Spring 2025 Zuerch Group Meetings
All meetings are on Mondays at 5:30 pm in Tan 775B. Please contact Michael (mwz@berkeley.edu) to sign up for email updates regarding our group meeting.
| Date / Time | Location | Speaker | Tentative title / Note |
| 1/20 | – | – | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| 1/27 – 7pm | Tan 775B | John Travers | Special Seminar joint with Neumark Group |
| 2/3 | Tan 775B | Sheng-Chih Lin | Transient XUV probing low energy structure |
| 2/10 | Tan 775B | Bailey Nebgen | sHHG as a probe of TMD band structure |
| 2/17 | Tan 775B | – | Presidents’ Day |
| 2/24 | Tan 775B | Guilio Cerullo | Special Seminar |
| 3/3 | Tan 775B | Marcus Hui & Ezra Korican-Barlay | |
| 3/10 | Tan 775B | – | No Group Meeting |
| 3/17 | Tan 775B | Jacob Spies | (ACS Practice) + Crash Course in Ultrafast Lasers and Nonlinear Optics |
| 3/24 | Tan 775B | – | Spring Recess |
| 3/31 | Tan 775B | Jackson McClellan | Ultrafast control of Chiral CDW in TiSe2 |
| 4/7 | Tan 775B | Sadie Siegel | TBD |
| 4/14 | Tan 775B | Ann Alekseenko | Cryo-SHHG Study of Lithium Osmate’s Polar Metal Phase Transition (can share with another undergrad) |
| 4/21 | Tan 775B | Lars Hoffmann | UV-induced dissociation pathways of iodothiophene probed with X-ray transient absorption |
| 4/28 | Tan 775B | Shuaiwei Pan | Phonon Modes and Ultrafast Dynamics in Cr2Ge2Te6 |
| 5/5 | Tan 775B | Shaneil Prasad | Ultrafast Dynamics and Symmetry in NiPS3 |
| 5/12 | – | – | Semester Ends |
Group activities
Zuerch Lab 2024 Retreat to San Pablo Reservoir
Zuerch Lab 2-day Writing Group Retreat 2023 to Point Reyes National Seashore
Group retreat to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (Spring 2023)
First group 2-day writing retreat to Napa Valley at the Napa River (Summer 2022)
First group representation at an in-person conference at ACS Spring Meeting 2022 in San Diego by Finn, Bailey and Nadia presenting on their research.
Group outing to Free House March 2022 to celebrate Alfred’s publication and Nadia’s graduate school acceptances
Zuerch Lab Movie Nights emerged as a new activity Summer 2021
First group retreat to Yosemite National Park in July 2021
First Group BBQ May 2021
Holiday Party Dinner 2019
