Welcome Carina Jacobson and Harshul Bhatt
May 08, 2024
We welcome Carina Jacobson and Harshul Bhatt to our group, both undergraduate students! Carina is currently majoring in Math at Purdue University, while Harshul is majoring in Engineering Physics at IIT Bombay.
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MRS Spring Meeting 2024 Talk
May 05, 2024
It was nice giving my talk at the MRS Spring Meeting, and talking about metal-insulator transitions with other scientists who work on oxides! Some pictures of the invited speakers and organizers at the dinner and their names below.
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Emily Ward’s first talk at a national conference (APS March Meeting)
Mar 31, 2024
Congratulations Emily for her first talk at a major conference at the American Physical Society’s March Meeting! Emily presented her – very well received – joint theoretical work in our group and experimental work in the Skrabalak group.
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First Group Pictures & Divine Kumah’s Visit
Feb 12, 2024
With the opportunity of Divine Kumah’s visit from Duke, we also took our first group pictures!
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Bipasa Samanta, Ph.D, joins the group
Feb 02, 2024
Bipasa Samanta joins us as a postdoctoral scholar. She got her Ph.D in Chemistry from IIT Bombay, and her research has taken her across the world, including at Technion in Israel and at the University of North Dakota, where she was a postdoc in Physics. You can see some of her work from the past…
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Nick Adkins Joins The Group
Feb 02, 2024
Nick Adkins, who is an IUB alumn joins us as a Master’s Student, working in the US Particle Accelerator Program through IU! He is working with us on understanding materials via RIXS (Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering simulations). Welcome Nick!
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Varsha Kumari Joins the Group
Dec 14, 2023
Varsha Kumari joins the group as our first Ph.D student! She will be co-advised by Prof. Sara Skrabalak. Varsha received her MS from the Indian Institute of Technology – Gandhinagar, and her BS in from Delhi University, both in Chemistry, before joining Indiana University – Bloomington’s Chemistry department in Fall 2023. She will study and…
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Hosting Prof. Tyrel McQueen from Johns Hopkins
Nov 18, 2023
We were happy to host Prof Tyrel McQueen from Johns Hopkins University for his visit on Nov 16th for our Physical Chemistry Seminar series. During his visit, he met with our faculty, students, and gave an illuminating talk on Quantum Materials, and his efforts at JHU. Thank you for visiting, and thank you to Lisa…
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End of Rotations & Student Lunch
Nov 11, 2023
To celebrate the end of the rotations, we had a little celebratory lunch, with everybody who joined invited, at Korea Restaurant. In the picture, from left to right: Alex, Rukshanthan, Varsha, Dewni and Jane. Thank you everybody for making this rotation season fun!
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Emily Ward Presents her Research at the PINDU Conference
Nov 04, 2023
Emily Ward presented her work today at the PINDU (Purdue, Indiana, Notre Dame) conference, both experiment she’s been working on in Sara Skrabalak’s lab, and theory she’s been working on in our group. I’ve been learning a lot about different aspects of bismuth bonding, and layered materials for photocatalysis from her, as this is some…
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