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Important Deadlines and Dates

March Meeting Invited Symposium Nomination Deadline, August 5, 2022
Greene Thesis Award Nomination
, August 31, 2022
DCMP Executive Committee Nominations
, September 1 - October 15, 2022
March Meeting Abstracts Deadline
, October 20, 2022
Graduate Travel Award Nominations
, October 7 - November 7, 2022
APS March Meeting,
Las Vegas, March 5 - 10, 2023

A Note from the DCMP Chair

Dear DCMP Community,

On a Friday evening mid-March this year, I watched Star Wars characters bursting balloons with lasers followed by a Mexican folkloric dance group gracefully swirling and balancing lit candles—an exploration of Light. We were at the “Physics Fiesta”, a culminating APS March Meeting event at the Solorio Academy High School in the South Side of Chicago, hosted by DCMP and the Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public. Attendees visited booths where physicists in wacky hats performed demonstrations, such as racing levitating pucks around superconducting tracks, and answered queries on science, career, and life. Over five hundred attendees spanning three generations, vibrant youth in action, and science coming alive, an apt finale that reflected the excitement we physicists shared together over the past week and a gift for current times. Through the pandemic, national challenges, wars, and more, through all the hardship, the physics community has persevered. Warm greetings to you all in our wonderful community. In this Newsletter, we share a fraction of DCMP-related happenings with you. In this year’s hybrid March Meeting of over ten thousand attendees, resurrecting the in-person component required tireless coordination between the APS Meetings team and many units including our own, more so than usual. The APS is now extensively working on finding a harmonious balance of in-person and virtual components for future meetings. As ever, the meeting showcased a bounty of marvelous research. To mention but a few themes— the profound influence of strong correlations in bilayer graphene, topological materials, and heavy fermionic systems;
spin-orbit coupling in crystals from its days of foundational discoveries to its modern guises; new twists on many-body localization, thermalization, and ergodicity; playgrounds created by synthetic structures to realize topological superconductivity, spin-ice, and non-equilibrium phases; and signatures of anyons waltzing around one another. In partnership with sister units, condensed matter continues to grow in its interdisciplinary directions from atomic physics and quantum information to materials research to biophysics to cosmology. The meeting had special sessions for prizes, outreach events, and several sessions reflecting current societal issues. After the pandemic hiatus, what a joy to have witnessed the profusion of science, the forming of new connections, the brainstorming, the mentoring, and the caring. I hope you can join us next year in celebrating physics at the upcoming March Meeting in Las Vegas!

APS March Meeting 2023; Invited Symposia

The APS 2023 March Meeting will be held in Las Vegas NV
from Monday, March 6 to Friday, March 10, 2023. The meeting will be held at the Caesar’s Forum Convention Center, with Har- rah's Las Vegas as the headquarters hotel. DCMP will organize about 30 of the 100+ Invited Sessions. There will be over 50 parallel sessions. The complete bulletin will be available only in electronic form.

Important Dates & Deadlines
Invited Symposium Nomination Deadline: August 5, 2022; 5:00pm EST Contributed and Poster Abstracts Opens: August 15, 2022; 5:00pm EST, Closes October 20, 2022
Invited Symposium Nominations
The success of the March Meeting rests largely on the quality of the invited symposia which in turn depends on your participation by submitting excellent nominations. The nomination submission portal was open on July 7 and closes on August 5, 2022, 5pm. The link to the portal is here.

2021 APS Fellows

Cristiano Ciuti
Université de Paris, France
Citation: For pioneering theoretical work on the quantum electrodynamics of strongly-coupled photons and electrons, and the dynamics of correlated quantum polariton superfluids.

José María De Teresa
Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza)
Citation: For key contributions to the understanding of the magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic oxides, and of nanomaterials grown by focused electron/ion beam deposition.

Alexander Golubov
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of multi-band superconductivity, and the theory of superconducting hybrid and topological systems.

Adrian M. Gozar
Yale University
Citation: For seminal contributions to spectroscopic and transport studies of complex oxides.

Maria Iavarone
Temple University
Citation: For outstanding and pioneering studies of spatially resolved electronic structure in broken symmetry states.

Peter Kuchment
Texas A&M University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to mathematical physics and inverse problems of medical imaging and homeland security.

Srinivas Raghu
Stanford University
Citation: For fundamental theoretical studies of the emergent properties of quantum materials, particularly for developing controlled field theoretic approaches to such problems.

Hong Yao
Tsinghua University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum phases of matter, novel quantum critical phenomena, and their realization in quantum materials.

Fernando Sols
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Citation: For fundamental contributions to a broad range of condensed matter physics problems, including quantum transport, superconductivity, quantum gases, and graphene plasmonics.

Jeff Sonier
Simon Fraser University
Citation: For pioneering work in precise measurements of fundamental length scales in type-II superconductors and contributions to investigations of magnetism in unconventional superconductors using muon spin rotation techniques.

Bernhard Urbaszek
LPCNO INSA-CNRS-UPS Toulouse, France
Citation: For sustained and significant contributions to the physics of light-charge-spin interactions in low-dimensional materials, particularly epitaxial quantum dot structures, and also novel monolayer semiconductors.

Jigang Wang
Iowa State University
Citation: For discoveries of coherent excitations and out-of-equilibrium topological and magnetic phenomena, and especially of light-induced Weyl and Dirac semimetals and Higgs modes in iron-based superconductors.

Yu Dapeng
Southern University of Science and Technology
Citation: For contributions to understanding the physics in low-dimensional quantum materials, such as 1D semiconductor quantum wires, 2D Dirac atomic single crystals (graphene-boron nitride), and discoveries of novel effects by tuning properties of quantum materials via opto/electrical, magnetic, and mechanical fields.

Huiqiu Yuan
Zhejiang University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the research areas of unconventional superconductivity, quantum criticality, topological materials with strong electronic correlations, and super-conductors with broken inversion/time-reversal symmetry.

Nomination & Election Information

Please participate in the nomination and election of DCMP officers and members-at-large of the Executive Committee.

The upcoming positions are:

  • Vice Chair (who will become, in successive years, Chair Elect, Chair and Past Chair)
  • Secretary/Treasurer (3 year term)
  • 3 Members-at-Large (3-year terms)
The nomination period will be in the window of September 1 - October 15, 2022. The election will be in the window of November 29 - December 12, 2022. Candidate biographies and statements will be available on both the APS and DCMP web sites before and during the election. Forthcoming DCMP email correspondences will have more information. The DCMP Executive Committee performs several functions. One of its most important responsibilities is to lead the organization of the APS March Meeting. It is the body that selects the division’s Invited Symposia from those nominated by the community. Thus a proper balance of expertise and diversity of the Committee are essential for a successful meeting. The Executive Committee helps to lobby Congress on science policy issues. Finally, the DCMP Members-at-Large choose potential new Fellows, from those nominated, to be considered by the APS Fellowship Committee and Council.

APS News

APS and DCMP response to invasion of Ukraine
From APS: “Many of our APS members have reached out to us regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The situation for the population of Ukraine continues to worsen as the bombings of major cities are continuing to intensify. The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology and the Department of Physics and Technology of Karazin University in Kharkiv have both been attacked. Consequently, we want to share with all APS members some of the things that APS has done—and is doing—in response, as well as providing links for actions that members can choose to take. For more information please visit: https://aps.org/programs/international/ukraine.cfm”
DCMP has engaged with its members and has also pledged $25K, matched by APS, towards financial assistance in support of scientists, students, and research institutions impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

The 2022 Annual Leadership Meeting
The APS Annual Leadership Meeting is a forum for discussing the ways that the physics community can advance and diffuse the knowledge of and excitement in physics and ensure that all who want to practice physics find a welcoming and supportive environment. For more information, please visit: https://leadership.aps.org/

APS Government Affairs
Connected with DCMP and other units through congressional visits and advocacy opportunities on several issues, including federal research funding, support for international students, enhancing STEM education, missile defense, monitoring of methane emission, and helium supply shortages. For more information on Govt Affairs, please visit: https://www.aps.org/policy/

March Meeting Brings a Physics Fiesta to a school in Chicago
The annual APS March Meeting brings thousands of physicists together in one city—this year, a group of physicists brought their enthusiasm for physics into the community. They gathered with hundreds of students and their families at Physics Fiesta, hosted at Chicago’s Eric Solorio Academy High School, and supported by DCMP and the Forum for Outreach and Engaging the Public.
To read about Physics Fiesta: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202206/fiesta.cfm

DCMP Executive Committee

Chair: Smitha Vishveshwara (03/22–03/23)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair-Elect: Paul M Chaikin (03/22–03/23)
New York University (NYU)

Vice Chair: Shirley Chiang (03/22–03/23)
University of California, Davis

Past Chair: David K Campbell (03/22–03/23)
Boston University

Secretary/Treasurer: James A Sauls (03/19–03/23)
Northwestern University

Councilor: William Paul Halperin (01/20–12/23)
Northwestern University

Member-at-Large: Natalia Perkins (03/20–03/23)
University of Minnesota

Member-at-Large: Vidya Madhavan (03/20–03/23)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Member-at-Large: Eun-Ah Kim(03/20–03/23)
Cornell University

Member-at-Large: Peter N Armitage (03/21–03/24)
Johns Hopkins University

Member-at-Large: Dragana Popovic (03/21–03/24)
Florida State University

Member-at-Large: Ian R Fisher (03/21–03/24)
Stanford University

Member-at-Large: Vesna F Mitrovic (03/22–03/25)
Brown University

Member-at-Large: Anushya Chandran (03/22–03/25)
Boston University

Member-at-Large: Kun Yang (03/22–03/25)
Florida State University Committee Members


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