The Graduate Travel Award from the Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)
January 24, 2023
Congratulations to Benny Schundelmier for receiving the Graduate Travel Award from the Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP) for participation and presentation of his research at the 2023 March meeting of the American Physical Society to be held in Las Vegas, March 6-10.
Benny will present his talk entitled "Effects of different rare earth elements in tuning the thermoelectric properties of RIr2Zn20 (R= rare earth)" in session A:30 Heavy Fermions 1 on Monday 3/6 at 9:36am." Benny is an affiliate of the Baumbach group and is doing his PhD work at the Florida State University under the supervision of Dr. Kaya Wei."
New PhD Thesis
Nov 21, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. W. Lucas Nelson for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled "Investigations of the f-electron state in noel crystalline environments".
New PhD Thesis
July 16, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Greta Chappell for successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled "Exploring the hidden order magnetic phase in URu2Si2 using electronic tuning via chemical substitution and applied pressure".
New low temperature thermoelectric heavy fermion materials YbTm2Zn20 (Tm = Co, Rh, Ir) discovered by Wei et al.
May 31, 2019
Kaya Wei, Jennifer N. Neu, You Lai, Kuan-Wen Chen, Dean Hobbis, George S. Nolas, David E. Graf, Theo Siegrist and R. E. Baumbach, "Enhanced thermoelectric performance of heavy-fermion compounds YbTM2Zn20 (TM = Co, Rh, Ir) at low temperatures" Science Advances 5, eaaw6183 (2019)
Lai completes dissertation
Mar 28, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. You Lai for completing her PhD dissertation, “Tuning intertwined energy scales in f-electron systems by chemical substitution”!
From left to right: Pedro Schlottmann, Peng Xiong, You Lai, Ryan Baumbach, David Graf, Mark Riley, and Mykhailo Shatruk.