Group Meeting Schedule – Summer 2025
Group meetings will be held at 03:00PM on Thursdays. At these meetings, there will be research updates from all lab members and a literature report from one. A schedule for the literature report is provided below.
Research Updates: These should be used to disseminate key results, facilitate valuable scientific discussions, and spark collaborations among all members of the lab. Students are urged to maintain a PowerPoint presentation for each project that describes the overall goals/hypotheses, experimental design, and key results to use in these meetings. Each week, students should provide an update on what was accomplished over the previous week (show us data!), what challenges were faced, and tentative plans for the next week’s experiments.
Literature Reports: These are intended to keep the group up to date on relevant work which has been published in the literature. Each week, one student is expected to give a detailed report on a particularly important paper which is related to their project or the lab’s research in general, but anyone is welcome to share brief updates on relevant work. When selecting papers, stick to work from reputable, high-quality journals (feel free to ask if you’re not sure). Ph.D. Students: Please do not expect these updates to serve as a replacement for the regular exploration of the literature that is critical to your development as a scientist. You should be reading papers as often as possible to guide work on your project and spark new ideas, not just when it’s your turn to give the report.
| Date | Lab Member |
|---|---|
| 06/19 | VDA |
| 6/26 | CL |
| 07/03 | KO |
| 07/10 | AG |
| 07/17 | JA |
| 07/24 | TA |
| 07/31 | CT |
| 08/07 | SW |
| 08/14 | SR |
| 08/21 | JF |
| 08/28 | IS |
Lab Github Page
All of our analysis/instrument control code is stored on the lab’s Github page: https://github.com/the-hill-lab.
COMSOL Access
All lab members can access our COMSOL software through the UWyo Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC). You will need an ssh client capable of X11 forwarding in order to operate the GUI interface. A good, free option for Windows is MobaXterm (https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/). Macs can connect via SSH using their default terminal. You first need to install XQuartz (https://www.xquartz.org/), then launch an ssh session with the “-X” option. The target address via either method should be [USERNAME]@teton.arcc.uwyo.edu. New group members should request to be added to the “snechem” project by contacting arcc-info@uwyo.edu.
Instrumentation Schedules
Graduate students within the group maintain a schedule for the group’s primary instruments. Time on the electron microscopes is scheduled via the UWyo FOM: https://www.instrumentschedule.com/fom/?lid=0077.