Winter 2024 Newsletter
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A Message from the Chair
Greetings! I am looking forward to seeing many of you in Minneapolis as well as at the virtual March meeting. As you’ll see below, DMP has organized an exciting program and has a significant presence at the March Meeting through our many Focus Topic sessions. DMP Focus Topics gather contributed and invited talks together in sessions that target areas of current interest and importance. Please join me in thanking our Chair-Elect, James M. Rondinelli and his team of Focus Topic organizers who worked very hard to assemble an excellent program. 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 16-21, 2025 in Anaheim, CA). Please do so by contacting Junqiao Wu, who will be the DMP Program Chair for the 2025, or our secretary Ni Ni 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 Junqiao Wu, Past-Chair Vivien Zapf and I have also organized three invited symposia, including:
- (D06) The DMP Past Chair’s Symposium on ‘Molecular Materials for Quantum Magnetism and Quantum Information’ featuring Janice L. Musfeldt, Samuel M. Greer, Jonathan R. Friedman, Michael Shatruk and Giulia Galli.
- (F06) The DMP Prize Session featuring the James C. McGroddy Prize winner Harold Hwang, the Adler award winner Nitin Samarth, the IUPAP C-10 Young Scientist Prize winner Matteo Mitrano, and the Greene Dissertation Award winners Augusto Ghiotto and Tanya Berry.
- (Y06) The ‘Physics for Everyone’ Symposium, featuring Daryl C. Chrzan, Matthew D. McCluskey, Kai Liu and Jeremy L. Wagner.
The annual DMP/DCMP joint business meeting in Minneapolis is scheduled for Tuesday evening March 5. We will begin the evening at 6:15pm with a joint DMP/DCMP awards recognition of graduate students and post-doc travel award winners and new DMP/DCMP fellows. The award recognition and reception will be followed by a joint DMP/DCMP business meeting presentation. Topics to be discussed include new Focus Topics for the 2025 March meeting and APS events. Please attend! This is your chance to provide direct input into the agenda for the 2025 March meeting.
DMP also plays an 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 6/3/2024. 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 Vivien Zapf (Past-Chair), Ni Ni (Secretary-Treasurer), and Peter Schiffer (APS Councilor). Vivien will be leaving the DMP Executive Committee in March. Please join me in giving them a huge round of applause for their leadership! Thanks also go to DMP Executive Committee Members at Large who are completing their terms, Judy Cha and Jorge Muñoz; they both helped enormously with the Focus Topic organization and service on other DMP committees over the past 3 years.
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.
Yuri Suzuki, 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: Quanxi Jia
- Member at Large: Harry B. Radousky
- Member at Large: Dagmar Franziska Weickert
Quanxi, Harry and Dagmar 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 Vivien Zapf, Judy Cha and Jorge Muñoz 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 2024-2025
The Executive Committee Officers and Members-at-Large for the 2024-2025 year, (who begin their terms begin following the March Meeting):
Officers:
- Chair: James M. Rondinelli, (03/24 - 03/25), Northwestern University
- Chair-elect: Junqiao Wu (03/24 – 03/25), University of California, Berkeley
- *Vice-chair: Quanxi Jia (03/24 – 03/25), State University of NY-Buffalo
- Past Chair: Yuri Suzuki (03/24 - 03/25), Stanford University
- Councilor: Peter Schiffer, (01/21 - 12/24), Princeton University
- Secretary/Treasurer: Ni Ni, (03/23 - 03/26), University of California, Los Angeles
Members-at-Large:
- Prineha Narang, Harvard University (03/22 – 03/25)
- Xiuling Li, University of Texas at Austin (03/22 – 03/25)
- Paul Sokol, Indiana University Bloomington (03/23 – 03/26)
- Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (03/23 – 03/26)
- *Harry B. Radousky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (03/24 – 03/27)
- *Dagmar Franziska Weickert, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (03/24 – 03/27)
*Newly elected
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Call for DMP Focus Session Topics for the 2025 APS March Meeting
(March 16 - 21, 2025 in Anaheim, CA)
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 2025 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 Chair-Elect Junqiao Wu (wuj@berkeley.edu) or DMP Secretary/Treasurer Ni Ni (niniphy@g.ucla.edu) by 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. 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 2024 DMP focus topics is included below.
If you have any questions or would like assistance in the preparation of your proposal, please contact DMP 2025 Program Chair Junqiao Wu.
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DMP Focus Topics at the 2024 APS March Meeting
07.01.01 Topological Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling
07.01.02 Dirac and Weyl semimetals
07.01.03 Topological superconductivity: materials and modeling
07.01.04 Magnetic topological materials
08.01.01 Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors
08.01.02 Metal Halide Perovskites – from Fundamentals to Applications
08.01.03 Multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, spin-electric coupling, and ferroelectrics
09.01.01 Fe-based Superconductors
11.01.01 4d/5d transition metal systems: Spin-orbit driven emergent phases and phenomena
11.01.02 Light-Induced Dynamical Control of Electronic Phases
12.01.01 2D Materials: Formation Pathways and Mechanisms, Heterostructures, and Defects
12.01.02 2D Materials: Frontiers of Van der Waals Assembly and Moiré Materials
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 Discovery and Design of Enhanced Physical Qubits: From Electrons to Devices
13.01.05 Design and Synthesis of New Bulk and Thin-Film Quantum Materials
13.01.06 Superconducting Qubits: Linking Surfaces, Interfaces, and Defects to Decoherence
13.01.07 Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductor Materials: Growth, Characterization, Theory, and Devices
DMP also co-sponsors the following focus topics led by other APS units:
05.01.07 First Principles Modeling of Excited-State Phenomena in Materials (DCOMP, DMP, DCP) [same as 16.01.03]
10.01.03 Spin Transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metals-Based Systems (GMAG, DMP, FIAP) [same as 22.01.07]
12.01.05 Computational Design, Understanding and Discovery of Novel Materials (DCOMP, DMP, DCMP) [same as 16.01.13]
16.01.01 Matter at Extreme Conditions (DCOMP, DMP, GCCM) [same as 18.01.01]
16.01.03 First Principles Modeling of Excited-State Phenomena in Materials (DCOMP, DMP, DCP) [same as 05.01.07]
16.01.04 Machine Learning for Electronic Structure, Properties and Dynamics of Molecules and Materials (DCOMP, GDS, DMP) [same as 23.01.19]
16.01.19 Computational Design, Understanding and Discovery of Novel Materials (DCOMP, DMP, DCMP) [same as 12.01.05]
18.01.01 Matter at Extreme Conditions (DCOMP, DMP, GCCM) [same as 16.01.01]
22.01.07 Spin Transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metals-Based Systems (GMAG, DMP, FIAP) [same as 10.01.03]
23.01.19 Machine Learning for Electronic Structure, Properties and Dynamics of Molecules and Materials (DCOMP, GDS, DMP) [same as 16.01.04]
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March Meeting: DMP/DCMP Business Meetings and Fellows and Awards Reception
The 2024 APS March Meeting will take place in a hybrid format in Minneapolis, MN (03/04-03/08, 2024). Meeting details, registration and program can be found here. A list and schedule of DMP-sponsored sessions is here.
A Joint Business Meeting (session L01) of DMP/DCMP will include an awards reception honoring new APS fellows and travel award winners on Tuesday, March 5 from 6:15 – 7:15 pm in Ballroom A. 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
Harold Hwang, Stanford University
For pioneering work in oxide interfaces, dilute superconductivity in heterostructures,
freestanding oxide membranes, and superconducting nickelates using pulsed laser
deposition, as well as for significant early contributions to the physics of bulk
transition metal oxides
David Adler Lectureship Award
Nitin Samarth, The Pennsylvania State University
For seminal contributions to semiconductor spintronics through the development of
atomically engineered materials
Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience or Nanomaterials
Naomi Halas, Rice University
For creating nanoparticles and complexes with tunable optical resonances resulting from hybridized surface plasmons, and demonstrating applications of these
nanomaterials that range from photothermal cancer therapy to hot electron photodetection and modular plasmonic photocatalysis
The Dresselhaus Prize is awarded jointly with DCMP.
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter (C10)
Matteo Mitrano, Harvard University
For his incisive contributions to the study and manipulation of dynamical behaviours in quantum materials
Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Expt. Condensed Matter/Materials Physics
Augusto Ghiotto, University of California, Berkeley
For the discovery of a continuous metal-insulator transition and quantum critical behavior in Moire transition metal dichalcogenides.
Tanya Berry, Princeton University
For exceptional contributions to the discovery of topological materials through Zintl
chemistry and advances in synthesis.
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2023 APS Fellows nominated through DMP
Dillon D. Fong Argonne National Laboratory
For the development and application of in situ synchrotron techniques to the study of complex oxide heterostructures, including seminal discoveries in ferroelectrics, the effect of interfaces on epitaxial growth, and the use of phase retrieval methods for the study of structure in ultrathin films.
László Forró, University of Notre Dame
For groundbreaking advances in the understanding of superconductors, C60, carbon nanotubes, and other nano- and biomaterials through the creative application of diverse techniques for synthesis, measurement, and analysis.
Nikhil Ashok Koratkar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
For distinguished contributions to nanoscale science and technology, including the discovery of partial van der Waals transparency in graphene, and for pioneering the use of nanostructured materials in composites and energy storage devices.
Steven J. May, Drexel University
For significant contributions to the understanding of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties in complex oxide heterostructures.
Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore
For groundbreaking research on topological thermal materials and the quantum-mechanic behavior of thermal diffusion, establishing new frontiers of thermal materials, heat and mass transport, and thermal radiation.
James M. Rondinelli, Northwestern University
For innovative contributions in the theoretical understanding of structure-property relationships in novel materials, for leadership in exploiting these interactions to discover, design, and engineer transition metal compounds and their novel phases, and for leadership in the DMP community.
Adri C.T. van Duin, The Pennsylvania State University Cit
For inventing and advancing the ReaxFF reactive potentials, which have significantly advanced the field of classical reactive atomistic simulations and bridged the gap between simulation and experiment.
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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 Stanford 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 2024 Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards for Materials Physics are:
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Nathan Arndt
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University of Florida
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Omar Ashour
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University of California, Berkeley
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Dallar Babaian
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University of Missouri
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Thow Min Jerald Cham
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Cornell University
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Mathilde Franckel
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ruiqi Hu
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University of Delaware
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Rakshit Jain
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Cornell University
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Keshav Samrat Modi
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Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research
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Inhwan Kim
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University of Texas at Austin
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Timothy Liao
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University of Texas at Austin
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Yujie Liu
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University of Michigan
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Miguel Mojarro Ramirez
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Ohio University
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Simon Munyan
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ilyoun Na
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University of California, Berkeley
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Roumita Roy
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Indian Institute of Technology, Goa
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Atanu Roychowdhury
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Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
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Tanaya Sahoo
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University of California, Davis
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Sierra Seacat
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The University of Kansas
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Volodymyr Shablenko
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University of South Carolina
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Shrinkhala Sharma
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Boston College
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Syeda Faiza Rubab Sherazi
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University of Central Florida
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Smita Santram Sontakke
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Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
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Weiyun Xu
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Boyang Zhao
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University of Southern California
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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 2024 DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards are:
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Deliang Bao
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Vanderbilt University
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Bradford Barker
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University of California, Merced
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Temuujin Bayaraa
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Romakanta Bhattarai
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Benjamin Geisler
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University of Florida
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Shan Lin
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Manish Kumar Mohanta
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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Kevin Nangoi
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Honglie Ning
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jia Shi
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University of Central Florida
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Mark Turiansky
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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March Meeting: DMP Sponsored Symposia & Special Events
DMP Invited Symposia
- Monday, March 4, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM, D06. DMP Past Chair Symposium: Molecular Materials for Quantum Magnetism and Quantum Information [Janice L. Musfeldt, Samuel M. Greer, Jonathan R. Friedman, Michael Shatruk and Giulia Galli.]
- Tuesday, March 5, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM, F06. DMP Prize Session: McGroddy Prize for New Materials [Harold Hwang], David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics [Nitin Samarth], IUPAP C-10 Young Scientist Prize [Matteo Mitrano], Greene Dissertation Award [Augusto Ghiotto, Tanya Berry].
- Friday, March 8, 8:00 AM – 10:24 AM, Y06. Physics for Everyone: [ Daryl C Chrzan, Matthew D McCluskey, Kai Liu, Jeremy L Wagner]
DMP Short Course: Art and Science of Quantum Materials Synthesis
DMP is pleased to sponsor one short course at the 2024 March Meeting. It is focused on the introduction of various techniques in synthesizing quantum materials, as well as the material design data-driven discovery and high-throughput experimentation. The short course runs on Sunday, March 3 from 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm, taking place at Minneapolis Convention Center Room 103A. The speakers are Prof. Bharat Jalan (University of Minnesota), Prof. Tyrel McQueen (Johns Hopkins University) and Prof. Joan Redwing (Penn State University).
Graduate Student Lunch with the Experts
Tuesday, March 5, 12:30 - 2:00 pm at Minneapolis Convention Center Hall A.
Students may participate in an informal discussion with an expert on a topic of interest to them.
Meet the Editors of Physical Review
The editors of the Physical Review journals invite you to join them for conversation and networking on Tuesday, March 5, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The editors will be available to answer questions, hear your ideas, and discuss your comments about the journals. Following that, the Physical Review Journals Referee Appreciation Event will be held on Tuesday, March 5, from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. The event will honor the selection of the APS Outstanding Referees, and offer attendees the opportunity to discuss their research with the journal editors. Light refreshments will be served.
The Physical Review editors will also be holding a Tutorial for Authors and Referees, which will be an interactive session about the peer-review and publication process of the APS journals. This event is Wednesday, March 6, 8:00 am – 9:30 am in Minneapolis Convention Center Room 208AB.
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