2015
October 23, 2015: 3rd Annual CHMS Research Symposium
Oct. 5-7, 2015: Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting
Yue Jia and Michael Lee presented their work during the graduate student poster session at the ALS Users’ Meeting.
Michael Lee during the poster session slam (i.e. 50 sec intro to his poster).
Attendees of the “Nanophases in Functional Materials” Workshop.
October 26, 2015: Biological Engineering and Small-Scale Technologies, UC Merced
Prof. Takamura will give a seminar to the Biological Engineering and Small-Scale Technologies Program at UC Merced. The talk is entitled “Engineering Functional Properties in Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures and Nanostructures”
September 17, 2015: Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
November 6, 2015: Community College STEM Transfer Day
Students from MESA Community Colleges from around northern California are invited to UC Davis for a one-day event to learn about the opportunities available to transfer students in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines. The activities include campus/lab tours, panel discussions with transfer students and faculty, admissions and financial aid information, as well as information on internship and career opportunities.
See Flyer for more information.
October 2015: American Vacuum Society Meeting
Prof. Takamura and Michael Lee will be giving talks at the American Vacuum Society 62nd International Symposium and Exhibition in San Jose in October 2015. Prof. Takamura will be giving an invited talk entitled “Magnetic Interactions at Perovskite Oxide Interfaces” which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 at 8:00am in Room 230 A in the session “Oxides, Fluorides, and Spin Structures (MI-TuM)”. Michael is giving a contributed talk talk entitled “Control and Characterization of Magnetic Domain Patterns in Complex Oxide Microstructures”, which is scheduled in the same session at 12:00pm.
The conference website is at AVSM.
October 6-7 2015: Advanced Light Source Users Meeting
Binzhi’s work has been selected as an invited talk at the workshop on “Nanophases in Functional Materials” at the ALS User’s Meeting to be held Oct. 6-7th, 2015. The talk is entitled “Tuning interfacial exchange interactions via electronic reconstruction in transition-metal oxide heterostructures”.
The workshop website is here.
August 2-6 2015: Microscopy and Microanalysis 2015 in Portland, OR
Meng Gu, a group alumni, was Honored by the Microscopy Society of America with the Albert Crewe Award. The award recognizes the distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the physical sciences by a postdoctoral fellow within six years since doctoral graduation. Meng is being recognized for his outstanding work on the discovery of nickel segregation in battery materials.
Program guide can be found here with Meng Gu’s award details on page 15.
July 2015: Binzhi Li’s Exit Seminar
Congratulations to Binzhi Li for presenting his Exit Seminar entitled “Interfacial Magnetic Phenomena in Transition-Metal Oxide Heterostructures” on Wednesday, July 29th!
The abstract can be found here.
May 23-24, 2015: International Workshop on Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Films and Coatings in Wuhan, China
Prof. Takamura presented a talk entitled “Control of Magnetic Domain Patterns in Complex Oxide Nanostructures” at the International Workshop on Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Films and Coatings hosted by Wuhan University of Technology.
Prof. Takamura at Yellow Crane Tower, Wuhan, China.
Prof. Takamura with invited speakers at the International Workshop on Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Films and Coatings hosted by Wuhan University of Technology, China.
May 2015:
Congratulations to Michael Lee for passing his PhD qualifying exam and to Alex Kane and Aleksey Ionin for passing their PhD preliminary exams.
SSRL Scientific Highlight
SSRL has highlighted some of Binzhi’s recent work performed at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and the Advanced Light Source. See link here.
Go Karting Expedition
The winners of the group go-karting expedition were:
(1) The Love Bug (aka Michael Lee)
(2) The Nomad (aka Aleksey Ionin)
(3) Alex (aka Alex Kane)
Also participating were Tom Wynn, Binzhi Li, and Yayoi Takamura.
March 2015: Congratulations to our recent award winners!
Binzhi received the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) Conference travel award and the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies Travel Award.
Michael is the recipient of the Alfred H. and Marie E. Gibeling Fellowship in recognition of outstanding academic record and promise of productive scholarship. Michael also received the UC Davis & Humanities Graduate Research Award as well as the 2015-2016 Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award from the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies.
Yue was awarded the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) student travel award and the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies Travel Award to attend the 2015 American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting.
March 2-6, 2015: American Physical Society March Meeting 2015, San Antonio, TX
Yue gave an oral presentation at the APS conference. She presented her talk entitled “Exchange coupling in(111)-oriented La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/La0.7Sr0.3FeO3 superlattices” in room 207B on Tuesday, March 3 at 4:06pm.