Month: December 2025

🎉 Congratulations to our Graduates, Will Schmid and Qian Ye!

The lab is proud to celebrate the commencement of Will Schmid and Qian Ye!

Will graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Qian graduated in Physics. Their hard work, dedication, and research contributions have been invaluable to our lab. We wish them both the very best in their future endeavors!

A graduate, Will Schmid, shaking hands with a professor during commencement.
Will Schmid (ECE)
A graduate, Qian Ye, on stage being hooded by a professor during commencement.
Qian Ye (Physics)
A graduate, Qian Ye, on stage being hooded by a professor during commencement.
Congratulations to Qian and Will on their commencement! A proud moment with Alessandro as they embark on their next journey.

Why You Should Never Arm Wrestle a Theorist

Our professor Alessandro (a theorist, of course) went head-to-head with one of our intrepid experimental grad students in an epic arm-wrestling battle.

The stakes were high – bragging rights, a semester’s supply of coffee, and perhaps the very fabric of scientific understanding!

And the results? Well, this happened…

    Professor and student arm wrestling in a lab
    
   

And at last, the experimentalist was finally defeated, though, in his defense, he is left-handed.

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What do you think was the force multiplier in this victory: rigorous calculation or sheer professorial will? Let us know in the comments! 👇