Agenda

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

8:30 – 9:00 AM	Continental breakfast
9:05 – 9:15 AM	Shriram Ramanathan	Introductory remarks

SESSION 1	Chair: Shriram Ramanathan
9:15 – 9:55 AM	Oleg Shpyrko, UCSD	Nanoscale X-ray imaging of correlated oxides
9:55 – 10:35 AM	Steve May, Drexel Univ	Measuring and controlling octahedral behavior in oxide heterostructures
10:35 – 10:50 AM	Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:30 AM	Chris Marianetti, Columbia Univ
11:30 – 11:50 AM	Hyowon Park, Columbia	Site-Selective Mott transition in rare earth nickelates
Noon – 1:30 PM	Lunch

SESSION 2	Chair: Marc Ulrich
1:30 - 2:10 PM	James Rondinelli, Drexel Univ	Towards rational design of emergent phases in oxide heterostructures
2:10 - 2:50 PM	Martha Greenblatt, Rutgers Univ
2:50 - 3:10 PM	Viswanath Balakrishnan, Harvard Univ	VO2 and SmNiO3: Crystal symmetry breaking and electronic property correlations
3:10 - 3:30 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:10 PM	Greg Fiete, UT Austin	Topological Phases at Oxide Interfaces
4:10 - 4:30 PM	Jinwoo Hwang, UCSB	Nanoscale quantification of octahedral tilts in perovskites
4:30 - 4:50 PM	Ru Chen, UCSB	Possible Mott physics in SrTiO3/GdTiO3 heterostructures
6:00 PM	Dinner

8:30 – 9:15 AM	Continental breakfast

SESSION 3	Chair: Leon Balents
9:15 - 9:55 PM	Bob Westervelt, Harvard Univ	Quantum materials for electronics
9:55 - 10:35 PM	Nuh Gedik, MIT	Ultra-fast probing dynamics of spin-charge coupling in topological insulators
10:35 - 10:50 PM	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 PM	George Sawatzky, UBC	Magnetism resulting from O vacancies at surfaces and interfaces
11:30 - 11:50 PM	Dan Ouellette, UCSB	Shining light on 2-dimensional correlated electron systems at oxide interfaces
Noon - 1:30 PM	Lunch

SESSION 4	Chair: George Sawatzky
1:30 - 2:10 PM	Ray Ashoori, MIT
2:10 - 2:30 PM	Anderson Janotti, UCSB	The 2DEG at the SrTiO3/LaTiO3 Interface: where the electrons come from
2:30 - 2:50 PM	Eric Monkman, Cornell	Revealing quasi-particle interactions in digitally synthesized (LaMnO3)2n/(SrMnO3)n superlattices
3:00 - On	Coffee Break/Discussion