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November 2017: Secret City Half Marathon, Oak Ridge, TN\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>

While in Oak Ridge, TN running experiments at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Michael Lee and Yayoi Takamura ran the Secret City Half Marathon. The atomic theme pervades through many aspects of Oak Ridge, including the finisher\u2019s medal, which also doubles as a bottle opener.
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November 2017: Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award<\/strong><\/h4>

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Congratulations to Alex Kane for being selected to receive the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award (SCGSR). His project entitled \u201cDepth Resolved Spin Textures in Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures\u201d will be performed under the guidance of Dr. Valeria Lauter at the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More information on the SCGSR program can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

November 2017: 2017 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting<\/strong><\/h4>

Prof. Takamura will be presenting an invited talk entitled \u201cStrain and Charge-Mediated Magnetoelectric Effects in Complex Oxide Heterostructures\u201d in Symposium EM02: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics at the 2017 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, MA. The talk is scheduled for 8:30-9:00am on Wednesday, November 29th. The full meeting program can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.
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November 2017: 2017 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>

Alex Kane, Michael Lee, and Rajesh Chopdekar will be giving oral presentations at the 2017 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference to be held in Pittsburgh, PA on Nov. 6-10th, 2017. \u00a0Prof. Takamura is serving as a program co-chair with Mingzhong Wu from Colorado State University, and Pallavi Dhagat from Oregon State University is the general conference chair. \u00a0The Conference website can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

October 2017:\u00a0Presentations at the ALS Users\u2019 Meeting\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>

Michael Lee and Alex Kane have been invited to give presentations at the ALS Users\u2019 Meeting as part of the workshop entitled \u201cCharacterizing Ordering Phenomena and Functionality with Soft X-Rays at ALS\u201d. More information on the ALS Users\u2019 Meeting can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

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View of San Francisco and Marin County from ALS<\/figcaption><\/figure>

September 2017:\u00a0Congratulations to Atharva Deshpande for submitting his M.S. Thesis<\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to Atharva Deshpande for submitting his M.S. thesis entitled \u201cResonant X-ray reflectivity study of complex oxide heterostructures\u201d! Atharva will be working for Intel Portland.<\/p>

September 2017:\u00a0Congratulations to Alex Kane for being awarded the Alfred H. and Marie E. Gibeling Fellowship<\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to Alex Kane for being selected to receive the Alfred H. and Marie E. Gibeling Fellowship offered by the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.<\/p>

September 2017: International Workshop on Oxide Electronics\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>

Michael Lee presented a poster entitled \u201cModification of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy via Ion-Implantation\u201d at the 24th International Workshop on Oxide Electronics to be held in Chicago, IL on Sept. 24-27th, 2017. The workshop program can be accessed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

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Michael Lee at the IWOE poster session<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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August 2017:\u00a0Congratulations to Kyle Hoke for submitting his M.S. Thesis<\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to Kyle Hoke for submitting his M.S. thesis entitled \u201cThe Influence of Film Thickness and Stacking Order on the Magnetic Properties of Perovskite Oxide Bilayers\u201d!<\/p>

June 2017:\u00a0Publications in\u00a0Physical Review Materials<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to Michael Lee for having his work published in the inaugural issue of\u00a0Physics Review Materials\u00a0<\/em>while\u00a0Rajesh Chopdekar\u2019s work was published in the second issue! According to the editors \u201cthis new journal will offer a publication option for a wide variety of materials research, including papers that analyze, characterize, design, or synthesize novel materials of great interest to the multidisciplinary community engaged in materials research.\u201d Michael\u2019s paper entitled \u201cTemperature dependence of ferromagnet-antiferromagnet spin alignment and coercivity in epitaxial micromagnet bilayers\u201d can be accessed\u00a0here<\/a>. \u00a0Rajesh\u2019s paper entitled \u201cNanostructured complex oxides as a route towards thermal behavior in artificial spin ice systems\u201d can be accessed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

May 2017:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to I-Ting Chiu for passing her Ph.D. preliminary exam!<\/p>

April 2017: UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

Joseph Brown presented his work in the Takamura Research Group at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference. The full program can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

February 2017: Yue Jia\u2019s Exit Seminar\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to Yue Jia for presenting her Exit Seminar to the Materials Science and Engineering Department! The title of the seminar was \u201cSynthesis and Characterization of Ferromagnetic\/Antiferromagnetic Perovskite Oxide Superlattices\u201d. The abstract can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

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Elizabeth P. Wood Fellowship\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

Congratulations to Alex Kane for being awarded the Elizabeth P. Wood Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies at UC Davis for the end of the 2016-2017 academic year!<\/p>

January 2017: I-Ting Chiu Joins the TRG\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

Welcome to I-Ting Chiu!<\/p>

November 2017: MMM 2017 Meeting \u2013 Pittsburgh, PA\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

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Prof. Takamura will be one of the two program co-chairs, along with Prof. Mingzhong Wu from Colorado State University, and conference chair, Pallavi Dhagat from Oregon State University, for the MMM 2017 Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. Conference information can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

March 2017: APS March Meeting \u2013 New Orleans, LA\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

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Alex Kane and Prof. Takamura will present oral presentations at the APS March Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Prof. Takamura will present a talk entitled \u201cTailoring Spin Textures in Patterned Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures\u201d on Wednesday, March 15th at 3:54pm in Session P43 on Manganite Films. Alex will present a talk entitled \u201cCation Valence Control in La0.7<\/sub>Sr0.3<\/sub>Co0.5<\/sub>Mn0.5<\/sub>O3<\/sub>\u00a0Thin Films and Bilayers\u201d on Friday, March 17th at 8:12am on Session X43 on Defects and Structural Control in Magnetic Oxide Heterostructures. Alex was awarded an APS March Meeting GMAG Travel Award! Full information on the APS March Meeting can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

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Departing New Orleans<\/figcaption><\/figure>

January 2017: Pasta Making Class\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

The Takamura Research Group took some time away from the lab to learn how to make pasta from flour and eggs. \u00a0Photos courtesy Yue Jia.<\/p>

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Kneading the dough<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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Cut noodles<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Final Product \u2013 Tagliatelli Noodles with Bolognese Sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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Michael Lee\u2019s Food Challenges \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

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The HeartStopper Burger at Burger Saloon.<\/p>

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A \u2018Michael\u2019-sized piece of birthday cake<\/p>

January 2017: ALS-U Workshop \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>

On January 18-20, 2017, the Advanced Light Source (ALS) held a workshop to brainstorm the new science that will be enabled by the planned upgrade to ALS. The upgrade project, known as ALS-U, will boost the brightness, focus, and other properties of the light beams produced at the ALS. Prof. Takamura participated in the workshop and a breakout session on Spin Materials. More information on the workshop can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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