Category: Funding
Hayden recieved URA award
Congratulations to Hayden for being awarded participation in the Undergraduate Research Academy at UCCS! This competitive program allows undergraduate students to perform summer research in addition to participating in a series of events related to research and ethics.
Hayden will continue his research to integrate a nonlinear energy minimizer into the Gaenice framework to better model magnons in artificial spin ices.
Iacocca receives NSF funding for 3D artificial spin ices
We are pleased to announce that the proposal “ICEBERG: A bottom-up approach towards three-dimensional artificial spin ice devices” was funded by NSF. This research will investigate novel 3D spin ice geometries destined to enhance their dynamic coupling and thus enrich their functionality as magnonic crystals.
We will also continue to develop Gænice to support self-consistent energy minimization. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students to participated in research!
Kyle awarded DOE SCGSR
Congratulations to Kyle who was awarded the prestigious DOE SCGSR award. He will join Dr. Luis Chacon at Los Alamos National Lab to perform research on inertial confinement fusion.
Best of luck to Kyle on this new endeavor and career trajectory.
Lawrence awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations to Lawrence who was one of the awardees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship 2024. This is one of the most prestigious federal scholarship in the natural sciences. It’s scope is to support undergraduate students “who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering […] helping ensure that the U.S. is producing the number of highly-qualified professionals the Nation needs in these critical fields.”
Lawrence has performed exceptional research in our group including the modeling of resonant and propagating modes in macroscopic artificial spin ices and micromagnetic modeling of magneto-toroidal spin ices, both graduate-level research topics.
Congratulations again to Lawrence for this well deserved recognition.
Iacocca awarded DOE Early Career
We are pleased to announce that the proposal “Fourier and Fractional Neural Operators to Unveil Topological Textures in 3D Magnetism” was awarded funding under the DOE Early Career program for 2023. This 5-year project will advance physics-informed machine learning algorithms, focusing on the discovery of magnetic materials but with applications in nanopatterned materials.
Comments on the project can be found on UCCS’ communique article.
Lawrence was awarded funding for URA
Lawrence’s project “Investigating the dynamics of a macroscopic artificial spin ice” was selected for the UCCS’s Undergraduate Research Academy during summer 2023. Lawrence joins a select group of undergraduate students involved in scientific research and will participate in the workshops offered by the URA. Congratulations!
Announcement here.
NSF funding for artificial spin ices
We are excited to announce that our project “Reconfigurable non-Hermitian and topological magnonics with interacting artificial spin ices” was awarded funding by NSF, EPMD as a standard grant. This research will deepen our understanding of topologically protected magnon modes in artificial spin ices as well as achieving substantial progress in their numerical modeling.
CRCW grant
We are happy to announce that our project “Nano-designed magnetic materials” was awarded funding through UCCS’s Committee on Research and Creative Works (CRCW) Faculty Seed Grant. We will investigate how magnons propagate in materials with nano-sized modifications of their material parameters. This study complements a collaborative effort with Dr. Liam O’Brien at University of Liverpool, UK, and Dr. Paul Keatley at University of Exeter, UK.
