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Local Research in the News

JRM researchers and their collaborators have published unexpected results in Nature. Press releases from K-State, DESY and SLAC all describe how "physicists create a 'molecular black hole' using ultra-intense X-ray pulses". Further popularizations can be found in Scientific American and Newsweek.
Photonics Online has named our invention of hollow-core fiber gas lasers as one of their "Top 10" news stories of 2016. See also the original story reports below.
For the second time in a month, the CD Lin theory group has published a paper in the prestigious journal Science. The latest paper, "Observing the ultrafast buildup of a Fano resonance in the time domain", is a collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and Vienna University of Technology. A second collaboration also reports the effect in a companion paper. More details and popular explanations can be found in the K-State and Vienna press releases.
JRM grad student Adam Summers and the HITS lasers are the subject of a Wildcat Watch video Electrons Shaken, Not Stirred created by Physics and Journalism undergraduate Tony Williams. Wildcat Watch is an SGA funded project produced by the Division of Communications and Marketing at K-State. The project is oriented toward informing students about upcoming events and opportunities on campus and in the community of Manhattan.
Our CD Lin and AT Le, in collaboration with the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), have published new findings on molecular imaging in Science. The paper is titled "Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging of bond breaking in di-ionized acetylene", and is further explained in a Science Perspective article, a K-State press release and an ICFO press release.
JRM graduate student Bethany Jochim was featured in a K-State Today profile. The piece focused on her research into using intense lasers to fragment molecules, which could possibly lead to control of the outcomes of chemical processes one day.
See older press releases concerning ultrafast physics at JRM.

Hot Topics

Kristan Corwin, recently appointed the Ernest K. and Lillian E. Chapin chair and professor of physics, has been named interim associate dean for research of the College of Arts and Sciences by Dean Amit Chakrabarti. "I am delighted to serve the college as interim associate dean for research," Corwin said. "I look forward to engaging with and supporting RSCAD across our college. I am grateful for the strong foundation laid by Beth Montelone, former associate dean for research, and excited to build on it." In addition ot her many new challenges, Kristan will be maintaining her research projects here in the JRM Lab. Read the K-State press release with a complete description of the associate dean's duties.
More than 70 undergraduate students from universities and colleges across the United States will spend their summer in a lab or in the field conducting research and earning a graduate student-like experience through eight summer undergraduate research programs offered by the university. This includes the Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU).
We are hosting the 2017 KS-NE Symposium on "Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules, and Nanostructures" on Friday, 31 March 2017. Read our symposium web page, our press release, or see the full schedule (in Acrobat/pdf format).
Our Department of Energy grant was renewed! We get to keep working for another three years. Read the full story in the K-State press release.
Utuq Ablikim, graduate research assistant in the James R. Macdonald Laboratory in the physics department, has been awarded an Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Read the K-State press release for more. (Utuq successfully defended his PhD thesis in June).
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