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Newsletter n°36 - May 2018
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Editorial
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It's a Les Diablerets year! Even before you decide whether
or not to actually continue reading this editorial, please make sure
that
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all your PhD students and postdocs, and of course yourself, have submitted their abstracts and registered for SWM18. The deadline for abstract submission is approaching rapidly.
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Since the MaNEP Forum Meeting in Geneva, a new Steering Committee
has assumed office (or better, lab). I thank Prof. Manfred Sigrist
(ETHZ) and Prof. Alberto Morpurgo (Univ. Geneva) for their contributions
to MaNEP at all levels over many years, and I would like to welcome
Prof. Marta Gibert (Univ. Zurich) and Prof. Felix Baumberger (Univ.
Geneva) to the Steering Committee. Please feel welcome to contact any of
us with your questions, suggestions or comments. At its first meeting
in February, the Steering Committee identified a number of current
priorities. These will be presented to the members, and opened for
discussion, at the next MaNEP Forum Meeting, which will take place
during SWM18.
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You may have received, or will soon receive, a request for
your membership fees for 2018. Following the decision taken at the last
MaNEP Forum Meeting, these fees have now been reduced by 50%: as
intended, the startup phase of the association allowed some financial
reserves to be established, and we plan going forward that these fees,
the activities of the association and the benefits for you as a member
will all remain at their current levels.
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Supporting the next generation of scientists has always been
a top priority for MaNEP, as an NCCR and as an association. Financial
support for workshops, both of general interest and for specific focus
topics, and open to the full MaNEP community, is available with minimal
bureaucracy by request to the Steering Committee. We particularly
encourage young scientists to apply and to use this opportunity to
organise meetings, discuss emergent new topics and start collaborative
projects.
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The SWM18 organising committee has done an amazing job of
preparing an exciting programme, both in the core areas of MaNEP and in a
selection of emergent fields. The meeting continues to be an important
event for the community in Switzerland, for its international
collaborators and for leaders in its scientific fields. We are painfully
aware of the very unfortunate overlap of SWM18 with the SPS Annual
Meeting, to which MaNEP will continue to contribute in other years, and
we apologise that this clash remained unavoidable despite our best
efforts.
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I look forward very much to seeing you in Les Diablerets!
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What's new ?
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Patrycja Paruch received the iWOE-24 prize
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Patrycja Paruch, UNIGE, received the iWOE-24 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellency in Research.
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Johann Blatter and
Vadim Geshkenbein
awarded
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Johann Blatter and Vadim Geshkenbein, ETHZ, received the
2017 international Abrikosov Prize in Vortex for their contribution to
the field of Vortex Physics.
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Dirk van der Marel APS "Outstanding Referee"
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Dirk van der Marel, UNIGE, has been named APS "Outstanding
Referee". The American Physical Society (APS) has selected 147
Outstanding Referees for 2018.
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Jean-Marc Triscone honorary doctorate
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Jean-Marc has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology for his work in
pioneering interface engineering in functional oxides.
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MaNEP new steering committee
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The MaNEP new steering committee 2017-2019 has been elected.
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SWM 2018
in Les Diablerets
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The Swiss Workshop on Materials with Novel Electronic
Properties – SWM18 – will take place from August 29th to 31st in Les
Diablerets. Deadline for registration: May 11th 2018.
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Scientific Highlights
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Spin Resonance in an Unconventional Superconductor
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by Daniel Mazzone, PSI
Most
superconducting condensates are accurately described within the scope of
the BCS-theory (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer), where electrons are bound
together via virtual phonons. They are in strong contrast to so-called
unconventional superconductors...
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A BCS fingerprint revealed by the vortices of a high Tc superconductor
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by Christophe Berthod, Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Christoph Renner, UNIGE
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Copper oxide superconductors were the first to be
found superconducting above liquid nitrogen temperature in the
mid-1980s, thus shattering through the maximum critical temperature of
35K foreseen by theorists. The mechanism enabling the superconducting
state...
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Highlight publications
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Discover more MaNEP Network's research and innovations through other publication highlights.
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Portrait
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Talk with Marta Gibert
MaNEP Board, SNSF Professor at UniZH
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What have been the highlights of your research during these last years?
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My research has always been in the field of oxides
materials; I am interested in oxide interface physics and in the
engineering of high quality artificial functional heterostructures. In
the last years, my work has mainly focused on the study of the
perovskite nickelates. We have demonstrated how a new magnetic...
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Upcoming events
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August, 29-31, 2018, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
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September 16-20, 2018, Varna, Bulgaria
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October 1-3, 2018, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
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16th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems
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October 28-November 2, 2018, Guangzhou, China
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(Photo credits: L. Windels-UNIGE, ETHZ, NTNU, PSI, UNIGE)
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