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CfHEDS student on TV news about UC Merced experiences

April 1, 2022
CfHEDS undergraduate student Zachary Mauri, a physics major at UC Merced headed to a PhD program at Stanford after graduation, was interviewed by ABC 30 News about his experiences at UC Merced with reference to a new NSF program here supporting STEM scholars.

CfHEDS attends the APS March Meeting 2022

March 14, 2022
Chicago, IL   Matter at Extreme Conditions: High Energy Density Physics, 16 March Md. Mehdi Masud, Bradford A. Barker, and David A. Strubbe, "Continuum Lowering in a Solid under Extreme Pressure and Temperature: Fermi Surface Rising and Re-entrant Semimetallicity," ...

Prof. Pribram-Jones wins Cottrell Scholar Award!

February 8, 2022
Prof. Aurora Pribram-Jones at UC Merced was selected as a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, for a project entitled "Reframing Interaction in Quantum Mechanical Ensembles and Across Chemistry Learning Communities." UC Merced news: https://news....

Prof. Pribram-Jones on "Science in Parallel" podcast

October 27, 2021
UC Merced Prof. Aurora Pribram-Jones was interviewed on the "Science in Parallel" podcast, about their time as a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow, journey in science, and current research and educational work as a faculty member. From the podcast episode notes: Aurora...

Five-year renewal for CfHEDS!

September 1, 2021
The National Nuclear Security Administration has officially awarded a renewal grant to CfHEDS for another five years, based on our progress so far and future plans.

UC Merced hosts HED workshop

May 3, 2021
UC Merced hosted a workshop on Frontiers of Mesoscale Materials and High Energy Density Science for the University of California system, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, with Prof. Strubbe on the organizing committee...

CfHEDS attends the APS March Meeting

March 15, 2021
Mojdeh Banafsheh speaks on "Non-additive kinetic potential functional Vnad from analytic inversion: all-electron and pseudopotential calculations" (link) Md. Mehdi Masud speaks on "Investigation of continuum lowering in solid silicon under extreme pressure" (link)

Seminar at UC Merced: Félicie Albert, LLNL

October 23, 2020

CfHEDS attends SACNAS

October 21, 2020
UC Merced professors David Strubbe and Aurora Pribram-Jones and PhD student Brittany Harding attended the SACNAS virtual conference this week, for mentoring students, judging posters, and representing UC Merced graduate programs, and Brittany to present a talk entitled "Adiabatic...

Virtual seminar: Franklin Dollar, UC Irvine

October 6, 2020
Science by Diverse Scientists: A Cal-Bridge Physics & Astronomy Seminar Series (https://www.cpp.edu/calbridge/resources/speaker_series.shtml) "Searching for the Brightest Light" Franklin Dollar Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine Recording, ...

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