Professor S. Leslie Blatt has been presented with a Distinguished Alumni Award from McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pa. Blatt graduated from the school in 1953. Blatt is professor emeritus of physics and education, and former dean of graduate studies and research at Clark. He has a doctorate in physics from Stanford University and is the…
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Campus News & Events, Faculty and Staff Notes
Physicist Blatt talks to local organizations about the physics of art; climate change
On March 11, 2014, Les Blatt, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Education, presented a talk titled “Neo-Impressionism: Art and Science” at a meeting of the Worcester Art Museum Friends of the Library. The presentation touched on aspects of the physics of light, the sometimes peculiar nature of our visual perception, and the once-controversial artistic experiments of…
Faculty and Staff Notes
Physics Professor Kudrolli published ‘Twisted Ribbons’ research
The paper “Helicoids, Wrinkles and Loops in Twisted Ribbon” was published in the October 25 issue of Physical Review Letters by Arshad Kudrolli, Jan and Larry Landry University Professor of Physics at Clark University, and Julien Chopin, former post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Physics. The authors presented an integrated phase diagram representing the observed…
