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Elliot & Nathan presenting his work at the APS March meeting in Boston, MA
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Received a new grant from DOE NNSA for tuning of competing quantum states under extreme conditions.
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Nathan mentoring high school student, Clarisa
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Elliot explaining the EDM machine to the boy scouts.
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Group outing for a fierce bowling competition. Elliot went easy on us but still won!
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Low temperature set up is getting ready for some action.
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Ray McBride, an ME graduate student, joined our group. Welcome Ray!
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Desmond presented his work on the EDM set up at the Xerox Research Fellowship Symposium.
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Raman, FTIR set up is done. Nathan and Elliot worked hard over the summer to finish the system in style.
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Received a new grant from NSF DMR for studying novel hydrogen-rich materials at high pressures: Possible route to room temperature superconductivity.
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Gordon Research Conference NH. Had a nice time with Ike’s current and past members.
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Our ED machine arrived. Desmond and Elliot are working hard to get it operational for our diamond anvil experiments, which it wasn’t built for. We save at least $30,000. Right: first electrode that we made ~ 100 microns in diameter
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Desmond completed building a portable stand for the 4k Stinger. Great job Desmond! This saved $5000 for the lab.
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Nathan DG won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award. Congratulations Nathan!
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Elliot Snider, an ME graduate student, joined our group. Welcome Elliot!
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Eric and Larry are setting up the cryostat and doing a test run. Nathan and Desmond are learning how to run the setup.
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Our new stinger closed cycle 4K Flow System arrived
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Custom-built FTIR setup arrived. Thanks, Mike, for helping us moving into the newly renovated lab