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The Newsletter for the EAS Community
Selected Upcoming Events
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Caltech Postdoctoral Association Bylaws Meeting
Location: Caltech Hall, 9th Floor
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Outdoor Movie Night: Clueless
Location: Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Friday, July 21, 2023, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
GALCIT Special Seminar: "The effect of complex surfaces on turbulence and skin friction" - Professor Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Location: Firestone 384
Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Movies That Matter - Chasing Coral
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Spotlight On Our People
Doug Hofmann
Visiting Associate, Applied Physics and Materials Science
I am a Senior Research Scientist and Technologist at NASA JPL, where I have worked since finishing my PhD in materials science and engineering at Caltech. I started at Caltech in 2004 as a graduate student after completing my BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering at UC San Diego. My research passion has always been metallurgy, with a focus on manufacturing. After my PhD, I briefly worked in industry before founding JPL’s Metallurgy Facility in 2010, a lab designed to study new materials and manufacturing technologies for extreme environment spacecraft. In 2012, I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama for my work in this area. I have been teaching continuously at Caltech since 2010, including graduate level Structure and Bonding in Solids and undergraduate level Mechanical Behavior of Materials Laboratory Course. My wife, Carrie, and I met as graduate students at Caltech and now we have four kids together.
Sahil Patel
Graduate Student, Applied Physics and Materials Science
I am primarily interested in superconductive materials for the development of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. My primary focus is the fabrication and testing of new detector technologies and designing testing grounds to better characterize performance. Eventually, I hope that my work will push SNSPD sensitivity to lower energy photons in the mid-infrared and enables larger working active areas for imaging and dark matter searches. I am in my third year as a PhD student in materials science, although I began my Caltech/JPL journey in 2019 as a co-op JPL intern in the Superconducting Devices Group under Dr. Matt Shaw, who is currently co-advising me with Professor Joseph Falson. Outside of research, I primarily enjoy trail running, climbing, and really trashy reality TV.
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Calls for Nomination & Funding Opportunities
Caltech’s Office of Foundation Relations maintains an online database and email subscription service of primarily non-federal funding opportunities as a resource for the Caltech community. Opportunities include calls for proposals released by private foundations, public charities, associations, corporations, internal Caltech opportunities and federal limited opportunities.
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