The Center for Emergent Materials engages researchers from multiple disciplines to work in teams on scientific problems too complex for a single researcher to solve. The CEM, established in 2008, is located at The Ohio State University and funded by a National Science Foundation MRSEC award.
Recent notable publications:
“Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry.” Nature, (2023).[Seed]
“An efficient material search for room-temperature topological magnons.” Science Advances, (2023). [IRG-2]
“Unified theory of the anomalous and topological Hall effects with phase-space Berry curvatures.” Science Advances, (2022).[IRG-1]
FEATURED
Faculty Research Initiative Video Series: Nandini Trivedi
How is a collection of electrons like a society? Nandini Trivedi, professor of physics in the CEM, says in both cases, individuals act differently in a group than they do alone. She studies these interactions in electrons, with an eye to their beneficial practical applications, such as the dissipationless transmission of electricity through superconductivity.
Watch her research video here.
Conference Across MRSEC-PREM Schools (CAMPS) a Big Success
The Conference Across MRSEC-PREM Schools, CAMPS, was a student-led initiative sponsored by University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) and The Ohio State University (OSU) MRSECs at OSU on October 13 and 14, 2022. The CAMPS workshop welcomed 50 students from 27 institutions, 10 of which were MRSEC sites and 9 were PREM sites.
“I am also happy that participants of this conference is a very diverse group,” said one participant. “The group of participants is diverse and inclusive in terms of degree (PhDs, graduate students, and undergraduate students), ethnicity, and gender. It is impressive (and not easy) for an event to be organized to such diversity and inclusiveness.” Read more here.
NEWS
Zhu Selected for John Wilkins Postdoctoral Fellowship
The CEM is excited to announce Penghao Zhu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) selected for the inaugural John Wilkins Postdoctoral Fellowship. They are expected to join us later in 2023.
Randeria Elected 2022 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to Prof. Mohit Randeria, IRG-1, on being elected a AAAS 2022 Fellow! In October 2022, the AAAS Council elected 505 members as Fellows of AAAS. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.
See the announcement here.
Free Workshop hosted by CEM’s Prof. Brian Skinner: “Does condensed matter physics need to worry about a replication crisis?”
March 2 from 12:00 to 15:00 EST
Link to Workshop
During the last decade, the social and biomedical sciences have been grappling with a “replication crisis,” in which a large fraction of published results cannot be verified or reproduced. The causes and solutions to this replication crisis are still not entirely clear, but generally its roots involve publication bias, the predominance of trendy research narratives, and unreliable or fraudulent manipulation of data.
Condensed matter physics, as a field, has largely been considered immune to replication crises by its practitioners, since its experiments tend to be data-rich as compared to those in the social or biomedical sciences. But many of the same root problems are also prevalent in condensed matter, so it is both reasonable and timely to consider the questions: do we need to worry about a replication crisis coming for us? Is it already here?
In this short workshop we will review the replication crisis as it has arisen in the social and medical sciences, then consider a few case studies of prominent recent results in condensed matter that have proven unreliable, and close with a panel discussion.
2022 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Request for Proposals
We are pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Materials Research Seed Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP). This enhanced seed program leverages resources and best practices of the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), an NSF MRSEC; the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM); and the Institute for Materials Research (IMR).
Key Dates:
- Request for Proposals Issued: Monday, October 24, 2022
- MRSGP Virtual Open House: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 4:00 PM ET
- Letters of Intent Due: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET
- Notice of MRSGP Appropriateness: Monday, January 16, 2023
- Proto-IRG and Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants tiers only – Mandatory Team Proposal Presentations: Wednesday, January 25, February 1, and February 8, 2023
- 4:00-5:00 PM, Physics Research Building, Room 4138
- Proposals Due (All Funding Tiers): Monday, March 6, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET
- Awards Announced (anticipated): Friday, August 26, 2023
- Funded Projects Start Date (anticipated): Friday, September 1, 2023 (12-month project period)
Have a question? Visit the MRSGP webpage.