NEWS
  • 2019/10
  • Haritha Sindhu Rajeev joined our group as a PhD student.
  • 2018/08
  • Tianran won a NIST Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship for foreigners that is equivalent to the prestigious NRC postdoctoral fellowship for US citizens. He is moving to NIST late August in 2018.
  • 2018/04
  • Tianran Wins the 2018 Allen Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award.
  • 2018/03
  • Anjana Samarakoon is invited to APS March meeting 2018 and he will talk about "A further classification of glassy magnets: spin jam and spin glass".
  • 2017/11
  • Tianran's Work on Novel Solar Cell Materials was highlighted by DOE.
  • 2017/11
  • Anjana Samarakoon graduated and moving as a Postdoctoral fellow to the SNS at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • 2017/09
  • Anjana and Seung-Hun's Work on "Scaling of Memories and Crossover in Glassy Magnets" was published in Scientfic Reports
  • 2017/08
  • Tianran's Work on Novel Solar Cell Materials was highlighted in National Taiwan University Newsletter. translation
  • 2017/08
  • Tianran gave an invited talk about "Origin of long lifetime of band-edge charge carriers in organic-inorganic lead iodide perovskites" at Shull Wollan Center, Oak Ridge National Laborotary.
  • 2017/07
  • Tianran's Work on Novel Solar Cell Materials was published in PNAS.
  • 2017/05
  • Xiao Hu joined our group as a PhD Student.
  • 2017/05
  • Tianran received the Symposium ES1 Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting.
  • 2017/04
  • Tianran gave a poster presentation at the MRS 2017 Spring Meeting about origin of long lifetime of band-edge charge carriers in organic-inorganic lead iodide perovskites.
  • 2017/04
  • The second place at the 15th annual research poster competition at the Department of Physics, UVA to Tianran and Depei together.
  • 2017/03
  • Anjana gave a talk at APS March meeting about comprehensive study of the dynamics of a classical Kitaev Spin Liquid.
  • 2017/03
  • Tianran gave a talk at APS March meeting about entropy-driven structural transition and kinetic trapping in formamidinium lead iodide perovskite.
  • 2017/03
  • Depei gave a talk at APS March meeting about crystal structures of a photovoltaic two-dimensional perovskite.
  • 2017/01
  • Tianran gave an invited talk about "Entropy-driven structural transition and kinetic trapping in formamidinium lead iodide perovskite" at EMA meeting 2017.
  • 2016/10
  • Tianran's Work on a Novel Solar Cell Material was published in Science Advances and Highlighted in UVAToday.
  • 2016/10
  • Anjana, Tianran, Junjie's work on memory effects and energy landscapes of spin jam and spin glass was published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
  • 2016/03
  • Seung-Hun gave an invited talk about "Love triangles, quantum fluctuations and spin jam" at APS March meeting.
  • 2016/03
  • Anjana gave a talk at APS March meeting about Aging and Memory effects of the spin jam state.
  • 2016/03
  • Tianran gave a talk at APS March meeting about Rotational Dynamics of Organic Cations in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite.
  • 2015/10
  • Tianran's Work on a Novel Solar Cell Material was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
  • 2015/10
  • Anjana Samarakoon moved to ORNL as an intern under ORNL Chief Scientist, Alan Tennant.
  • 2015/12
  • A former group member, Naoyuki Katayama, is promoted to Associate Professor at the Nagoya University, Japan
  • 2015/09
  • Junjie, Anjana, Sachith, Kazuki's work on neutron scattering studies of a spin jam system was published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
  • 2015/09
  • Lee's group presented experimental evidence for the existence of a topological spin state called spin jam.
  • 2015/05
  • Depei Zhang joined our group as a PhD Student
  • 2015/02
  • Sachith Dissanayake graduated and moving as a Postdoctoral fellow to the HFIR at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 2014/08
  • Seung-Hun Lee elected Commonwealth Professor
  • 2014/05
  • Tianran Chen joined our group as a PhD Student
  • 2013/12
  • Seung-Hun Lee elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society more info
  • 2013/09
  • Jooseop Lee graduated and moved as a Postdoctoral fellow to the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 2013/06
  • Anjana Samarakoon joined our group as a PhD Student
  • 2013/03
  • Kazuki Iida moved to JParc as research staff
  • 2012/04
  • The first and fourth place at the 10th annual research poster competition at the Department of Physics, UVA to Jooseop Lee and Sachith Dissanayake respectively.
  • 2011/07
  • Naoyuki Katayama moved to Nagoya University as an Assistant Professor.
  • 2010/07
  • Sungdae Ji moved to the AIMR, Tohoku University as an Assistant Professor.
  • 2010/05
  • Sachith Dissanayake joined our group as a PhD student.
  • 2010/04
  • Kazuki Iida from Prof. Taku Sato's group at the University of Tokyo joined as a postdoctal fellow.
  • 2009/09
  • Naoyuki Katayama married Junko. Congratulations!!!
  • 2009/09
  • Jooseop made his first trip to HZB (The Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin) in Berlin.
  • 2009/05
  • Jooseop Lee, a 2nd year PhD student, joined our group. Welcome, Jooseop!
  • 2009/04
  • Junghwa Kim successfully defended her PhD thesis on April 20. Congratulations, Junghwa!!!
  • 2009/03
  • Junghwa Kim who is finishing her PhD this summer will become a postdoctoral fellow at Bernhard Keimer's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 2009/03
  • Naoyuki Katayama from Prof. Takagi's group at the University of Tokyo joined as a postdoctoral fellow in April, 2009.
  • 2009/01
  • Maiko Kofu is offered an Assistant Professorship at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) at the University of Tokyo. She will start her new job on April 1, 2009.
  • 2008/11
  • Sungdae Ji is awarded Young Researcher Science Award from the Korean Synchrotron Radiation User's Association
  • 2008/11
  • Maiko Kofu is invited to the American Physical Society March Meeting to present her recent work on the quantum spin gap system Ba3Cr2O8. The meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, PA on March 16-20, 2009.