July 2026: TRG Alumni Get Together

Some of the TRG alumni were able to meet at Dish N Dash in San Jose for dinner.  It was great to catch up with everyone! 

June 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Hudson Shih

Congratulations to Dr. Hudson Shih for satisfying all his degree requirements for his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering!

June 2026: IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School

Prof. Takamura participated as a lecturer at the 2026 IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School held at the American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. 

The pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum were highlights of the cultural visits. An interesting observation was the similarity of an aerial view of the pyramids to a Landau structure. 

June 2026: Congratulations to Izoah Snowden

Congratulations to Izoah Snowden for passing his Ph.D. qualifying exam!

April 2026: TRG Bowling Event

Following the group’s ‘semi-tradition’, we went bowling at the UC Davis bowling alley.

From left to right: Harsukhmit Dhillon, Adrian Luo, Izoah Snowden, Steve Ho, Yayoi Takamura, Christy Nguyen, Hudson Shih, and Matthew Frame

April 2026: American Ceramic Society Spring Meeting, Bellevue, WA

Prof. Takamura delivered an invited talk in the Symposium: Complex Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 at 2:00 pm. Her talk was entitled “Harnessing Interfacial Interactions in Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures”.