Minhal Gardezi featured on PBS
Minhal’s Talk “Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?” can now be viewed on PBS. Congratulations!
Minhal’s Talk “Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?” can now be viewed on PBS. Congratulations!
The Bergmann Lab is one of 10 groups that have come together to form an interdisciplinary research group under MRSEC. Our group’s goal is to work towards upgrading the X-FAST instrument, our XUV tabletop setup, into a national user facility. Together, we are working towards the goal of advancing the field of information processing, and …
Tom Linker has a joint post doc position with us and Stanford University. He will be stationed at the Stanford PULSE Institute. Tom’s work focuses on studying stimulated x-ray emission and nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy. We are happy to have him as a part of our team!
As the semester comes to a close, we celebrate with another dinner together before everyone begins their travels for the summer! We missed Caleb and Rafaella, but are excited for them to join us in our next group activity.
Congratulations to Zain for being accepted to the SACLA Research Support Program for Graduate Students at the prestigious linear accelerator in Hyogo, Japan. Zain will be in Japan for three months this Fall. We are very proud of her!!!
Isabelle joined the group part way through the spring semester. She is a freshman in the physics department also pursuing a degree in Russian. Her project will be to characterize the optimal parameters for high harmonic generation.
Our last group dinner with Ryan! Thank you for all your hard work and contributions to the group. You will be missed, and congratulations on the completion of your post doc!
This semester, we welcome three new members to our group! Our new post doc, Rafaella Georgiou will use X-ray spectroscopy to probe the chemical speciation of paint materials that led to a revolution in the 15th century, namely the transition from tempera to oil painting in Italy that marked the beginning of the great period …
With numbered nice days left in the year, our group took a trip out to Devil’s Lake State Park to see the Fall colors! There was lots of hiking, swimming, food, and most importantly laughs. More adventures to come for the Bergmann group!
Muneeza joined the group at during the Fall semester of 2022. She is a junior majoring in physics and astronomy.