Agenda

Graphene and Beyond Workshop 2021 Agenda (PDF Format)

The schedule is in Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

DAY 1 - Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 9:00a-4:00p EDT
9:00-9:10a	Graphene and Beyond Workshop – Welcome Joshua Robinson, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering; Associate Director, Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials; Director of User Programs, 2D Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform; Co-Director, NSF-I/UCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings; Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
9:10-9:20a	NSF 2D Crystal Consortium- Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP) Joan Redwing, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering; Director 2D Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
9:20-11:00a	SYNTHESIS & PROPERTIES Moderator: Yu-Chuan Lin, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
9:20-9:40a	Su Ying Quek, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Presentation: “Bottom-up Design of 2D Material Functionalities from First Principles” Abstract
9:40-10:00a	Tanushree Choudhury, Assistant Research Professor, 2D Crystal Consortium, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Presentation: "Controlling oriented growth of wafer-scale transition metal dichalcogenides by MOCVD" Abstract
10:00-10:20a	Camilla Coletti, Senior Scientist, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) (Italy) Presentation: “Synthesis of Large-Scale Monolayer 1T′-MoTe2 and Its Stabilization via Scalable hBN Encapsulation” Abstract
10:20-10:40a	Roman Engel-Herbert, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Presentation: “Growth of Mono- & Dichalcogenide thin films by molecular beam epitaxy”
10:40-11:00a	Thomas Kempa, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, John Hopkins University (USA) Presentation: “Manipulation of dimensionality and strain in transition metal dichalcogenide nanocrystals” Abstract
11:00a-12:00p	POSTER SESSION I Moderator: Tianyi Zhang, Tomotaroh Granzier, Nick Simonson, Cindy Chen The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Meet the poster presenters live in Gather.Town
12:00-12:45p	BREAK
12:45-1:00p	2D Highlights at Penn State Mauricio Terrones, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering; Director, Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials; Director, NSF-I/UCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings; Co-Director, CRAFT Center, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
1:00-1:20p	NANOTECHNOLOGY Andrea Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) Presentation: “Advances in Graphene Technology”
1:20-2:00p	KEYNOTE Moderator: Joshua Robinson, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Dimitri Basov, Higgins Professor and Chair of Physics; Director, Energy Frontiers Research Center, Columbia University (USA) Presentation: “Live from New York: Programmable Quantum Materials” Abstract
2:00-3:00p	THEORY Moderator: Matt Mancini, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
2:00-2:20p	Kristian Sommer Thygesen, Professor, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) Presentation: “Understanding light-matter interactions in 2D materials” Abstract
2:20-2:40p	Yuanyue Liu, Assistant Professor, Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (USA) Presentation: “First-Principles Simulations of Electron Transport and Electrocatalysis of 2D Materials” Abstract
2:40-3:00p	Angelika Knothe, Research Associate, Condensed Matter Physics Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester (United Kingdom) Presentation: “Transport in electrostatically induced bilayer graphene quantum dots” Abstract
3:00-3:10p	BREAK
3:10-4:10p	MAGNETISM & SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Moderator: Yuanxi Wang, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
3:10-3:30p	Alberto Morpurgo, Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Geneva (Switzerland) Presentation: “2D Magnetic Materials”
3:30-3:50p	Folkert de Vries, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Presentation: “Gate-defined Josephson junctions in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene” Abstract
3:50-4:10p	Zhong Lin, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington (USA) Presentation: “Magnetic, Electronic, and Structural Coupling effects in the 2D Ising Ferromagnetic Insulator VI3” Abstract
4:10p	Day 1 Closing Remarks

The schedule is in Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

DAY 2 - Thursday, May 13, 2021 / 9:00a-4:00p EDT
9:00-9:40a	KEYNOTE Moderator: Joshua Robinson, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Goki Eda, Associate Professor, Dean’s Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Presentation: “Engineering 2D materials: from photonics to magnetism” Abstract
9:40-11:40a	PROPERTIES Moderator: Furkan Turker, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
9:40-10:00a	Mark Edmonds, Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University (Melbourne) Presentation: “Crossover from 2D ferromagnetic insulator to wide bandgap quantum anomalous Hall insulator in ultra-thin MnBi2Te4” Abstract
10:00-10:20a	Bruno Schuler, Research Scientist, Empa Materials Science and Technology (Switzerland) Presentation: “The Carbon Radical Ion (CRI) in Monolayer WS2” Abstract
10:20-10:40a	Ursula Wurstbauer, Chair of Prof. Dr. Alexander Holleitner, Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich (Germany) Presentation: “Degenerate many-body states and multi-valley physics of excitons in vdW hetero-bilayers” Abstract
10:40-11:00a	Ajit Srivastava, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Emory University (USA) Presentation: “Interacting Excitons in van der Waals Heterostructures of TMDs” Abstract
11:00-11:20a	Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Professor of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Presentation: “Atomic-level Structure Determines the Nonlinear Optical Properties of 2D Polar-Metal Heterostructures” Abstract
11:20-11:40a	Nicholas Glavin, Functional Materials Division, Air Force Research Laboratory (USA) Presentation: “Bridging scale and precision in 2D TMD sensors” Abstract
11:40a-12:45p	BREAK
12:45-2:45p	DEVICES & PROPERTIES Moderator: Yu-Chuan Lin, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
12:45-1:05p	Frank Koppens, Group Leader, ICREA Professor, ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) Presentation: “Nanocavities and photodetection with indirectly-patterned hyperbolic media”
1:05-1:25p	Bruno Paulillo, Postdoctoral Researcher, PROBIST Fellow, ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) Presentation: “Plasmonic mid-IR sensing using graphene and related materials” Abstract
1:25-1:45p	Stephen Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester (USA) Presentation: “Strain engineering 2D van der Waals based devices” Abstract
1:45-2:05p	Xiaogan Liang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (USA) Presentation: “Analogue Ionically-Coupled Multi-Terminal Memristors Based on Plasma-Treated MoS2 Layers” Abstract
2:05-2:25p	Rehan Kapadia, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California (USA) Presentation: “Efficient Graphene Hot Electron Devices: Electrochemistry and Electron Emission” Abstract
2:25-2:45p	Saptarshi Das, Assistant Professor, Engineering, Science & Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Presentation: “2D Material-based Smart Sensors and Computing Devices for Hardware Artificial Intelligence” Abstract
2:45-3:00p	BREAK
3:00-4:00p	POSTER SESSION II Moderator: Tianyi Zhang, Tomotaroh Granzier, Nick Simonson, Cindy Chen The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Meet the poster presenters live in Gather.Town
4:00p	Day 2 Closing Remarks

The schedule is in Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

DAY 3 - Friday, May 14, 2021 / 9:00a-2:05p EDT
9:00-11:00a	PROPERTIES Moderator: Yu Lei, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
9:00-9:20a	Giulio Cerullo, Professor, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Presentation: “Ultrafast charge transfer in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials” Abstract
9:20-9:40a	Roman Gorbachev, Senior Research Fellow, Manchester University (United Kingdom) Presentation: “Atomic reconstruction in twisted TMD interfaces and their electronic properties” Abstract
9:40-10:00a	Jonathan Coleman, Professor of Chemical Physics, CRANN Institute and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) Presentation: “Electrical and electrochemical applications of liquid exfoliated nanosheets” Abstract
10:00-10:20a	Bernd Beschoten, Chair for Experimental Physics (Solid State Physics) and II. Physics Institute, RWTH Aachen University (Germany) Presentation: “Toward ballistic spin transport in bilayer graphene” Abstract
10:20-10:40a	Saroj Prasad Dash, Associate Professor at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Quantum Device Physics Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) Presentation: “2D heterostructure with topological materials and magnets”
10:40-11:00a	Inna Vishik, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (USA) Presentation: “Shear displacement driven by surface electron doping in WTe2” Abstract
11:00-12:00p	BREAK
12:00-12:45p	KEYNOTE Moderator: Joshua Robinson, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Geoffrey Pourtois, Scientific Director, IMEC (Belgium) Presentation: “An atomistic incursion into the 2D world: when simulations meet material reactivity” Abstract
12:45-2:05p	PROPERTIES & DEVICES Moderator: Mauricio Terrones, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
12:45-1:05p	Annick Loiseau, Research Director, ONERA (France) Presentation: “Hexagonal boron nitride for 2D devices: learnings from optical optics” Abstract
1:05-1:25p	Coskun Kocabas, Professor of 2D Device Materials, The University of Manchester (United Kingdom) Presentation: “Graphene-based adaptive optics for long-wavelength light”
1:25-1:45p	Marco Romagnoli, Principal Investigator, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) (Italy) Presentation: “Graphene photonics for optical high-speed transceivers”
1:45-2:05p	Hailong Fu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Presentation: “Gapless spin wave transport through a quantum canted-antiferromagnet” Abstract
2:05p	Graphene and Beyond Workshop – Closing Remarks Joshua Robinson, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering; Associate Director, Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials; Director of User Programs, 2D Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform; Co-Director, NSF-I/UCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings; Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Mauricio Terrones, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering; Director, Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials; Director, NSF-I/UCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings; Co-Director, CRAFT Center, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)