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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 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. 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 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.

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 2019-2010

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.

Further Information DMP Sponsored Sessions

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

Awards 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. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Emergent Interfacial Phenomena

A04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Thin Films and Nanostructures

A05. Topological Superconductivity: Majorana

A10. Fe-based Superconductors I

A11. Defects in Semiconductors -- 1D, 2D, and Layered Materials

A12. Devices from 2D Materials -- Microscopy and Spectroscopy

A13. 2D Materials (General) -- Transport

A14. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- CDWs

A15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Monolayers

A16. Transport in Nanostructures -- Thin Films, Heterostructures and Nanodevices

A20. First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials I: Many-body Perturbation Theory (Techniques and Applications)

A22. Building the Bridge to Exascale: Applications and Opportunities for Materials, Chemistry, and Biology I

A37. Kitaev Magnetism

A38. Magnetoelectric and Multiferroic Effects in Molecular Systems

A39. Coherent Spins in Semiconductors

A41. Spin Transport and Excitations in Antiferromagnets

A46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Perovskite and Honeycomb Iridates

Session Index

Session B

B02. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Flexoelectric, Photovoltaic, and Piezoelectric properties

B04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Magnetic Topological Semimetals

B10. Fe-based Superconductors II

B11. Defects in Semiconductors -- Device Materials

B13. Materials (General) -- Modeling and Characterization

B14. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Magnetism

B15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Multilayers & Heterostructures I

B16. Transport in Nanostructures -- Single Molecules and Molecular Devices

B20. First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials II: Many-body Perturbation Theory (Techniques and Applications)

B21. Exploring Free Energy Landscapes in Biology and Materials Science I

B22. Building the Bridge to Exascale: Applications and Opportunities for Materials, Chemistry, and Biology II

B38. 2D Magnetism I

B39. Spin transport and Hall effect

B40. Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures I

B41. Magnetic Structures and Excitations I

B46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Ruthenates and RuCl3

B60. DMP Prize Session

Session Index

Session C

C02. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Magnetoelectric Effects

C04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Nodal-line Semimetals and Beyond

C05. Topological Superconductivity: Twisted Layers, Heterojunctions, Interfaces

C08. Superconductivity: Copper Oxide - Pseudogap

C10. Fe-based Superconductors III

C11. Defects in Semiconductors -- Energy Materials

C12. 2D Materials (General): Transport and Optical Phenomena -- Light-Matter Interactions

C13. 2D Materials (General) -- Magnetic and Thermal Properties

C14. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Superconductivity

C15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Multilayers & Heterostructures II

C16. 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. Exploring Free Energy Landscapes in Biology and Materials Science II

C37. Spin Liquids: Alpha-RuCl3

C39. Spin-orbit Coupling in Semiconductors

C40. Magnetic Structure in Bulk Oxides

C41. Spin Dynamics I

C46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Chalcogenides and Nonoxides

C50. Optically and Photonically Active Polymers

Session Index

Session D

D51. Invited Enabling Quantum Leap: National Quantum Initiative Special Outreach Session

Session Index

Session E

E02. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Optically Induced Properties and Optical Measurements

E04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Materials Prediction I

E05. Topological Superconductivity: TMD, Quantum Wells

E08. Lower Temperature Superconductors

E09. Novel and Less-common Superconductors

E10. Fe-based Superconductors -- Bulk FeSe

E11. Defects in Semiconductors -- Oxides

E12. Devices from 2D Materials -- Sensors

E13. 2D Materials (General) -- Growth, Mostly CVD/T

E15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Magnetism

E16. 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. Kagome Lattices

E38. Theoretical Underpinnings of Magnetism

E39. Magnetic Nanostructures and Nanoparticles

E40. Magnetic Excitations in Oxides

E46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Ferroelectrics/multiferroics, polar metals and strange metals

Session Index

Session F

F02. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Structure, Phase Stability, and Competition I

F04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Transport II (including STM, etc)

F05. Topological Superconductivity: 3D Materials

F10. Fe-based Superconductors -- Magnetic properties

F11. Defects in Semiconductors -- Quantum Defects

F12. Devices from 2D Materials -- Transport

F13. 2D Materials (General) -- Scaled Growth

F15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Optical Properties I

F16. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Semiconductors

F37. Pyrochlores I: Moment Fragmentation, Quantum Spin Liquids, and Beyond

F38. Molecular Nanomagnets

F39. Magnetic Coupling and Exchange Bias

F40. Transport in Magnetic Materials

F41. Novel Magnetic Structures and Excitations II

F46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Perovskite Iridates

Session Index

Session H

H02. Topological Metamaterials and Functional Nanostructures

H04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Type-II Topological Semimetals

H05. Topological Superconductivity: 2D, Junctions

H10. Fe-based Superconductors IV

H11. Defects in Semiconductors -- Quantum Materials

H12. Devices from 2D Materials -- Theory

H13. 2D Materials (General) -- Defects

H15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Optical Properties II

H16. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Structure Prediction and Optimization

H20. First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials VI: Quantum Chemistry and Non-adiabatic Dynamics

H22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics I

H37.  Spin Dimers in a Frustrated Lattice and Other Systems

H38. Monolayer Magnets I

H39. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and Magnetism in Semiconductors

H40. Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures II: Iridates and Multiferroics

H41. Skyrmion Crystals

H46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- Pyrochlores

H50. Advances in Optical Microscopy and Photopolymerization

Session Index

Session J

J80. DCMP/DMP Joint Fellows Reception

J53. DMP Business Meeting

Session Index

Session K

K02. Topological Metamaterials

K04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Transport I

K05. Topological Superconductivity: Fe-based Materials

K08. Non-equilibrium Superconductivity

K10. Fe-based Superconductors -- FeSe Intercalates and Interfaces

K11. Defects in Semiconductors -- Wide Band Gap

K12. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- TMDC

K13.  2D Materials (General) -- Topology and Exotic Phenomena

K15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Transport and Optical Phenomena in Bilayers and Heterostructures

K20. First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials VII: 2D Materials and Surfaces

K22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics II

K38. 2D Magnetism II

K39. Spin Pumping

K40.  Control of Magnetic Oxides

K41. Chiral Magnetism and Structures I

K46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Interfacial two dimensional electron gas

K50. Organic Electronics I: Organic Photovoltaics and Photophysics

Session Index

Session L

L02. Topological Materials -- Optical and other Spectroscopy

L04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Materials Prediction II

L05. Topological Superconductivity: Theory

L10. Fe-based Superconductors -- FeSe Intercalates and Interfaces II

L11. Materials for Quantum Information Science -- Engineering Quantum States

L12. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- TMDC Theory

L13. 2D Materials (General) -- New Materials and Emerging Properties

L15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Quantum Interactions in Transport and Optical Phenomena

L20. First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials VIII: Excited State Dynamics From First Principles

L22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics III

L36. Physics of Natural Phenomena

L37. Iridates -- Honeycomb Lattice and Other Geometries

L38. Spin Chains, Criticality and QPT

L39. Defect Spins in Semiconductors

L40. Magnetism and Domain Structures in Complex Oxides

L41. Heterostructures and Thin Films for Skyrmions

L46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Ultrafast Dynamics, Defects & General Phenomena

L55. Devices from 2D Materials -- Optical Spectroscopy

Session Index

Session P

P02. Topological Materials -- New Theoretical Approaches

P04. Dirac/Weyl Semimetals -- Optical and Spectroscopy

P11. Materials for Quantum Information Science -- Defect-based Quantum Technology

P13. 2D Materials (General) -- Functionalization and Control of Electronic Properties

P15. Devices from 2D Materials -- Magnetism

P20. First-principles Modeling of Excited-state Phenomena in Materials IX: Applications of First Principles Methods to Magnetic and Catalytic Materials

P22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics IV

P37. Honeycomb Lattice and Other Low-D Models

P38. 2D Magnetism III

P39. Magnetism and Spins in Semiconductors

P40. Emergent Magnetism in Oxide Films and Heterostructures

P41. Thermal Spintronics

P46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Skyrmions & Novel Magnetism

P50. Organic Electronics II: Structure and Morphology

Session Index

Session R

R02. Topological Materials -- New Materials II

R05. Topological Superconductivity: Bi2Se3, SrRuO4, and Other Materials

R10. Fe-based Superconductors -- Nematicity I

R13. 2D Materials (General): Transport and Optical Phenomena -- Emerging Materials

R14.  2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Twisted Graphene I

R15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Processing and Characterization

R16. Transport in Nanostructures -- Electron-phonon Coupling and Phonon Transport in Nanostructures and Heterostructures

R19. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Catalysis and Electronic Structure

R20. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Structural Disorder

R37. Pyrochlores II: Classical and Quantum Spin Ice

R38. Monolayer Magnets II

R39. Novel Magnetic Characterization Techniques

R40. Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures III

R41. Spin Dynamics II

R46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Strong correlations

R47. Thermoelectrics -- Characterization and Metrology

Session Index

Session S

S02. Topological Materials -- Magnetic Materials

S05. Topological Superconductivity: Nanowires

S10. Fe-based Superconductors -- Nematicity II

S13. 2D Materials (General): Transport and Optical Phenomena -- Magnetism

S14. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Twisted Graphene II

S15.  2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Emerging Materials I

S16. Transport in Nanostructures -- 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures

S19. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Data-Driven Electronic Structure

S20. Hybrid Perovskites -- Photovoltaics

S21. Nanostructures and Metamaterials -- Functional Systems

S22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics VI

S37. Spin Glasses, Spinels and Other Frustrated Systems

S38. Frustrated Square Lattice and Other Low-Dimensional Structures

S39. Magnetic Memories and Computing

S40. Emergent Phases in Magnetic Oxides

S41. Spin-Transfer and Spin-Orbit Torques

S42. Mille Dresselhaus' Legacy in Nanoscience

S46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Electronic and transport properties

S47. Thermoelectrics -- Defects and Nanostructures

S50. Organic Electronics III: Organic Transistors and Sensors

Session Index

Session V

V02. Topological Materials -- Mesoscopic and Novel Probes

V04. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Structure, Phase Stability, and Competition II

V05. Topological Superconductivity: General I

V10. Fe-based Superconductors -- Theory and Modeling

V13. 2D Materials -- Optical Properties

V14. 2D Materials (Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials) -- Heterostructures and Twisted Graphene

V15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Emerging Materials II

V19. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- High Throughput Computing and Data Mining

V20. Hybrid Perovskites -- Optical, Structural Properties and more

V21. Nanostructures and Metamaterials -- Active Systems

V22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics VII

V37. Spin Ice: Kagome, Artificial, and Theory

V38. Spin Glasses and Disordered Magnetic Systems

V39. Magnetism in Rare Earth Materials

V40. Magnetic Oxides: Theory

V41. Skyrmion Transport and Topological Hall Effect

V46. 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- New Phases

V47. Thermoelectrics -- Emerging Materials and Devices

V58. Hyperuniformity and Optimal Tessellations: Structure, Formation and Properties

Session Index

Session X

X02. Topological Materials -- New Materials I

X04. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Structure & Functionality of Ferroic Domain Walls

X05. Topological Superconductivity: General II

X10. 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. Devices from 2D Materials -- Advanced Fabrication

X13. 2D Materials (General) -- Mechanical Properties and Phases

X14. Devices from 2D Materials -- Twisted bilayers

X15. 2D Materials (Semiconductors) -- Synthesis, Defects, and Strain

X19. Computational Materials Design and Discovery -- Potential Models and Molecular Dynamics

X20. Hybrid Perovskites -- Low Dimensions

X21. Nanostructures and Metamaterials -- Nonlinear Effects

X22. Electrons, Phonons, Electron-Phonon Scattering and Phononics VIII

X39. Magnons, Spin Waves, and Magnetic Dynamics

X40. Proximity Effects and Spin Transport in Complex Oxides

X41. Chiral Magnetism and Structures II

X46. Complex Oxide Interfaces & Heterostructures -- Metal-insulator transitions and charge transfer phenomena

X47. Thermoelectrics -- First-principles Simulation

X50. Organic Electronics IV: Doping and Electronics

Session Index

Session Y

Y04. Dielectric & Ferroic Oxides -- Understanding Vacancies and Dopants

Y08. Superconducting Devices and Applications

Y10. 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. Hybrid Perovskites -- Lattice Vibrations

Y39. Magnetic Sensors, Devices, and Applications

Y41. Magnetic Materials, Not Oxides

Session Index

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.