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News:
- May 4, 2011 Samuel Stanwyck receiving the 2010-2011 John Holmes Malmberg Prize
- May 4, 2011 Charles Neill receiving the 2010-2011 Shang-Keng Ma Award
- April 25, 2011 Veronica Burnett becomes AIP's Intern of the Year for 2010-2011 in Roger Revelle College. An article is written about her achievement on the USRA website.
- March 21-25, 2011 Edwin Fohtung, Ash Tripathi, Yeling Dai, and Sebastian Dietze give contributed talks at APS March meeting
- November 8, 2010 Postdoc Edwin Fohtung joins the group.
- October 25, 2010 Undergraduate Researchers Sam Stanwyck, Charles Neill and Andrew McLeod among five physics recepients 2010 Dean's Excellence Award.
- September 28, 2010 Manuscript "Self-consistent interpretation of the 2D structure of the liquid AuSi surface: Bending rigidity and the Debye-Waller effect" is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
- September 19, 2010 Sebastian Dietze attends MML-2010 conference in Berkeley.
- September 15, 2010 Mike Folkerts joins UCSD Physics PhD program
- July 16, 2010 Yeling Dai is the winner of the best poster award at SXNS-11. Congrats, Yeling!
- July 14, 2010 Graduate Student Yeling Dai attends SXNS-11, The Eleventh International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering in Chicago, IL, and makes a contributed presentation.
- June, 2010 Graduate student Leandra Boucheron joins the group. Welcome, Leandra!
- June 8, 2010 Graduate Student Ash Tripathi attends Coherence-2010, International Workshop on Phase Retrieval and Coherent Scattering Coherence in Rostock, Germany; Ash is also invited to give talks at University College London, UK and Technical University Berlin, Germany. Congrats, Ash!
- June 1, 2010 Undergraduate Student Sam Stanwyck receives a prestigious DOE's Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship SULI at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Congrats to Sam!
- April 2010 Undergraduate Student Michael Folkerts selected as 2009-2010 receipient of UCSD McNair Scholar award. Congrats, Mike!
- March 15-19, 2010 Ash Tripathi, Yeling Dai, Sebastian Dietze, Michael Folkerts and Sam Stanwyck give contributed talks at APS March meeting
- March, 2010 Graduate Students Jong Woo Kim and Moses Marsh join the group. Welcome!
- March 1, 2010 Oleg receives NSF CAREER Award
Group Members
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Oleg Shpyrko Assistant Professor, Department of Physics University of California San Diego
Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004
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Postdoctoral fellow(s):
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Dr. Edwin Fohtung, Postdoctoral Fellow B.Sc. Technical Physics, Minor - Physical Electronics, St Petersburg State Technical University, Russia 2005 M.Sc. Technical Physics , Minor - Physical Electronics, 2007 Ph.D. Physics\Material Science, University of Freiburg, Germany 2010 Research Topic: Combination of first-principles, semi-empirical techniques and novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques to study the fundamental physics of novel materials with potential technological importance. |
Graduate Students:
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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. |
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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. |
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Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures. |
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Moses Marsh, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, Univ. of California Santa Barbara 2009 Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems |
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Jong Woo Kim, MSE Graduate Student 2009-present M. Sc. Seoul National University Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems |
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Leandra Boucheron, Graduate Student 2010-present B.S. Physics, New Mexico Tech 2010 Research Topic: Soft Matter and Liquid Surface Scattering |
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Jacob Stanley, Graduate Student 2008-present B.S Physics and B.S. Math, UC Santa Cruz 2007. M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2009. Research Topic: Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging |
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Veronica Burnett |
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Alisa Agafonova |
Undergraduate Students:
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Gurleen Kaur |
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Brandon Stevenson |
Group Alumni:
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Sam Stanwyck
Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. |
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LLuvia Rodriguez |
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Anashe Bandari |
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Charles Neill
Research Topic: Light Scattering |
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David Kirszenblat
Research Topic: Light Scattering. |
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Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009 Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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Magnus Heinz, undergraduate researcher, 2009-2010 Current Whereabouts: Master's program in Computational Science, University of Frankfurt, Germany. |
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Sarah Garcia, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 |
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Andrew McLeod, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, via UCSD exchange program. |
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Kevin Duggento, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 |
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Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009
Currently a Scientist at Technical University Berlin. |
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Michael Folkerts undergraduate researcher, 2008-2010
Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. |
Teaching:
The Webpage for Spring 2010 quarter of PHYS_100C
Reading & Reference:
- Reading lists for the group
- Equipment
- Manuals
- Presenting
- Group Presentations
- X-ray Group Journal Club
- RSS Feeds
Publications
- Surface Structure of the Liquid Au72Ge28 Eutectic Phase: X-ray Reflectivity
P. S. Pershan, S. E. Stoltz, S. Mechler, O. G. Shpyrko, A. Y. Grigoriev, V. S. K. Balagurusamy, B. H. Lin and M. Meron
Phys. Rev. B 80, 125414 (2009)
- Surface structure of liquid Bi and Sn: An x-ray reflectivity study
P. S. Pershan, Sven Stoltz, Oleg G. Shpyrko, Moshe Deutsch, V. S. K. Balagurusamy, M. Meron, Binhua Lin and Reinhard Streitel
Phys. Rev. B 79, 115417 (2009)
- Infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging of the insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide
M. M. Qazilbash, M. Brehm, G. O. Andreev, A. Frenzel, P.-C. Ho, Byung-Gyu Chae, Bong-Jun Kim, Sun Jin Yun, Hyun-Tak Kim, A. V. Balatsky, O. G. Shpyrko, M. B. Maple, F. Keilmann, and D. N. Basov
Phys. Rev. B 79, 075107 (2009)
- Crystalline Surface Phases of the Liquid Au-Si Eutectic Alloy
O. G. Shpyrko, R. Streitel, V. S. K. Balagurusamy, A. Yu. Grigoriev, M. Deutsch, B. M. Ocko, M. Meron, B. Lin and P. S. Pershan
Phys. Rev. B 76, 245436 (2007)
- Pressure-Tuned Spin and Charge Ordering in an Itinerant Antiferromagnet
Y. Feng, R. Jaramillo, G. Srajer, J. C. Lang, Z. Islam, M. S. Somayazulu, O. G. Shpyrko, J. J. Pluth, H.-k. Mao, E. D. Isaacs, G. Aeppli, T. F. Rosenbaum
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 137201 (2007)
Funding:
Our group's research is generously funded by DOE-BES, NSF CAREER, AFOSR-MURI, Hellman Foundation, Argonne LDRD as well as internal UCSD funding sources.
Group Calendar:
- Group Meetings: Fridays (for now) at 1:00 PM in Mayer 5623
- Presentation schedule (subject to change abruptly and without notice):
- 7/15 Return of the group meeting
- 7/22 Sebastian
- 7/29
- 8/5 no meeting (beamtime)
- Presentation schedule (subject to change abruptly and without notice):
- Group "Google Calendar"
UCSD Physics Department:
- UCSD Physics Department Graduate Program Listings
- UCSD Physics Department Website
- UCSD Physics Seminars and Colloquia
- UCSD Physics Department Brochure
