Winter 2022 Newsletter
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A Message from the Chair
Greetings! I am sure that everyone is looking forward to attending the upcoming hybrid March Meeting in Chicago! As you’ll see below, DMP has organized an exciting program that covers a comprehensive range of topics of contemporary interest for our members. DMP has a significant presence at the March Meeting through our many Focus Topic sessions. Each 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. Please join me in thanking our Chair-Elect, Vivien Zapf, and her team of Focus Topic organizers who worked very hard to assemble an excellent series of talks in these sessions. You will find more details about the Focus Topic sessions later in this Newsletter. Additionally, this is the time to propose new Focus Topics for next year’s March meeting (currently planned for March 6-10, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada). Please do so by contacting either Yuri Suzuki, who will be the DMP Program Chair for the 2023 March Meeting, or DMP Secretary/Treasurer, Steven May, using the instructions provided later in this Newsletter. Please consider suggesting invited speakers to these Focus Topics when the selections and organizers are announced.
Our Vice-Chair, Yuri Suzuki, our Past-Chair, Toni Taylor, and Vivien have also organized three invited symposia, including:
- The DMP Past Chair’s Symposium: Dynamics in Quantum Materials (D15) on Monday afternoon, featuring Junichiro Kono, Haidan Wen, Richard D. Averitt, Keshav M. Dani, and Robert A. Kaindl.
- The DMP Prize Session (F15) on Tuesday morning, featuring the recipients of the 2022 Adler Lectureship (Axel Hoffmann), the 2022 James C. McGroddy Prize (Daniel C. Ralph), the 2022 IUPAP C-10 Young Scientist Prize (Alexander S. McLeod), and the 2022 Green Dissertation Award (Yuan Cao).
- The Physics for Everyone Symposium on "Physics of Viruses and COVID 19" (S15) on Thursday morning, featuring Vinothan N. Manoharan, William Gebart, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Roya Zandi, and Arup K. Chakroborty.
Note that all times listed for talks in the 2022 March Meeting program are Central Daylight Time, USA.
The annual DMP business meeting is scheduled for 8:15 -8:45 pm CDT on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Topics to be discussed in that meeting include the Focus Topics for the 2023 March meeting, including any new proposals for Focus Topics. Please attend! This is your chance to provide direct input into the agenda for the 2023 March meeting.
DMP also plays a really important role in recognizing the stellar scientific achievements of our members through awards and election to APS Fellow. The two major awards are the David Adler Lectureship Award and the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials; nomination packages for these are due 6/1/2022. APS Fellow nominations are due 5/2/2022. Complete information on the nomination process is available online. I urge you to help us by nominating an excellent and diverse slate of colleagues who have advanced scientific frontiers in materials physics.
As you might imagine, it takes many volunteers to keep all these DMP activities going. My contributions to the DMP Chair-line would have been impossibly difficult without the wisdom, advice, and helpful guidance of several members of the executive committee, particularly Toni Taylor (Past-Chair), Steve May (Secretary-Treasurer), and Peter Schiffer (APS Councilor). Toni will be leaving the DMP Executive Committee in March. Please join me in giving her a huge round of applause for her leadership! And, once again, many thanks to Vivien Zapf, DMP Chair-Elect, for organizing the 2022 March Meeting! Thanks also go to DMP Executive Committee Members at Large who are completing their terms, Kyle Shen and Oana Jurchescu; they both helped enormously with the Focus Topic organization and service on other DMP committees over the past 3 years. Finally, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the newly-elected members of the DMP Executive Committee: Vice-Chair elect, James Rondinelli, and Members-at-Large elect, Xiuling Li and Prineha Narang.
I’ve been honored to serve as DMP Chair this past year, and I thank all of you for the opportunity to contribute to the Division.
As we are beginning to emerge from the roller-coaster ride of the COVID 19 pandemic, let's hope for a primarily in-person 2023 March Meeting in Las Vegas!
Rachel S. Goldman,
DMP Chair
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New Members of the Executive Committee
The following members were elected to serve on the DMP Executive Committee:
- Vice Chair: James Rondinelli
- Member at Large: Xiuling Li
- Member at Large: Prineha Narang
James, Xiuling, and Prineha will join the Executive Committee following the March Meeting. We congratulate the new members of the Executive Committee and look forward to their participation and leadership!
We thank Toni Taylor, Kyle Shen, and Oana Jurchescu for their leadership and service on the DMP Executive Committee over the last three years. We are grateful for all the time and effort they put into their roles in serving the materials physics community.
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DMP Executive Committee Members for 2022-2023
The Executive Committee Officers and Members-at-Large for the 2022-2023 year, (who begin their terms begin following the March Meeting):
Officers:
- Chair: Vivien Zapf (03/22 - 03/23), Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Chair-elect: Yuri Suzuki (03/22 - 03/23), Stanford University
- *Vice-chair: James Rondinelli (03/22 – 03/23), Northwestern University
- Past Chair: Rachel Goldman, (03/22 - 03/23), University of Michigan
- Councilor: Peter Schiffer, (01/21 - 12/23), Yale University
- Secretary/Treasurer: Steven May, (04/20 - 03/23), Drexel University
Members-at-Large:
- Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Lab (03/20 – 03/23)
- Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (03/20 – 03/23)
- Judy Cha, Yale University (03/21 – 03/24)
- Jorge Muñoz, University of Texas at El Paso (03/21 – 03/24)
- *Prineha Narang, Harvard University (03/22 – 03/25)
- *Xiuling Li, University of Texas at Austin (03/22 – 03/25)
*Newly elected
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Call for DMP Focus Session Topics for the 2023 APS March Meeting
(March 6 - 10, 2023 in Las Vegas)
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 2023 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 Vice-Chair Yuri Suzuki or DMP Secretary/Treasurer Steven May by 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Please include:
- Descriptive title of the focus topic
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, 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 2022 DMP focus topics is included below.
If you have any questions or would like assistance in the preparation of your proposal, please contact DMP 2023 Program Chair Yuri Suzuki.
Thank you in advance for your help in this extremely important part of planning for the future success of the DMP program.
Sincerely,
Yuri Suzuki,
DMP Vice-chair and 2023 Program Chair
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DMP Focus Topics at the 2022 APS March Meeting
07.01.01 Topological materials: synthesis, characterization and modeling
07.01.02 Dirac and Weyl semimetals: materials and modeling
07.01.03 Topological superconductivity: materials and modeling
07.01.04 Magnetic topological materials
08.01.02 Dopants and defects in semiconductors
08.01.03 Multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, spin-electric coupling, and ferroelectrics
08.01.04 Metal Halide Perovskites – from Fundamentals to Applications
09.01.01 Fe-based Superconductors
11.01.01: 5d/4d transition metal systems
11.01.02: Light-induced structural control of electronic phases
12.01.01: 2D Materials: Synthesis, Heterostructures, and Defects
12.01.02: 2D Materials: Devices and Functionalities
12.01.03: 2D Materials: Advanced Characterization
12.01.04: 2D Materials: Correlated states: Superconductivity, Density Waves, and Ferroelectricity
13.01.01: Nanostructures and Metamaterials
13.01.02: Electron, Exciton, and Phonon Transport in Nanostructures
13.01.03: Complex Oxide Interfaces and Heterostructures
13.01.04: Materials for Quantum Information Science
14.01.01: Fundamental electronic processes and the role of interfaces in organic semiconductor devices
19.01.07: Tools and Techniques for Exploring Materials Physics at the Frontier of Time and Length Scales
DMP also co-sponsors the following focus topics led by other APS units:
01.01.02 Organic Electronics (DPOLY, FIAP, DMP) [same as 08.01.06]
01.01.16 Molecular Glasses (DPOLY, DSOFT, DCP, DMP) [same as 02.01.34, 05.01.10]
01.01.18 Polymers and Soft Solids at Interfaces: Tribology, Wear, Rheology and Interactions (DPOLY, DSOFT, GSNP, DFD, DMP) [same as 02.01.36, 03.01.39, 20.01.13]
01.01.27 Polymer Crystals and Crystallization (DPOLY, DSOFT, DMP) [same as 02.01.42]
04.01.08 Biomaterials: Structure, function, design (DBIO, DMP, DSOFT, DPOLY) [same as 02.01.47, 01.01.41]
08.01.07 Optical Spectroscopic Measurements of 2D Materials (FIAP, DMP, GIMS) [same as 19.01.06]
10.01.01 Magnetic Nanostructures: Materials and phenomena (GMAG, DMP)
10.01.02 Emergent Properties of Bulk Complex Oxides (GMAG, DMP, DCOMP) [same as 16.01.32]
10.01.03 Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures (GMAG, DMP, DCOMP) [same as 16.01.33]
10.01.04 Chiral Spin Textures and Dynamics, Including Skyrmions (GMAG, DMP)
10.01.05 Spin transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metals-Based Systems (GMAG, DMP, FIAP) [same as 22.01.04]
10.01.06 Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors, including 2D Materials and Topological Insulators (GMAG, DMP, FIAP, DCOMP) [same as 08.01.01, 16.01.36]
10.01.07 Frustrated Magnetism (GMAG, DMP)
10.01.08 Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism (GMAG, DMP)
12.01.05 Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (DMP, DCOMP) [same as 16.01.10]
16.01.01 Matter in extreme environments (DCOMP, DMP)
16.01.02 Building the bridge to exascale: applications and opportunities for materials, chemistry, and biology (DCOMP, DBIO, DCP, DPOLY, DMP, DAMOP) [same as 04.01.33, 05.01.14, 01.01.48, 06.01.08]
16.01.03 Electrons, phonons, electron-phonon scattering, and phononics (DCOMP, DMP)
16.01.04 First-principles modeling of excited-state phenomena in materials (DCOMP, DCP, DMP) [same as 05.01.15]
16.01.05 Machine learning for quantum matter (DCOMP, GDS, DMP) [same as 23.01.02]
16.01.13 Physics and effects on transport of ion-ion correlation in electrolyte materials (DCOMP, DCP, DMP) [same as 05.01.17]
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March Meeting: DMP/DCMP Fellows and Awards Reception; DMP Business Meeting
The 2022 APS March Meeting will take place from March 14 - 18 in a hybrid format with the in-person component occurring in Chicago, IL. Meeting details, registration and program can be found here. A list and schedule of DMP-sponsored sessions is here.
A Joint DMP/DCMP New Fellows and Award Winners Reception will be held on Tuesday, March 15 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm, taking place in the Marriott Marquis – Great Lakes BC.
The DMP Business Meeting (session L74) will be held in Marriot – Shedd B during the March Meeting on Tuesday, March 15 from 8:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. This is your opportunity to interact with the Executive Committee and to become informed of the activities of the Division.
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Award and Prize Winners
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
- Daniel C. Ralph, Cornell University
For pioneering studies of materials physics in spin-transport and related devices.
David Adler Lectureship Award
- Axel Hoffmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For pioneering work, engaging lectures, and comprehensive reviews that advance the understanding of spin transport and magnetization dynamics in magnetic multilayers.
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter (C10)
- Alexander S. McLeod, University of Minnesota
For his contributions to nano-imaging and manipulation of correlated electron phase transitions, and for fundamental studies of polaritons at low temperatures.
Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Expt. Condensed Matter/Materials Physics
- Yuan Cao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For pioneering discoveries of strongly correlated physics in twisted bilayer graphene.
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2021 APS Fellows nominated through DMP
- Arun Bansil, Northeastern University
For seminal theoretical contributions to the electronic structures, momentum densities, and spectroscopy of ordered and disordered materials, including the successful prediction of many new families of topological materials.
- David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University
For the elucidation of fundamental concepts and the development of methods to self-fold bio-, micro-, and nanomaterials by mismatch strain, differential swelling, and capillary forces.
- Kin Fai Mak, Cornell University
For the discovery of new electronic properties and phases of matter in 2D materials.
- Lane W. Martin, University of California, Berkeley
For seminal contributions to the science of ferroelectric.
- Alan J. H. McGaughey, Carnegie Mellon University
For significant contributions to the development and advancement of theoretical and computational methods for the determination and fundamental understanding of thermal conductivity.
- Kyle M. Shen, Cornell University
For angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of quantum materials, and particularly for pioneering the investigation of thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy, enabling studies of new systems including heterostructures, materials under epitaxial strain, and atomically thin materials.
- Bilge Yildiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For innovative contributions to understanding and manipulating ionic defects and charge transport at electro-chemo-mechanically coupled oxide interfaces and devices.
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Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards
The Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards were established to assist the career of student researchers. The awards are named after Stanley and Iris Ovshinsky, who had a very strong interest in, 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 recipients of the 2022 Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards for Materials Physics are:
- Safia Alharbi, University of Louisville
- Valeria Arteaga Muniz, University of Texas at El Paso
- Mamta Arya, Shiv Nadar University
- Mateus Bazan Peters Querne, University of Delaware
- Payal Bhattacharya, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Randy Burns, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Ying-Ting Chan, Rutgers University
- Berit Goodge, Cornell University
- Erick Hernandez Alvarez, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Cheng-Hsiang Hsu, University of California Berkeley
- Chaowei Hu, University of California, Los Angeles
- Anusha Kamath Manjeshwar, University of Minnesota
- Margaret Kane, Stanford University
- Hongling Lu, University of Michigan
- Vanessa Meraz, University of Texas at El Paso
- Zhuoliang Ni, University of Pennsylvania
- Alexandra Olmstead, Wichita State University
- Zheng Ren, Boston College
- Mark Turiansky, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Julian Vigil, Stanford University
- Huiqin Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
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Division of Materials Physics Post-Doctoral Travel Awards
The DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards were established 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 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 recipients of the 2022 DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards are:
- Deliang Bao, Vanderbilt University
- Lucas Caretta, University of California, Berkeley
- Bhaskar Das, University of Minnesota
- Mariana Fazio, University of New Mexico
- Rachel Kurchin, Carnegie Mellon University
- Michele Pizzochero, Harvard University
- Arman Rashidi, University of California Santa Barbara
- Tyler Slade, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
- Sandhya Susarla, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Iqbal Utama, Northwestern University
- Nicholas Weadock, University of Colorado at Boulder
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March Meeting: DMP Sponsored Symposia & Special Events
DMP Invited Symposia
- Monday March 15th, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM, D15. DMP Past Chair’s Symposium: Dynamics in Quantum Materials [Junichiro Kono, Haidan Wen, Richard Averitt, Keshav Dani, Robert Kaindl]
- Tuesday March 15th, 8:00 AM – 10:24 AM, F15. DMP 2022 Prize Session: Adler Lectureship [Axel Hoffmann], McGroddy Prize for new Materials [Daniel Ralph], IUPAP C-10 Young Scientist Prize [Alexander McLeod], Greene Dissertation Award [Yuan Cao].
- Thursday March 17th, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM, S15. Symposium on Physics of Viruses and COVID 19 [Vinothan Manoharan, William Gelbart, Aleksandra Walczak, Roya Randi, Arup Chakraborty]
DMP Short Course: Techniques for Condensed Matter and Material Science
DMP is pleased to sponsor a short course focused on instruction related to experimental techniques applied to the study of materials. The short course runs on Sunday, March 13 from 9:00 am – 5:20 pm, taking place at McCormick Place W-183C. The speakers are Tony Heinz (optical spectroscopy), Peter Abbamonte (x-ray scattering), William Ratcliff (neutron scattering), David Muller (electron microscopy), and Laurel Winter (high-field physics).
Graduate Student Lunch with the Experts
Tuesday, March 15, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m at McCormick Place W-375E.
Students may participate in an informal discussion with an expert on a topic of interest to them. DMP Supported Tables include:
- Rachel Goldman, University of Michigan, “Adventures in semiconductor nanopatterning”
- Steven May, Drexel University, “Planning for a Postdoc and the Faculty Job Search"
- Nitin Samarth, Penn State, "Topological Quantum materials"
- Toni Taylor, Los Alamos National Lab, “Ultrafast materials physics”
Meet the Editors of Physical Review Reception
The editors of the Physical Review journals invite you to join them for conversation and networking on Tuesday, March 15, 4:30 – 6:30 pm at McCormick Place - West Prefunction. The editors will be available to answer questions, hear your ideas, and discuss your comments about the journals. Light refreshments will be served.
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