This week in our group meeting, we celebrated Muneeza and Minhal’s birthdays!
Happy birthday to you both!
News Archives
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 photographs, daguerreotypes!
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 fields.
We are all excited to have him as a part of the MRSEC/X-FAST team!
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 next to one of their projects.
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 superconducting undulators to be built at SLAC. The great work she did was published as an LCLS Technical Note, a publication in which cutting edge research is shared internally before being published on a larger scale. Congratulations Muneeza on your hard work! See her Technical Note here: https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcls/technotes/LCLS-TN-23-8.pdf
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
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, into a national user facility. Together, we are working towards the goal of advancing the field of information processing, and increasing the efficiency of high-speed data storage.
For more information, see the following links: