Picture Gallery

Levi, Rachael and Anna at the ACS 2022 conference in San Diego.

Science Is Art. (artistic rendition of AA’s data by Dr. Kristin Schmidt)

Vincent pops the “I’m now a PhD candidate” champagne bottle. This was the first PhD candidate of the Ayzner Group! (2015)

Ayzner Group at the Chemistry department holiday party in 2015.

Michael and Vincent doing resonant soft X-ray scattering at the ALS beamline 7.0.1.

Ayzner Group in 2017.

Ayzner Group at the 2018 Chemistry department holiday party.

Carmen in preparation at SSRL beamline 4-2 before blasting some poor macromolecules with hard X-rays.

Ayzner Group in action (2017).

Rachael, Ivette, Levi and Alex here to do some SAXS at SSRL beamline 4-2.

First ever Ayzner Group sushi outing.

Ayzner Group out to Sushi Totoro. As can be seen from student faces, light harvesting never stops.

Vincent and Alex on stage (along with other students and faculty) for some skit during the Chemistry department holiday party in 2015.

Levi playing cards at SSRL beamline 4-2.

The Ayzners at the UCSC Chemistry department holiday party (2019). This is Levi Ayzner’s 1st department holiday party.

Anna singing her heart out at the 2021 Chemistry department holiday party.

Nathan Lopez checking sample alignment in the hutch at ALS beamline 7.3.3.

Carmen at the ALS beamline 7.3.3 doing grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering measurements

Carmen gets ready to close up the hutch at SSRL beamline 4-2 before doing small-angle X-ray scattering measurements on polyelectrolyte solutions.

Vincent working on one of many vacuum pumps on the soft X-ray spectrometer (aka “the dinosaur”) at SSRL beamline 10-1.

Newly minted PhD candidate Anna Johnston warning you once.

Ayzner Group at the 2015 Chemistry department holiday party.

AA’s physical chemistry students got some art skills. Here a balloon attempts to make fun of Ayzner’s insistence that he never use “ln” for natural log, arguing that log base 10 does not…naturally…appear in physical chemistry.

Ayzner Group after Halloween skit in 2018. Frankenstein’s monster = AA.

Funny faces. UCSC Chemistry department holiday party (2019).

Michael Roders giving a talk at a Materials Research Society conference on the topic of organic photovoltaics.

Michael aligning samples in the beam path at the ALS beamline 7.3.3 before doing grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering measurements on thin films of organic semiconductors.

The Scooby gang representing (2018).

Will silently berating the photographer as he stands next to our steady-state fluorescence spectrometer in the nearly empty Ayzner Lab while it was temporarily housed on the 4th floor of PSB. (2015)