Gallery
Gallery
October 2024
Scary serious
September 2024
New goniometer, who dis?
August 2024
At the beamline at the Paul Scherrer Institute
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
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.