Carolyn Phillips

  • Program Years: 2006-2010
  • Academic Institution: University of Michigan
  • Practicum(s):
    Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (2009)
  • Degree(s):
    PhD, Applied Physics and Scientific Computing, University of MIchigan, 2012
    MSME, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Post Graduate School, 2003;
    M.S. Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2001;
    B.S. Mathematics, MIT, 1999
  • Field of Study: Applied Physics
  • Academic Advisor: Sharon Glotzer
  • Status: Rahman Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, Joint Appointment University of Chicago
  • Research Area: Computational Soft Matter

Publications:

Carolyn Phillips, Eric Jankowski, Michelle Marval, Sharon Glotzer, Self Assembled Clusters of Spheres
Related to Spherical Codes, Physical Review E, Volume 86 Issue 4, 2012, (On arXiv: Phillips, Jankowski, Marval,Glotzer, Self Assembled Clusters of Spheres Related to Spherical Codes, arXiv, 2012,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5131)

Carolyn Phillips, Joshua Anderson, Elizabeth Chen, Sharon Glotzer, Optimal Fillings - A new space
subdivision problem related to packing and covering, Discrete Computational Geometry,
submitted, 2012, (On arXiv, http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5752)

Carolyn Phillips, Joshua Anderson, Greg Huber, Sharon Glotzer, The Optimal Filling of Shapes, Physics
Review Letters, 108, 198304, 2012.

Carolyn Phillips, Sharon Glotzer, Effect of nanoparticle polydispersity on the self assembly of
polymer tethered nanospheres, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 137, Issue 10,
104901, 2012,

Carolyn Phillips, Joshua Anderson, Sharon Glotzer, Pseudo-random number generation for Brownian Dynamics and Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations on GPU devices, Journal of Computational Physics, 2011

Trung Nguyen, Carolyn Phillips, Joshua Anderson, Sharon Glotzer, Rigid body constraints realized in massively-parallel molecular dynamics on graphics processing units, Computer Physics Communications, 2011

Carolyn Phillips, Chris Iacovella, Sharon Glotzer, "Stability of the double gyroid phase to nanoparticle polydispersity in polymer-tethered nanosphere systems", Soft Matter, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/B911140A

Carolyn Phillips, Paul Crozier, "An energy-conserving two-temperature model of radiation damage in single-component and binary Lennard-Jones crystals," The Journal of Chemical Physics (Vol.131, Issue 7), 2009

Carolyn Phillips, Rudolph Magyar, Paul Crozer, "A two-temperature model of radiation damage in alpha-quartz", Journal of Chemical Physics, 133 (14), Oct 14 2010

Carolyn Phillips, John Brisson, Preliminary Experimental Results Using a Three-Stage Superfluid Stirling
Refrigerator, in Cryocoolers 12 (Plenum Press New York) ed. R. G. Ross, pg
681-686, March 2003.

Carolyn Phillips, The Development of a High Cooling Power and Low Ultimate Temperature
Three-Stage Superfluid Stirling Refrigerator. M.S. thesis, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, September 2001.

Carolyn Phillips, John Brisson, Dissipation in Metal Welded Bellows and its Consequences for Sub-Kelvin
Refrigerators, in Cryocoolers 11 (Plenum Press New York) ed. R. G. Ross, pg
605-612, March 2001.

Carolyn Phillips, The Level-Set Method, MIT: Undergraduate Journal of Mathematics, 1999. An
implementation of the Level-Set algorithm for approximating the dynamics of
disclination loops in nematic liquid crystal 8CB (4,4'-n-octylycynobiphenyl).

Awards:

In Summer 2002, attended the Sante Fe Summer School for Complexity Theory in Budapest, Hungary. Awarded certificate of excellence (awarded to 3 of the 60 participants).

Summer School, Methods in Molecular Simulation, Sheffield UK, 2008

Summer School, Dynamics of Soft Matter Physics, Cargese France, 2008

1st Place, Computation Studies of Materials Structure & Characterization Oral Session, UM Engineering Symposium

2008 DOE CSGF Essay Contest Winner