January 2008: a research proposal by Kristina Lipinska-Kalita and Oliver Hemmers, entitled: “EXAFS Study of Ceramic Composites: Following the Progress of Nanocrystallization in Host Glass Matrix” was approved by the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory (www.aps.anl.gov), for a period of 2 years.

January 2008: a research proposal by Kristina Lipinska-Kalita and Oliver Hemmers, entitled: “High Pressure Studies of Ceramic Nanocomposites for Extreme Environment Applications” was approved by the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory (www.aps.anl.gov), for a period of 2 years.

March 2008: Kristina Lipinska-Kalita and Oliver Hemmers  received six days of beamtime at Sector 9 XOR/CMC of the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory (www.aps.anl.gov), to carry out: “EXAFS Study of Ceramic Composites: Following the Progress of Nanocrystallization in Host Glass Matrix.”

March 12th, 2008: Kristina Lipinska-Kalita gave a talk at the American Physical Society Meeting, on “Novel Oxide Based Nanocomposites: Development and Structural Characterization” (by K. E. Lipinska-Kalita, C. Segre, P. E. Kalita, O. Hemmers, Y. Ohki, J. Cecil, M. Chavarcha; New Orleans, March 10-14, 2008; Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol. 53, No. 2 (2008))

The APS March Meeting of 2008 held in New Orleans, Louisiana, was attended by over 7,000  physicists, students, educators, journalists, and researchers.

Meeting Information

March 19, 2008: a paper by Kristina Lipinska-Kalita and Oliver Hemmers, entitled: “Equation of State of Gallium Oxide to 70 GPA: Comparison of Quasi-Hydrostatic and Non-Hydrostatic Compression”, was published in the prestigious journal Physical Review. B (see: K. E. Lipinska-Kalita, P. E. Kalita, O. A. Hemmers, T. Hartmann Phys. Rev. B  77, 094123 (2008)).