2016
November 4th 2016: 4th Annual Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Research Symposium
The 4th Annual ChemE and MSE Research Symposium at UC Davis was held in Kemper Hall on Friday, Nov. 4th, 2016. The event featured nine oral presentations in the morning, and a poster session in the afternoon. Aleksey Ionin and Alex Kane presented oral presentations while Yue Jia presented a poster. All participants commented on the quality of the research being presented, as well as the enthusiastic attendance from both Departments.
Awards were given for the following categories:
Graduate Student Poster Grand Prize:
‘Aerosol Emission During Human Speech’
Sima Asadi, Chemical Engineering, Ristenpart Research Group
Graduate Student Poster Reserve Prize:
‘Response to Extreme Temperatures of Mesoporous Silica MCM-41: Porous Structure Transformation Simulation and Modification of Gas Adsorption Properties’
Shenli Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering, Faller, Castro, and Stroeve Research Groups
Graduate Student Oral Presentation Grand Prize:
‘Dewetting transitions of Au/Ni bilayer films’
Xi Cen, Materials Science & Engineering, van Benthem Research Group
From left to right, Andrew Lange, Jen Staton, Adam Hoffman, David Silberstein, Aleksey Ionin, Alex Kane, and Xi Chen.
November 2016: 2016 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) Conference in New Orleans, LA
Michael Lee and Rajesh Chopdekar presented oral presentations at the upcoming 2016 MMM Conference in New Orleans, LA. Michael’s talk entitled “Temperature and orientation dependent exchange coupling in epitaxial nanomagnets” was presented in the session on Patterned Films on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, 2016. Rajesh presented a talk entitled “Thermally-achieved low energy states in manganite-based artificial spin ice arrays” also in the session on Patterned Films, and a second talk on “Disentangling strain and charge-mediated magnetoelectric effects in complex oxide-based artificial multiferroic heterostructures” in the session on Complex Oxides: Films and Heterostructures on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, 2016.
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October 2016: 2016 ALS Users Meeting, Berkeley, CA
Prof. Takamura will be giving a talk at a workshop on “Ordering Phenomena in Functional Complex Oxides” as part of the 2016 ALS Users Meeting to be held Oct. 3-5, 2016. Her talk is entitled “Engineering Functional Propertiesin Complex Oxide Nanostructures”.
August 24, 2016: Edmund Mills Exit Seminar
Congratulations to Edmund Mills for presenting his Exit Seminar entitled “Evaluating the rate-dependence of supercapacitor performance using Peukert’s equation” on August 24th!
His abstract can be found here.
Summer 2016:
Prof. Takamura gave an oral presentation at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine August 7-12, 2016. Michael Lee participated in the Emerging Leaders in Policy and Public Service (ELIPPS) Program and he worked in the Energy Generation Research Office within the Energy Research and Development Division of the California Energy Commission. Yue Jia had a summer internship with Seagate in Fremont. Prof. Takamura participated in the 2016 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering in conjunction with the Engineering Academy of Japan. Alex Kane, Kyle Hoke, and Aleksey Ionin participated at the 8th SSRL School on Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Techniques.
May 2016:
Congratulations to Kyle Hoke for passing his Ph.D. preliminary exam!
Prof. Takamura completed her first half marathon – the Capitola Half Marathon in Santa Cruz, CA
April 2016:
Congratulations to Alex Kane for passing his Ph.D. qualifying exam!
March 2016: 2016 Spring MRS Meeting in Phoenix
(left to right) Rajesh Chopdekar, Yayoi Takamura, Yue Jia and Michael Lee at Blue Hound
Prof. Takamura organized Symposium MD3: Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design along with Gertjan Koster (University of Twente), Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge National Lab), and Ariando (National University of Singapore) at the 2016 Spring MRS Meeting in Phoenix.
Michael Lee and Rajesh Chopdekar had oral presentations in the morning on Thursday, March 31st, and Yue Jia and Paige Byers had poster presentations in the evening on Wednesday, March 30th.
The symposium program can be found here.
Michael Lee served as one of the student reporters writing brief summaries of presentations that he attended at the meeting. His stories can be found at:
Achieving Absolutely Quantitative Atomic Scale Imaging with the Electron Microscope
Cognitive Device Ionitronics
Nanophases in Complex Oxides
Carbon Nanotube Porins: Biomimetic Membrane Pore Channels
Local Strain Measurements during in situ TEM Deformation with Nanobeam Electron Diffraction
Epitaxial BaTiO3 on Silicon and Silicon Germanium: Nanoscale Characterization, Ferroelectricity and Integration into TiN-Gated Devices
Manipulating room-temperature magnetic skyrmions
Novel displays, smart windows, and other optoelectronics using phase change materials
Development of micron-scaled magnetic flux sources for biological and medical applications
January 31, 2016: Happy Beamline Birthday Michael!
Michael celebrated his birthday with night shift at SSRL, so the group surprised him with Kara’s cupcakes, Patxi’s pizza, and other shenanigans.
January 2016: Kyle Hoke and Atharva Deshpande join the group!
Welcome to Kyle and Atharva!