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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · 10d

A polynomial of a sufficiently high degree? :D

Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Sep 4

Have you ever wondered what narwhals and blessings have to do with viscoelastic flows? Our latest preprint has it all :)

arxiv.org/abs/2509.03175

Narwhals and their blessings: exact coherent structures of elastic turbulence in channel flows

Solutions of long, flexible polymer molecules are complex fluids that simultaneously exhibit fluid-like and solid-like behaviour. When subjected to external flows, dilute polymer solutions develop ela...

arxiv.org

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Aug 26

The white panel down left.

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sure. Objective is an adjective. Now you need a noun.

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jul 29

Check

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Luca Biferale @lucabiferale.bsky.social · Jul 8

1st day of the Workshop on Complex Flows and Complex Fluids #CNR within #SmartTurb @erc.europa.eu 100+ senior and young scientists working on #turbulence #activematter #biofluids #microfluidcs with equation based and #AI tools. A lot of fun. see biferale.web.roma2.infn.it/ComplexFlows...

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jul 9

Looks amazing! Shame I could not be there.

Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jun 24

I would simply pay them in bottle tops and see whether the penny would drop.

Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jun 24

I guess when areas do not have units, budgets do not need to balance either…

Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jun 24

According to Financial Times, this puzzle was used by Dominic Cummings to select ‘innovators’ and ‘disruptors’ to work for the British Government.

I guess when areas do not have units, missing a few zeros in one’s budget is not such a big deal…

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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · Jun 16

Out today in Phys. Rev. Research, we ask "how does an active nematic fluid respond to a deformable body or boundary?" We were pretty amused by a few observations. 1/20

journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jun 16

A macroscopic state breaking one of the symmetries present at the microscopic, eg single-particle, level

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · May 24

Akademisches Gymnasium Wien

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Society of Rheology @sorheology.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations to our 2025 class of SoR Fellows! Fellows will be inducted in our Oct Annual Meeting in Santa Fe #SoR02025. Join us there to celebrate Paulo Arratia @arratiapaulo.bsky.social, Randy Ewoldt, Anke Lindner, Joao Maia, Matteo Pasquali, Fernando Pinho, and Patrick Spicer! #everythingflows

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy to share our recent preprint on (the absence of) giant number fluctuations in microswimmer suspensions.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.18068

Pseudo-giant number fluctuations and nematic order in microswimmer suspensions

Giant number fluctuations (GNFs), whereby the standard deviation $ΔN$ in the local number of particles $\langle N \rangle$ grows faster than $\sqrt{\langle N \rangle}$, are a hallmark property of dry ...

arxiv.org

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Mar 29

Some pictures from yesterday’s Wim-van-Saarloos-70-fest at the Dutch academy @knaw-nl.bsky.social. Happy birthday, Wim!

NB it’s the same room as where Pauli received his Lorentz medal.

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Sense Jan van der Molen @sensevdmolen.bsky.social · Mar 28

Mooie dag vandaag bij de @knaw-nl.bsky.social. Oud-voorzitter Prof. Wim van Saarloos is vandaag 70 geworden en hij wordt geëerd met een symposium.
Wim heeft enorm veel bijgedragen aan de natuurkunde en aan de NL wetenschap in het geheel.
Van harte, Wim!

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Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · Feb 19

Sad news… A giant in fluid mechanics and particulate flows cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...

In Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical Engineering

Andreas (Andy) Acrivos passed away on February 17, 2025. Born in Greece in 1928, Prof. Acrivos arrived at Minnesota in 1950 following undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, becoming the second...

cse.umn.edu

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Steve Tobias @stevetobias.bsky.social · Feb 4

It is a great honour to take up the Tait Chair of Mathematical Physics at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. I will arrive in June 2025.

www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2025/ch...

Championing Mathematical Physics in Edinburgh

Professor Steve Tobias appointed Tait Chair of Mathematical Physics.

www.ph.ed.ac.uk

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Andrew Goryachev @andrewgoryachev.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨🚨Please repost!! 📢📢
Following last year’s success, International workshop Physics of Biological Systems is back in May! Free registration! Submit talk or poster abstract. Join us in Edinburgh
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
bit.ly/EdinPBS2025

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Wouter Ellenbroek @wg-ellenbroek.bsky.social · Jan 21

Celebrating two fantastic colleagues tonight at #NWOPhysics. With the Athena award for Prof. Liesbeth Janssen and the Minerva prize for Prof. Hanneke Gelderblom, this is a great evening for TU Eindhoven! ⚛️

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jan 21

Oh yes!!!

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Alexander Morozov @alexandermorozov.bsky.social · Jan 16

Together with the Isaac Newton Institute, we are running a programme aiming to help Ukrainian researchers in mathematical sciences. Please help to spread the word.

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