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It’s been nearly three decades since Rob Senderoff walked around downtown Albany, New York, with the same eyes as the young men he now coaches.   “I’m having a blast. I’m really having a blast,” Senderoff said as he prepares his Kent State team to play in the NCAA Tournament in a city he knows so well.    A 1995 graduate of the University at Albany, Senderoff spent his college days as a student assistant on the Great Danes’ staff on his way to a career in coaching. “I tried out for the junior varsity team here at Albany – it was a Division III school at...

Abstract: In external fields wide range of surface instabilities can be observed in fluids, like the Rosensweig instability in ferrofluids in presence of magnetic field or the Rayleigh-Taylor cone instability in electric field. After the recent discovery of polar nematic materials [1], which have a ferroelectric nematic phase, an obvious question arises: Can an electric field driven surface instability be observed in these materials? We studied the liquid crystal RM734 that exhibits both a ferroelectric and a normal dielectric nematic phase. We investigated the response of RM734 droplets to...