On the Electride Nature of Na‐hP4
Racioppi, S., Storm, C. V., McMahon, M. I., & Zurek, E. (2023). On the Electride Nature of Na‐hP4. In Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310802
The problem with Jupiter
Ab initio determination of iron melting at terapascal pressures and Super-Earths core crystallization
González-Cataldo, F., & Militzer, B. (2023). Ab initio determination of iron melting at terapascal pressures and Super-Earths core crystallization. In Physical Review Research (Vol. 5, Issue 3). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.5.033194
Yin, H., Shang, J. K., Blackman, E. G., Collins, G. W., & Aluie, H. (2023). Energy transfer and scale dynamics in 2D and 3D laser-driven jets. In Physics of Plasmas (Vol. 30, Issue 9). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161028
Allibert, L., Landeau, M., Röhlen, R., Maller, A., Nakajima, M., & Wünnemann, K. (2023). Planetary Impacts: Scaling of Crater Depth From Subsonic to Supersonic Conditions. In Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (Vol. 128, Issue 8). American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023je007823
Militzer, B. (2023). Study of Jupiter’s Interior with Quadratic Monte Carlo Simulations. In The Astrophysical Journal (Vol. 953, Issue 1, p. 111). American Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace1f1
Dale, K. I., Rubie, D. C., Nakajima, M., Jacobson, S., Nathan, G., Golabek, G. J., Cambioni, S., & Morbidelli, A. (2023). An improved model of metal/silicate differentiation during Earth’s accretion. In Icarus (Vol. 406, p. 115739). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115739
Thomas Duffy, professor of geosciences at Princeton University, was awarded as an American Geophysical Union College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturer in 2023-24, in Earth Interior, Mineral and Rock Physics for his abstract, “Journey to the Center of a Super-Earth.” He was also selected as a 2023 Mercator Fellow in the Matter Under Planetary Interior Conditions Research Unit by the German Research Foundation.
Ian Ocampo, a graduate student in the High-Pressure Mineral Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2023-24 Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship.
Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Magnesium-Rich Liquids at Ultrahigh Pressure
González-Cataldo, F., & Militzer, B. (2023). Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Magnesium-Rich Liquids at Ultrahigh Pressure. In Minerals (Vol. 13, Issue 7, p. 885). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13070885
Danae Polsin received the 2023 Outstanding Young Alum Award from the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association
Danae Polsin, a scientist in the High-Energy-Density Experimental Physics Group at the Laser Laboratory for Energetics and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, received the 2023 Outstanding Young Alum Award from the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association.
Spatio‐Temporal Coarse‐Graining Decomposition of the Global Ocean Geostrophic Kinetic Energy
Buzzicotti, M., Storer, B. A., Khatri, H., Griffies, S. M., & Aluie, H. (2023). Spatio‐Temporal Coarse‐Graining Decomposition of the Global Ocean Geostrophic Kinetic Energy. In Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (Vol. 15, Issue 6). American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ms003693
Sara Seager received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Toronto in 2023
For her leadership in the fields of astrophysics and planetary science and as a leader in the field of exoplanet atmospheres, Sara Seager received a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the University of Toronto in June 2023.
Phase transitions and spin state of iron in FeO under the conditions of Earth’s deep interior
Greenberg, E., Nazarov, R., Landa, A., Ying, J., Hood, R. Q., Hen, B., Jeanloz, R., Prakapenka, V. B., Struzhkin, V. V., Rozenberg, G. Kh., & Leonov, I. V. (2023). Phase transitions and spin state of iron in FeO under the conditions of Earth’s deep interior. In Physical Review B (Vol. 107, Issue 24). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.l241103
Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves
Rygg, J. R., Celliers, P. M., & Collins, G. W. (2023). Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves. In Physical Review Letters (Vol. 130, Issue 22). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.225101
Militzer, B., & Hubbard, W. B. (2023). Relation of Gravity, Winds, and the Moment of Inertia of Jupiter and Saturn. In The Planetary Science Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 5, p. 95). American Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/acd2cd
Second CMAP Annual Meeting
The second CMAP Annual Meeting, hosted at the University of Rochester on River Campus, was a gathering of the CMAP team partner organizations. We welcomed guests from California State University Northridge; University of Chicago; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Sandia National Laboratories; University of California, Santa Cruz; Imperial College London; and University of Oxford.
View photos from the event.
Intercalating Helium into A-Site Vacant Perovskites
Racioppi, S., Miao, M., & Zurek, E. (2023). Intercalating Helium into A-Site Vacant Perovskites. In Chemistry of Materials (Vol. 35, Issue 11, pp. 4297–4310). American Chemical Society (ACS). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00353
Maureen Zhang won second place in the category of physics and astronomy at ISEF Regeneron 2023
Maureen Zhang, a CMAP Research Experience for High Schoolers (REH) program alumna, won 2nd place in the category of physics and astronomy at ISEF Regeneron 2023, a highly competitive international science competition for high school students with nearly 3,000 student attendees. M. Zhang presented a machine learning project to determine the number of exoplanets in planetary systems.
Jupiter at its core remains a mystery to science
Jessica Shang selected as a 2022 Rochester Engineering Society Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was selected as a 2022 Rochester Engineering Society Young Engineer of the Year Finalist.
Wang, B., Hilleke, K. P., Wang, X., Polsin, D. N., & Zurek, E. (2023). Topological electride phase of sodium at high pressures and temperatures. In Physical Review B (Vol. 107, Issue 18). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.184101
Lherm, V., & Deguen, R. (2023). Velocity field and cavity dynamics in drop impact experiments. In Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Vol. 962). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.297
Storer, B. A., & Aluie, H. (2023). FlowSieve: A Coarse-Graining Utility for Geophysical Flows on the Sphere. In Journal of Open Source Software (Vol. 8, Issue 84, p. 4277). The Open Journal. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04277
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Why the observed spin evolution of older-than-solar-like stars might not require a dynamo mode change
Kotorashvili, K., Blackman, E. G., & Owen, J. E. (2023). Why the observed spin evolution of older-than-solar-like stars might not require a dynamo mode change. In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Vol. 522, Issue 1, pp. 1583–1590). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad981
Ion and electron acoustic bursts during anti-parallel magnetic reconnection driven by lasers
Zhang, S., A. Chien, L. Gao, H. Ji, E. G. Blackman, R. Follett, D. H. Froula, J. Katz, C. Li, A. Birkel, R. Petrasso, J. Moody, and H. Chen. Ion and electron acoustic bursts during anti-parallel magnetic reconnection driven by lasers. Nat. Phys. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01972-1
Gong, X., D. N. Polsin, R. Paul, B. J. Henderson, J. H. Eggert, F. Coppari, R. F. Smith, J. R. Rygg, and G. W. Collins. X-Ray Diffraction of Ramp-Compressed Silicon to 390 Gpa. Physical Review Letters (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.076101
Afreen Syeda received an Outstanding Poster Award at the NNSA’s 2023 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium
Afreen Syeda, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, received an Outstanding Poster Award at the NNSA’s 2023 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium in February 2023.
Miki Nakajima, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, is the recipient of a 2023 NSF CAREER award for her project, “CAREER: GLOW: Investigation on the evolution of magnetic fields of early Earth and beyond with cutting-edge research opportunities for future scientists.”
Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma
Chien, A., L. Gao, S. Zhang, H. Ji, E. G. Blackman, W. Daughton, A. Stanier, A. Le, F. Guo, R. Follett, H. Chen, G. Fiksel, G. Bleotu, R. C. Cauble, S. N. Chen, A. Fazzini, K. Flippo, O. French, D. H. Froula, J. Fuchs, S. Fujioka, K. Hill, S. Klein, C. Kuranz, P. Nilson, A. Rasmus, R. Takizawal. Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma. Nat. Phys. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01839-x
The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST
Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was elected Member-at-Large (a 2-year term) of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (GSCCM).
The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST
De Marco, O., Akashi, M., Akras, S. et al. The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST. Nat Astron 6, 1421–1432 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01845-2