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

 

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

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

 

 

2015 Full Lunar Eclipse, UCSD

2016 Anza Borrego Desert

2016 Perseids, Anza Borrego Desert

2017 Solar Eclipse, Nebraska – Corona

2017 Solar Eclipse, Nebraska – Diamond Ring

2020 Comet NEOWISE over I-805, San Diego