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Congratulations to Dr. Chau Truong and Dr. Didarul Alam for successfully completing their PhDs! Chau defended her dissertation “Progress towards Attosecond Science with a Turn-key Industrial-grade Ytterbium Laser” in November, while Didar defended his dissertation “Probing Electron Correlations with First-Principles Calculations of The High-Harmonic Spectrum in Solids”\u00a0 (co-supervised with Dr. Volodymyr Turkowski) in August. Both of them attended the Fall commencement ceremonies, where Mike hooded them!<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to Dr. Chau Truong and Dr. Didarul Alam for successfully completing their PhDs! 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