Gallery

July 2024

Alannah attended the ICM in Bologna to receive the 2023 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Magnetism  (with 2024 winner Lucas Caretta)

June 2024

Tenure celebration!

April 2024

Enjoying Seattle at the MRS Meeting

Hallas Group Christmas Party 2023

Potluck theme - childhood faves!

Hallas Group Christmas Party 2023

Our all-star 2023 undergrads at the group holiday party!

December 2023

Alannah and Dongjoon visited the behemoth high pressure apparatus at NIMS that is used to grow the world's supply of hexagonal BN.

December 2023

The Hallas group introduce UBC Prez Benoit-Antoine Bacon to the art (and science) of crystal growth

November 2023

The group acts as expert judges for the Chemical Institute of Canada's National Crystal Growing Competition

November 2023

Alannah receives the UBC Killam Teaching Prize at Fall Convocation

May 2023

Summer is here!

March 2023

Hunter giving his best at the group photo shoot.

March 2023

Mario quenching a high entropy oxide!

March 2023

Nothing funny about an arc melter

Hallas Group Christmas Party 2022

Dumpling fest. Which dumpling is best? All of them.

October 2022

Alannah showing off the lab to Ars Scientia artists in residence Jeff Mair and Timothy Taylor.

October 2022

Alannah was generously supported by CIFAR to attend the Science and Technology for Society Forum in Kyoto, Japan  

September 2022

Night out to the UBC-Stuttgart joint orchestral performance and a photo op with outgoing UBC Prez Santa Ono

September 2022

Samikshya, Joern, and Mario are all recipients of poster prizes at the UBC-Max Planck-UTokyo meeting - congrats!

July 2022

Samikshya, Alannah, and Mohamed visited Amsterdam to attend the SCES2022 Conference.

July 2022

Mohamed and his 1st place award winning poster at the Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Conference.

July 2022

Group hike in Lynn Canyon to mark Sam's departure to start his PhD at UCSB.

July 2022

Jumping for joy

July 2022

Celebrating a successful day in the forest as we bid farewell to Sam! 

May 2022

Sam checking out the result of his first crystal growth attempt using the halogen lamp image furnace.

May 2022

Dongjoon attempting his first growth using the laser diode floating zone (Canada's first!).

May 2022

Group photo to commemorate the first successful growth using our laser diode image furnace.

QMI Christmas Party 2021

A serious one.

QMI Christmas Party 2021 version 2

A silly one.

 October 2021

Thanks to the heroic efforts of our group to bring these two image furnaces to our second floor lab.

September 2021

Celebrating Megan and Mario's arrival and Gurleen's (and Graham, in absentia) departure.

August 2021

Post lab clean-up pizza lunch with friend of the lab, Hunter

February 2021

Check out these hot shots!Image credit: Jannis Maiwald

January 2021

Post lab clean-up. Enjoying the view!

September 2020

Samikshya's perfect necking techniqueImage credit: Paul Joseph at UBC

September 2020

Sam and Mohamed planning the next crystal growth attemptImage credit: Paul Joseph at UBC

September 2020

Alannah and friend of the lab, CissyImage credit: Paul Joseph at UBC

September 2020

Samikshya and Alannah prepping a resistivity measurementImage credit: Paul Joseph at UBC

September 2020

Sam and Mohamed showing off the best lab purchase ever? Definitely!

September 2020

Graham perfecting his wet
chemistry method

August 2020

Lab Beach Day!

June 2020

Sam and Alannah just finished installing the new microscope

March 2020

Moving into the new lab

January 2020

Graham at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop in College Park, MD 

January 2020

Alannah delivering a lecture on flux growth at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop in College Park, MD

July 2018

Alannah with Rob Dimeo, Director of NIST's Center for Neutron Research and Sketchnote artist.