Avery and Nathan are working together on the Big Bruker.
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Kevin and Shiyu make an exploratory variable temperature Raman run!
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Ken, Amanda, and Nathan present posters at the Materials Under Extreme Conditions meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Several group members celebrating the holiday season...
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Kevin and Sabine test out remote operation of the near field instrument at the Advanced Light Source, and Kiman sets up for low temperature work..
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Avery is polishing a crystal in full PPE. Safety first!
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Avery and Kendall are taking low temperature data on the infrared microscope.
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Amanda and Kendall are opening up the bolometer to fix the filter rotation system.
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Shiyu and Avery and setting up for variable temperature Raman scattering!
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Avery loves to do outreach work. Here, he is performing for Robertsville middle school children as part of the PEER + SCEME collaboration.
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Amanda, Nathan, Ken, and collaborator Zhenxian Liu measuring high pressure infrared and Raman + loading pressure cells in the new infrared cabin at Brookhaven.
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Kiman and Steve McGill are inserting the mcd probe into the 25 T split helix magnet in cell 5 at the Magnet Lab.
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Avery and Kiman are measuring magnetic circular dichroism using the 25 T split helix magnet.
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All of the NSF-DMREF principle investigators at Rutgers University for science discussions.
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This is the UT-Rutgers DMREF team at our favorite Greek restaurant!
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Nathan, Sabine, Michael, and Ken at Rutgers University for a springtime DMREF meeting.
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Michael and Kevin in the hallway at Rutgers University after a busy day of DMREF discussions!
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Jan and friends at the DMREF PI Meeting in DC in 2015 in front of our awesome poster!
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David Vanderbilt, John Schlueter, and Jan at the Materials Genome PI meeting in DC.
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Reshef Tenne, Joel Miller, and Jan at the COINAPO conference at the Weizmann Institute.
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Jan and friends at the 2013 Telluride workshop on spin-orbit coupling in 4 and 5d materials.
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Jan and friends at the 2015 Telluride workshop on spin-orbit coupling in 4- and 5d-containing materials.
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Jan and friends at the conference picnic in Telluride after a wonderful day of science + hiking!
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Jan and Giti Kandaparast at the SPIE meeting in San Diego.
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Jan with many old friends in front of the hybrid magnet at the Chinese High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Heifei.
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Kati Kamaras from the Wigner Institute in Budapest joined us for the solar eclipse!
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We had 33 seconds of totality for the solar eclipse!
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Jan with Erik Henriksen from Washington University and Dave Mandrus from UT/ORNL eating lunch by the ocean at the "Inorganic analogues to graphene" workshop in Cancun. Ben Hunt from Carnegie Melon took the photo!
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Kiman loves the Magnet Lab!
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Kiman and Avery with Mike Ozerov setting up magneto-infrared spectroscopy at the Magnet Lab in Tallahassee.
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Kiman is inserting the infrared transmittance probe into the cryostat at the Magnet Lab.
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Sabine and Kevin working with Hans Bechtel and Larry Carr from BNL (not in photo) at the Advanced Light Source at LBNL for near field infrared spectroscopy. Go beamline 2.4!
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Larry Carr and Jan hanging out at beamline 5.4 at LBNL.
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Kevin and Mike Martin working at beamline 2.4 at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
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Micky Holcomb (WVU), Randy Fishman (ORNL), and Jan walking around Portland after the Gordon Research Conference!
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Avery presenting his poster at the ACS meeting!
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Kati Kamaras and Jan in the beautiful snow at the Boston March Meeting!
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Amanda and Kendall meet up with John Singleton, Jamie Manson, and Paul Goddard for coffee and world domination!
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David Tanner told TWO bad jokes at the spectroscopy dinner this year...
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Avery likes this version of the 2019 group picture! I wonder why... It must be because the girls look so happy!
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Magneto-optics reunion in Washington DC with Giti Khodaparast (Virginia Tech), Madalina Furris (Vermont), Steve McGill (Magnet Lab), and David Bernholdt (ORNL)!
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Jungjie Yang from NJIT stopped by Vienna Coffee to discuss nonreciprocal effects.
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Thomas Heine chatting with Amanda and Kendall about metal-organic frameworks after his seminar!
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Nathan and Amanda (not shown) do a liquid nitrogen demonstration for aspiring chemists Bella, Lauren, and Sophie from the local high school.
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Jaime Fernandez-Baca and Randy Fishman drinking coffee during the "cold banana" demonstration while Avery runs far infrared in the background.
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Fall 2020 photo of the research team. What a beautiful fall day!
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Avery and Kiman dress up as the X-Men (or the Blues Brothers?) for the departmental Halloween contest! p.s. They won first prize!
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Guys hanging out after Sabine's defense (and drinking champagne!).
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We have a new espresso maker! It's very popular. :-)
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We have the cups too... so we look good drinking our espresso.
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Avery gave a talk at the MAGNA meeting and won the 3rd place presentation prize!
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The DMREF PIs (Kristjan, David, Weida, Valery, Sang, and Jan) meet regularly on Zoom.
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Amanda popping the cork on the champagne after her defense.
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Kiman is examining photos from Amanda's party, and Shiyu is drinking more champagne.
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Three new PhD's in one day! A new world record?
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We took photos outside before the ceremony in the stadium.
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Group poster at the IAMMS quantum materials day.
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