Welcome

This is the personal webpage for David Sessoms.

Here you can find information about some of my hobby electronics projects, including my keg temperature monitoring system, a list of my scientific publications, and whatever else strikes my fancy down the road.

Most of my projects use Arduino, an open source hardware platform targeted mainly at hobbyists, artists, students, and others interested in a easy-to-use microcontroller.

My scientific interests most broadly concern the evolution of non-equilibrium physical systems. Among other things, I have examined how soft colloidal particles rearrange when pushed together at very high packing fractions, and I have studied the behavior of metastable liquid water, creating "synthetic xylem" out of silicon and glass to put water under negative pressure like what is found in trees.

Pictured is "Rababou" from the 2006 Caranaval des Bolzes in Fribourg, Switzerland.