M. Novack: Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model: the vanishing nematic correlation length limit SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 2018 D. Golovaty, M. Novack, P. Sternberg: A novel Landau-de Gennes model with quartic elastic terms European Journal of Applied Mathematics 2020 D. Golovaty, Y. K. Kim, O. Lavrentovich, M. Novack, P. Sternberg: Phase transitions in nematics: textures with tactoids and disclinations Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena 2020 D. Golovaty, M. Novack, P. Sternberg, R. Venkatraman: A model problem for nematic-isotropic phase transitions with highly disparate elastic constants Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 2020 M. Novack, I. Topaloglu, R. Venkatraman: Least Wasserstein distance between disjoint shapes with perimeter regularization (Submitted Paper) 2021 M. Novack, X. Yan: Nonlinear approximation of 3D smectic liquid crystals: sharp lower bound and compactness Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Accepted Paper) 2021 D. Golovaty, M. Novack, P. Sternberg: A one-dimensional variational problem for cholesteric liquid crystals with disparate elastic constants Journal of Differential Equations 2021 M. Novack, X. Yan: Compactness and sharp lower bound for a 2D smectics model Journal of Nonlinear Science 2021 F. Maggi, M. Novack: Isoperimetric residues and a mesoscale flatness criterion for hypersurfaces with bounded mean curvature (Preprint) p. 67, 2022 M. Novack, X. Yan: A smectic liquid crystal model in the periodic setting (Submitted Paper) 2022