Winter 2019 Newsletter

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In This Issue

Important Deadlines and Dates
A Note from the DCMP Chair
The 2019 APS March Meeting
2018 DCMP Election Results
DCMP Sponsored Events: DMP/DCMP Fellows and Awards Reception and DCMP Business Meeting
DCMP Sponsored Prize Winners for 2019
Division of Condensed Matter Physics Graduate Student Travel Awards
Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: From Unit Cell to Biological Cell
Imaginative Performances: 1- Quantum Voyages and 2- The History of Physics in 13 Songs
March Meeting: Pre-meeting Workshops
March Meeting Energy Research Workshop
March Meeting: Tutorials
DCMP Executive Committee

Important Deadlines and Dates:

Boston APS March Meeting, March 4 – March 8, 2019, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC)
DCMP/DMP New Fellows & Award Winners Reception, 5:30-7:30 pm, March 5, 2019, Westin Boston Waterfront, Grand Ballroom B
DCMP Business Meeting, 7:00-8:00 pm, March 5, 2019 BCEC, Room 253B

A Note from the DCMP Chair

The March Meeting this year in Boston will be the biggest yet, with more than 11,000 abstracts submitted. There will be 1072 invited talks in 116 invited talk sessions, 453 Focus Sessions, 292 Oral Sessions, and three poster sessions, promising something to match all interests. In an effort to highlight the breadth and diversity of research appearing at this year’s March Meeting, the Kavli Symposium, “From Unit Cell to Biological Cell,” on Wednesday spans the length scales of the complex systems we study. A session focused on the National Quantum Initiative, “Enabling Quantum Leap,” will be held on 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!

Paul Canfield

The 2019 APS March Meeting

The 2019 APS March Meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts from Monday, March 4 to Friday, March 8, 2019. The 2019 March Meeting headquarters hotel is the Westin Boston Waterfront, and the 2019 March Meeting venue is the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC).

The complete 2019 March Meeting bulletin is available in electronic form. For more information, see: http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/index.cfm

For DCMP-sponsored sessions, see the Bulletin.

2018 DCMP Election Results

The results of the 2018 Division of Condensed Matter Physics election for Vice Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and Members-at-Large of the executive committee are:

Vice Chair: David Campbell
Secretary-Treasurer: James Sauls
Members-at-Large: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Leo Radzihovsky

Approximately 12.5% of eligible DCMP members voted in the 2018 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 2019: Meigan Aronson (past chair) and Erica Carlson, Stephen Nagler, and Doug Natelson (members-at-large) have provided outstanding service to DCMP and APS and will be missed. Finally, thanks to the members of the 2018 DCMP Nominating Committee—Peter Hirschfeld (chair), Meigan Aronson, Brad Marston, and Janice Musfeldt—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.

DCMP Sponsored Events: DMP/DCMP Fellows and Awards Reception and DCMP Business Meeting

The Division of Condensed Matter Physics will sponsor the following events during the 2019 March Meeting. This is your opportunity to interact with the Executive Committee and to become informed of the activities of the Division.

Tuesday, March 5
DCMP/DMP New Fellows & Award Winners Reception
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Westin Boston Waterfront, Grand Ballroom B

DCMP Business Meeting
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Rm. 253B

DCMP Sponsored Prize Winners for 2019

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Alexei L. Efros, University of Utah
Boris I. Shklovskii, University of Minnesota
Elihu Abrahams, University of California, Los Angeles
For pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Randall Feenstra, Carnegie Mellon University
For pioneering developments of the techniques and concepts of spectroscopic scanning tunneling microscopy

Lars Onsager Prize
Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland, College Park
For seminal contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics that have had remarkable impact on experimental research in single-molecule and biological physics, engendering whole new fields of theoretical, numerical, and laboratory research, as well as for groundbreaking work on the thermodynamics of small systems

Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics
Edbert Sie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coherent light-matter interactions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Uri Vool, Harvard University
Engineering synthetic quantum operation

Division of Condensed Matter Physics Graduate Student Travel Awards

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 2019 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 5, Westin Boston Waterfront, Grand Ballroom B.

Recipients of the 2019 DCMP Graduate Student Travel Awards:

Name/Institution
Yujin Cho, University of Texas at Austin
Su Kong Chong, University of Utah
Hira Farooq, Texas Tech University
Supriya Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Xiaoyu Ma, University of Notre Dame
Fatemeh Mostafavikhatam, University of Texas at Rio Grande
Parmeshwar Prasad, Indian Institute of Science
Zhenyi Qi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Allen Scheie, Johns Hopkins University
Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recipients of the 2019 DCMP Graduate Student Travel Honorable Mention Awards:

Name/Institution
Kaveh Ahadi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rhonda Au Yeung, University of Surrey
Anurag Banerjee, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Sajib Barman, University of Texas at Arlington
Daniel Campbell, University of Maryland, College Park
Rebecca Cebulka, University of Central Florida
Ramakanta Chapai, Louisiana State University
I-Lin Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Sass, Rutgers University

Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: From Unit Cell to Biological Cell

Wednesday, March 6
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
BCEC Ballroom East/West
Session P00

The Heusler System and How You Can Use It As a Lego Box to Build the States You are Interested In
Claudia Felser, Max Planck Society

The Design and Building of Layer-By-Layer 2-D Systems
Philip Kim, Harvard University

The Design and Growth of Ultra-Stable Glasses
Mark D. Ediger, University of Wisconsin

“Designer” Structures Built From Colloidal/Nanoparticle Systems
Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

Self Assembly of Biological Materials
Clifford Brangwynne, Princeton University

Imaginative Performances: 1- Quantum Voyages and 2- The History of Physics in 13 songs

Wednesday, March 6
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Westin Boston Waterfront, Commonwealth Room

The evening brings two original physics-based performance events created by collaborations between physicists and artists – Quantum Voyages and the History of Physics in 13 Songs. In Quantum Voyages, two voyagers, guided by the spirit of wisdom, enter the microscopic realm of atomic landscapes and quantum conundrums to discover a magnificent and baffling world foreign to everyday human experience. The piece weaves together dramatic performance, movement, music, and guest appearances by physicists. The History of Physics in 13 Songs highlights turning points in the history of Physics. The performance establishes theatrical interpretations by creating lyrics from the writings of some of the most prominent physicists and presents original songs based on these fragments.

March Meeting: Pre-meeting Workshops

DPOLY Short Course: X-ray and Neutron Scattering for Polymer Science
March 2 - 3, 2019, Location TBD

DBIO Short Course: Advanced Microscopy
March 3, 2019, Location TBD

GSOFT Short Course: Structures and Order in Soft Matter Physics
March 3, 2019, Location TBD

March Meeting Energy Research Workshop

March 3, 2019, Location TBD

March Meeting: Tutorials

Sunday, March 3

Morning Tutorials, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Tutorial #1: Hybrid Quantum Systems
Instructors: Paola Cappellaro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland; David Schuster, University of Chicago; Mukund Vengalattore, Cornell University

Tutorial #2: Medical Imaging: Physics, Technology and Algorithms
Instructors: Wojtek Zbijewski, Johns Hopkins University; Robert Jeraj, University of Wisconsin; Stephen Russek, NIST

Tutorial #3: Materials by Design: Computational Materials Approach
Instructors: Shyue Ping, University of California, San Diego; Matteo Giantomassi, Université Catholique du Louvain; Gian-Marco Rignanese, Université Catholique du Louvain; Shyam Dwaraknath, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Tutorial #4: Layered Materials
Instructors: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin; Kin Fai Mak, Cornell University; Michael McGuire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Andrea Young, University of California, Santa Barbara

Afternoon Tutorials, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Tutorial #5: Superconducting Quantum Hybrid Systems
Instructors: Guido Burkhard, University of Konstanz; Jason Petta, Princeton University; Andreas Wallraff, ETH; Will Oliver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tutorial #6: First-Principles Techniques for Interacting Electrons and Phonons
Instructors: Phil Allen, Stony Brook University; Atsushi Togo, Kyoto University; Gabriel Antonius, Université du Québec; Olle Hellman, Caltech

Tutorial #7: Nodal Semi-Metals in General (2D, Weyl, and Nodal Line Systems)
Instructors: S. Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology; B. Trauzettel, Universitaet Wuerzburg; C. Felser, MPI Dresden, J. Analytis, University of California, Berkeley

DCMP Executive Committee

The Executive Committee Officers and Members-at-Large for the 2018-2019 year (most terms begin after the March Meeting):

Officers:

Chair: Paul Canfield, (3/18 – 3/19) Iowa State University

Chair-Elect: Daniel Arovas, (3/18 - 3/19) University of California, San Diego

Vice Chair: Eva Andrei, (3/18 – 3/19) Rutgers University

Past Chair: Meigan Aronson, (3/18 - 3/19) Texas A&M 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:

Erica Carlson, (3/16 - 3/19)
Purdue University

Stephen Nagler, (3/16 - 3/19)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Douglas Natelson, (3/16 - 3/19)
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

Leon Balents (3/18 - 3/21)
University of California, Santa Barbara

Shawna Hollen (3/18 - 3/21)
University of New Hampshire

Philip Phillips (3/18 - 3/21)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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