Geliang Song

• Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame, 2004 - present
  

• M.Sc. (Theoretical Particle Physics), Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2001 - 2004
  

• B.Sc. (Physics), Liaoning University, 1997 - 2001
  

• Bayer Predoctoral Research Fellowship, 2010 - 2011
  

• Bayer Predoctoral Research Fellowship, 2008 - 2009
  

• Graduate Student Fellowship of the Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM), 2005 - 2006
  

• Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, May - Aug 2005
  

• Graduate School Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2003 - 2004
  

• Excellent Student Scholarship by the Director of IHEP, 2003 - 2004
  

• Excellent Student Scholarship of Institute of High Energy Physics, 2002 - 2003
  

• My research interests center around the structure and electronic properties of complex materials including solids, liquids, surfaces and interfaces by the use of x-rays and electrons. Specifically, I am interested in using x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray scattering to characterize the structure of heavy metal adsorption on biomass(specially biofilm), clay, oxides, nanoparticles, etc. Via the high intense x-rays at the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) at APS Argonne National Laboratory, my research interests also involve in interdisciplinary areas of environmental geochemistry, catalysis, biological problems, etc.
  

  
  I also maintain a portable version of XAFS data analysis package.
  

  
  

• MRCAT wiki
  

• Ifeffit homepage
  

• Portable Ifeffit
  

• Raw data or standard
  http://ixs.iit.edu/database/
  http://x18b.nsls.bnl.gov/data.htm
  

• X-ray Absorption Cross-Section and Absorption Coefficient Calculations
  Periodic Table of x-ray absorption values (based on McMaster Tables)
  Book of x-ray absorption values (based on McMaster Tables)
  X-ray Interaction with Matter at LBL Center for X-ray Optics
  X-ray Attenuation Coefficient Bibliography at NIST
  XOP X-ray Oriented Programs
  X-Ray-Data-Booklet
  

• Database: publications on x-ray absorption spectroscopy
  

• Crystallography
  American Mineralogist Crystal Struture Database
  Atoms.inp Archive
  Crystallography Open Database
  The Ifeffit FAQ+ crystallographic
  http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/FAQ/FeffitModeling
  

• Model or Reference data
  The XAFS Model Compound Library — atoms input file…
  EXAFS database, which consists of just about every scan of data ever taken by Farrel Lytle
  A small but handy database of standards from NSLS beamline X18b
  

Your USB drive, smartphone, IPod or Galaxy Tab is your portable office.
Solution: portable apps + portable Dropbox (A Dropbox account required)

• PORTABLE IFEFFIT + PYTHON FOR WINDOWS - XAFS DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
  

• PORTABLE EMACS WITH ORG-MODE FOR WINDOWS
  

• Particle Physics
  

• Python, Mathematica, etc.
  

• Emacs, LaTeX ("Lah-tech" or "Lay-tech")
  

• Soccer
  

• ……
  

• e-prints: A much better way to share and update your papers (yes, it has existed for a long time.)
  arXiv.org (more than 20 years old!)
  inSPIRE
  

• Mendeley: A great reference manager
  

• MiniManuscript: A openly editable online database of article summaries
  

• Academia: A place to share and follow research
  

• TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  

• Portable Apps: take your favorite software with you
  

• Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
  

• Dropbox: Dropbox is a cloud storage that lets you access your files anywhere and share them easily (Alternative: Google drive and skydrive)
  

• Evernote: Remember everything
  

• AllMyApps: A Software Manager for PC
  

• GNU Emacs
  

• Org-Mode for Emacs: Your Life in Plain Text
  

My favorite Android apps. I will keep it updated.