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News:

• 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
• 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, Aug 5, 2010. L-to-R: David Kirszenblat, Charles Neil, Leandra Boucheron, Sebastien Dietze, Veronica Burnett, Jong Woo Kim, Moses Marsh, Yeling Dai, Oleg Shpyrko. Not pictured: graduate student Ash Tripathi (working/based in Argonne National Lab near Chicago) and undergraduates: Sam Stanwyck, Michael Folkerts, LLuvia Rodriguez and Anache Bandari

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):

Dr. Edwin Fohtung

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:

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:

	Sam Stanwyck Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering.
	LLuvia Rodriguez
	Anashe Bandari
	Veronica Burnett Research Topic: Morphological instabilities in polymer nanostructures.
	Charles Neill Research Topic: Light Scattering
	David Kirszenblat Research Topic: Light Scattering.

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.
Magnus Heinz	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	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
	Michael Folkerts undergraduate researcher, 2008-2010 Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. Mike is currently a UCSD Physics Ph.D. student applying his knowledge of x-ray imaging and laser scattering to problems in Medical Imaging at UCSD Cancer Center.

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
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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.

Group Calendar:

• UCSD Physics Department Seminars

• Group Meetings: Fridays at 1:00 PM in Mayer 5623
  • Presentation schedule (subject to change abruptly and without notice):
    • 5/6 Jong Woo (*in room 4861)

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