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Plenary Speakers
Energy Materials
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Northwestern University
Metamaterials
Sir John Pendry
Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Physics
Imperial College London
Quantum Materials
Robert Cava
Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
Invited Speakers
ENERGY MATERIALS
Aram Amassian
Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
NC State University
Veronica Augustyn
Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
NC State University
Volker Blum
Associate Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
James Cahoon
Associate Professor Hyde Family Foundation Scholar College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry
UNC Chapel Hill
Po-Chun Hsu
Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
Jinsong Huang
Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences
UNC Chapel Hill
Yosuke Kanai
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry
UNC Chapel Hill
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Jeffery N. Vinik Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Daryoosh Vashaee
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State University
Stefan Zauscher
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Director of Duke Materials Initiative
Duke University
METAMATERIALS
Igor Bondarev
Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Physics
North Carolina Central University
Wenshan Cai
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Tech University
Liang Feng
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Rene Lopez
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics
UNC Chapel Hill
Mikhail Noginov
Professor in the Department of Physics
Norfolk State University
Willie John Padilla
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Nicolas Pégard
Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences
UNC Chapel Hill
Viktor Podolskiy
Professor, Assistant Chair and Graduate Coordinator in the College of Science Department of Physics
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
David S. Ricketts
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State University
QUANTUM MATERIALS
James Analytis
Associate Professor of Physics & Charles Kittel Chair in Condensed Matter
University of California, Berkeley
Cristian Batista
Lincoln Chair Professor of Physics & Deputy Director of Shull Wollan Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Tennessee, Knoxville & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Joseph Checkelsky
Associate Professor of Physics & Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hae-young Kee
Professor of Physics
University of Toronto
Alexander Kemper
Associate Professor of Physics
NC State University
Eun-Ah Kim
Professor of Physics
Cornell University
Divine Kumah
Assistant Professor of Physics
NC State University
Despina Louca
Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics
University of Virginia
Emilia Morosan
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Chemistry and Materials Science & Nanoengineering
Rice University
Johnprierre Paglione
Professor of Physics and Director of Quantum Materials Center
University of Maryland
Featured Centers
Mark Lumsden
Leader, Spectroscopy Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Nan Jokerst
Executive Director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMiF)
Duke University
Mark Walters
Director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMiF)
Duke University
Jacob Jones
Director of the Analytical Instrumentation Facility
NC State University
Brad Lokitz
Research Scientist Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Funding Agencies
Michael Fiddy
Former DARPA Project Manager
Professor in the Department of Physics and Optical Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering UNC – Charlotte
Evan Runnerstrom
Program Manager for Materials Design
Army Research Laboratory Army Research Office (ARO)
Miriam Deutsch
Program Director
National Science Foundation (NSF)
