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Important Deadlines and Dates
A Note from the DCMP Chair
2017 DCMP Election Results
The 2018 APS March Meeting
DCMP Sponsored Events: DMP/DCMP Fellows and Awards Reception and DCMP Business Meeting
DCMP Sponsored Prize Winners for 2018
Division of Condensed Matter Physics Graduate Student Travel Awards
Enabling Quantum Leap: Federal & Private Funding Opportunities in Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science
Kavli Session
March Meeting: Pre-meeting Workshops
March Meeting: Tutorials
DCMP Executive Committee
Los Angeles APS March Meeting, March 5 - March 9, 2018, Los Angeles Convention Center
DCMP/DMP New Fellows & Award Winners Reception, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, March 6, 2018 , J.W. Marriott, Platinum D
DCMP Business Meeting, 7:00 - 8:00 pm, March 6, 2018, J.W. Marriott, Platinum A
The March Meeting this year in Los Angeles will be the biggest yet, with more than 10,000 abstracts submitted. There will be 1050 invited talks in 110 invited talk sessions, 396 Focus Sessions, 313 Oral Sessions, and three poster sessions, promising something to match all interests. The DCMP is the largest Division of the American Physical Society and we play an important role in the success of the March Meeting, through the breadth and quality of our scientific sessions, but also through our outreach. A DCMP session focused on early career programs supported by the funding agencies will be held Monday evening. On Tuesday evening, you are invited to help us celebrate the newly elected DCMP fellows and to attend our DCMP business meeting. I hope you are looking forward to the meeting- see you there!
Meigan Aronson
The results of the 2017 Division of Condensed Matter Physics election for Vice Chair and Members-at-Large of the executive committee are:
Vice Chair: Eva Andrei
Members-at-Large: Leon Balents, Shawna Hollen, and Philip Phillips
Approximately 16% of eligible DCMP members voted in the 2017 DCMP election. We would like to congratulate those elected and express our gratitude to all the DCMP members who agreed to stand as candidates during this election. The DCMP benefits greatly from those who are willing to run for office and serve the condensed matter physics community. We would also like to thank our colleagues who will be leaving office in March 2018: Bill Halperin (past chair) and Martin Greven, Harold Hwang, and Adriana Moreo (members-at-large) have provided outstanding service to DCMP and APS and will be missed. Finally, thanks to the members of the 2017 DCMP Nominating Committee—Barbara Jones (chair), Carmen Almasan, Bill Halperin, and Brad Marston—for identifying a terrific and diverse slate of candidates, and to Allison Betz and her colleagues at MyDirectVote for the online and paper ballot distribution and counting.
The 2018 APS March Meeting will be held in Los Angeles, California from Monday, March 5 to Friday, March 9, 2018. The 2018 March Meeting headquarters hotel is the JW Marriott Los Angeles, and the 2018 March Meeting venue is the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The complete 2018 March Meeting bulletin is available in electronic form. For more information, see the March Meeting webpage.
For DCMP-sponsored sessions, see the Bulletin
The Division of Condensed Matter Physics will sponsor the following events during the 2018 March Meeting. This is your opportunity to interact with the Executive Committee and to become informed of the activities of the Division.
Tuesday, March 6
DCMP/DMP New Fellows & Award Winners Reception
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
J.W. Marriott, Platinum D
DCMP Business Meeting
7:00 - 8:00pm
J.W. Marriott, Platinum A
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Paul Michael Chaikin, New York University
For pioneering contributions that opened new directions in the field of soft condensed matter physics through innovative studies of colloids, polymers, and packing
Lars Onsager Prize
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
For his seminal contributions to the theory of quantum phase transitions, quantum magnetism, and fractionalized spin liquids, and for his leadership in the physics community
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
John E. Thomas, North Carolina State University
For his seminal contributions to the study of unitary Fermi gases, from their experimental realization to measurements of their collective mode dynamics, universal thermodynamic relations, and quantum transport coefficients
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Physics
Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute & University of Oxford
Keith A. Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For pioneering contributions to the development and application of ultra-fast optical spectroscopy to condensed matter systems, and providing insight into lattice dynamics, structural phase transitions, and the non-equilibrium control of solids
Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics
Claire Donnelly, ETH Zurich – Paul Scherrer Institute
Hard X-ray Tomography of Three Dimensional Magnetic Structures
M. A. Mueed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phases of Interacting Two-dimensional Carriers Using One-dimensional Density Modulation
The DCMP Graduate Student Travel Award Program has been established to assist the professional development and careers of graduate student researchers. This year, we awarded ten $500 DCMP Travel Awards and ten Honorable Mention recognitions to allow graduate student members of DCMP to participate in 2018 APS March Meeting sessions. The selection was based on merit and the committee consisted of members of the DCMP Executive Committee.
The DCMP Graduate Student Travel Awards will be presented at the DCMP/DMP New Fellows and Award Winners Reception, Tuesday, March 6, J.W. Marriott, Platinum D
The recipients of the 2018 DCMP Graduate Student Travel Awards are:
Name/Institution
Rohit Babar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Moritz Binder, Duke University
Matteo Ippoliti, Princeton University
Jingcheng Liang, Purdue University
Yunqiu (Kelly) Luo, The Ohio State University
Christopher Lynn, University of Pennsylvania
Hilal Saglam, Argonne National Laboratory
Zahra Taghipour, University of New Mexico
Jie Zhang, Rice University
Lihuang Zhu, Dartmouth College
Recipients of the 2018 DCMP Graduate Student Travel Honorable Mention Awards are:
Name/Institution
Arif Abdullah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Omadillo Abdurazakov, North Carolina State University
Grace Causer, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Oksana Chubenko, The George Washington University
Ziwei Dou, University of Cambridge
Souratosh Khan, University of Arizona
Min Khanal, Auburn University
Ryan Rawl, University of Tennessee
Dhavala Suri, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Kapila Wijayaratne, University of Virginia
Bin Yan, Purdue University
Monday, March 5
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall C
Session D04
This invited session and discussion will focus on programs run by federal agencies: NSF, DOE, AFOSR, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and DOD. The session will serve as one-stop source of information for potential applicants. It will also provide access to program officers involved in running the programs related to Condensed Matter Physics.
Wednesday, March 7
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall B
Session P61
Einstein, Gravitational Waves and a New Science
Barry Barish, Cal Tech
Topological and Quantum Matter (theory)
Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford
Frugal Physics and Global Health
Manu Prakash, Stanford
Novel Superconductors (experiment)
Ming Yi, Berkeley
The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Amir Abo-Shaeer, Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
DPOLY Short Course: The Gel, Elastomer, and Network Experience (GENE)
March 3 - 4, 2018, Location TBD
DBIO Short Course: Physics Meets Robotics: A Hands-On Locomotion Robophysics
March 4, 2018, Location TBD
GSOFT Short Course: Machine Learning and Data Science in Soft Matter
March 4, 2018, Location TBD
GERA & FECS Energy Research Workshop
March 4, 2018, Location TBD
Finding Your Scientific Voice: Improving Your March Meeting Presentation
March 4, 2018, Location TBD
Professional Skills Development Seminar for Women For Undergrads & Graduate Students
March 4, 2018, Location TBD
Sunday, March 4
Morning Tutorials, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Tutorial #1: Density Functional Theory
Instructors: Kieron Burke, University of California at Irvine; Neepa Maitra, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; John Perdew, Temple University; Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri-Columbia
Tutorial #2: Thermoelectrics
Instructors: Marco Bernardi, California Institute of Technology; Lucas Lindsay, Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab; G. Jeffrey Snyder, Northwestern; Vladan Stevanovic, Colorado School of Mines
Tutorial #3: Quantum Spintronics
Instructors: David D. Awschalom, University of Chicago; Christoph Boehme, University of Utah; Michael E. Flatté, University of Iowa; Evelyn Hu, Harvard University
Tutorial #4: Quantum Information and Spacetime
Instructors: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology; Daniel Harlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen Shenker, Stanford; Brian Swingle, University of Maryland.
Tutorial #5: Hybrid Quantum Systems
Instructors: David Schuster, University of Chicago; Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada Reno; Mukund Vengalattore, Cornell University; Peter Rabl, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology
Tutorial #6: Quantum Critical Systems
Instructors: Andrey Chubukov, University of Minnesota; Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University; Yoni Schattner, Stanford University; James Analytis, University of California, Berkeley
Tutorial #7: Mathematica and Wolfram Language for Physics
Instructors: Kyle Keane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel George, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Luke Titus, Wolfram Research; Vitaliy Kaurov, Wolfram Research
The Executive Committee Officers and Members-at-Large for the 2017-2018 year (most terms begin after the March Meeting):
Officers:
Chair: Meigan Aronson, (3/17 - 3/18) Texas A&M University
Chair-Elect: Paul Canfield, (3/17 - 2/18) Iowa State University
Vice Chair: Daniel Arovas, (3/17 - 2/18) University of California, San Diego
Past Chair: William Halperin, (3/17 - 3/18) Northwestern University
Councilor: John Marston, (1/16 - 12/19) Brown University
Secretary/Treasurer: Lance Cooper, (3/15 - 3/19) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Members-at-Large:
Martin Greven, (3/15 - 3/18)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Harold Hwang, (3/15 - 3/18)
Stanford University
Adriana Moreo, (3/15 - 3/18)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Erica Carlson, (3/16 - 2/19)
Purdue University
Stephen Nagler, (3/16 - 2/19)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Douglas Natelson, (3/16 - 2/19)
Rice University
Mark Freeman, (3/17 - 3/20)
University of Alberta
Kathleen Stebe, (3/17 - 3/20)
University of Pennsylvania
Rashid Zia, (3/17 - 3/20)
Brown University
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