This page is seldom up-to-date, so please email me if you're looking for something specific.

Narayanan Menon (menon@physics.umass.edu)