Minhal Gardezi and Sophie Vogelsang pass their preliminary exams!
Congratulations to Minhal and Sophie for passing their preliminary exams! They have been awarded their MS, as well as achieved dissertator status!
January 2, 2025Mikaela applies to graduate school!
Congratulations to Mikaela for submitting her graduate school applications! We wish you all the best in the next chapter!
December 12, 2024Farewell to Mace
Mace spent the Summer and Fall semesters working with post doc, Varun, on the XFAST instrument. Thank you so much for your contributions and good luck with the next steps, Mace!
December 12, 2024Zain Abhari passes her preliminary exam!
Congratulations to Zain for passing her preliminary exam! She has been awarded her MS, as well as achieved dissertator status!
September 25, 2024Another group retreat in the books!
This year the Bergmann Group went to UW Trout Lake Station for the group retreat. Each day was filled with scientific talks with some fun outdoor exploration sprinkled in between!
September 18, 2024UXSS 2024: Congratulations Sophie!
Sophie attended the Ultrafast X-ray Summer School at SLAC. Her group won first prize in the mock proposal poster competition. Congrats! Additionally, Sophie was interviewed about the summer school in the following article: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-06-28-training-next-generation-ultrafast-x-ray-scientists
July 15, 2024Beam Time Dinner Break
BBQ dinner break during the XRF imaging beam time on early prints at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource with Susan Bates Schlotterbeck (right) from the Marriott Library, Utah.
June 12, 2024Welcome new summer graduate student, Mace Bishop!
Mace is a first-year physics graduate student, and they graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022 with a degree in physics. Here in Bergmann group, they will be working on the X-FAST project. …
May 9, 2024Undergraduate Research Symposium: Muneeza Munawar presents on her contributions the the LCLSII upgrade
Muneeza gives her final presentation as an undergraduate at UW – Madison before she heads off to the University of Chicago for graduate school. Congratulations Muneeza!
April 25, 2024Sophie Vogelsang passes the Thesis Background Exam!
Congratulations to Sophie for passing her thesis background exam! She now has been awarded her MS in Chemistry!
April 25, 2024Final Group Outing of Spring 2024
As the semester comes to a close, we take one more group outing before everyone goes off for the summer! Thank you all again for another wonderful academic year!
April 20, 2024SACLA’s User Meeting 2024: Zain Abhari gives invited talk
Zain Abhari was invited to give a talk at the SACLA’s 2024 User Meeting in March. Her talk was a part of the Introduction to High Intensity X-ray Science session. Congratulations, Zain!
March 15, 2024Happy Birthday Minhal and Muneeza!
This week in our group meeting, we celebrated Muneeza and Minhal’s birthdays! Happy birthday to you both!
March 2, 2024Dinner with Lars Pettersson from Stockholm University
Our collaborator, Lars Pettersson, visited us all the way from Stockholm University for a week. We bid him farewell with dinner! Thank you for visiting, Lars!
February 22, 2024Hosting the Colloquium Speaker
This week, Professor Bergmann hosted the colloquium speaker, TK Sham. TK visited us all the way from Western University in Ontario to share how we can use synchrotrons to study some of the first kinds …
February 19, 2024Welcome our new undergraduate student, Mikaela Brown!
Mikaela joined the group in Spring 2024. She is majoring in Physics and Astrophysics, and is excited to learn more about optics!
February 19, 2024A big welcome to our new postdoc, Varun Mapara!
Varun Mapara is a joint postdoc with the Bergmann, Kawasaki, and Xiao labs at UW-Madison as part of our MRSEC collaboration. Varun specializes in ultrafast spectroscopy and the characterization of novel materials in high magnetic …
November 12, 2023Internship Update
Zain Abhari is having lots of fun at SACLA in Japan, while working on projects related to nonlinear x-ray optics! Pictured below is Zain Abhari and her team: Gota Yamaguchi, Ichiro Inoue, and Yuichi Inubushi …
November 12, 2023LCLS Technical Note published by undergraduate student, Muneeza Munawar!
During her Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI), Muneeza worked with Zachary Wolf, a lead scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. In her work, she helped with the preparations for the magnetic measurements of the new …
October 20, 2023Welcome new research fellow Erzsi Szilagyi!
She has just been awarded the M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship from the American Physical Society. She will be a research fellow in the Bergmann Group and stationed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working with Junko Yano.
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