The AVS 65th Symposium was held in Long Beach, CA. Most of the lab presented papers or were on papers including Tobias Brown-Heft, Shouvik Chatterjee, Sukgeun Choi, Sean Harrington, Anthony McFadden, Mihir Pendharkar, Dan Pennachio; and some recent grads--Jason Kawasaki, Jay Logan, Anthony Rice, and Nate WIlson. Many of the papers were in the Heusler session organized by Jason Kawasaki who is now a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.