CDAC Academic Partnerships - Carnegie/DOE Alliance Center

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To receive regular email updates on CDAC activities, please contact: Steve Gramsch

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CDAC high school intern Maneeshika Madduri was a semifinalist in the 2008 Siemens Competition for Math, Science, and Technology with her project on hydrogen complexation studies in crown ethers. Congratulations! ______________ Steven Jacobsen, CDAC Academic Partner from Northwestern (and former Barbara McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory) has been awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Jacobsen is among 20 scientists selected nationally this year to receive this grant. The funding will support development of Jacobsen’s nano-pulsed GHz-ultrasonic method to study atomic-scale, physical properties of superhard materials targeted for future technological applications ______________ 2008 Carnegie Summer Scholar Symposium The Carnegie Institution held its annual Summer Scholars Research Symposium on Wednesday, August 6th. The ten students participating in the program this year presented the results of their work for the entire Broad Branch Road campus community. The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including mineral physics, organic geochemistry, astrobiology, petrology, seismology and astronomy. More... ______________ Hemley Elected Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russell Hemley has been elected Honoris Causa Professor for Energetics, Mechanics, Machinery, and Control Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The academy is the leading scientific body in Russia. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world. The degree is awarded to the most eminent foreign scientists. ______________ CDAC Student Research Support CDAC supports graduate student research and training in the area of high pressure materials science, broadly defined. We accept proposals on a continuing basis from faculty interested in joining the CDAC team as academic partners. Student support consists of salary, tuition/fees and some travel to CDAC facilities for experiments. Please send a one-page statement of research interests and plans to Steve Gramsch, CDAC Coordinator. _________________ High School Summer Research Fellowship A summer research fellowship for a high school student is available at the Geophysical Laboratory. For more information, please follow this link. More People Highlights

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CDAC high school intern Maneeshika Madduri was a semifinalist in the 2008 Siemens Competition for Math, Science, and Technology with her project on hydrogen complexation studies in crown ethers. Congratulations! ______________

Steven Jacobsen, CDAC Academic Partner from Northwestern (and former Barbara McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory) has been awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Jacobsen is among 20 scientists selected nationally this year to receive this grant. The funding will support development of Jacobsen’s nano-pulsed GHz-ultrasonic method to study atomic-scale, physical properties of superhard materials targeted for future technological applications ______________
2008 Carnegie Summer Scholar Symposium

The Carnegie Institution held its annual Summer Scholars Research Symposium on Wednesday, August 6th. The ten students participating in the program this year presented the results of their work for the entire Broad Branch Road campus community. The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including mineral physics, organic geochemistry, astrobiology, petrology, seismology and astronomy.
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Hemley Elected Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russell Hemley has been elected Honoris Causa Professor for Energetics, Mechanics, Machinery, and Control Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The academy is the leading scientific body in Russia. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world. The degree is awarded to the most eminent foreign scientists.
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CDAC Student Research Support

CDAC supports graduate student research and training in the area of high pressure materials science, broadly defined. We accept proposals on a continuing basis from faculty interested in joining the CDAC team as academic partners. Student support consists of salary, tuition/fees and some travel to CDAC facilities for experiments. Please send a one-page statement of research interests and plans to Steve Gramsch, CDAC Coordinator.
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High School Summer Research Fellowship

A summer research fellowship for a high school student is available at the Geophysical Laboratory. For more information, please follow this link.

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Meetings & Symposia
Workshop on Advances in High-Pressure Science using Synchrotron X-rays NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY October 4, 2008 4th Asian Conference on High Pressure Research 4th AHP Seoul, Korea October 14-17, 2008 More Meetings & Symposia

CDAC Academic Partnerships

CDAC-the Carnegie-DOE Alliance Center, a Center of Excellence for High Pressure Science and Technology supported by the Stewardship Sciences Academic Alliances Program of the National Nuclear Security Administration, invites applications for graduate student support for the upcoming program year.

Our mission, described in detail elsewhere on our web site, is focused on high pressure materials science, broadly defined, and our primary function is to support graduate student research and training in this area. CDAC Academic partners receive funding for graduate student research, which can include stipend, tuition, fees, fringe benefits and a modest supplement for supplies for each program year. In addition, student travel to experimental facilities is also covered by CDAC. For CDAC students, regular access to beam time at the HPCAT sector of the APS is ensured.

To be considered, we require the following by January 21, 2008:

1. A short (2-3 pages) research statement, describing graduate student research projects in the area of high pressure materials science.

2. A budget, outlining the costs for stipend, tuition, fees, fringe benefits and associated indirect costs for each student to be supported. The allowance for materials and supplies in the amount of $2000 per student should also be included. A formal budget from your grants administration is not required at this time.

3. It is not necessary that graduate students to be supported be identified at this time. If it possible to identify students for support, however, then a resume or CV for each one should be provided.

In exceptional cases, support for postdoctoral associates will be considered. Such individuals must have received the PhD degree within the last two years of the time of the application, and such individuals must be identified and the case for a postdoctoral associate justified in the proposal. A CV for a prospective postdoctoral associate should be provided with the application. All proposals will be reviewed by the CDAC steering committee. Please contact Russell J. Hemley or Steve Gramsch for additional details.


Lashley, J. C., S. M. Shapiro, B. L. Winn, C. P. Opeil, M. E. Manley, A. Atlas, W. Ratcliff, T. Park, R. A. Fisher, B. Mihaila, P. Riseborough, E. K. H. Salje, and J. L. Smith, Observation of a continuous phase transition in a shape-memory alloy, Phys. Rev. Lett, 135703 (2008). Hazen, R. M., D. Papineau, W. Bleeker, R. T. Downs, J. M. Ferry, T. J. McCoy, D. A. Sverjensky, and H. Yang, Mineral evloution, Am. Mineral., 93, 1693-1720 (2008).

Lashley, J. C., S. M. Shapiro, B. L. Winn, C. P. Opeil, M. E. Manley, A. Atlas, W. Ratcliff, T. Park, R. A. Fisher, B. Mihaila, P. Riseborough, E. K. H. Salje, and J. L. Smith, Observation of a continuous phase transition in a shape-memory alloy, Phys. Rev. Lett, 135703 (2008).
Hazen, R. M., D. Papineau, W. Bleeker, R. T. Downs, J. M. Ferry, T. J. McCoy, D. A. Sverjensky, and H. Yang, Mineral evloution, Am. Mineral., 93, 1693-1720 (2008).

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Welcome
CDAC is an interdisciplinary center headquartered at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Our goals are to advance and perfect an extensive set of high P-T techniques and unique facilities, to perform key studies on a broad range of important materials in newly-accessible P-T regimes, and to integrate and coordinate static, dynamic and theoretical results for Stewardship Science applications.

Welcome

CDAC is an interdisciplinary center headquartered at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Our goals are to advance and perfect an extensive set of high P-T techniques and unique facilities, to perform key studies on a broad range of important materials in newly-accessible P-T regimes, and to integrate and coordinate static, dynamic and theoretical results for Stewardship Science applications.