Majors & Minors
Email: bowick@physics.syr.edu----------------------
Physics Department
317 Physics Building
Phone: 315-443-5979
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Mark Bowick
Director of Soft Matter Program and Professor of Physics
Research Interests
- Soft Matter
- Interplay of order and geometry
- Building blocks for supramolecular self-assembly
- Shaped structures
- Topological defects and common themes in condensed matter and particle physics
Education
| 1983 | Ph.D. in Physics California Institute of Technology |
| 1979 | M.S. in Physics California Institute of Technology |
| 1977 | B.Sc. (Honors) University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Awards & Professional Honors
- First prize award in the 1986 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition
- Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, D.O.E., 1987-1994
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, DCMP, 2004-present.
- Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement, Syracuse University, 2006
- William Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising, Syracuse University, 2009
Selected Publications
Bowick, MJ et al; The Cosmological Kibble Mechanism in the Laboratory – String Formation in Liquid-Crystals, Science 263 943 (1994)
Bausch, A.R et al; Grain boundary scars and spherical crystallography, Science 299 1716 (2003)
Bowick, MJ and Travesset, A, The statistical mechanics of membranes, Phys. Rep. 344 255 (2001)
Bowick, MJ and Wijewardhana, LCR, Superstrings at High Temperature, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 2485 (1985)
Bowick, MJ and Giomi, L, Two-Dimensional Matter: Order, Curvature and Defects, Adv. Phys. 58 449(2009)
