Peng Tian Graduates!

Congratulations to Peng on an excellent PhD!  After graduation Peng will go and use his statistics and programming skills working as a programmer and problem solver at a hedge fund in New York City.  Good luck with your career and life Peng!

Timur Davis Graduates

Congratulations Timur for successfully completing your Ph.D!  Timur has taken a job in a management consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group based in New York City (despite the name!).  You may remember Timur with his old name, Timur Dykhne.  Best of luck for the future and your new career Timur!

Prof. Billinge wins the JD Hanawalt award

Professor Billinge has won the 2010 J.D. Hanawalt Award for his contribution to the field of powder diffraction. The award is named for J. Donald Hanawalt, whose pioneering work in the 1930’s led to the development of the PDF database structure and search/match procedures still in use today. The International Center for Diffraction Data gives the award… Read More Prof. Billinge wins the JD Hanawalt award

Group research published in the journal Science

Congratulations to Emil and the group for getting this study into Science: Entropically Stabilized local dipole formation in lead chalcogenides, Science 330, 1660 (2010). http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1660.abstract?sid=3f66768e-9ea8-4854-92cf-25d35e96761d Here are some links to news coverage of the story: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1206 http://www.apam.columbia.edu/announcements/Billinge_2011.html http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245617027.html?key=01-42160D517E1A106C150B051F04694B2E224E324D3417295C30420B61651B617F137019731B7B1D6B39 http://www.ecoseed.org/en/technology-article-list/article/2-technology/8675-scientists-find-structural-distortions-in-thermoelectric-materials