ParaCon 2016

Welcome to ParaCon 2016, the Paradigms Conference in Condensed Matter Literature

The technical program runs from March 7 to 8th in Corvallis, Oregon.
ParaCon will feature roughly 35 undergradute speakers from Oregon State University in two open sessesions.

This mini-confernce is an extension of the Paradigms in Physics undergraduate sequence at Oregon State.

Technical Program

Presenters will give literature reviews of the most topical, high-impact advances in Condensed Matter Physics. The goal is to idenitfy the main scientific discovery in a selected published work, and explain how it relates to Condensed Matter Physics covered at the undergaraduate-level.

Monday, March 7, Weniger Hall 212

No. Time Speakers Literature Review Topic Journal
  12:55   Refreshments  
1 1.00
Hazel Betz and Ikaika McKeague-McFadden
Macroscale superlubricity enabled by graphene nanoscroll formation Science
2 1.07 Karandeep Cheema and Jeff Shuford High temperature Superconductors Physical Review Letters
3 1.14 G. Mirek Brandt and Alex Quinn What is the brillouin zone of an anisotropic photonic crystal? Physical Review B
4 1.28 Trevor Rose and Anton Schuster Quantum tunneling and quantum dot energy transfer Physical Review B
5 1.35 Jeremey Meinke and Alex Jacoby Observing atomic collapse resonances in artificial nuclei on graphene Science
6 1.42 Isaac Hodges and Zackery Dempsey Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices Nature

Session Chair: M. W. Graham

Tuesday, March 8, Weniger Hall 212

No. Time Speakers Literature Review Topic Journal
  11:55   Refreshments  
7 12.00 Zach McKay and Willis Rogers Electron viscosity, current vortices and negative nonloval resistance in graphene Nature Physics
8 12.07 Yousif Almulla and Collin Muniz Spin-orbital separation in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3 Nature
9 12.14 Aneeq Ahmed and Cody Bibler Diamond nitrogen vancancies & spin states Physical Review A
10 12.21 Noah Langlie and Abraham Teklu Diamond nanoparticle superlattices Science
11 12.28 Ian Goode and Attila Verga Stopped light and image storage by electromagnetically induced transparency Physical Review Letters
12 12.35 Michael Forkner and Pin-Han Tsai Thermoelectrics with graphite sheets Applied Physics Letters
13 12.42 James May and Harrison Redman Complex oxide thin films and electron mobility Nature
14 12:49 Ryan Bailey-Crandell and Mckennen Mega Gate-tunable tunneling in bilayer graphene Nano Letters
15 12:56 Andy Badwin and Allyson Petersen Robustly engeneering thermal conductivity of bilayer graphene by interlayer bonding Scientific Reports
16 1:02 Gabriel Nowak and Jesse A. Rodriguez A solid triple point Nature

Session Chair: M. W. Graham

Organizing Committee

M. W. Graham, Program Chair & Paradigms Instructor

Mackenzie Lenz, Program Assistant

Brenden Vischer, Program Assistant

Instructions to Presenters

Before 8pm, the night before your presentation: upload your final presentation to Canvas.

*** PLEASE call your file "##_partnerA_partnerB", ## = your slot # on the schedule, for instance if I were the 18th presentation with Mackenzie, I would upload 18_Matt_Mackenzie.ppt (pptx and pdf also OK) *****

Emal the Program Chair directly (graham --AT-- physics.oregonstate.edu) if you experienece problems: