Agenda
The workshop provides opportunities for participants to share their own research, build network and relationships, and provide opportunities to interact with faculty from Columbia University and the Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute, in addition to external guests representing a wide range of career stages and subfields of physics.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Location: Flatiron Institute - Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (IDA), 2nd Floor
7:00-9:00pm: Networking Reception for Workshop Participants
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Wednesday Sept 25, 2024
Location: Columbia University, Lerner Hall 555
8:30-9:10am: Breakfast
9:10-9:25am: Welcome from Physics Department Chair and Workshop
- Co-Chairs Kerstin Perez, Workshop Co-Chair, Columbia University
- Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Workshop Co-Chair, MIT
- Dmitri Basov, Physics Department Chair, Columbia University
9:25-10:30am: Research Talks by Participants (Moderator: Dmitri Basov, Columbia University)
- Annie Park, Harvard University (Array of individually controlled molecules for quantum science)
- Lu Chen, University of Sherbrooke (Thermal Hall effect in quantum materials)
- Ling-Fang Lin, University of Tennessee (Insight into the strongly correlated electronic system)
- Tatiana Webb, Columbia University (Imaging mesoscale electronic phenomena with atomic force microscopy)
- Yueqing Chang, Rutgers University (Ab-initio downfolding for strongly correlated materials)
10:30-11:15am: Group Photo and Coffee Break
11:15am-12:15pm:
- Panel 1: Starting a Research Group- A discussion on how to build a research group, including how to set up a lab and hire/manage members.
- Moderator: Andrew Millis, Columbia University/Flatiron Institute
- Panelists:
- Laura Newburgh, Yale University
- Jasna Brujic, New York University
- Colin Hill, Columbia University
12:15-1:45pm: Lunch & Keynote Address
- Introduction: Kerstin Perez, Columbia University
- Keynote Speaker: Angela Olinto, Provost and Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Columbia University
1:455-3:15pm: Research Talks by Participants (Moderator: Sonya Hanson, Flatiron Institute)
- Field Rogers, UC Berkeley (The GAPS antarctic balloon mission: A dark matter search with cosmic-ray antinuclei)
- Afroditi Papadopoulou, Argonne National Lab (Precision neutrino interaction measurements)
- Cari Cesarotti, MIT (The future of collider phyiscs)
- Kim Berghaus, Caltech (Making light of dark energy with dark energy radiation)
- Maria Simanovskaia, Stanford University (Searching for axion dark matter with DMRadio-50L_
- Lauren Yates, Fermilab (Building for the next generation of neutrino discoveries)
3:15-3:45pm: Coffee Break
3:45-4:45pm: Panel 2: Securing Grants- A discussion on how to apply for external funding, interact with program managers, and manage funds.
- Moderator: Sonya Hanson, Flatiron Institute
- Panelists:
- Timothy Berkelbach, Columbia University/Flatiron Institute
- Lindley Winslow, MIT
- Julianne Dalcanton, Flatiron Institute
5:30-6:30pm: Reception (Columbia University, Faculty House)
6:30-8:30pm: Dinner & Keynote Address
- Introduction: Andrew Millis, Columbia University/Flatiron Institute
- Keynote Speaker: Ingrid Debauchies (James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University)
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
Location: Flatiron Institute - Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (IDA), 2nd Floor
8:30-8:55am: Breakfast
8:55-9:05am: Welcome (Andrew Millis, Columbia University/Flatiron Institute)
9:05-10:35am: Research Talks by Participants
- Moderator: Chris Hayward, Flatiron Institute
- Floor Broekgaarden, UC San Diego (Gravitational wave paleontology: A new frontier to explore the formation, lives, and deaths of stars across cosmic time)
- Rachel Cochrane, University of Edinburgh (Resolving galaxies with observations and simulations)
- Sylvia Biscoveanu, Northwestern University (Astrophysical insights from the compact-object mass distribution inferred with gravitational waves)
- Haocun Yu, University of Vienna (Illuminating the Universe's mysteries with quantum optics)
- Erini Lambrides, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center (From dawn to dusk: Uncovering the evolving relationship between supermassive black holes and their galaxies across cosmic time)
- Carolina Cuesta Lazaro, MIT/Harvard University (Beyond the observable: AI-driven insights into the large-scale structure of the Universe)
10:35-10:55am: Coffee Break
10:55-11:55am: Panel 3: Interview and Negotiation- A discussion on applications, the interview process, and negotiating job offers.
- Moderator: Chris Hayward
- Panelists:
- Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers University/Flatiron Institute
- Sarah Demers, Yale University
- Georgia Karagiorgi, Columbia University
11:55am-1:15pm: Lunch and Keynote Address
- Introduction: Sonya Hanson, Flatiron Institute
- Keynote Speaker: Pilar Cossio (Research Scientist, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute & Project Leader, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute)
1:15-2:30pm: Research Talks by Participants
- Moderator: Andrew Millis, Columbia University/Flatiron Institute
- Neha Wadia, Flatiron Institute (A mixing time bound for Gibbs sampling from smooth log-concave distributions)
- Meera Ramaswamy, Princeton University (Morphodynamics of mixed bacterial communities in three dimensions)
- Hope Bretscher, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures)
- Tessa Cookmeyer, UC Santa Barbara (A simple and solvable model of non-equilibrium Mott excitons)
- Ziyan (Zoe) Zhu, Stanford University (Multi-scale models for tunable quantum materials)
2:30-2:45pm: Coffee Break
2:45-3:45pm: Panel 4: Balance- A discussion on time management for new faculty, including how to balance research, teaching, service, family and other commitments.
- Moderator: Rachel Somerville, Flatiron Institute
- Panelists:
- Toyoko Orimoto, Northeastern University
- Kathryn Johnson, Columbia University
- Viviana Acquaviva, City University of New York
3:45-4:00pm: Adjourn