Alumni News and Return Visits:
Postdoc alumni Chialing Chan and Bruno Silva visit Santa Barbara in 2019
Postdoc alumna Cecilia Leal visits UCSB in 2017
Postdoc alumna Cecilia Leal visits UCSB in 2014
Former undergraduate researcher Ekene Akabike's matriculation into UC San Diego School of Medicine
Ekene Akabike (circle) with her class at UC San Diego School of Medicine
Farewell Party for Victoria Steffes
From left to right: B. Fletcher, Y. Li, W. Fisher, K. Ewert, C. Tchounwou, M. Zepeda, D. Lasher, B. Light, V. Steffes, V. Qahar, C. Safinya, P. Kohl
Farewell Party for Emily Wonder
From left to right: B. Fletcher, Y. Li, V. Qahar, K. Ewert, E. Wonder, C. Safinya, V. Steffes, C. Tchounwou, P. Kohl, W. Fisher, Y. Zhen
Farewell Party for Ramsey Majzoub
From left to right: C. Liu, C. Tchounwou, P. Kohl, E. Wonder, V. Steffes, P. Chung, R. Majzoub, M. Zepeda
Safinya Group Alumni at a Gordon Conference
From left to right: U. Raviv, J. Deek, C. Leal, R. Beck-Barkai, G. Wong
Farewell Party for Rahau Shirazi and Chialing Chan
From left to right standing: J. Korolenko, C. Chan, N. Bouxsein, B. Silva, C. Safinya, Y. Li, R. Shirazi, J. Deek, S. Nasseri
kneeling: T. Oyuela-Trachter, K. Ewert
Farewell Party for Heather Evans
From left to right: J. Irwin, U. Raviv, T. Ikawa, L. Hirst, J. Jones, M. Yasa, A. Zidovska, Y. Li, H. Evans, C. Safinya
A kind of reunion at the "Fyl Fest" in 1999
Standing: J. H. Kim, P. Davidson, H.-W. Schmidt, T. Salditt, G. Wong, Y. Li, C. Safinya, J. Rädler, G. Smith;
A. Ahmad, A. Lin.
Seated: R. Case, A. Martin-Herranz, T. Pfohl, K. Ewert, H. Evans, N. Slack
The very early Safinya Group setting up a spectrometer
Top row: J. Rädler, Keith, S. Idziak, C. Safinya;
Bottom row: N. Slack, H. Warriner, I. Koltover
For Nathan Bouxsein's graduation (cake by Joanna Deek)
From the Goodbye Party for MC and Roy (cake by Joanna Deek)
Life-cycle of a graduate student (Nelle Slack):
Nelle and Keith, shortly after joining the group
Nelle (with C. Safinya and T. Pfohl) "shortly" before leaving the group
Miscellaneous Pictures:
Berkeley wisdom for Exxon Research
Rahau Shirazi at her graduation with C. R. Safinya
Undergraduate J. Abby Oehler (right) presenting her poster with graduate student Jayna Jones
Heather saying goodbye to the group and the palm trees
on her way to a postdoc in Germany
Alumni Fun:
Washington, DC, is next for Heather and Ayesha visits
Now we can all recognize the location... Ayesha and Heather in front of a white building