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Joined April 2020
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31 Jul 2024
Check out the two new episodes of our podcast where we discuss with undergrad students Nathan Tolva and Grace Naugle. Both of them will be starting grad school soon! Link here( Nathon ): youtu.be/6V-t7MudR9c Link here( Grace ): youtu.be/_6Lsp8Evq3w
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14 Sep 2023
Check out the trailer for our newest episode of our podcast, Fractional Excitations! In this episode, we discuss with PhD student Xiaohan Yao about her most recent publication in PRX. Listen to the podcast here:youtube.com/watch?v=oUo_7Cu4…
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13 Dec 2022
Check out the trailer for our newest episode of our podcast, Fractional Excitations! In this episode, we discuss with PhD student Faranak Bahrami about her most recent publication in Science Advances. Listen here: soundcloud.com/tafti-lab/fra…
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31 Mar 2022
Check out our most recent publication in Science Advances, titled "First demonstration of tuning between the Kitaev and Ising limits in a honeycomb lattice": science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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31 Mar 2022
Tafti Lab has the best undergrads! Thank you to everyone who helped clean and maintain our lab space this week.
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25 Jan 2022
In this episode of Fractional Excitations, we discuss with Dr. Zhi-Cheng Wang about his recent paper titled "Colossal Magnetoresistance without Mixed Valence in a Layered Phosphide Crystal". fazeltafti.com soundcloud.com/tafti-lab/fra…

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17 Dec 2021
We had a great time celebrating some birthdays and the end of the semester in our new Tafti Lab hoodies last week. From left to right: Nathan, Sudhaman, Emilie, Piyush, Faranak, Mira, Fazel, Violet, Alenna, Andrew, and Kyle Not pictured: Kemal, Xiaohan
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Just out in @InorgChem, “Antiferromagnetic Order and Spin-Canting Transition in the Corrugated Square Net Compound Cu3(TeO4)(SO4).H2O” from @taftilab out of @BostonCollege. Please have a look: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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6 May 2021
Check out Fractional Excitations, the podcast created by members of our lab. In this episode we interview Dr. Hung-Yu Yang, the very first graduate of Tafti lab. We hope you enjoy hearing his story! soundcloud.com/tafti-lab/fra…
29 Apr 2021
Congratulations to our two graduating students, Renee Nichols and Thomas Tartaglia. Renee will be continuing her studies at UC Santa Cruz for a PhD in physics, and Tom will be attending Cornell for a PhD in materials science and engineering. We are so proud of you both. 🎉
7 Apr 2021
Happy birthday to our first year student, Kyle Fruhling!
3 Mar 2021
Lab meetings have looked a bit different this past year, but that can't keep us from taking a group pic!
19 Feb 2021
Huge congratulations to Tafti Lab's recent graduate, Dr. Hung-Yu Yang!
30 Jul 2020
Check out our newest publication, "Accessing new magnetic regimes by tuning the ligand spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals magnets" advances.sciencemag.org/cont…