We had some new folks join the lab this summer -- everyone else has graduated or is doing REUs/internships!
Highlights from this summer included the UMass Soft Matter Summer School, the Northeast Granular Materials Workshop, lunch outing with MHC alum Dr. Erica Jawin (working on OSIRIS-REX), and outings to ice cream and Priya!
L to R: Ama, Latika, Giselle, Lori, Kerstin
Full group this summer! More pictures to come.
L to R: Sulagna, Jiayi, Elliot, Sasha, Shanen, Kerstin
After over a year of being (mostly) remote, many research students got REUs this summer. We had a smaller summer group of Lucy and Charlotte who are both fairly new! The department decided to take the research students for ice cream at McCray's Farm in South Hadley. This was a VERY hot day, so we are definitely not touching, despite being fully vaxxed!
L to R: Lucy, Charlotte, Kerstin
Keelin defending her thesis over Zoom in May 2020!
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A group photo from March 2020, on the Friday before we were all kicked off of campus. We held a farewell lunch for the seniors. No, we were not physical distancing, but we had fairly confident authority that the virus was not yet on campus.
L to R: Linda, Annissa, Nina, Nikita, Keelin, Kerstin
Emma Thackray '18 after successfully defending her thesis "Linking flow intermittencies to material structure in a quasi-two-dimensional granular silo" with committee members Spencer Smith (Physics) and Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel (Math). Emma was the first lab member!
Tamia Williams '18 after successfully defending her thesis "The Intersection of Identity and Performing Arts for Black Physicists" with committee members Anat Burger (Physics) and Noah Finkelstein (Physics, CU Boulder)
Grace Cai '18 after successfully defending her thesis "Molecular dynamics simulation of granular flows" with committee member Anat Burger and other members of the MHC physics department. Not pictured: committee member Sarah Adelman (Economics)
Group Photo Summer 2017: Grace, Anna Belle, Kerstin, Ariel, Kiera
Summer 2017: Grace, Kiera, Ariel, Anna Belle, Kerstin
Group Photo Summer 2016: Emma, Lilliana, Isabelle, Kerstin
Group Photo Summer 2015: Kerstin, Julia, Emma, Lilliana
Emma at the SPS Poster Session
Emma presenting at the APS March Meeting