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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

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

Postdoctoral fellow(s):

N/A

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
Moses Marsh	Moses Marsh, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, Univ. of California Santa Barbara 2009 Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems
Jong Woo Kim	Jong Woo Kim, MSE Graduate Student 2009-present M. Sc. Seoul National University Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems
Leandra Boucheron	Leandra Boucheron, Graduate Student 2010-present B. Sc. Physics, New Mexico Tech. Research Topic: Soft Matter and Liquid Surface Scattering

Undergraduate Students:

Michael Folkerts	Michael Folkerts Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering.
Sam Stanwyck	Sam Stanwyck Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering.
Veronica Burnett	Veronica Burnett Research Topic: Morphological instabilities in polymer nanostructures.
	LLuvia Rodriguez
	Anashe Bandari

Group Alumni:

Loic Jacot Descombes	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.
	Sarah Garcia, undergraduate student, 2008-2009
	Andrew McLeod, undergraduate student, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, via UCSD exchange program.
	Kevin Duggento, undergraduate student, 2008-2009
Dr. Jyoti Mohanty	Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009 Research Topic: X-ray magnetic dichroism studies of magnetic thin films, magnetic and orbital domains in manganese oxides, charge density wave systems. Currently a Scientist at Technical University Berlin. Jyoti's website

Collaborators:

• Dmitri Basov (UCSD)
• Eric Fullerton (UCSD)
• Ivan Schuller (UCSD)
• Sunny Sinha (UCSD)
• Brian Maple (UCSD)
• Peter Pershan (Harvard)
• Eric Isaacs (U. Chicago, Argonne National Lab)
• Kyle Alvine (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
• Moshe Deutsch (Bar Ilan U., Israel)
• Tom Rosenbaum (U Chicago)
• Patrick Huber (Saarland U., Germany)
• Ben Ocko (Brookhaven)
• Masa Fukuto (Brookhaven)
• Oleg Gang (Brookhaven)
• Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven)
• Gabe Aeppli (UC London)
• Thomas Russell (UMass)
• Steve Kevan (U. Oregon)
• Sujoy Roy (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• John Mitchell (Argonne)
• Alec Sandy, Michael Sprung, Suresh Narayanan (Sector 8, APS, Argonne)
• Jeff Elam and Michael Pellin (MSD&ES, Argonne)
• Xiao Min Lin (CNM, Argonne)
• Martin Holt and Jorg Maser (X-ray Nanoprobe, CNM, Argonne)
• Binhua Lin, Mati Meron (CARS, U. Chicago)
• Ivan Kuzmenko, Thomas Gog (Sector 9, APS, Argonne)
• Zahir Islam, Jonathan Lang (Sector 4, APS, Argonne)
• Ross Harder, Ian McNulty, Zhonghou Cai (APS, Argonne)
• Paul Zschack (APS, Argonne)
• Alexei Grigoriev, Paul Evans (U. Wisconsin, Madison)

Our group currently has several openings at postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student level.

Contact Oleg Shpyrko for more information

Examples of Research Directions:

• Nanoscale Dynamics using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
• Coherent X-ray Microscopy
• Nanoconfined liquids
• Atomic Structure of Liquid-Solid and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces
• Mesoscale phase separation in electronic and magnetic materials
• Search for Novel Superconducting Materials
• Metallic Glasses and Liquids

List of relevant references:

O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Direct measurement of antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations" Nature 447, 68 (2007)

R. Jaramillo et al., "Microscopic and Macroscopic Signatures of Antiferromagnetic Domains" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117206 (2007) O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy" Science 313, 77 (2006)

K. J. Alvine, O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Capillary filling of anodized alumina nanopore arrays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 175503 (2006)

E. D. Isaacs, "Microscopy: X-ray nanovision", Nature 442, 35 (2006)