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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, ...

Electronic Structure Workshop at UC Merced

June 3, 2020
Prof. Strubbe and Pribram-Jones host the virtual Electronic Structure Workshop from UC Merced, 3-5 June 2020. CfHEDS grad student Md. Mehdi Masud presented a poster and other students participated. LLNL scientists organized a code tutorial.

Summer research with LLNL

June 1, 2020
CfHEDS undergraduate students are working with Dr. Dave Rakestraw of LLNL on his phone physics project this summer, developing activities for introductory physics using smartphone sensors. UC Merced: David Lucas, Jonathan Loera, Kyle Magro, and Fnu Azma. FAMU: Jabari Allen. Morehouse: John Ali.

CfHEDS at the APS March Meeting

March 2, 2020
CfHEDS scientists were scheduled to attend the American Physical Society and present several talks about our research in high-energy density science. Unfortunately the conference was canceled due to COVID-19. Daniel Gebremedhin, Charles A. Weatherford, and Brian Wilson, "...

Seminar at UC Merced: Dr. Attila Cangi, Sandia National Lab

February 7, 2020
Dr. Attila Cangi of Sandia National Laboratory will give a chemistry seminar at UC Merced on Jan 31 entitled "First-principles simulations of warm dense matter."

Prof. Pribram-Jones interviewed on the "I'm a scientist and..." podcast

November 10, 2019
Professor Aurora Pribram-Jones from the University of California, Merced was interviewed on the "I'm a scientist and..." podcast. Aurora chronicles their non-traditional path to academia and shares their approach to building safe spaces in the classroom. The interview also discussed...

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