Cacey Bester

Assistant Professor of Physics

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Affiliations: Physics & Astronomy

Research interests: experimental soft condensed matter, granular flow, and sediment transport

Latest Information

September 2025 - Nox and Leilani gave an awesome poster presentation at Sigma Xi Poster Session at Swarthmore College
August 2025 - Gave an invited presentation at the Soft Condensed Matter Gordon Research Conference at Colby-Sawyer College
August 2025 -Thrilled to share that our work on “Force and geometric signatures of the creep-to-failure transition in a granular pile“ is out as a preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01391
July 2025 - Research visit to University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, UK. Gave seminar at Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. Analysis of experimental data on creep in granular materials in collaboration with Dr. Luke K. Davis.
June 2024 - Led discussion with Dr. Katrina Miller as part of the NSBP Vision Series (video)