August 2020 archive

James, Michael, and Kelly’s work presented at SPIE

A big shout out to James, Michael, and Kelly, whose work was presented at SPIE this week. Their most recent results on using SSTA to monitor the surface quality of perovskite nanocrystals during growth are really exciting and a lot of fun to talk about. Great job, guys!
Many thanks to Dan Congreve, Christian Nielsen, and Andrew Musser for the invite and for organizing a terrific conference.

Kelly and Morgan’s work is presented at ACS

A big thanks to Kelly and Morgan who executed all of the work on SSTA and simulating molecular aggregation that we presented at the virtual ACS meeting this week. Another big thanks to Profs. Shane Ardo and Naomi Ginsberg for the kind invitation and for putting together a great symposium under difficult circumstance.

Elijah gives his REU final presentation

Congrats to Elijah who gave a terrific final presentation today to finish his REU project. It turns out Elijah really likes quantum mechanics and programming, so he learned how to simulate absorption spectra by constructing a site-based Hamiltonian. Incredibly impressive progress in only six weeks, and great slides, too! Thanks to Prof. Geri Richmond, Priscilla Lewis, and the other folks in MSI who helped keep the REU program running this summer. It was a pleasure to work with you, Elijah, and good luck with your senior year!

Goodbye Madi!

We had our socially distanced goodbye picnic for Madi today. We are all so sad to see you go, but super excited that you’ll be having new adventures at MIT! Looking forward to seeing the amazing stuff you’ll accomplish in graduate school. Hope you get some Cool Data. We’ll miss you!