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  • Zain 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!

  • Another 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!

  • UXSS 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 

  • Beam 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.

  • Welcome 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. …

  • Undergraduate 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!

  • Sophie Vogelsang passes the Thesis Background Exam!

    Congratulations to Sophie for passing her thesis background exam! She now has been awarded her MS in Chemistry!

  • Final 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!

  • SACLA’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!

  • Happy Birthday Minhal and Muneeza!

    This week in our group meeting, we celebrated Muneeza and Minhal’s birthdays! Happy birthday to you both!

  • Dinner 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!

  • Hosting 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 …

  • Welcome 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!

  • A 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 …

  • Internship 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 …

  • LCLS 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 …

  • Welcome 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.

  • Minhal Gardezi featured on PBS

    Minhal’s Talk “Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?” can now be viewed on PBS. Congratulations!  

  • Major NSF-sponsored materials research center funded for $18 million

    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, …

  • Welcoming our new post doc, Tom Linker!

    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 …

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