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1 News:
2 Group Members
3 Detailed Group Listings
4 Teaching:
5 Research:
6 Publications
7 Group Calendar:
8 UCSD Physics Department:
9 Getting started

News:

November 3, 2009 Michael Folkerts receives Dean's Excellence Award
June 5, 2009: Open Postdoc position: X-ray Nanodiffraction and discovery of Novel Superconductors
May 4, 2009: Oleg is named a Hellman Fellow
March 31, 2009: Loic defends his Masters Thesis (PDF)!
March 20, 2009: Two more papers published: Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2, and Liquid Surface Structure of Bi and Sn

More News

Group Members

Group Photo, June 8, 2009. L-to-R: Michael Folkerts, Sebastian Dietze, Lluvia Rodriguez, Andrew McLeod, Ash Tripathi, Yeling Dai, Oleg Shpyrko. Not pictured: Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Anache Bandari, Sam Stanwyck, Sarah Garcia

Detailed Group Listings

Principal Investigator:

Prof. Oleg Shpyrko

Oleg Shpyrko
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

University of California San Diego
Ph.D. 2004, Physics, Harvard University

Research Group Webpage: oleg.ucsd.edu

Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004

Office: Mayer Hall Addition 3210 (Where is it?)
Phone (Google Voice, preferred): 858-952-1248
Phone (Office): 858-534-3066

Postdoctoral fellow(s):

Dr. Jyoti Mohanty

Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Physics, Paul Drude Institute, Humboldt University, Germany 2005

Research Topic: X-ray magnetic dichroism studies of magnetic thin films, magnetic and orbital domains in manganese oxides, charge density wave systems.

Graduate Students:

Ash Tripathi	Ash Tripathi, Graduate Student B.S. Electrical Engineering, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2005 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2007 Research Topic: Novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques, ptychographic iterative engine, lens-less imaging. Nanodiffraction studies of metal-insulator transition.
Yeling Dai	Yeling Dai, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2006 Research Topic: Dynamics of nanoconfined materials, Liquid Surface Scattering.
Sebastian Dietze	Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures.

Undergraduate Students:

	* Michael Folkerts Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems.
	* Sam Stanwyck Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems.

Group Alumni:

Loic Jacot Dewcombes

Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009

Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Masters Thesis: Dynamic Light Scattering studies of fluid microdynamics (PDF)
B.S. Physics, Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland 2007
Research Topic: Light Scattering Studies of micro- and nano-particles.
Current Whereabouts: ETH Zurich, Switzerland.