Gareth Alexander

Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Pennsylvania


Publications

Gareth P. Alexander and Andrea J. Liu, submitted
"Self-Diffusiophoresis in the Advection Dominated Regime" [arXiv]

Gareth P. Alexander, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto and Randall D. Kamien, submitted
"Disclination Loops, Hedgehogs, and All That" [arXiv]

Miha Ravnik, Gareth P. Alexander, Julia M. Yeomans, and Slobodan Žumer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108 (13), 5188-5192 (2011). From the Cover
"Three-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases" [journal]

Slobodan Žumer, Miha Ravnik, Tine Porenta, Gareth P. Alexander, and Julia M. Yeomans, Proc. of SPIE 7775, 77750H (2010).
"Blue phases as templates for 3D colloidal photonic crystals" [journal][SPIE Newsroom]

Gareth P. Alexander and Julia M. Yeomans, Exp. Mech. 50, 1283-1292 (2010).
"Hydrodynamic Interactions at Low Reynolds Number" [journal]

Gareth P. Alexander, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, and Randall D. Kamien, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257802 (2010).
"Power of the Poincaré Group: Elucidating the Hidden Symmetries in Focal Conic Domains" [journal][arXiv]

Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Gareth P. Alexander, and Randall D. Kamien, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 257804 (2009).
"Helical Nanofilaments and the High Chirality Limit of Smectics-A" [journal]
Also appears in Vir. J. Nan. Sci. & Tech. 21 Issue 1 (2010). [journal]

Miha Ravnik, Gareth P. Alexander, Julia M. Yeomans, and Slobodan Žumer, Faraday Discuss. 144, 159-169 (2010).
"Mesoscopic modelling of colloids in chiral nematics" [journal]

Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Gareth P. Alexander, and Randall D. Kamien, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 15577-15582 (2009).
"Symmetry breaking in smectics and surface models of their singularities" [journal]

G. P. Alexander and J. M. Yeomans, Liq. Cryst. 36:10, 1215-1227 (2009).
"Numerical results for the blue phases" [journal]

G. P. Alexander, C. M. Pooley, and J. M. Yeomans, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 204108 (2009).
"Hydrodynamics of linked sphere model swimmers" [journal]

G. P. Alexander, C. M. Pooley, and J. M. Yeomans, Phys. Rev. E 78, 045302(R) (2008).
"Scattering of low-Reynolds-number swimmers" [journal]

G. P. Alexander, D.Phil Thesis, University of Oxford (2008).
"Liquid Crystalline Blue Phases and Swimmer Hydrodynamics" [pdf]

G. P. Alexander and J. M. Yeomans, Europhys. Lett. 83, 34006 (2008).
"Dumb-bell swimmers" [journal]

G. P. Alexander and D. Marenduzzo, Europhys. Lett. 81, 66004 (2008).
"Cubic blue phases in electric fields" [journal]

C. M. Pooley, G. P. Alexander, and J. M. Yeomans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 228103 (2007).
"Hydrodynamic interactions between two swimmers at low Reynolds number" [journal]

G. P. Alexander and J. M. Yeomans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 067801 (2007).
"Flexoelectric blue phases" [journal]

G. P. Alexander and J. M. Yeomans, Phys. Rev. E 74, 061706 (2006).
"Stabilizing the blue phases" [journal]