Last week, May 4-7, CEM’s IRG-1 hosted scientists from across the world with diverse expertise working on the interplay of spin-orbit coupling and correlations in transition metal oxides. Speakers included:

• James Analytis, University of California, Berkeley
• Ryotaro Arita, Riken
• Gang Cao, Kentucky
• Jinguang Cheng, IOP, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
• Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Daniel Haskel, Argonne National Laboratory
• Harold Hwang, Stanford University
• George Jackeli, Max Planck Institute
• Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto
• Bernhard Keimer, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
• Daniel Khomskii, University of Cologne
• Yong-Baek Kim, Toronto
• Yeongkwan Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Young Lee, Stanford University
• John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
• Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto
• Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota
• Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
• Sergej Savrasov, University of California, Davis
• Kyle Shen, Cornell University
• Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara
• Hidenori Takagi, Max Planck Institute
• Jean-Marc Triscone, Geneva
• Kentaro Ueda, University of Tokyo
• Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
• Fengyuan Yang, Ohio State University
• Jiaqiang Yan, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Additional information, including slides presented at the workshop can be found here.

ASCENT magazine features CEM in it’s spring 2014 issue. Read the article here.

OSU’s Bridge Program was mentioned in a Symmetry magazine article this month about the American Physical Society Bridge Program.  Read the article, “A second chance at a PhD in physics,” here.