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1 News:
2 Group Members
3 Teaching:
4 Reading & Reference:
5 Publications
6 Funding:
7 Group Calendar:
8 UCSD Physics Department:
9 Wiki Help

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

More News

Group Members

Group Photo, Aug 5, 2010. L-to-R: David Kirszenblat, Charles Neill, Leandra Boucheron, Sebastian 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):

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.
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:

	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 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