The COMP Programming Board
is proud to announce the latest COMP Graduate Student and Post Doc
Image Competition winner, Tara Michels-Clark. About the cover image. The image is a representation of the atomic structure of the β-NaLaF4
super cell floating on a section of its diffuse single crystal
diffraction honeycomb pattern. The structure view is oriented around a
central La column (green) connected to three strictly alternating Na –
La (yellow – red) and three strictly alternating Na – void (orange –
white) through a fluorine framework (turquoise) allowing variations of
the occupation sequence in next neighbor columns. Rare earth doped
members of this family of compounds show light up-conversion capability
used for applications in LED display devices and labels for
immunoassays.. The image was created using ParaView for the diffuse
X-Ray diffraction pattern background and CrystalMaker for the β-NaLaF4 super cell; ZODS (Zürich Oak Ridge Disorder Simulation) is used for local structure analysis.
About the cover image artist, Tara Michels-Clark. Tara
received her BS in Mathematics and a minor in Physics from King College
and a MS in Mathematics from East Tennessee State University. She
taught undergraduate Mathematics for five years at Nashville State
Community College and Middle Tennessee State University until 2009,
before pursuing a PhD in Theoretical Physical Chemistry with a minor in
computational sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is
jointly mentored by Robert Harrison (UTK), Christina Hoffmann
(Spallation Neutron Source, ORNL) and collaborating with the University
of Zürich, University of Bern and ETH Zürich. Tara’s PhD research
focuses on “Employing high performance computing for structure
elucidation of locally disturbed crystalline materials using Monte Carlo
crystal modeling and evolutionary algorithms” and is funded by the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, supported by the Division of Scientific User
Facilities, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy,
under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT Battelle, LLC. and the Swiss
National Science Foundation. Connect with Tara on LinkedIn (direct link to her public LinkedIn page). Are you interested in participating? Submissions for the Indianapolis ACS meeting (fall 2013) The COMP
Graduate Student and Post Doc Image Competition are now being
accepted! Images are due by 5pm Eastern Time on Friday, April 12, 2013.
Please email your image to emilio.esposito AT gmail.com . One image per
artist. The creator of the winning image will be notified via email by
May 1, 2013. |
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