Lilian Chong, the founder of Pitt’s Creative Science Writing Program, is leading a program on science and creativity along with Pitt English Instructor and award-winning poet, Sam Pittman.
In this program, they bring students from Chemistry and English together.
While she was demonstrating a simulation of molecules students work on poems describing molecular level emotions.
Bradley Slezak was a graduate student under the supervision of Wolfgang J. Choyke and Brian D'Urso.
This spring he has successfully passed his Ph.D. defense. On Thursday, April 26, 2018 he attended the commencement ceremony at the John M. and Gertrude E. Petersen Events Center to receive his degree.
His research involved measuring the decoherence rate of non-classical states of the trapped particle.
Congratulations Dr. Bradley Slezak !
Walter Klahold was a graduate student under the supervision of Wolfgang J. Choyke and Robert P. Devaty
This spring he has successfully passed his Ph.D. defense. On Thursday, April 26, 2018, he attended the commencement ceremony at the John M. and Gertrude E. Petersen Events Center to receive his degree.
His research involved energy level structure of free excitons in 4H SiC from wavelength modulated absorption spectroscopy and low-temperature photoluminescence.
Congratulations Dr. Walter Klahold !
B. Reeja Jayan was recognized as an innovator in 3D printing by Engineering.com for her work in creating more efficient ceramic 3D printing techniques. The article, which highlighted Jayan’s recent receipt of a $500,000 NSF CAREER Award, focused on her research in using electromagnetic waves to manipulate ceramic structures. Her method could provide major energy savings in comparison to traditional heat firing, enabling the 3D printing of industrial-grade ceramics and greatly expanding their range of practical applications.
Every year, PQI organizes a signature event during April. PQI2018, the sixth event in the series, was held Wednesday through Friday April, 18-20 at the University Club. PQI2018 poster session was organized on Wednesday 18th April for PQI students and postdocs.
This year more than 70 students, from different departments of University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and Duquesne University, were participated in the PQI2018 poster session. PQI faculty members, previous years winners and postdocs were helped in judging the posters and giving the feedback to students.
Sergio de la Barrera (Hunt Lab, CMU) won the grand prize award ($1,000 travel award plus an iPad).
Vikesh Siddhu (Griffiths Lab, CMU), Vaidish Sumaria (Viswanathan Lab, CMU), Lu Chen (Levy Lab, Pitt), Tzu-Chiao Chien (Hatridge Lab, Pitt), Corinn Durham (Chong Lab, Pitt) and Brandon Vernier (Evanseck Lab, Duquesne) won the poster awards ($1,000 travel award).
Megan Kirkendall Briggeman (Levy Lab, Pitt), Amy Carlson (Evanseck Lab, Duquesne), won the veteran award.
The IUPAP C20 Commission on Computational Physics has selected Noa Marom to receive the 2018 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics.
Marom will give a lecture at the upcoming XXX IUPAP International Conference on Computational Physics CCP2018, where she will be presented with the prize, consisting of a medal, a certificate, and a financial award of 1000 Euros, at the University of California, Davis, in July.
Di Xiao gave an interview for the Mellon College of Science website. His interview entitled as "A Quantum Age."
In this interview, he mentioned how his research is changed and evolved around quantum science over the years.
Also, this article shows how Di Xiao balances his academic career and personal life.
Furthermore, this article highlights his inspiring academic achievements.
Peng Ji was a graduate student at Gurudev Dutt's group. This spring he has succefully passed his Ph.D. defense.
On Thursday, April 26, 2018 he attended the commencement ceremony t the John M. and Gertrude E. Petersen Events Center to receive his degree.
His research involved optical trapping diamond nanocrystal in air and vacuum.
Imanuel Bier is a graduate student in our member Noa Marom's research group. His research combines his interests in quantum mechanical simulations with applied semiconductor research. He has been using computers to study the electron mobilities of organic semiconductors.
The CMU Energy Week Poster and Multimedia Competition is a unique opportunity to showcase your energy-related research and other activities, such as software, videos, art, models or sculptures. Participants will be able to submit either Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related or Non-STEM related work.
The competition was open to Carnegie Mellon undergraduate, master's and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
Gurjyot Sing Sethi won the 1st place in this competition with his poster titled "Identifying the prospects of Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis using First-Principles Calculations."
He was awarded $1,000.
Gurjyot Sing Sethi is a graduate student in Venkat Viswanathan's group.
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