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Assistant Professor Peter P. Orth received the 2020 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The award provides a support of $100K for Orth's research into "Probing Fractionalization and Entanglement in Quantum Spin Liquids: Theory of Two-dimensional Spectroscopy". Read more about Orth receives 2020 RSCA Cottrell Scholar Award

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Iadecola to the condensed matter physics group in our department.  He received his PhD from Boston University under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Chamon in 2017.  He has been a JQI Theoretical Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2017 - 2019.  Tom works on a variety of topics in quantum condensed matter theory, with special emphasis on out-of-equilibrium quantum systems and topological states of matter. Read more about New hire within recently started Faculty Cluster in Computational and Theoretical Physics

An article published by Iowa State University Professor and Ames Laboratory researcher Ruslan Prozorov and his group -- "Using controlled disorder to probe the interplay between charge order and superconductivity in NbSe2" -- was one of the most read Nature Communications physics articles in 2018. The article was number 18 out of the 50 most-read articles, based on data from altmetric.com, covering January-December 2018. Read more about Prozorov group's paper in Nature Communications Top 50 most read articles

Ames Laboratory Scientist Vladimir Kogan was awarded the Abrikosov Prize in Vortex Matter today at the International Workshop on Vortex Matter in Superconductors, at a ceremony in Antwerp, Belgium.

As written on the workshop website: "The laureates of the 2019 Abrikosov prize areProf. Vladimir Kogan and Prof. Eli Zeldov, for their pioneering contributions to understanding vortices in high-Tc superconductors." Read more about Ames Lab physicist Vladimir Kogan recognized with 2019 Abrikosov Prize

Congratulations to Alan Goldman for winning the Marie Dubois Award for Excellence in Quasicrystal Research.  The Award was established to recognize important, sustained research on any aspect of quasicrystals within the 10-year period preceding the award.  Alan is the first recipient from the U.S. and will receive the award at the International Conference on Quasicrystals in Slovenia this May. 

More Information can be found here: http://icq14.ijs.si/awards/ Read more about Alan Goldman wins the 2019 Marie Dubois Award for Excellence in Quasicrystal Research

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University (ISU) seeks candidates for faculty positions at a junior level for a cluster of positions in theoretical physics and astrophysics. 

More details can be found in the job advertisment. 

Applications, including three letters of recommendation, must be submitted online by December 3, 2018 to guarantee full consideration. Read more about Theory Cluster Hire

Recent research of Ames Lab Scientist and ISU Professor Rana Biswas together with colleagues from Engineering Departments on nanostructures  has been featured in this month's Physics Today - May 2018 - volume 5, page 72-  in the section Back Scatter on the last page of the issue. 

The title of the feature is  " A nanovolcano array".   It can also be viewed online at   https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3930 Read more about "A nanovolcano array": CMP research from ISU and Ames Laboratory Scientists featured in Physics Today

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has discovered extreme “bounce,” or super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material that could be applied for use as an actuator in the harshest of conditions, such as outer space, and might be the first in a whole new class of shape memory materials. Read more about Ames Laboratory, UConn discover superconductor with bounce

Iowa State University physicist Paul Canfield, who develops new materials with novel properties, has received a five-year, $1.7 million Moore Materials Synthesis Investigators award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of Palo Alto, Calif.

Canfield and his research team will use the funds to further their work in the discovery of new electronic and magnetic compounds – often in single-crystal form – and the study of their electrical, magnetic and thermal properties. These scientific discoveries can lead to new technologies or products that improve the lives of people around the world.

Read the full article Read more about Canfield awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society

Jigang Wang, Zhe Fei, Paul C. Canfield and Costas Soukoulis are working to build a powerful instrument capable of exploring and tuning materials in ways that could help solve the world’s energy, information processing and data storage needs.

The researchers call their proposed instrument an extreme quantum terahertz nanoscope.

The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles – one of the country’s largest philanthropic organizations – recently awarded a three-year, $1.3 million grant to support construction, commissioning and initial use of the nanoscope. The project will be known as the W.M. Keck Initiative in Ultrafast Quantum Microscopy of Emergent Orders.

Read more Read more about CMP group researchers win W.M. Keck Foundation grant to develop nanoscope