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Ginevra Cochran awarded Clifford Heer scholarship
The Physics Graduate Student Council hosted their annual poster competition in December of 2016. At the following Physics Department Spring Picnic, three winners were awarded with Clifford Heer…
Femtosolid lab wins IMR seed grant to study surfaces in atomic spatial and femtosecond time resolution
Prof. Chowdhury, in collaboration with Prof. Jay Gupta, won one of the three of this year’s Institute of Material Research (IMR) team building seed grant awards, to study…

Femto-solid Lab part of a $12.5 million AFOSR MURI program
Prof. Chowdhury’s Lab is part of AFOSR MURI (Multi-disciplinary Univeristy Research Initiative) program headed by Prof. Dimauro of OSU Physics. The Program focuses on probing intense…

Femto-solid laboratory performs laser damage testing of mirrors for ELI HAPLS project
Artist rendition of ELI beamline in Czec Republic, EU 350 million facility being constructed
Chowdhury Lab was contracted recently by LLNL to perform broad band laser damage…
OSU Junior Evan Lang wins Outstanding Scholar Award
Undergrad Evan Lang (Adviser: Enam Chowdhury) worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory for Directed Energy in Kirtland Air Force Base in Summer 2014 as an AFRL fellow (http://afrlscholars.usra.…

OSC Statewide Users Group Meeting
Students from the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research Group gave posters at the Ohio Supercomputer Center Statewide Users Group Meeting in December.
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NIF and JLF User Group Meeting 2015
Students from the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research Group gave posters at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF) User Group Meeting in February.
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Z Pinch Team Reports on Star-Like Plasmas in Nature
Photo by Randy Montoya (on behalf of US Government laboratory). Courtesy, Sandia National Laboratories.
"A higher-than-predicted measurement of iron opacity at solar interior temperatures"…

2nd High-Power Laser Workshop and LCLS USER Meeting at SLAC
Graduate students of the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group present posters at the 2nd High-Power Laser Workshop and LCLS USER Meeting at SLAC.
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