Prof. Zhiqiang Mao has recently been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor limited to at most 0.5% of APS members in any given year. Prof. Mao received this honor for “contributions to the understanding of magnetism and superconductivity in iron-based superconductors and correlated electron states in ruthenates”.
APS Fellow reception
Prof. Mao has gained international recognition in the research area of quantum materials. He has published 246 peer-reviewed papers, including 25 in Physical Review Letters, 4 in Nature, one in Nature Materials, one in Nature Communications, one in Science and 69 in Physical Review B. His published papers have been widely cited, with the citation H-index of 39. Prof. Mao has also been honored with several other prestigious awards, including the NSF Career Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, and the Tulane Presidential Early Career Development Award. His research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Army Research Office, Research Corporation and Louisiana Board of Regents. Prof. Mao became the first holder of endowed Nicholas J. Altiero Professorship in Science and Engineering in 2011
Dr. Mao became the first holder of the Nicholas J. Altiero Professorship in Science and Engineering. This professorship is established by an anonymous family composed of generations of Tulane alumni in Science and Engineering to strengthen and advance the university’s science and engineering programs and the mission of integrating science and education research.
Dr. Mao has distinguish himself as an outstanding academician, earning both the Tulane University Presidential Early Career Development and the Cottrell Scholar award in 2005 and the National Science foundation Career Award in 2007.
From left to right: Tijiang Liu, Zhiqiang Mao, David Fobes, Jin Peng, Erin Vehstedt
This March our group attended the APS March Meeting in Pittsburg, PA. Five of our group members presented contributed talks. Our undergraduate Erin Vehstedt gave her first talk entitled “Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in Fe(Se(1-x)Tex)0.82” in a Iron Pnictides special session. In that same session Tijiang Liu gave a talk entitled “Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in Fe(Se(1-x)Tex)y” and Zhiqiang Mao presented “Magnetic order and structural transition in BaFe2As2 and alpha-Fe(Se,Te)” for Wei Bao from Los Alamos who was unable to attend.
In the Special Session on Ruthenates we also presented three talks. Jin Peng presented a talk entitled “Antiferromagnetism and bulk spin-valve effect in Ca3(Ru(1-x)Tix)2O7“, David Fobes’s was entitled “Probing orbital-dependent magnetism in layered perovskite ruthenates through angle-dependent magnetoresistivity”, and Zhiqiang Mao presented on “Electronic phase diagram in double layered ruthenates (Sr(1-x)Cax)3Ru2O7“.
Finally, we would like to welcome our new PostDoc, Pramod Kumar who arrived in late February. He will soon have a CV posted here and a pictures of our group should be forthcoming.
We have made major updates to the information on the website:
- Our research interests have been updated under Research
- Dr. Mao’s CV along with an updated version of his Complete CV have been added.
- In addition we have updated the syllabi under Teaching.
- The website has been moved to a new address. While the old address is still forwarding to the new address it would be advisable to update any bookmarks you may have.
In the near future we hope to update the other group members’ information under Our Group. In addition updates will be made to the About page as we have acquired new equipment since the previous update.
We are in the process of updating the website to a more concrete and easier to update version using WordPress. I hope to be done with the updates soon, but during this transition pardon the dust.
We also plan to make more announcements soon concerning what is going on in our group, like our participation in the upcoming APS March Meeting, recent publications, and a new group member.
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David Fobes standing with Dr. Peter Grünberg, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the GMR effect
David Fobes has just returned from the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany with focus on Physics.
The meeting was a week long conference of 24 Nobel Laureates and ~560 students from 67 countries chosen out of over 20,000 applicants.
Thanks to Tulane University for the nomination, Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the sponsorship, and to Sam Held at ORISE for all the support and planning that he provided the American Delegation. – David
In other news, this past March our group attended the APS March Meeting, held in New Orleans at the downtown convention center.
We have recently acquired a few new pieces of equipment, namely a Crucible Furnace and a Tube Furnace, both for expanding our crystal growth capabilities. We also have newly acquired a polarizing light microscope for further sample characterization. Soon we will have two visiting scholars with us as well to help expand our research into other related areas.
We recently had an article published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communication entitled “Competing magnetic fluctuations in Sr3Ru2O7 probed by Ti doping”. In about two weeks we will be attending the APS March Meeting in Denver. Dr. Zhiqiang Mao will give a talk entitled “In-plane anisotropy of magnetoresistivity of tri-layered ruthenate Sr4Ru3O10“. Dr. Zhe Qu will give a talk entitled “Magnetic Phase Transition and Magnetic Structure of Ca3Ru2O7“. David Fobes will give a talk entitled “Competing magnetic fluctuations in Sr3Ru2O7 probed by Ti doping”.
There have been major updates to this site. Specifically, the code was dramatically improved, and now should work on both internet explorer and firefox (it should also work on Opera and Safari, but I haven’t either to test it). I still recommend getting Firefox to view this site, since Internet Explorer tends to alter the formatting and change the general layout in some subtle ways.
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We have finally begun Cooldown 12, our first cooldown here at Tulane since before Hurricane Katrina.
