Backscatter (0.01 %) reflection of our 808 nm diode laser.
News
In brief.
Very brief.
And incomplete.
August 2021
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Daniel Paul who joins the group to study dissociative recombination for astrochemistry.December 2020
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Garima Joshi who joins the group solar-physics-motivated plasma physics studies.October 2020
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Stefan Hofmeister who joins the group solar physics studies.June 2020
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Ábel Kálosi who joins the group to study electron-driven reactions for astrochemistry.March 2020
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Daniel Schury who joins the group for gas-phase laboratory studies of chemical reactions.February 2020
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Caixia Bu who joins the group for laboratory studies related to the planet Mercury.January 2020
In the past year the Savin Group has bid farewell to Dr. Thusitha Arthanayaka, Dr. Pierre-Michel Hillenbrand, Dr. Sayak Bose, Dr. Ruitian Zhang, and Dr. Kyle Bowen. Dr. Arthanayaka is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado State University Pueblo. Dr. Hillenbrand is now a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung. Dr. Bose is now an Associate Research Physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Dr. Zhang is now a Staff Scientist at the Institute for Modern Physics in Lanzhou, China. And finally, Dr. Bowen is now and Environmental Engineer for the U.S. Navy in San Diego, CA.May 2017
The Savin Group congratulates group members Shreyas Vissapragada and Christopher Ciccarino who are off to CalTech and Harvard, respectively, for grad school.17th April 2017
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Sayak Bose frop IPR who joins the group to conduct plasma physics research.4th January 2017
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Kyle Bowen from UNLV who joins the group to conduct astrochemical research.4th January 2017
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Thusitha Arthanayaka from the Missouri University of Science & Technology who joins the group to conduct atomic physics experiments for solar physics.3rd October 2016
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Pierre-Michel Hillenbrand from GSI who joins the group to conduct astrochemical research.31st March 2016
Group member Shreyas Vissapragada is awarded a 2016 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.6th January 2014
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Chloé Guennou from the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale who joins the group to conduct solar research.4th September 2012
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Nathalie deRuette to the group to join the Cosmic Origins of Organic chemistry project from UCL Louvain.23rd July 2012
The Savin Group welcomes Dr. Brendan O'Dwyer to the group to conduct solar research having completed a Ph.D at Cambridge University, UK in the Atomic Astrophysics Group.3rd July 2012
Dr. Savin and Dr.Hahn's work on Alvénic waves has garnered some interest within "popular" media, specifically Sky and Telescope magazine. A link to the
article can be found here. More information on this work can be found
in the research page or in the article Evidence of Wave Damping at Low Heights in a Polar Coronal Hole
in the publications section.
2nd July 2012
Bruce Zeller New New Rochelle High School is re-joining us in Nevis for yet another summer as part of the high school teachers aiding research program. This summer Bruce will be joining Ken to work in the laboratory on the D1 apparatus. Pictured left is Bruce in the New Rochelle High School planetarium.
The Savin group would also like to welcome Nikhil Kunapuli who is joining us for a number of weeks this summer to conduct some feasability research for a potential project at Columbia.
2nd July 2012
The Savin group would like to welcome Nikhil Kunapuli who is joining us for a number of weeks this summer to conduct some feasability research for a potential project at Columbia.10-14th June 2012
The 220th American Astronomical Society meeting is underway in Anchorage, Alaska. In the welcoming reception, the AAS welcomed a new division: Laboratory Astrophysics Division.
Although they were not alone in welcoming Astrophysicists, as the Dark Horse Coffee company attempted to entice Astrophysicists into their domain with this rather humorous chalkboard.
21th May 2012
Group member Dr. Michael Hahn has been selected as a postdoctoral winner of the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2012 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Competition for his research into the solar wind described here.About NYAS Blavatnik awards:
"The New York Academy of Sciences' Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition has named nine winners and two finalists in its 2012 competition. These eleven exceptional scientists hail from research institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Blavatnik Awards celebrate highly innovative, impactful, and interdisciplinary accomplishments of researchers under the age of 42 in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Faculty winners receive $25,000 and postdoctoral winners receive $15,000; faculty finalists receive $10,000 and postdoctoral finalists receive $5,000. All prizes are awarded as unrestricted funds and are made possible by the generosity of the Blavatnik Family Foundation." - Excerpt from New York Academy of Sciences