2024 Rice Workshop on Quantum Material Synthesis

Rice University, April 9-12, 2024

Program

View Abstract Book HERE.

Tuesday, April 9th

Time	Event
6.30 – 9.00	Reception for Speakers and Rice Faculty Intercontinental Hotel

Wednesday, April 10th

Time	Event
8.00 – 8.45	Breakfast and Registration
8.45 – 9.00	Remarks from Emilia Morosan, RCQM Director

**Session 1: Chair -** Judy Cha

Time	Event	Description
9.00 - 9.45	Jairo Sinova	Unconventional Magnetism in Spintronics: the Emergence of Altermagnetism and Beyond
9.45 - 10.30	Sang-Wook Cheong	Altermagnetism with Non-Collinear Spins

10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break

**Session 2: Chair - Stephen Wilson**

Time	Event	Description
11.00 - 11.45	Helena Reichova	Exploring Magneto-Thermal Transport Phenomena in Altermagnets
11.45 - 12.30	Allan Macdonald	Learning from Moiré-Inspired Atomic Scale Material Design
12.30 - 12.45	Poster flash talks

12.45 - 2.00	Group Photo, Lunch, and Poster Sessions

**Session 3: Chair - Silke Buehler-Paschen**

Time	Event	Description
2.00 - 2.45	Xavier Roy	Next Level 2D Quantum Materials
2.45 - 3.30	Chang-Beom Eom	Synthesis of Electronic-Grade Quantum Heterostructures

3.30 - 4.00	Coffee Break

**Session 4: Chair - Lucas Caretta**

Time	Event	Description
4.00 - 4.45	James Hone	Synthesis and Characterization of Ultra-Pure Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Crystals and CVD Graphene Films
4.45 - 5.30	Jie Shan	Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for New Topological States
5.30 - 6.15	Judy Cha	1D Topological Systems for Next-Generation Electronics

6.15 - 6.45	Poster Session

7.00 - 9.00	Banquet (by invitation) at BRC (Bioscience Research Collaborative) Keynote : Ramamoorthy Ramesh	Vortices, Skyrmions and Cycloids

Thursday, April 11th

Time	Event
8.00 – 9.00	Breakfast and Registration

**Session 5: Chair -** Sang-Wook Cheong

Time	Event	Description
9.00 - 9.45	Claudia Felser	Chirality and Topology
9.45 - 10.30	Stephen Wilson	Advances in High-Pressure Floating Zone Crystal Growth

10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break

**Session 6: Chair - Johnpierre Paglione**

Time	Event	Description
11.00 - 11.30	Lucas Caretta	Unconventional Polar Phenomena in fFerroic Complex Oxides
11.30 - 12.15	Darrell Schlom	Hot Quantum Materials—Turning up the Heat to Grow Thin Films of Oxide Quantum Materials in an Adsorption Controlled Regime
12.15 - 12.45	Mu Wang	Physical Review Materials and Physical Review Journals

12.45 - 2.00	Lunch

**Session 7: Chair -** Gang Cao

Time	Event	Description
2.00 - 2.30	Vivien Zapf	The Hunt for Topological Materials in the Quantum Science Center
2.30 - 3.00	John Tranquada	Van der Waals Altermagnets
3.00 - 3.30	Pengcheng Dai	Magnetic Quantum Materials

3.30 - 4.00	Coffee Break

**Session 8: Chair - Jie Shan**

Time	Event	Description
4.00 - 4.45	Johnpierre Paglione	Growing up with UTe₂ - Advances in Sample Quality
4.45 - 5.30	Silke Buehler-Paschen	Designing Strongly Correlated Topological Semimetals
5.30 - 6.30	Roundtable Discussion - leads: Jie Shan, Stephen Wilson, Silke Buehler-Paschen, Gang Cao

7.00: 9.00	Dinner for speakers and faculty off-campus

Friday, April 12th

Time	Event

8.00 – 9.00	Breakfast

**Session 9: Chair - Helena Reichlova**

Time	Event	Description
9.00 - 9.45	Emilia Morosan	Correlations and topology in Kondo intermetalics
9.45 - 10.30	Akito Sakai	Ferroic Multipole Order and Superconductivity in the Strongly Correlated Quadrupole System PrTr₂Al₂₀ (Tr = Ti, V)

10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break

**Session 10: Chair - Emilia Morosan**

Time	Event	Description
11.00 - 11.45	Gang Cao	Quest for Novel States of Matter
11.45 - 12.30	Ming Yi	Magnetism from a Kagomé Thin Film

12.30 - 2.00	Lunch, Poster Awards, and Closing Remarks

2.30	Tour of Shared Equipment Authority Space Science & Technology building
4.00	Post-Workshop Reception Valhalla