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News:

• Aug 18, 2011 Our research group is featured in San Diego Channel 5 News at 10 Report.
• Aug 8, 2011 Ptychography imaging of GdFe magnetic domains paper is published in PNAS. PR appears in UCSD News, Popular Science Magazine, MSNBC, Fox News, MRS Science News, Photonics Online and other sources.
• May 4, 2011 Samuel Stanwyck receiving the 2010-2011 John Holmes Malmberg Prize. Sam is enrolled in PhD program at Stanford.
• May 4, 2011 Charles Neill receiving the 2010-2011 Shang-Keng Ma Award. Charles is enrolled in PhD program at UC Santa Barbara.
• 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

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Group Photo, Aug 17, 2011, (l-to-r): Oleg Shpyrko, Moses Marsh, Sebastian Dietze, Ash Tripathi, Alisa Agafonova, Jacob Stanley, Gurleen Bal, Yeling Dai, Leandra Boucheron, Brandon Stevenson, Jong Woo Kim, Edwin Fohtung

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

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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)

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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.

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    • 9/14 Moses Marsh - Neutron Scattering
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