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News:
- 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
- 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
Group Members
Detailed Group Listings
Principal Investigator:
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):
N/A
Graduate Students:
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, 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, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures. | |
Moses Marsh, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, Univ. of California Santa Barbara 2009 Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems | |
Jong Woo Kim, MSE Graduate Student 2009-present M. Sc. Seoul National University Research Topic: Superconductivity and Correlated Electron Systems | |
Leandra Boucheron, Graduate Student 2010-present B. Sc. Physics, New Mexico Tech. Research Topic: Soft Matter and Liquid Surface Scattering |
Undergraduate Students:
Michael Folkerts
Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. | |
Sam Stanwyck
Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. | |
LLuvia Rodriguez | |
Anashe Bandari | |
Veronica Burnett
Research Topic: Morphological instabilities in polymer nanostructures. | |
Charles Neil
Research Topic: Light Scattering | |
David Kirszenblat
Research Topic: Light Scattering. |
Group Alumni:
Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009 Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland | |
Magnus Heinz, undergraduate researcher, 2009-2010 Current Whereabouts: Master's program in Computational Science, University of Frankfurt, Germany. | |
Sarah Garcia, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 | |
Andrew McLeod, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, via UCSD exchange program. | |
Kevin Duggento, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009 | |
Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009
Currently a Scientist at Technical University Berlin. |
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
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.
Group Calendar:
- UCSD Physics Department Seminars (currently on Summer hiatus)
- Brief Upcoming Group Agenda:
UCSD Physics Department:
- UCSD Physics Department Graduate Program Listings
- UCSD Physics Department Website
- UCSD Physics Seminars and Colloquia
- UCSD Physics Department Brochure