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Events since COVID started

July 18-28th, 2023:  28th AIRAPT (International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology) and 60th EHPRG  (European High Pressure Research Group)  International Conference on High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT-2023) and the summer school, Edinburgh, UK [website] [EHPRG website] 

July 1st, 2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan (USask).

April, 2023: Judge for the 3 minute thesis competition, SBU.

March, 2023: Synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D, APS (Last one before the big and exciting upgrade APS-U)

January 27th, 2023: Geology Open Night talk, SBU--the impact of the impact: what does feldspar say? [SBU website link] 

Summary of  2022: fabulous!

December 5-11th, 2022: IUCr High pressure workshop, APS  ([website], I got invited for a talk! My photo won Art under Pressure Award!)

November 17th, 2022: Won First Place for Best Talk at SBU postdoc spotlight  [link]

October, 2022: Synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D& 13BM-C, APS 

September, 2022: European XFEL remote synchrotron beamtime.

September, 2022: Move to Stony Brook University (SBU) as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geosciences.

August 14-19, 2022: 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) in Glasgow, talk at session--IMPACTS I: Impact Glass and Shock deformation features [program link] 

August 11-12, 2022: COMPRES meeting oral presentation.

July, 2022: Move out of the school apartment I stayed since 2014; finally have an in-person convocation!

June, 2022: Synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D& 13BM-C, APS (melt, let's melt!)

March 7-11, 2022: 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), talk at  session: Celebrating Apollo 16 and 17 Missions [talk video link]. This 10mins talk covered shock features in Apollo 16 samples and their Raman spectra, also my anorthite phase diagram (There is a cat on Paul's screen!!!!). Also, I discussed the difference between Raman spectra of diaplectic glass and anorthite melt in the Q&A session, together with my opinion on the formation of planar deformation features [Q&A session video].

March, 2022: Synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D, APS

Summary of  2021: tried many things, failed many, but still trying.

November, 2021: Volunteer for GAC-MAC London 2021 Joint Annual Meeting, London, Canada

October, 2021: Synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D, APS (broke some diamonds...)

August 31-September 2, 2021: Workshop -- Advances in Synchrotron-Based Research Towards Understanding the Structure, Evolution, and Dynamics of Earth and Planetary Interiors (LOVE it!)

August, 2021: Camping and star gazing at Prince Albert and Bruce Peninsula National Park

June, July, 2021: Remote synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D & 13BM-D, APS

June 14-16, 2021: Canadian Lunar Workshop 2021, Lunar Science from Sample to Orbit, e-Poster session 1 [link]  & 2 [link]

February, 2021: Remote synchrotron beamtime at 13ID-D & 13BM-C, APS

Summary of  2020: many things changed, but I did get my PhD!

December 16th, 2020:  American Geophysical Union Fall meeting (AGU) session, MR021 - Novel Constraints on the Physics, Chemistry, and Transport Properties of Planetary Interiors II Posters  [session link] [abstract link] 

November 3rd, 2020: Defended my PhD thesis (without a sword)! [twitter link] 

August 14th, 2020: COMPRES meeting oral presentation.

February, June, August, October, 2020: In-person/ Remote synchrotron experiment at 13ID-D & 13BM-C, APS [news link]