Click on the link below RSVP for the 2025 RCQM Workshop.
RSVP form is now closed. The original deadline to RSVP was 11/7/25, but due to overwhelming demand, we can not accept any more new RSVPs.
(Note: If you have been accepted into the Winter School program, you are automatically registered for the Workshop, so you do not need to RSVP for the Workshop.)
November 10 - 12 (winter school)
Applications for the winter school are now closed.
We invite early-career researchers to apply for the annual Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM) Annual Winter School to be held on November 10 - 12, 2025. The RCQM Winter School will focus on materials synthesis and will be followed by a two day workshop on Quantum Geometry.
The 2025 Rice Winter School, sponsored by Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) and RCQM, will consist of in-depth lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions. The lectures will be delivered by leading experts, covering topics related to Quantum Materials Synthesis, which will include synthesis using flux, floating zone techniques, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, and molecular-beam epitaxy. In addition, there will be hands-on laboratory sessions, complementary to the lectures, to provide the participants with opportunities to work in state-of-the-art labs and gain practical experience.
Program: The school will take place Mon-Wed and will consist of 5 pedagogical lectures over 2.5 days that aim to teach participants about various quantum materials synthesis techniques. These lectures will be complemented by 6 practical sessions on those synthesis techniques conducted in various laboratories at Rice University. Participants will also be able to present their research during the poster sessions held during the workshop immediately following the school.
Winter School Speakers
Lucas Caretta (Brown University)
Nirmal Ghimire (University of Notre Dame)
Bharat Jalan (University of Minnesota)
Päivi Törma (Aalto University)
Ruijuan Xu (North Carolina State University)
Linda Ye (California Institute of Technology)
Winter School Organizers
Rodolfo Cantu - Graduate Student, Materials Science and NanoEngineering (Rice University)
Hari Bhandari - Post Doctoral Researcher, Physics & Astronomy (Rice University)
Sanjna Sukumaran Graduate Student, Materials Science and NanoEngineering (Rice University)
Adam Johnson - Graduate Student, Applied Physics (Rice University)
Jishnu Marukeshan - Graduate Student, Materials Science and NanoEngineering (Rice University)
November 12 - 14 (workshop)
The 2025 Rice Workshop on Quantum Geometry, which will be held on November 12 - 14, on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., will bring together world leaders to discuss recent advances and challenges in the rapidly evolving field of quantum geometry.
Workshop Speakers
Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University)
Marc Bockrath (The Ohio State University)
Long Ju (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Philip Kim (Harvard University)
Qiong Ma (Boston College)
Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University)
Abhay Pasupathy (Columbia University)
Raquel Queiroz (Columbia University)
Päivi Törma (Aalto University)
Bruno Uchoa (The University of Oklahoma)
Liang Wu (University of Pennsylvania)
Fan Zhang (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Workshop Organizers
Emilia Morosan - William M. Rice Trustee Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Director, Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM), Rice University
Andriy Nevidomskyy - Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
Yonglong Xie - Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
Ming Yi - Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
