LESC 2022
LESC 2021
LESC 2019
LESC 2018
LESC 2017
LESC 2016
LESC 2014
LESC 2013
LESC 2012
LESC 2008
2022 ECS Meeting in Vancouver
2021 MRS Conference in Boston
2020 Gordon Research Conference at Ventura, CA
M&M 2019 Meeting in Portland
2019 EFRC PI Meeting in Washington, D.C.
2019 10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies in Singapore
2019 IBA Conference in San Diego
2018 MRS Conference in Boston
2018 Research Expo
ECS 229st MEETING-New Orleans
Professor Meng is the winner of the ECS Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award on PRiME 2016
IMLB 2016-Chicago
“Ceramics for Energy” Workshop-San Diego (2016)
ECS 229TH MEETING-San Diego
2016 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo
2015 MRS Conference in Boston
ECS 228TH MEETING-PHOENIX
ICMAT 2015
2015 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo
ARPA-E 2015 Energy Innovation Summit
2014 MRS Conference in Boston
2014 Ceramics, Solid State Studies in Gordon Research Conference
2014 Electrodeposition Gordon Research Conference
2014 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo
2014 International Battery Association IBA Meeting in Brisbane Australia
2014 Batteries Gordon Research Conference
2013 MRS Conference in Boston
2013 ACerS meeting in Florida
2013 ECS Conference in San Francisco
FIRST international symposium on “Innovation on Energy Storage Device by Interdisciplinary Synergy” at the University of Tokyo, 2013 Jan
222nd ECS Meeting at Honolulu
American Ceramic Society EMA 2011
2022 Summer Soccer Game
2022 Summer outdoor Activity EP-1
June 2022 SPEC Summit
Abhik has completed his journey with us as a Postdoc fellow. We wish him all the best for his future career!
Prof. Jeff Dahn’s visit at LESC in Jan 2020
Oct 2019 SPEC Summit
Macwin has completed his Master thesis defense! Congrats and all the best for the future career in industry!
Thermo Fisher visit – 2019 Summer
2019 Group BBQ (La Jolla Shores)
– LESC Party Time –
Best wishes to Shen’s bright future in his new postdoctoral position!
Congrats to Pritesh, Chengcheng and Han on completing their PhD defenses!
Pritesh Parikh has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Parikh!
Chengcheng Fang has successfully completed her PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Fang!
Han Nguyen has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Nguyen!
Apr 2019 Group Retreat at Sky Pavilion (Wells Fargo Hall)
Feb 2019 Group retreat
Shen Wang has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Wang！
We’ll miss your amazing talent and excellence in science and music!
2018 Group Retreat
（Ted Conference Room in Scripps Seaside Forum, Jan 2018 ）
Minghao Zhang has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Zhang！
Judith Alvarado has successfully completed her PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Alvarado！
Joon Kyo Seo has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Seo！
2017 Group BBQ (La Jolla Seashore)
Chuze Ma has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Ma！
Celebrating Oct 2016 Birthday: happy birthday Shirley, Yoda, Tom & Tom!
2016 Group BBQ (La Jolla Seashore)
Haodong Liu has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Liu！
Hyojung Chloe Yoon has successfully completed her PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Yoon！
Ziying Wang has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Wang！
Celebrating Jan 2016 Birthday: happy birthday Shen, Haodong, Chengcheng, Jae, Erik & Minghao!
Mike has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Verde！
2015 Group BBQ (La Jolla Seashore)
Hyung-Man Cho (Josh) has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Cho！
Wish you a successful and bright future. We will miss you & little Emma! 🙂
Celebrating Mar 2015 Birthday: happy birthday LESC girls~ Jungwoo & Judith!
2014 Group Lunch at Emerald
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2014 LESC Potluck & Gift Change at SME Louge!
2013 Thanksgiving party at Shirley’s house!
LESC Hiking
Celebrating Dec & Jan Birthdays: Shawn, Jing, Minghao, Jae & Haodong, Kyler
Celebrating August Birthdays: Dams, Josh
Celebrating May Birthdays: Danna, Mike, Ziying
Dr. Meng with Thomas Mcgilvray (UF undergraduate student)
Dr. Meng with Octavio Salazar (UCSD graduate student)
The group newest member: Jason!
LESC Lunch Squad 2022
@Piatti
Yixuan’s learning session
2021 Group BBQ (La Jolla Shores)
A special lecture given by the youngest speaker at LESC
@Jason Elliott 🙂
LESC 2021 Graduation Ceremony
LESC Lunch Squad Ep. 5
@Double Happiness
LESC Lunch Squad Ep. 4
@Kinoyume Sushi and Grill
Hayley has successfully completed her PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Hirsh!
May 17th, 2021
LESC Lunch Squad Ep. 3
@Wayfayer Bread & Pastry & Calumet park
LESC Lunch Squad Ep. 2
@Duke’s La Jolla & La Jolla Cove
LESC Lunch Squad Ep. 1
@Emerald Chinese Cuisine
Jonathan has successfully completed his PhD defense with a hybrid mode for the first time! Congrats to Dr. Scharf!
Apr 29th, 2021
Darren has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Tan!
Mar 23rd, 2021
Erik has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Wu!
Sep 16th, 2020
Dan has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Davies!
Sep 3rd, 2020
Haelie has successfully completed her PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Chung!
Sep 1st, 2020
Yang has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Yang!
June 29th, 2020
As the first-ever LESC member to defend online, Tom has successfully completed his PhD defense! Congrats to Dr. Wynn!
Mar 31st, 2020
—- Online weekly group meeting —-
Young people in this group are responsible, optimistic and full of energy! We believe that social distancing is not social disengaging!
We shall fight COVID-19 together!
Mar 20th, 2020
Prof. Meng working in lab
Characterization Lab
Synthesis Lab
The Laser Lab
