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Physics Department

Location: 180-204
Phone: (805) 756-2448
Fax: (805) 756-2435
Email: physics@calpoly.edu
Chair: Jennifer Klay

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Roberto Abril Valenzuela

Roberto Abril ValenzuelaRoberto Abril Valenzuela

Lecturer

Email: rabrilva@calpoly.edu
Office: 180-111
Phone: 805-756-0918
 

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024
  • B.S., Physics and Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2018

Research Interests

  • Topology and geometrical properties of soft elastic materials that are squishy and floppy
  • Mechanical effects of geometrically constraining sheets such as graphene at finite temperatures
  • Topological stability of tangled elastic defects in biaxial nematic systems with non-Abelian (non-commuting) fundamental groups and the complex structures that can be formed by exploiting such "entanglement"

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