Program

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Day 1 - Monday, December 7, 2020

Zoom link for morning sessions: https://duke.zoom.us/j/99594540654

10:00 – 10:20 AM	Welcome	Stefan Zauscher, Director of Duke Materials Initiative (DMI) Valerie Ashby, Dean of Trinity College at Duke University Ravi Bellamkonda, Vinik Dean of Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
10:20 – 10:30 AM	Opening Remarks by the Organizers	Olivier Delaire Sara Haravifard Natalia Litchinitser
10:30 – 11:30 AM	Metamaterials Plenary Talk – “Metamaterials That Travel Faster Than Light”	Professor Sir John Pendry Imperial College of London
11:30 – 11:45 AM	Break
11:45 – 12:45 PM	Energy Materials Plenary Talk – “Solar Electricity from Metal Halides? Who would have thought…:Incredible Perovskites”	Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis Northwestern University
12:45 – 1:30 PM	Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 PM	Parallel Science Talks – Session 1

Parallel Science Talks 1 – Energy Materials

https://duke.zoom.us/j/94079295261

1:30 – 2:00 PM

“Metal Halide Perovskite Semiconductors for Energy Harvesting-Current Progress and Challenges”

Professor Jinsong Huang

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

2:00 – 2:30 PM

“Bandgap Tuning in Low-Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites”

Professor Adrienne Stiff-Roberts

Duke University

2:30 – 3:00 PM

“Metal Halide Semiconductors: From Solidification Studies to Accelerated Robotic Experimentation”

Professor Aram Amassian

North Carolina State University

Parallel Science Talks 1 – Metamaterials

https://duke.zoom.us/j/99240686467

1:30 – 2:00 PM

“Non-Hermitian Topological Photonics”

Professor Liang Feng

University of Pennsylvania

2:00 – 2:30 PM

“Computational Methods and Optical Instrumentation to Interrogate and Manipulate Matter with Light”

Professor Nicolas Pégard

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

2:30 – 3:00 PM

“Light Manipulation and Emission Engineering with Hyperbolic and Ballistic Metamaterials”

Professor Viktor Podolskiy

University of Massachusetts – Lowell

Parallel Science Talks 1 – Quantum Materials

https://duke.zoom.us/j/95807222455

1:30 – 2:00 PM

“Exotic quantum magnets and competing states – new Yb Kondo systems”

Professor Emilia Morosan

Rice University

2:00 – 2:30 PM

“Synthesizing ‘Toy Model’ Quantum Materials”

Professor Joseph Checkelsky

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:30 – 3:00 PM

“Ba3CoSb209 and the Dynamical Structure Factor of the Triangular Heisenberg Model”

Professor Cristian Batista

University of Tennessee, Knoxville & Oak Ridge National Laboratory

3:00 – 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 – 5:30 PM	Parallel Science Talks – Session 2

Parallel Science Talks 2 – Energy Materials

https://duke.zoom.us/j/95996341261

3:30 – 4:00 PM

“Tuning the Interlayer of Transition Metal Oxides for Electrochemical Energy Storage”

Professor Veronica Augustyn

North Carolina State University

4:00 – 4:30 PM

“First-Principles Simulation of Hot Electron Dynamics at Semiconductor-Molecule Interface”

Professor Yosuke Kanai

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

4:30 – 5:00 PM

“Theory of Tunable New Semiconductor Materials for Energy and Electronics”

Professor Volker Blum

Duke University

Parallel Science Talks 2 – Metamaterials

https://duke.zoom.us/j/98984078255

3:30 – 4:00 PM

“Inverse Design of Metasurfaces for Energy Harvesting”

Professor Willie John Padilla

Duke University

4:00 – 4:30 PM

“Dynamics artificial surfaces for mm-wave imaging using photon induced plasmas in silicon lenses”

Professor David Rickett

North Carolina State University

4:30 – 5:00 PM

“Plasmons, Excitons, and Excitonic Complexes in Transdimensional Quantum Materials”

Professor Igor Bondarev

North Carolina Central University

Parallel Science Talks 2 – Quantum Materials

https://duke.zoom.us/j/94388103654

3:30 – 4:00 PM	“Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter”	Professor Eun-Ah Kim Cornell University
4:00 – 4:30 PM	“Electronic band turning under pressure in MoTe2 topological semimetal”	Professor Despina Louca University of Virginia
4:30 – 5:00 PM	“Tuning Emergent Properties at Complex Oxide Interfaces”	Professor Divine Kumah North Carolina State University
5:00 – 5:30 PM	“A Room Temperature Gas-to-Liquid Phase Transition in Photoexcited Semiconductors”	Professor Alexander Kemper North Carolina State University

5:30 – 7:00 PM

Poster Session

Various

Day 2 - Tuesday, December 8, 2020

https://duke.zoom.us/j/97976609445

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Quantum Materials Plenary Talk – “Hexagonal Perovskites as Quantum Materials”

Professor Robert Cava

Princeton University

https://duke.zoom.us/j/93826141504 Funding Agencies
12:00 – 12:30 PM	Funding Agency Talk – DARPA	Michael Fiddy, Former Project Manager, DARPA
12:30 – 1:00 PM	Funding Agency Talk – ARO	Evan Runnerstrom, Program Manager for Materials Design, ARO
1:00 – 1:30 PM	Funding Agency Talk – NSF	Miriam Deutsch, Program Manager, NSF
https://duke.zoom.us/j/93238391759 Shared Facilities
1:30 – 1:50 PM	“Presentation Representing Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Neutron Scattering Division”	Mark Lumsden Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
1:50 – 2:10 PM	“Presentation Representing Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Science”	Brad Lokitz, Research Scientist Center for Nanophase Materials Science
2:10 – 2:40 PM	“Catalyzing Triangle Research: the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN) and the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF)”	Professor Jacob Jones North Carolina State University
2:40 – 3:00 PM	“Presentation Representing Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility(SMiF) at Duke University”	Professor Nan Jokerst, Executive Director of SMiF Mark Walters, Director of SMiF