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Jasmine, Dean and Ash went to the SSAA meeting, where they presented a poster.
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
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
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
Congratulations to the class of ’17
Dr Salamat proudly carried the flag for the School of Sciences
December 15 2017
Our design engineer Paul Ellison and Ashkan Salamat went to visit the factory where our new gas loader is being made.
October 20 2017
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
Jasmine won the best poster prize at the 2017 AIRAPT conference, Beijing, China. Excellent work!
August 23 2017
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