News and Announcements
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Beamline Scientist Position at NSLS II, XFM Beamline
HP science session at the 2024 AOGS
GSECARS scientists are organizing a HP science session at the 2024 AOGS Annual Meeting in Pyeongchang, South Korea (June 23-28) to reach out to the Asian HP community and provide updates regarding the latest HP scientific developments at GSECARS
Young Jay Ryu gave lectures on Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy
GSE beamline scientist Young Jay Ryu gave lectures on Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy to students at Hanyang University.
GSE beamline scientist Stella Chariton presented “Multigrain crystallography at extremes” as an invited speaker at the 80th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference
Force Seminar October 2023
The Slab in the Lab: Simulating deep-focus earthquakes through transformational faulting at high pressure and temperature in olivine analogues. Hosted by Tim Officer of GSECARS, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory.
2023 NXS School
GSECARS beamline scientist Stella Chariton presented, “High Pressure Measurement with X-rays” at the 2023 NXS School.
GSECARS welcomes Maksim Yakovlev
Maksim Yakovlev is our new Postdoctoral Scholar and will be working with Mark Rivers in the GSE Tomography Program.
Rising “snow” deep in the Earth
By recreating HP/HT 1800 mi below the Earth’s surface, scientists at GSECARS have discovered an intriguing phenomenon.
Intern Jeremy Zhao
Intern Jeremy Zhao worked on Transformational Faulting for Deep-focus Earthquakes with GSE staff Yanbin Wang and Tim Officer. Jeremy will attend U Chicago this fall.
GSECARS welcomes summer student
GSECARS summer student Brian Nicolellis, an upcoming senior at IL State majoring in computer science, will be working with the CARS IT Group under Charlie Smith and Chris Skordas.
APS Highlights:
New mineralogy of the deep Earth discovered
Published in Nature, researchers from ASU conducted a HP experiment at 13 IDD revealing a new mineral in the lower mantel.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05237-4
Solid-State Pathway Control via Reaction-Directing Heteroatoms: Ordered Pyridazine Nanothreads through Selective Cycloaddition
Samuel G. Dunning, Li Zhu, Bo Chen, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Maddury Somayazulu, Timothy A. Strobel, “Solid-State Pathway Control via Reaction-Directing Heteroatoms: Ordered Pyridazine Nanothreads through Selective Cycloaddition,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (5), 2073-2078 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12143
GSECARS Virtual Tour
GSE beamline scientist Tony Lanzirotti gave a virtual tour to Prof. Zach Dowdy and his science journalism class from Stony Brook University showing the students how synchrotron radiation is used in earth and planetary science research.
ESRP at 13 IDE, Mundelein HS
Students from Mundelein High School participated in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program conducting an experiment at 13 IDE, “Using X-Ray Fluorescence and Absorption Spectroscopy to Analyze The Relationship Between Particulate Matter And The Environment Through Factors Of Metal Type And Particle Size”.
ESRP at 13 IDE, UofC Lab School
Students from The University of Chicago Lab HS participated in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program conducting an experiment at 13 IDE, “Using particulates on honeybees and in their byproducts as a measure of local pollution”.