DOE to meet with Nobel laureates
J. Robert Roscioli, a third-year graduate student in chemistry, was among the 20 outstanding research participants selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to attend the 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students.
Each year since 1951, Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics and physiology/medicine have convened in Lindau, Germany, to have open and informal meetings with students and young researchers from around the world. Every year, the event focuses on a different discipline. This year's event, held June 20-25, focused on chemistry.
The event includes lectures by the Nobel laureates and less formal small group discussions with the students. The primary purpose of the meeting is to allow the young scientists to benefit from informal interaction with the Nobel Prize winners. More than 400 international students participate in the meeting.
Roscioli is conducting his Ph.D. thesis work on how water nanocrystals rearrange themselves on an atomic scale when they attach an extra electron. He has developed new laser methods that enable him to trap each step of the rearrangement process for structural identification.
"The big news about Joe's work is that only one water molecule is present at the important trapping site in the most stable configuration -- a conclusion that still confounds our theoretical colleagues," says his thesis adviser, Mark Johnson, the Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry. "He will likely spend the next months looking at the onset of melting in these clusters of water by following their migration within the tiny structures."
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