First-year graduate students are welcome! If you are interested in receiving reminders and short notices such as room changes, please ask Jet Lem (jetlem [AT] mit.edu) for nelson-prospective-2020 email list.
Upcoming group meetings
May 6 at 3:30 pm, Update Group Meeting
Past group meetings
2021
Jan 7, Update Group Meeting
Jan 14 at 2:15 pm, Update Group Meeting
Jan 28, Update Group Meeting
Feb 4 at 3 pm, Annual EHS Refresher
Feb 16 at 9:30 am, Tristan Shi, All-optical Control of Fluorescence Intermittency in Single Quantum Dots with Ultrafast Mid-Infrared and Terahertz Pulses
Feb 25, Update Group Meeting
Mar 4, Jack Liu, Past Life Talk
Mar 25, Update Group Meeting
Apr 1, Update Group Meeting
Apr 8 at 4 pm, Update Group Meeting
Apr 15, Update Group Meeting
Apr 23 (Fri) at 2 pm, Update Group Meeting
Apr 19 at 1 pm, Tristan Shi, Thesis Defense: Strong-field Phenomenon in Low-dimensional Materials at Terahertz Frequencies
May 4 (Tues) at 10 am, Yuchen Sun, Thesis Defense: High-Velocity Microparticle Impact for Analytical Modelling of High-Strain-Rate Mechanics and Material Behavior
May 5 (Wed) at 2 pm, Frank Gao, Thesis Defense: Photoinduced Dynamics Studied via Single-Shot Optical and Terahertz Spectroscopy
2020
Feb 6, Zhuquan Zhang, Past life talk
Feb 13, Jude Deschamps, Annual EHS Refresher
Mar 26, Yuchen Sun (LIPIT subgroup meeting), Jetting-associated energy dissipation in high-velocity metal microparticle impact
Apr 2, Yun Kai, Past life talk
Apr 9, Dmitro Martynowych (Shock/Acoustics subgroup meeting), Cells and GUVs
Apr 23, Jet Lem, Practice Oral Exam
Apr 30, Zhuquan Zhang, 2D EV/VE Study Session
May 7 at 3 pm, Ryan Duncan, Thesis Defense
May 28, Zhuquan Zhang, Simulation of 2D THz spectroscopy
June 9 (Tues) at 2:30 pm, Jude Deschamps and Madeleine Laitz, Microcavity Study Session
June 18 at 4 pm, Jude Deschamps and Madeleine Laitz, Microcavity Study Session Followup
June 25 at 4 pm, Blake Dastrup and Eric Sung, Photonic Crystal and Metallic Cavity Study Session
July 2 at 4 pm, Alexei Maznev, Topological Acoustics Study Session
July 23 at 2 pm, Alexei Maznev and Jude Deschamps, Topological Acoustics Study Session
Aug 12 at 3 pm, Research Efforts during Phase 2
Aug 21 at 4 pm, Research Efforts during Phase 2, cont.
Aug 27, Yun Kai and Jude Deschamps, Zebra project data analysis LIVE!
Sept 3, Dr. Alexey Lomonosov, Nonlinear SAWs: effects of anisotropy and dispersion
Sept 10, Update Group Meeting
Sept 17, Update Group Meeting
Sept 25 at 3 pm, Zhuquan Zhang, THz-Field-Induced Phononic Difference-Frequency Generation in SrTiO3
Oct 1 at 3 pm, Update Group Meeting
Oct 8, Update Group Meeting
Oct 15 at 4 pm, Update Group Meeting
Oct 23 (Fri) at 2 pm, Update Group Meeting
Oct 29, Update Group Meeting
Nov 5, Update Group Meeting
Nov 12, Update Group Meeting
Nov 19, Update Group Meeting
Dec 3, Dmitro Martynowych, Practice Thesis Defense
Dec 8 (Tues) at 10 am, Dmitro Martynowych, Thesis Defense
Dec 17, Update Group Meeting
2019
Jan 11, Joint group meeting with the Comin group
Jan 17, Dr. Ievgeniia Chaban, Investigation of GHz mechanical behavior of confined liquids with molecular resolution
Jan 17, Jet Lem, Past life talk
Jan 24, Dmitro Martynowych, EHS annual refresher
Feb 28, Ryan Duncan and Frank Gao, Practice talks for APS March Meeting
Mar 6, Prof. Kung-Hsuan Lin
Mar 7, Takakazu Suzuki and Tristan Shi
Mar 8, Dr. Alex Maznev and Prof. Dana Dlott
Mar 21, Dr. David Veysset, Real-time imaging of laser-induced high-velocity microparticle impacts
Mar 28, Joseph Yoon, Enhanced thermalization of exciton-polaritons in optically generated potentials
Apr 4, Tristan Shi, THz spectroscopy
Apr 24, Dr. Lorenzo Taddei, Development of a meshless solver dedicated to high-speed dynamics
May 3, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Thesis defense: Photoinduced Dynamics Studied by Ultrafast Single-Shot Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
May 7, Jude Deschamps, Practice oral exam presentation
May 8, Xian Li, Thesis defense: Terahertz-Field-Induced Nonlinearity in Phonons, Electrons and Spins
May 13 (Mon) at 12 pm in 6-321, Doug Shin, Thesis defense: Expanding Ultrafast Photoacoustics for Investigation of Mechanical Properties and Thermal Transport
May 14 (Tue) at 12 pm in 6-321, Joseph Yoon, Thesis defense: Effects of Interactions on Correlation, Thermalization, and Transport of Exciton-Polaritons
May 15 (Wed) at 2 pm in 6-206, Yaqing Zhang, Thesis defense: Two-dimensional Terahertz Rotational Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase
Jun 20, Dr. Marianna Sledzinska, Thermal Transport in Silicon Nanomembranes, Phononic Crystals, and 2D Materials
Jul 22 (Mon) at 2 pm in 6-321, Yuchen Sun, Practice Oral Exam
Aug 14 (Wed) at 2 pm in 6-321, Eric Sung, Practice Oral Exam
Aug 28 (Wed) at 3:30 pm in 6-233, Charles Shi and Jonas Rajagopal, Overview of summer work
Sept. 25 (Wed) at 2 pm in 6-321, Matt Banet
Sept 26, David Veysset, Real-time imaging of laser-induced high-velocity microparticle impacts
Sept 26, Yuchen Sun, High Speed Impact of Metallic Microparticles
Oct 3, Frank Gao, Single-shot Spectroscopy in Glassy Triiodide Solutions
Oct 10, Eric Sung, THz Field Enhancement in Waveguide Bounce Crystals
Oct 10, Tristan Shi, Room Temperature NIR-to-THz detector based on QD upconversion
Oct 24, Jet Lem, The Nelson Group Zoo and Aquarium (*Disclaimer: We have one Zebra and Imitation Mussels Only)
Oct 24, Dmitro Martynowych, Material In Extreme Conditions: generating and probing transient high pressure-temperature states
Oct 31, Ryan Duncan, Acoustic phenomena and non-diffusive thermal transport dynamics investigated with optical and extreme ultraviolet transient gratings
Nov 7, Jude Deschamps, Exciton Transport and Polariton Formation in Low-Dimensional Systems
Nov 21, Alex Maznev, Thermal and Magnetic Transient Gratings Excited and Probed with Extreme Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulses
2018
Jan 18, Jude Deschamps, Past life talk
Jan 29, Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper, Imaging Shock Waves to Study Initiation in Molecular Explosives
Jan 31, Eric Sung, Past life talk
Feb 8, Yuchen Sun, Past life talk
Mar 1, Yaqing Zhang, 2D THz spectroscopy
May 10, Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper, Thesis defense
Jul 12, Joseph Yoon, Transport and redistribution of exciton-polaritons in optically generated potentials
Sep 6, Jude Deschamps, Bose-Einstein condensation of (insert favorite quasi-particle)
Sep 13, Tristan Shi, THz single shot
Sep 20, Yuchen Sun, Laser-Induced Particle Impact Test (LIPIT)
Sep 27, Ryan Duncan, Nondiffusive/hydrodynamic thermal transport; progress in investigating thermal transport and acoustic dynamics with FEL sources
Oct 4, Dmitro Martynowych, Shock and high pressure chemistry/physics
Oct 11, Yaqing Zhang, 2D THz rotational spectroscopy in water molecules
Oct 18, Takakazu Suzuki, Single-shot ultrafast imaging
Oct 25, Blake Dastrup, THz polaritonics
Nov 1, Frank Gao, Single-shot spectroscopy
Nov 8, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Single-shot spectroscopy of LCMO
Nov 29, Doug Shin, Phonon spectroscopy
Dec 7, Joseph Yoon, Coherence properties of polaritons
Dec 13, Prof. Thomas Pezeril, Phonon spectroscopy
2017
Sep 1, Prof. Borja Vidal, Microwave and THz photonics
Sep 7, Dmitro Martynowych, Laser-induced shock
Sep 14, Ryan Duncan, Thermal transport
Sep 21, Dr. David Veysset, Laser-induced shock & LIPIT
Oct 5, Prof. Bo Zhen, Non-Hermitian topological photonics
Oct 13, Prof. Tomokazu Sano, Femtosecond laser-driven shock compression of solids
Oct 19, Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper, Laser-induced shock
Oct 27, Joseph Yoon, On the nature of exciton-polariton transport in an optical trap
Nov 2, Xian Li, THz spectroscopy
Nov 16, Yaqing Zhang, THz spectroscopy
Nov 21, Doug Shin, Photo-excited acoustic phonons and material characterizations
Dec 14, Dr. Andreas Steinbacher, THz polaritonics
Dec 21, Joseph Yoon and Dr. Andreas Steinbacher, How to make a Bose-Einstein condensate of magnon-polaritons