Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2018
Volume 63, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
Session D04: Special Outreach Session: Enabling Quantum Leap: Federal and Private Funding Opportunities in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science |
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Room: LACC Petree Hall C |
Monday, March 5, 2018 7:30PM - 7:50PM |
D04.00001: Enabling Quantum Leap: Opportunities at NSF Invited Speaker: Tomasz Durakiewicz In May of 2016, the Director of NSF unveiled Big Ideas, developed to answer important societal problems while building the transdisciplinary portfolio of focused fundamental research over the next decade. One of these ideas, "Quantum Leap", advances quantum technologies of the future: quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum sensors and quantum simulators. The powerful language provided by quantum mechanics almost a century ago becomes the foundation upon which to build new industries. This process, sometimes called "the second quantum revolution" is marked by the development of practical and marketable solutions for quantum technologies. Several programs within NSF, including Condensed Matter Physics Program, couple strongly to the Quantum Leap Big Idea. Relevant funding opportunities will be presented. |
Monday, March 5, 2018 7:50PM - 8:10PM |
D04.00002: Condensed Matter Physics Research in the DOE-BES Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering Invited Speaker: Jim Horowitz The Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (MSED) in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), supports research that explores the origin of macroscopic material behaviors and their fundamental connections to atomic, molecular, and electronic structures. At the core of the Division is the quest for a paradigm shift for the deterministic design and discovery of new materials with novel structures, functions, and properties. To accomplish this goal, the portfolio stresses the need to probe, understand, and control the interactions of phonons, photons, electrons, and ions with matter to direct and control energy flow in materials systems over multiple time and length scales. Research supported by the Division is divided topically into three teams, the Materials Design and Discovery Team, the Scattering and Instrumentation Sciences Team and the Condensed Matter Physics Team. In the Condensed Matter Physics team, research is supported to understand, design, and control materials properties and function. These goals are accomplished through studies of the relationship of materials structures to their electrical, optical, magnetic, surface reactivity, and mechanical properties and of the way in which materials respond to external forces such as stress, chemical and electrochemical environments, radiation, and the proximity of materials to surfaces and interfaces. An overview of the BES-MSED program will be presented, emphasizing recent accomplishments and future research directions in the area of Condensed Matter Physics. |
Monday, March 5, 2018 8:10PM - 8:30PM |
D04.00003: Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) and the AFOSR Physical Sciences Team Invited Speaker: Ellen Robinson The Air Force YIP supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering. \\ \\ Individual awards will be made to U.S. institutions of higher education, industrial laboratories or non-profit research organizations where the principal investigator is a U.S. citizen, national or permanent resident; employed on a full-time basis and hold a regular position. Researchers working at the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and DoD Laboratories will not be considered for the YIP competition. Each award will be funded at the \$150K level for three years. Exceptional proposals will be considered individually for higher funding levels and longer duration. \\ \\ The Physical Sciences Team leads the discovery and transition of foundational physical science to enable air, space, and cyber power. Research in physics generates the fundamental knowledge needed to advance U. S. Air Force operations, from the perspective of sensing, characterizing, and managing the operational environment as well as developing advanced devices that exploit novel physical principles to bring new capabilities to the warfighter. Research directions are categorized in the following four broad areas, with the focus on advancing our basic understanding of the physical world: (1) quantum matter and devices; (2) plasma and high-energy density physics; (3) optics, photonics and electromagnetics; and (4) aerospace materials. |
Monday, March 5, 2018 8:30PM - 8:50PM |
D04.00004: Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative at Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Invited Speaker: Dusan A. Pejakovic Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation invests $90 million in Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative — one of the largest privately-funded initiatives in the field — that provides support for highly talented scientists in three areas: experiment, theory and materials synthesis. The EPiQS Initiative aims to accelerate scientific breakthroughs by giving some of the field’s most creative scientists the freedom to take risks and the flexibility to change research directions. It also provides them with an environment that encourages collaboration with other leading researchers. Quantum materials are substances in which the collective behavior of electrons leads to many emergent properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity and exotic forms of magnetism. New discoveries in this field could lead to revolutionary applications in electronics, computing, energy technology and medical devices. By supporting these three key areas, the integrated EPiQS Initiative could transform our understanding of quantum materials and make it possible to ask fundamentally new questions about how complex quantum matter organizes and behaves. |
Monday, March 5, 2018 8:50PM - 9:10PM |
D04.00005: ARO Opportunities in Quantum Information and Quantum Materials Invited Speaker: Sara Gamble The Army Research Laboratory's Army Research Office (ARO) and the Air Force's Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) investments in quantum information science and quantum materials seek to understand, develop, and exploit the beyond-classical functionalities enabled by quantum phenomena. Both offices support high-risk basic research efforts to further DOD goals aimed at ultimately dramatically advancing defense capabilities in areas such as sensing, precision measurements, imaging, networking, computation, and novel functional material development. The programs focus on fundamental experimental and theoretical research in areas of quantum physics including, but not limited to, foundational quantum physics of relevance to quantum information such as the creation and manipulation of entanglement and squeezing, quantum control techniques, and coherent state transfer between different types of qubits; quantum communication and networking; quantum sensing and metrology; quantum simulation; open quantum systems and dissipation; and quantum computation. ARO and AFOSR also support research related to novel quantum and topologically non-trivial phases of matter and quantum scale materials. A scientific overview of the quantum information and quantum materials programs will be presented, along with an overview of the types of funding awards available through ARO and AFOSR. Information regarding possible future research directions will also be included. |
Monday, March 5, 2018 9:10PM - 9:40PM |
D04.00006: Round Table Discussion This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Germano Iannacchione of NSF/DMR. |
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