Robert Karl earned his PhD in physics in December. Since 2014, he has been working on nanoimaging in the CU Boulder lab of professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn. When not in the lab, he works on jokes and performs in weekly comedy shows on campus.
Congratulations to Diana Rossell-Eddy for winning the first place poster prize at the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics! The APS CUWiP goal is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with the opportunity to experience a professional conference, information about graduate school and professions in physics, and access to other women in physics of all ages with whom they can share experiences, advice, and ideas.
Catherine Groschner of Mary Scott’s research group at the University of California, Berkeley was awarded a 2019 M&M Student Scholar Award for her presentation titled, “Machine Learning for High Throughput HRTEM Analysis”.
Laura Waller has been selected as a 2019 AIMBE Fellow. The College of Fellows – 2,000 individuals who are outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry, clinical practice, and government. These leaders in the field have distinguished themselves through their contributions in research, industrial practice and/or education. Fellows are nominated each year by their peers and represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community. They are considered the life-blood of AIMBE and work towards realizing AIMBE’s vision to provide medical and biological engineering innovation for the benefit of humanity.
Prof. Yenny Hernández from U. de los Andes gave a great seminar on thermoelectrics using nanomaterial components to some of our STROBE and PEAQS undergraduate students.
Seeing small things takes bright lights and great optics. But you still have to see something. This talk will discuss detectors for electron and x-ray microscopies: how they work, what are the challenges and where are the opportunities. The competition is intense: the human eye has ~108 ‘pixels’ and a dynamic range of ~104 and has a direct connection to a built-in neural processor). No camera today can match these specs (although we are getting close). The use of silicon as a sensing medium, together with the dramatic advances in microelectronics (“Moore’s law”) has transformed how we record images. Is detection a solved problem?
Molly May, a graduate student from CU Boulder, traveled to Fort Lewis College to provide a seminar: “Antennas for Light: A Way to Bring Quantum Out of the Cold.”
Please join us for a seminar by the Bluesky project at DOE light sources. Bluesky provides a python-based framework to handle experimental data through the different parts of the data flow process. The approach is modular, and can provide a good starting point for discussions in STROBE about data management. In particular, we will discuss this topic at the annual retreat.
Researchers use electron microscopy to produce high-resolution images at the atomic scale of everything from composite nanomaterials to single proteins. The technology provides invaluable information on the texture, chemistry, and structure of these materials. Research over the past few decades has focused on achieving higher resolutions: being able to image materials at progressively finer levels with more sensitivity and contrast. But what does the future hold for electron microscopy?
Berkeley Physics congratulates physics major Namrata Ramesh on being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
Namrata is in her senior year, pursuing a Physics (Honors) degree. Her senior thesis, supervised by Professor Naomi Ginsberg, involves understanding the dynamics of self-assembly of gold nanocrystal superlattices using optical and x-ray scattering techniques. She has also worked on studying the trajectories of electrons in manganese doped halide perovskites using Monte Carlo simulations. At Oxford, she hopes to continue investigating the origins of intriguing phenomena in promising photovoltaic materials by being at the interface of experimental and computational physics. Namrata is also very passionate about diversity in STEM fields and multimedia storytelling and has combined both interests by starting “The STEMinist Chronicles”, an organization that currently uses photo essays to tell the stories of women in STEM.