Click on the link below to register for the 2026 RCQM/RLEMM Workshop or the Winter School.
(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 9 - 11 (Workshop: Recent Developments in Altermagnetism)
2026 Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM)/Rice Laboratory for Emergent Magnetic Materials (RLEMM)
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The 2026 Rice Workshop: Recent Developments in Altermagnetism, which will be held on November 9 - 11, 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 altermagnetism.
Workshop Speakers
Kirill Belashchenko (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Felix Casanova (nanoGUNE)
Song Cheng (Tsinghua University)
Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers University)
Jiun-Haw Chu (University of Washington)
Riccardo Comin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Rafael Fernandes (University of Illinois)
Nirmal Ghimire (University of Notre Dame)
Changyoung Kim (Seoul National University)
Takatsugu Masuda (University of Tokyo)
Joseph Orenstein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Qimiao Si (Rice University)
Libor Smejkal (Max Planck)
Ronny Thomale (University of Würzburg)
Jeroen Van den Brink (IFW Dresden)
Linda Ye (California Institute of Technology)
Igor Zaliznyak (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Liuyan Zhao (University of Michigan)
Workshop Organizers
Sang-Wook Cheong - Henry Rutgers Professor, Center for Quantum Materials Synthesis Director, npj Quantum Materials Editor in Chief, Rutgers University
Pengcheng Dai - Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
Emilia Morosan - William M. Rice Trustee Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Director, Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM), Rice University
Libor Šmejkal - Head of Max Planck Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Dresden, Germany
Ming Yi - Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
November 11 - 13 (Winter School)
Click HERE to apply for the RCQM Winter School.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and applicants are encouraged to apply early. The application will close when all spots are filled or on September 18th.
We invite early-career researchers to apply for the annual Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM) Annual Winter School to be held on November 11 - 13, 2026. The RCQM Winter School will focus on materials synthesis and will be preceded by a two day workshop on Altermagnetism.
The 2026 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 from Wednesaday to Friday and will consist of pedagogical lectures that aim to teach participants about various quantum materials synthesis techniques. These lectures will be complemented by 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 preceding the school.
Anticipated Topics: bulk crystal synthesis, flux growth, chemical vapor transport, floating zone, pulsed laser deposition, 2D materials, chemical vapor deposition, and molecular beam epitaxy
Winter School Speakers
TBA
Winter School Organizers
Kaitlin McAllister - Graduate Student, Applied Physics (Rice University)
Gayatri Viswanathan - Post Doctoral Associate, Materials Science and NanoEngineering (Rice University)
Selin Sayiner - Graduate Student, Materials Science and NanoEngineering (Rice University)
John Lê - Graduate Student, Applied Physics (Rice University)
