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Research
People
The Team
Dr Ashkan Salamat
Dr Dean Smith
Paul Ellison
Christian Childs
Chris Higgins
Daniel Sneed
Jasmine Hinton
Zach Grande
John Kearney
Dylan Durkee
Alex Smith
Join the team
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Synchrotron Experiments
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Shining Light on Matter at Extremes 2018
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Featured
APS March Meeting has started!
APS March Meeting has started!
SSAA meeting in Baltimore
SSAA meeting in Baltimore

Jasmine, Dean and Ash went to the SSAA meeting, where they presented a poster. 

Gas loader is operational!
Gas loader is operational!

After months of planning, designing and building we are glad to see the HiPSEC gas loader running! 

We would like to thank Top Industrie for delivery us such a fine instrument! 

January 19 2018

Discovery Channel filming in the lab
Discovery Channel filming in the lab

A show discussing the workings of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. We filmed for the most of the day and carried out and discussed various experiments demonstrating the interaction of light and matter.

January 27 2018 

First day of the semester
First day of the semester

Here we go! 

January 16 2018

Paper Accepted
Paper Accepted

Congratulations to Dr Dean Smith and the whole team for this recently accepted paper!

Post-aragonite phases of CaCO3 at lower mantle pressures

Dean Smith, Keith V. Lawler, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Austin W. Daykin, Zachary Fussell, G. Alexander Smith, Christian Childs, Jesse S. Smith, Chris J. Pickard, and Ashkan Salamat

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 013605 (2018)

January 4 2018

Goodbye Peter! 
Goodbye Peter! 

Undergraduate student Peter Shields leaves us after two excellent years of research. We wish him all the best on the East coast! 

December 20 2017

2017 Graduation 
2017 Graduation 

Congratulations to the class of ’17

Dr Salamat proudly carried the flag for the School of Sciences

December 15 2017

Visiting Top Industries in Paris to check out gas loader
Visiting Top Industries in Paris to check out gas loader

Our design engineer Paul Ellison and Ashkan Salamat went to visit the factory where our new gas loader is being made. 

October 20 2017

Science Cafe - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Science Cafe - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Dr Salamat gives a talk at The Science Cafe. A series of monthly events designed to introduce the general public to research interests of the faculty here at UNLV. 

Excellent fun! We suggest you attend these when they come up! 

October 9 2017

Best poster prize - Well done Jasmine
Best poster prize - Well done Jasmine

Jasmine won the best poster prize at the 2017 AIRAPT conference, Beijing, China. Excellent work! 

August 23 2017

8 of us went to the AIRAPT conference, Beijing
8 of us went to the AIRAPT conference, Beijing

HiPSEC sent a large delegation of participants to the AIRAPT 2017 conference in Beijing, including eight students and five faculty members.

The conference included many stimulating sessions on high pressure and the most cutting edge research. John Kearney, a fourth year undergraduate, Dean Smith, a postdoctoral scientist, and Liping Wang, a research faculty member, gave full talks. Graduate students Vahe Mkrtchyan, Howard Yanxon, Christian Childs, and Jasmine Hinton presented posters.

August 20 2017

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