Visiting Alex's lab with students and new MSE faculty member S. Hossain. From left:
Nidhish Puthenveettil, Jonas Brown, Roger Lake, Shafayat Hossain, Alex Balandin, Zahra Ebrahim, and Maedeh Taheri.
Happy collaborators after Maedeh's Nature Electronics paper on CDW gating was finally accepted.
2026 March Meeting, Denver, CO
Former and current LATTE members clockwise from left: Darshana Wickramaratne (NRL),
Roger Lake (UCR), Gen Yin (Georgetown U.), In Jun Park (NIST), Sohee Kwon (ORNL),
Aravind Sreeja (UCR), and Mahesh Neupane (ARL).
Clockwise from left: Ming Song Lin (NTU), Roger Lake (UCR), Virginia Lowe (APL), Mathias Schubert (UNL), Nikaela Bryan (APL).
2025 March Meeting, Anaheim, CA
From left: Former LATTE members In Jun Park and Gen Yin. Roger Lake. Close collaborators and members of Alex Balandin's group - Subhajit Ghosh, Jordan Teeter, Jonas Brown, and Maedeh Tahiri.
December 2024 Graduations
Graduation lunch for Sohee Kwon and Topojit Debnath.
Graduation lunch for Sohee Kwon and Topojit Debnath, Dec. 2024.
From left: Mahesh Neupane and son, Sohee Kwon, Roger Lake, Topojit Debnath, and Aravind Sreeja.
New PhD, Dr. Sohee Kwon with M. Neupane and R. Lake.
New PhD, Dr. Topojit Debnath.
The "before" picture. Second year student, Aravind Sreeja.
2023 March Meeting, Las Vegas
After a 3 year absence, I finally returned to the APS March Meeting! And we had a great reunion in Las Vegas.
LATTE reunion dinner with Alex Balandin and 3 of his students at the 2023 APS March Meeting, Las Vegas.
From left front: In Jun Park, Sohee Kwon, Mahesh Neupane, Erick Guzman, Topojit Debnath, and Jonas Brown.
From left rear: Gen Yin, Alex Balandin, Roger Lake, Dylan Wright, Darshana Wickramaratne, and Yizhou Liu
2020 - 2022 in the Covid virtual world ....
2019 in Review
LATTE group at Chenyang's graduation dinner, Dec. 2019.
And some of the great food that we had at Frice, Dec. 2019.
LATTE group at Tonmoy's graduation dinner, March 2019.
And after the dinner, March 2019.
Chenyang and In Jun braving the cold. APS March Meeting, Boston, March 2019.
This is why we prefer So. Cal. (compare to photo above right).
In Jun, Chenyang, and Nima inside the Boston Convention Center, March 2019.
Boston LATTE reunion sometime late into the evening, March 2019.
From right: Chenyang Li, Gen Yin, me, Mahesh Neupane, Darshana Wickramaratne, In Jun Park, and
Nima Djavid behind the camera.
