Winter 2019 Newsletter

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A Message from the Chair

Since DMP published the Summer 2018 Newsletter, our Chair-Elect, Nitin Samarth, has been doing an amazing job working with his team of Focus Topic organizers to put together the exciting slate of Focus Topic sessions and other events that DMP will be hosting at the APS March Meeting, which takes place in just a few weeks. I encourage you to attend as many of these events as you can in your busy March Meeting schedule.

DMP principally contributes to the March Meeting through the organization of Focus Topic sessions. Roughly 20% of the submitted abstracts to the March Meeting 2019 were submitted to DMP-led Focus Topics, and in this Newsletter you will find links and details describing the numerous DMP sessions and events in Boston. DMP is leading 20 Focus Topics and is co-sponsoring 16 others, in addition to some invited sessions and a special National Quantum Initiative Outreach session on ‘Enabling Quantum Leap’, which in total is over 250 sessions. DMP also sponsors three invited symposia during the week, including a Monday morning prize session (B60) in which speak the recipients of the McGroddy Prize for new Materials, Claudia Felser, Andrei Bernevig, and Xi Dai, the Adler Lectureship awardee, Giulia Galli, and the Valley Prize awardee, Julia Mundy. The IUPAP C-10 Young Scientist Prize winner, Ming Yi, will be giving an invited talk in one of the Focus Topic sessions (A10), also on Monday morning. Toni Taylor has organized our annual "Physics for Everyone" symposium, which is taking place Wednesday midday (L36), around the theme of "Physics of Natural Phenomena". Speaking will be Rodman Linn, Kerry Emanuel, Sarah Kapnick, Rachel Abercrombie, Brad Lipovsky. The third invited session, being held on Thursday midday (S42), recognizes Millie Dresselhaus’ scientific legacy in nanoscience; the invited speakers are Charles Lieber, Chun Ning Lau, Antonio Helio Castro Neto, Mauricio Terrones, Gang Chen. I strongly encourage you to support our invited symposia and our Focus Topic sessions.

DMP will be recognizing our award winners and the new APS fellows nominated through DMP on Tuesday evening, March 5, from 5:30-7:30 in Grand Ballroom D at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. We also recognize the achievements of junior scientists through the Ovshinsky Travel Awards, the IUPAP C-10 Young Scientist Prize, and the Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Materials and Condensed Matter Physics. The annual DMP business meeting follows immediately after in Room 253C in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC), which is just across East Side Drive from the Westin. Topics to be discussed in that meeting include the Focus Topics for the 2020 March meeting, including any new proposals for Focus Topics – this is your opportunity to help set the agenda for the 2020 March meeting.

Talking of new Focus Topics… now is the time to propose new Focus Topics for next year’s March meeting, by contacting Toni Taylor, who will be the DMP Program Chair for the 2020 March Meeting in Denver. A DMP focus topic provides a structure to gather contributed and invited talks together in a series of coordinated sessions that foster increased discussion on a specific area. DMP Secretary/Treasurer Charles Ahn (charles.ahn@yale.edu) following the instructions provided later in this Newsletter. Please consider suggesting invited speakers to these Focus Topics when the selections and organizers are announced; the Focus Topics are central to DMP’s role in the March meeting.

I would also like to ask for your help in highlighting the accomplishments of DMP membership. DMP recognizes major accomplishments in materials physics through the David Adler Lectureship Award and the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. Please consider advancing a deserving colleague for one of these prestigious awards and I would ask you to consider diversity when making your nominations. Application packages are due 6/3/2019. See the APS Prizes, Awards and Fellows pages for details of the nomination processes.

New APS Fellowship nominations are also on the horizon, with DMP requesting the nomination packages by 5/1/2019. You can find information on how to nominate your colleagues at http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships. Rachel Goldman, who will join the DMP officers as Vice-Chair immediately following the March Meeting will chair the selection process and looks forward to your suggestions.

None of these activities happen without the contribution of an army of volunteers, including Focus Topic organizers and the DMP Executive Committee. I would particularly like to thank Nitin Samarth, the DMP Program Chair for the 2019 March Meeting, for his efforts: please support Nitin by attending the outstanding program of talks and sessions assembled for this year’s meeting. In my role as DMP Chair, I would have been lost without the advice and example of Daniel Dessau, the DMP Past Chair who will be rotating off the DMP Executive Committee. My thanks also go to Sam Bader, DMP Councilor, who represents the perspective of materials physics at the APS Council, and to the DMP ExComm Members at Large who are completing their terms, Scott Chambers and Michelle Johannes, who provided invaluable contributions to the Focus Topic organization. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the newly-elected members of the DMP Executive Committee: Vice-Chair-elect Rachel Goldman, and Members at Large elect, Kyle Shen and Oana Jurchescu.

It has been an honor to serve as DMP Chair this past year, and I thank all of you for the opportunity.

Amanda Petford-Long, DMP Chair

Call for DMP Focus Session Topics for 2019 APS March Meeting (March 2–6, 2020 in Boston)

The Division of Materials Physics sponsors a wide range of focus topics as its primary structure for the March Meeting. Typically spanning several sessions throughout the March Meeting, focus topics allow an in-depth view of forefront materials physics research areas and connect invited speakers to associated contributed abstracts.

Each year, the existing set of focus topics is evaluated for inclusion in the next year's program. In addition, new candidates for focus topics are considered based on timeliness, an assessment of the community interest, and uniqueness with the existing DMP program and those of sister units. Ideas coming from the DMP community at large are an extremely important part of this process.

To that end, the DMP Executive Committee solicits your input for the 2019 focus topics slate. New focus topics should represent a significant topic that would support three or more March Meeting sessions (each session typically has one invited talk and 12 related contributed talks).

Please send proposals for new focus topics to DMP Secretary/Treasurer Charles Ahn (charles.ahn@yale.edu) by 5 p.m. EST on Monday, February 25, 2019. Please include:

  • Descriptive title of the focus topic
  • The nominator’s name, affiliation, phone number and email address
  • A brief abstract noting timeliness and uniqueness of the topic relative to the existing program
  • A description of the intended audience that supports the size and scope of a focus topic
  • Suggestions for possible organizers
  • Any additional information you would like to provide that will help the DMP Executive Committee in its
  • decision-making process will be appreciated. For your reference, a list of the 2019 DMP focus topics is included below.

If you have any questions or would like assistance in the preparation of your proposal, please contact DMP 2020 Program Chair Toni Taylor (ttaylor@lanl.gov).

Thank you in advance for your help in this extremely important part of planning for the future success of the DMP program.

Sincerely,

Toni Taylor, DMP Vice Chair and 2020 Program Chair
Nitin Samarth, DMP Chair-elect and 2019 Program Chair

Focus Topics at APS March Meeting 2019

Focus Topics led by DMP:

07.01.01 Topological materials: synthesis, characterization and modeling [same as 36.07.01.01)

07.01.02 Dirac and Weyl semimetals: materials and modeling (DMP) [same as 36.07.01.02]

07.01.03 Topological superconductivity: materials and modeling [same as 09.01.02, 36.07.01.03, 36.09.01.02]

08.01.02 Dopants and defects in semiconductors [cosponsors: DCOMP, FIAP; same as 16.01.15, 36.08.01.02]

08.01.03 Dielectric and ferroic oxides [cosponsor: DCOMP; same as 11.01.01, 16.01.14, 36.08.01.03, 36.11.01.01, 36.16.01.14]

08.01.04 Organometal halide perovskites: photovoltaics and beyond [same as 36.08.01.04]

09.01.01 Fe-based Superconductors [cosponsor: DCOMP; same as 16.01.16, 36.09.01.01]

11.01.05: 5d/4d transition metal systems [same as 36.11.01.05]

12.01.01: 2D Materials: Synthesis, Defects, Structure and Properties [same as 36.12.01.01]

12.01.02: 2D Materials: Semiconductors [cosponsor: DCOMP; same as 16.01.17, 36.12.01.02]

12.01.03: Devices from 2D Materials: Function, Fabrication and Characterization [same as 36.12.01.13]

12.01.04: 2D Materials: Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials [same as 36.12.01.04]

12.01.05: Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials [same as 16.01.13, 36.12.01.05, 36.16.01.13]

13.01.01: Nanostructures and Metamaterials [same as 36.13.01.01]

13.01.02: Electron, Exciton, and Phonon Transport in Nanostructures [same as 36.13.01.02]

13.01.03: Complex Oxide Interfaces and Heterostructures [same as 36.13.01.03]

13.01.04: Materials for Quantum Information Science [same as 36.13.01.04]

14.01.01: Surface Science of Organic Molecular Solids, Films, and Nanostructures [same as 36.14.01.01]

21.01.01 Thermoelectrics [cosponsor: GERA) [same as 36.21.01.01]

Focus Topics co-sponsored (but not led) by DMP

01.01.01 Organic Electronics (DPOLY, DMP) [same as 36.01.01.01]

01.01.02 Optics and Photonics in Polymers and Soft Matter (DPOLY, GSOFT, DMP) [same as 02.01.26, 36.01.01.02]

02.01.13 Hyperuniformity and optimal tessellations: structure, formation and properties (GSOFT, DPOLY, DBIO, DMP, DCOMP, GSNP) [same as 01.01.31, 03.01.34, 04.01.37, 16.01.26, 36.16.01.26]

10.01.01 Magnetic Nanostructures: Materials and phenomena (GMAG, DMP) [same as 36.10.01.01]

10.01.02 Emergent Properties of Bulk Complex Oxides (GMAG, DMP, DCOMP) [same as 11.01.02, 16.01.23, 36.10.01.02]

10.01.03 Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures (GMAG, DMP, DCOMP) [same as 11.01.03, 16.01.24, 36.10.01.03]

10.01.04 Spin transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metals-Based Systems (GMAG, DMP, FIAP) [same as 22.01.04, 36.10.01.04]

10.01.05 Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors (GMAG, DMP, FIAP, DCOMP) [same as 08.01.01, 16.01.25, 36.10.01.05]

10.01.06 Frustrated Magnetism (GMAG, DMP) [same as 36.10.01.06]

10.01.07 Chiral Spin Textures and Dynamics, Including Skyrmions (GMAG, DMP) [same as 36.10.01.07]

10.01.08 Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism (GMAG, DMP) [same as 36.10.01.08]

16.01.01 Matter in Extreme Environments (DCOMP, DMP, GSCCM) [same as 18.01.01]

16.01.02 Building the bridge to exascale: applications and opportunities for materials, chemistry, and biology (DCOMP, DAMOP, DBIO, DCP, DCMP, DMP, DPOLY) [same as 01.01.25, 04.01.22, 05.01.06, 06.01.09, 11.01.07, 36.16.01.02]

16.01.03 Electrons, phonons, electron-phonon scattering, and phononics (DCOMP, DMP) [same as 36.16.01.03]

16.01.04 First-principles modeling of excited-state phenomena in materials (DCOMP, DCP, DMP) [same as 05.01.07, 36.16.01.04]

16.01.07 Exploring Free Energy Landscapes in Biology and Materials Science with Advanced Algorithms (DCOMP, DPOLY, DBIO, DMP, GSOFT, GSNP) [same as 01.01.26, 02.01.35, 03.01.36, 04.01.23, 36.16.01.07]

17.01.09 Topological Stabilization of Memory and Computation (DQI, DMP) [same as 36.17.01.09]

New Members of the Executive Committee

The following members were elected to serve on the DMP Executive Committee:

Vice Chair: Rachel Goldman
Member at Large: Kyle Shen
Member at Large: Oana Jurchescu

We congratulate the new members of the Executive Committee and look forward to their participation and leadership.

DMP Executive Committee for 2019-2020

The Executive Committee Officers and Members-at-Large for the 2019-2020 year, (who begin their terms begin following the March Meeting):

Officers:

Chair: Nitin Samarth, (04/19 - 03/20)
Pennsylvania State University

Chair-Elect: Toni Taylor, (04/19 - 03/20)
Los Alamos National Laboratory

*Vice-Chair: Rachel Goldman (04/19 - 03/20)
University of Michigan

Past Chair: Amanda Petford-Long, (04/19 - 03/20)
Argonne National Laboratory

Councilor: Samuel D. Bader, (01/17 - 12/20)
Argonne National Laboratory

Secretary/Treasurer: Charles Ahn, (04/17 - 03/20)
Yale University

Members-at-Large:

Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, (04/17 - 03/20)
The Ohio State University

Ni Ni, (04/17 - 03/20)
University of California, Los Angeles

James Rondinelli (04/18 - 03/21)
Northwestern University

Judith Yang (04/18 – 03/21)
University of Pittsburgh

*Kyle Shen, (04/19 – 03/22)
Cornell University

*Oana Jurchescu, (04/19 – 03/22)
Wake Forest University

*Newly elected

March Meeting: Location

The March Meeting 2019 of the APS will take place, March 4-8, in the Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA. All scientific sessions will be in the Convention Center but events and activities may be in the Convention Center or the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. Check event details for time and place.

For further information see:
http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/index.cfm

For the DMP sponsored sessions see:
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR19/SessionIndex2?SponsorID=DMP

March Sponsored Meetings: DMP/DCMP Fellows and Awards Reception and Business Meeting

The Division of Materials Physics will sponsor the following meetings 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 5

DCMP/DMP New Fellows & Award Winners Reception
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Grand Ballroom D at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel

DMP Business Meeting, (JA50)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Room 253C, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards

The Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards and Honorable Mention Awards have been established to assist the career of student researchers. The Awards are in memory of Iris and Stanford Ovshinsky who had a very strong interest and commitment to scientific education. The awards have been endowed by the Ovshinsky family, their colleagues at Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) companies and all their numerous friends from many social, intellectual and business relationships.

We are extremely grateful to the Ovshinsky family for this award. Since the original launch of the award, the family have provided further gifts to endow the awards.

The Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards will be presented at the DCMP/DMP New Fellows and Award Winners Reception, Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 p.m. in Grand Ballroom D at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.

The recipients of the 2019 Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards for Materials Physics are:

Nicholas Adamski, University of California, Santa Barbara - Polarization engineering with novel nitride heterostructures from first principles

Vipul Chaturvedi, University of Minnesota - Interplay between Strain-Stabilized Ferromagnetism and Charge Transport in Epitaxial LaCoO3-δ Thin Films

Alexander Hampel, ETH Zurich - Energetics of the coupled electronic-structural transition in the rare-earth nickelates

Tamaghna Hazra, Ohio State University - Topological Superconductivity in Honeycomb Dirac Systems

Brenda Knauber, University of Minnesota - Hierarchical Kinetics in 1/f Noise in Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Thin Films

Shanyuan Niu, University of Southern California - Crystal growth, electronic structure and optical properties of BaZrS3 and its Ruddlesden Popper phases

Santanu Kumar Parida, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research - Size dependent surface band bending in GaN nanowires

Abhishek Sharan, University of Delaware - Topological Weyl semimetals in Full Heusler Co2MnX (X = Si, Ge, Sn)

Prachi Telang, IISER Pune - Tuning the ground state of a candidate Weyl semimetal Eu2Ir2O7 by Bi doping

Daniel Trainer, Temple University - The Effect of Strain and Strain Relaxation on the Atomic-Scale in Monolayer MoS2 Films

Cheng Zhang, Fudan University - Ultra-high surface conductivity in Weyl semimetal NbAs

Joshua Ziegler, University of Oregon - Deterministic Quantum Emitter Formation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride via Controlled Edge Creation

The recipients of the 2019 Ovshinsky Student Travel Honorable Mention Awards for Materials Physics are:

Kraig Andrews, Wayne State University - Contact Engineering of 2D Semiconductors using Ultrathin Transition Metal Dichalcogenides as a Contact Interlayer

Alyssa Henderson, Florida State University - Structural Phase Transitions in the S=1/2 Kagome Antiferromagnets Barlowite and Claringbullite

Jarvis Li, California Institute of Technology - Resolution of Ultra-thin Piezoresistive Silicon Nanomechanical Resonators for Single Molecules Mass Spectrometry

Neda Lotfizadeh, University of Utah - Magneto-Chiral Anisotropy in Carbon Nanotubes

John Ortmann, University of Texas at Austin - Silicon-Integrated Transition Metal Oxide Thin Film Quantum Structures

Sen Shoham, Carnegie Mellon University - Density of States of Graphene Doped with Transition Metals

Rajan Singh, Indian Institute of Technology - Tunable nonlinearity in a Graphene-Silicon Nitride hybrid resonator

Mark Turiansky, University of California, Santa Barbara - Incorporation of Boron in Gallium Nitride

Division of Materials Physics Post-Doctoral Travel Awards

The DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards have been established this year to recognize innovative materials physics research by Post-Doctoral researchers that will be presented at the APS March Meeting. The Awards are supported through the Division of Materials Physics.

The recipients will receive $800 Travel Awards to support participation in DMP Focus Topic sessions at the APS 2019 March Meeting sessions. The selection of the recipients of the DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards is based on the research quality, the impact of the research at the March Meeting and the innovative contribution of the post-doctoral researcher.

The DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards will be presented at the DCMP/DMP New Fellows and Award Winners Reception, Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 p.m. (Grand Ballroom D at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel).

The recipients of the 2019 DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards are:

Hsiang-Hsi Kung, University of British Columbia - Observation of Chiral Surface Excitons in a Topological Insulator Bi2Se3

Antonio Levy, University of Maryland - Optical Evidence of Chiral Magnetic Anomaly in Weyl Semimetal TaAs

Changjiang Liu, Argonne National Laboratory - Observation of non-Fermi liquid behaviors on high-mobility LaNiO3

Awadhesh Narayan, ETH Zurich - Multiferroic Quantum Criticality

Sheng Ran, University of Maryland, College Park & NIST - Spontaneously polarized half-gapped superconductivity in UTe2

Timo Schumann, University of California, Santa Barbara - Manipulating the Topological Surface States of Cd3As2 by N* Plasma Exposure

Rongting Wu, Yale University - Synthesis and characterization of large-area single-crystal sheets of borophene on Cu(111) surface

Di Yi, Stanford University - Electrical control of phase transitions through ion transfer in oxide superlattices

Award and Prize Winners

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute Chemical Physics of Solids
For the theoretical prediction, design and realization of non-magnetic and magnetic topological semi-metals and new types of topological insulators.

Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
For the theoretical prediction, design and realization of non-magnetic and magnetic topological semi-metals and new types of topological insulators.

Xi Dai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
For the theoretical prediction, design and realization of non-magnetic and magnetic topological semi-metals and new types of topological insulators.

David Adler Lectureship Award
Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
For the invention of methods, especially for the enhancement of ab initio molecular dynamics, to understand, predict, and engineer the electronic and structural properties of materials.

IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter (C10)
Ming Yi, Rice University
For her fundamental contributions in understanding electronic and magnetic order and dynamics in quantum materials, including iron-based superconductors.

Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics
Edbert Jarvis Sie, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
For thesis topic, “Engineering synthetic quantum operations.”

Uri Vool, Harvard University
For thesis topic, “Coherent light-matter interactions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides.”

2018 APS Fellows nominated through DMP:

Kookrin Char, Seoul National University
Citation: For sustained and groundbreaking research in advancing both synthesis and understanding of perovskite oxide epitaxial films and devices, including cuprate-based Josephson junctions, tunable titanate dielectrics, and high-mobility stannate semiconductors.

Philippe Ghosez, Université de Liège
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of ferroelectricity and related phenomena in bulk and nanoscale perovskite oxides, specifically the finite size effects and imperfect screening in ferroelectric thin films and for the discovery of a new type of improper ferroelectricity.

Jennifer Hollingsworth, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the discovery and development of non-blinking giant quantum dots, spanning pioneering contributions to materials chemistry, the photophysics of excited-state processes in nanomaterials, and applications in optoelectronics.

Shu Ping Lau, Hong Koong Polytechnic University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding of the optical properties of nanostructured semiconductor materials, especially quantum dots and significant impact on the use of these materials for optoelectronic and energy storage devices.

Xiuling Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding and technical innovations to epitaxial growth, fabrication, and applications of semiconductor nanowires and nano-membranes, towards making electronic and photonic devices smaller, faster, and cheaper.

Junqiao Wu, University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For developing and understanding narrow-bandgap nitride semiconductors and highly mismatched alloys, for pioneering the physics of point defects and interlayer coupling of twodimensional semiconductors, and for discovering non-quasiparticle electro-thermal transport in strongly correlated metals.

Qihua Xiong, Nanyang Technological University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to semiconductor nanomaterials synthesis, advanced optical spectroscopy and mechanistic understanding of light-matter interactions, leading to semiconductor laser cooling and high performance nanolasers.

March Meeting: Public Outreach

D51: Enabling Quantum Leap: National Quantum Initiative Special Outreach Session
Chair: Tomasz Durakiewicz (NSF); speakers:
Monday, March 4, 2019, 7:30 p.m. - 9:40 p.m.

March Meeting: DMP Sponsored Symposia & Special Events

DMP Invited Symposia

B60 DMP Prize Session (Claudia Felser, Andrei Bernevig, and Xi Dai: McGroddy Prize for New Materials; Giulia Galli, David Adler Lectureship Award; Julia Mundy, Valley Prize Award)

L36 Physics for Everyone (Rodman Linn, Kerry Emanuel, Sarah Kapnick, Rachel Abercrombie, Brad Lipovsky)

S42 Millie Dresselhaus’ Legacy in Nanoscience (Charles Lieber, Chun Ning Lau, Antonio Helio Castro Neto, Mauricio Terrones, Gang Chen)

Graduate Student Lunch with the Experts

Sponsoring Units: APS units at the meeting, Room: TBA, Tues., March 5, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Students may sign up (in registration area) on site to enjoy a complimentary box-lunch while participating in an informal discussion with an expert on a topic of interest to them.

DMP Supported Tables include:

  • Liang Fu, MIT "Quantum materials"
  • Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Lab, “Managing a career as a woman in physics”
  • Jun Zhu, Penn State University “Valleytronics”
  • Jie Shan, Cornell University, “Optical phenomena in 2D materials”
  • David Awschalom, University of Chicago, “Quantum science & technology with semiconductors”
  • Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Quantum defects & computational materials science”
  • Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute, “Predicting and synthesizing topological quantum materials”
  • Toni Taylor, Los Alamos National Lab, “Careers at national labs”

DCMP/DMP New Fellows & Award Winners Reception

Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Grand Ballroom D, Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel

DMP: McGroddy Prize, Adler Award, Greene Dissertation Awards, DMP-nominated APS Fellows, Ovshinksy Student Travel Awards, DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards. Laura Greene will also recognize the IUPAP C10 Prize winner

DCMP: Buckley Prize, Onsager Prize, Lilienfeld Prize, Davisson-Germer Prize, Isakson Prize, DCMP Nominated APS Fellows

DMP Business Meeting

Tuesday, March 5, 7:30-8:30pm, Room 253C, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

DMP Focus Topic Sessions:

DMP Sponsored Sessions

Session A
A02. Focus Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Emergent Interfacial Phenomena
A04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Thin Films and Nanostructures
A05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: Majorana
A10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors I
A11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- 1D, 2D, and Layered Materials
A12. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Microscopy and Spectroscopy
A13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- Transport
A14. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- CDWs
A15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Monolayers
A16. Focus Transport in Nanostructures -- Thin Films, Heterostructures and Nanodevices
A20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials I: Many-body Perturbation Theory (Techniques and Applications)
A22. Focus Building the Bridge to Exascale: Applications and Opportunities for Materials, Chemistry, and Biology I
A37. Focus Kitaev Magnetism
A38. Focus Magnetoelectric and Multiferroic Effects in Molecular Systems
A39. Focus Coherent Spins in Semiconductors
A41. Focus Spin Transport and Excitations in Antiferromagnets
A46. Focus 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Perovskite and Honeycomb Iridates
Session B
B02. Focus Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Flexoelectric, Photovoltaic, and Piezoelectric properties
B04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Magnetic Topological Semimetals
B10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors II
B11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- Device Materials
B13. Focus Materials (General) -- Modeling and Characterization
B14. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Magnetism
B15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Multilayers & Heterostructures I
B16. Focus Transport in Nanostructures -- Single Molecules and Molecular Devices
B20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials II: Many-body Perturbation Theory (Techniques and Applications)
B21. Focus Exploring Free Energy Landscapes in Biology and Materials Science I
B22. Focus Building the Bridge to Exascale: Applications and Opportunities for Materials, Chemistry, and Biology II
B38. Focus 2D Magnetism I
B39. Focus Spin transport and Hall effect
B40. Focus Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures I
B41. Focus Novel Magnetic Structures and Excitations I
B46. Focus 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Ruthenates and RuCl3
B60. Invited DMP Prize Session
Session C
C02. Focus Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Magnetoelectric Effects
C04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Nodal-line Semimetals and Beyond
C05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: Twisted Layers, Heterojunctions, Interfaces
C08. Superconductivity: Copper Oxide - Pseudogap
C10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors III
C11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- Energy Materials
C12. 2D Materials (General): Transport and Optical Phenomena -- Light-Matter Interactions
C13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- Magnetic and Thermal Properties
C14. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Superconductivity
C15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Multilayers & Heterostructures II
C16. Focus Transport in Nanostructures -- Quantum dots, nanocrystals, and nanowires
C20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials III: Recent Advances in Excited State Formalisms
C21. Focus Exploring Free Energy Landscapes in Biology and Materials Science II
C37. Focus Spin Liquids: Alpha-RuCl3
C39. Focus Spin-orbit Coupling in Semiconductors
C40. Focus Magnetic Structure in Bulk Oxides
C41. Focus Spin Dynamics I
C46. Focus 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Chalcogenides and Nonoxides
C50. Focus Optically and Photonically Active Polymers
Session D
D51. Invited Enabling Quantum Leap: National Quantum Initiative Special Outreach Session
Session E
E02. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Optically Induced Properties and Optical Measurements
E04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Materials Prediction I
E05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: TMD, Quantum Wells
E08. Lower Temperature Superconductors
E09. Novel and Less-common Superconductors
E10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors -- Bulk FeSe
E11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- Oxides
E12. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Sensors
E13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- Growth, Mostly CVD/T
E15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Magnetism
E16. Focus Transport in Nanostructures -- Nanoscale Transport I
E20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials IV: Time-dependent Density Functional Theory
E22. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Machine Learning
E37. Focus Kagome Lattices
E38. Focus Theoretical Underpinnings of Magnetism
E39. Focus Magnetic Nanostructures and Nanoparticles
E40. Focus Magnetic Excitations in Oxides
E46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Ferroelectrics/multiferroics, polar metals and strange metals
Session F
F02. Focus Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Structure, Phase Stability, and Competition I
F04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Transport II (including STM, etc)
F05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: 3D Materials
F10. Fe-based Superconductors -- Magnetic properties
F11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- Quantum Defects
F12. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Transport
F13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- Scaled Growth
F15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Optical Properties I
F16. Focus Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Semiconductors
F37. Focus Pyrochlores I: Moment Fragmentation, Quantum Spin Liquids, and Beyond
F38. Focus Molecular Nanomagnets
F39. Focus Magnetic Coupling and Exchange Bias
F40. Focus Transport in Magnetic Materials
F41. Focus Novel Magnetic Structures and Excitations II
F46. Focus 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Perovskite Iridates
Session H
H02. Focus Topological Metamaterials and Functional Nanostructures
H04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Type-II Topological Semimetals
H05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: 2D, Junctions
H10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors IV
H11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- Quantum Materials
H12. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Theory
H13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- Defects
H15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Optical Properties II
H16. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Structure Prediction and Optimization
H20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials VI: Quantum Chemistry and Non-adiabatic Dynamics
H22. Focus Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics I
H37. Focus Spin Dimers in a Frustrated Lattice and Other Systems
H38. Focus Monolayer Magnets I
H39. Focus Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and Magnetism in Semiconductors
H40. Focus Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures II: Iridates and Multiferroics
H41. Focus Skyrmion Crystals
H46. Focus 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Pyrochlores
H50. Focus Advances in Optical Microscopy and Photopolymerization
Session J
J80. DCMP/DMP Joint Fellows Reception
J53. DMP Business Meeting
Session K
K02. Focus Topological Metamaterials
K04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Transport I
K05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: Fe-based Materials
K08. Non-equilibrium Superconductivity
K10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors -- FeSe Intercalates and Interfaces
K11. Focus Defects in Semiconductors -- Wide Band Gap
K12. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- TMDC
K13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- Topology and Exotic Phenomena
K15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Transport and Optical Phenomena in Bilayers and Heterostructures
K20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials VII: 2D Materials and Surfaces
K22. Focus Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics II
K38. Focus 2D Magnetism II
K39. Focus Spin Pumping
K40. Focus Control of Magnetic Oxides
K41. Focus Chiral Magnetism and Structures I
K46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Interfacial two dimensional electron gas
K50. Focus Organic Electronics I: Organic Photovoltaics and Photophysics
Session L
L02. Focus Topological Materials -- Optical and other Spectroscopy
L04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Materials Prediction II
L05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: Theory
L10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors -- FeSe Intercalates and Interfaces II
L11. Focus Materials for Quantum Information Science -- Engineering Quantum States
L12. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- TMDC Theory
L13. Focus 2D Materials (General) -- New Materials and Emerging Properties
L15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Quantum Interactions in Transport and Optical Phenomena
L20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials VIII: Excited State Dynamics From First Principles
L22. Focus Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics III
L36. Invited Physics of Natural Phenomena
L37. Focus Iridates -- Honeycomb Lattice and Other Geometries
L38. Focus Spin Chains, Criticality and QPT
L39. Focus Defect Spins in Semiconductors
L40. Focus Magnetism and Domain Structures in Complex Oxides
L41. Focus Heterostructures and Thin Films for Skyrmions
L46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Ultrafast Dynamics, Defects & General Phenomena
L55. Devices from 2D Materials -- Optical Spectroscopy
Session P
P02. Focus Topological Materials -- New Theoretical Approaches
P04. Focus Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Optical and Spectroscopy
P11. Focus Materials for Quantum Information Science -- Defect-based Quantum Technology
P13. 2D Materials (General) -- Functionalization and Control of Electronic Properties
P15. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Magnetism
P20. Focus First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials IX: Applications of First Principles Methods to Magnetic and Catalytic Materials
P22. Focus Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics IV
P37. Focus Honeycomb Lattice and Other Low-D Models
P38. Focus 2D Magnetism III
P39. Focus Magnetism and Spins in Semiconductors
P40. Focus Emergent Magnetism in Oxide Films and Heterostructures
P41. Focus Thermal Spintronics
P46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Skyrmions & Novel Magnetism
P50. Focus Organic Electronics II: Structure and Morphology
Session R
R02. Focus Topological Materials -- New Materials II
R05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: Bi2Se3, SrRuO4, and Other Materials
R10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors -- Nematicity I
R13. 2D Materials (General): Transport and Optical Phenomena -- Emerging Materials
R14. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Twisted Graphene I
R15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Processing and Characterization
R16. Focus Transport in Nanostructures -- Electron-phonon Coupling and Phonon Transport in Nanostructures and Heterostructures
R19. Focus Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Catalysis and Electronic Structure
R20. Focus Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Structural Disorder
R37. Focus Pyrochlores II: Classical and Quantum Spin Ice
R38. Focus Monolayer Magnets II
R39. Focus Novel Magnetic Characterization Techniques
R40. Focus Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures III
R41. Focus Spin Dynamics II
R46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Strong correlations
R47. Focus Thermoelectrics -- Characterization and Metrology
Session S
S02. Topological Materials -- Magnetic Materials
S05. Focus Topological Superconductivity: Nanowires
S10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors -- Nematicity II
S13. 2D Materials (General): Transport and Optical Phenomena -- Magnetism
S14. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Twisted Graphene II
S15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Emerging Materials I
S16. Focus Transport in Nanostructures -- 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures
S19. Focus Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Data-Driven Electronic Structure
S20. Focus Hybrid Perovskites -- Photovoltaics
S21. Nanostructures and Metamaterials -- Functional Systems
S22. Focus Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics VI
S37. Focus Spin Glasses, Spinels and Other Frustrated Systems
S38. Focus Frustrated Square Lattice and Other Low-Dimensional Structures
S39. Focus Magnetic Memories and Computing
S40. Focus Emergent Phases in Magnetic Oxides
S41. Focus Spin-Transfer and Spin-Orbit Torques
S42. Invited Mille Dresselhaus' Legacy in Nanoscience
S46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Electronic and transport properties
S47. Focus Thermoelectrics -- Defects and Nanostructures
S50. Focus Organic Electronics III: Organic Transistors and Sensors
Session V
V02. Focus Topological Materials -- Mesoscopic and Novel Probes
V04. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Structure, Phase Stability, and Competition II
V05. Topological Superconductivity: General I
V10. Focus Fe-based Superconductors -- Theory and Modeling
V13. Focus 2D Materials -- Optical Properties
V14. Focus 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Heterostructures and Twisted Graphene
V15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Emerging Materials II
V19. Focus Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- High Throughput Computing and Data Mining
V20. Hybrid Perovskites -- Optical, Structural Properties and more
V21. Focus Nanostructures and Metamaterials -- Active Systems
V22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics VII
V37. Focus Spin Ice: Kagome, Artificial, and Theory
V38. Focus Spin Glasses and Disordered Magnetic Systems
V39. Focus Magnetism in Rare Earth Materials
V40. Focus Magnetic Oxides: Theory
V41. Focus Skyrmion Transport and Topological Hall Effect
V46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- New Phases
V47. Focus Thermoelectrics -- Emerging Materials and Devices
V58. Focus Hyperuniformity and Optimal Tessellations: Structure, Formation and Properties
Session X
X02. Focus Topological Materials -- New Materials I
X04. Focus Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Structure & Functionality of Ferroic Domain Walls
X05. Topological Superconductivity: General II
X10. Focus Surface Science of Organic Molecular Solids, Films, and Nanostructures - Analysis, Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Simulation of Electronic States and Processes
X11. Transport in Nanostructures -- Nanoscale Transport II
X12. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Advanced Fabrication
X13. 2D Materials (General) -- Mechanical Properties and Phases
X14. Focus Devices from 2D Materials -- Twisted bilayers
X15. Focus 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Synthesis, Defects, and Strain
X19. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Potential Models and Molecular Dynamics
X20. Focus Hybrid Perovskites -- Low Dimensions
X21. Focus Nanostructures and Metamaterials -- Nonlinear Effects
X22. Focus Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics VIII
X39. Focus Magnons, Spin Waves, and Magnetic Dynamics
X40. Focus Proximity Effects and Spin Transport in Complex Oxides
X41. Focus Chiral Magnetism and Structures II
X46. Focus Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Metal-insulator transitions and charge transfer phenomena
X47. Focus Thermoelectrics -- First-principles Simulation
X50. Focus Organic Electronics IV: Doping and Electronics
Session Y
Y04. Focus Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Understanding Vacancies and Dopants
Y08. Superconducting Devices and Applications
Y10. Focus Surface Science of Organic Molecular Solids, Films, and Nanostructures - Materials Synthesis, Deposition, and Device preparation
Y19. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Synthesizability and Stability
Y20. Focus Hybrid Perovskites -- Lattice Vibrations
Y39. Focus Magnetic Sensors, Devices, and Applications
Y41. Focus Magnetic Materials, Not Oxides

March Meeting: Pre-meeting Workshops

DPOLY Short Course: X-ray and Neutron Scattering for Polymer Science
Saturday, March 2, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm and Sunday, March 4, 8:15 am - 5:30 pm

GSOFT Short Course: Structures and Order in Soft Matter Physics
Sunday, March 3, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm

DBIO Short Course: Advanced Microscopy
Sunday, March 3, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

GERA Energy Research Workshop
Sunday, March 3, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Get the Facts Out
Sunday, March 3, 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Westin Marina Ballroom I-II

First-Time Attendee Orientation
Sunday, March 3, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Westin Commonwealth A/B

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Sunday, March 3, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Westin Stone

Undergraduate Student Get-Together
Sunday, March 3, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm, Westin Commonwealth A/B

March Meeting: Tutorials

Sunday, March 3

Morning Tutorials, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Tutorial #1: Hybrid Quantum Systems (Room 151A)
Tutorial #2: Medical Imaging: Physics, Technology and Algorithms (Room 151B)
Tutorial #3 (DMP): Materials by Design (Room 152)
Tutorial #4 (DMP): Layered Materials (Room 153A)

Afternoon Tutorials, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Tutorial #5: Superconducting Quantum Hybrid Systems (Room 404AB)
Tutorial #6: First-Principles Techniques for Interacting Electrons and Phonons (Room 152)
Tutorial #7 (DMP): Nodeal Semi-Metals in General (2D Weyl and Nodal-Line Systems) (Room 153A)

March Meeting: Editorial Events

Meet the Physical Review Editors Reception
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, East Registration; Tuesday, March 5, 4:30 – 6:30 pm Learn about the exciting new journal from APS, which begins accepting submissions in 2019. Also take this opportunity to meet the editors and discuss the Physical Review family of journals. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.