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News:

• November 3, 2009 Michael Folkerts receives Dean's Excellence Award. Congrats, Mike!
• 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 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.

Undergraduate Students:

	Michael Folkerts Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems.
	Sam Stanwyck Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems.
	LLuvia Rodriguez
	Anache Bandari
	Magnus Heinz

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.
	Sarah Garcia, undergraduate student, 2008-2009
	Andrew McLeod, undergraduate student, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, 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 at Technical University Berlin. [Jyoti's website]

Teaching:

The Webpage for Spring 2009 quarter of PHYS_100C

Research:

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Publications

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Group Calendar:

• UCSD Physics Department Seminars (currently on Summer hiatus)

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UCSD Physics Department:

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• UCSD Physics Department Website
• UCSD Physics Seminars and Colloquia
• UCSD Physics Department Brochure

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