Presentations
2024
April 2024: MRS Spring Meeting, Seattle, WA. Invited talk: "Unusual high-field superconductivity in uranium ditelluride."
February 2024: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Invited talk: "The peculiar superconducting states in uranium ditelluride."
February 2024: Physics Division - Condensed Matter Section Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA. Invited talk: "Superconductivity and the quest for high Tc."
January 2024: MagLab Theory Winter School - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL. Invited talk: "Uranium Ditelluride: A Variety of Spin-Triplet, High Magnetic Field, and/or Pressure-Induced Superconducting Phases."
2023
October 2023: CDAC Webinar - University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Invited virtual talk: "Unconventional superconductivity at high fields and pressures in UTe2."
June 2023: Actinides 2023 - Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO. Invited talk: "Unconventional superconductivity and f-electron correlations in UTe2."
April 2023: Condensed Matter Seminar - UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Invited virtual talk: "Spin-triplet superconductivity and f-electron hybridization in UTe2."
March 2023: Workshop on Mesoscopic Physics and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (in honor of M. Gershenson) – Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Invited Talk: "Multiple superconducting phases and spin-triplet physics in UTe2."
March 2023: APS March Meeting – Las Vegas, NV. Invited Talk: "Symmetry of magnetic correlations in spin-triplet superconductor UTe2."
2022
September 2022: QMC Colloquium – University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Talk: "Electron Correlations and Superconductivity in Uranium Ditelluride."
August 2022: 29th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics – Sapporo, Japan. Invited Virtual Talk: "Conjuction of Superconductivity, Magnetism, and Correlations in UTe2."
June 2022: Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop – University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Invited Talk: "Symmetry of Magnetic Correlations in UTe2."
January 2022: ICAM Frontiers of Quantum Matter – UC Davis, Davis, CA. Invited Virtual Talk: "Superconductivity and a Neighborhood of Ordered Phases in Uranium Ditelluride."
2021
November 2021: RCQM Workshop on Topological Materials and Electron Correlations – Rice University, Houston, TX. Invited Talk: "Correlated Topological Superconductivity in UTe2 - Part II."
October 2021: Condensed Matter Seminar – Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Invited Virtual Talk: "Exploring the Limits of Spin Triplet Superconductivity."
September 2021: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2020 - Brazil. Invited Virtual Talk: "Boost and Suppression of High Field Superconducting Phases in UTe2 under Pressure."
September 2021: Condensed Matter Colloquium – Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland. Invited Virtual Talk: “Spin triplet superconductivity under extreme conditions.”
June 2021: Toposuper2021 – Aalto University, Finland. Invited Virtual Talk: "Spin triplet superconductivity in uranium ditelluride."
April 2021: RCQM Spring Workshop – Rice University, Houston, TX. Invited Virtual Talk: "Correlated Topological Superconductivity in UTe2."
April 2021: MRS Spring Meeting – Virtual. Invited Virtual Talk: "Topological and high-field reentrant superconductivity in UTe2."
March 2021: APS March Meeting – Virtual. Invited Virtual Talk: “The spin-triplet topological superconductor UTe2.”
2020
October 2020: Condensed Matter Seminar – Brown University, Providence, RI. Invited Virtual Talk: “From Topological to Reentrant – Superconductivity in UTe2.”
October 2020: Quantum Matters in Materials Science Workshop – National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Invited Virtual Talk: “The remarkable spin-triplet superconducting states in uranium ditelluride.”
July 2020: Los Alamos Quantum Matter Working Group Workshop – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Invited Virtual Talk: “The many superconducting phases of UTe2.”
February 2020: Condensed Matter Seminar - Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Invited Talk: “High-field reentrance and spin-triplet superconductivity in uranium ditelluride.”
February 2020: Physics Colloquium - Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Invited Talk: “The Lazarus Superconductor.”
January 2020: Condensed Matter Seminar – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Invited Talk: “Exotic superconductivity in uranium ditelluride.”
January 2020: Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop – University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Invited Talk: “UTe2 Introduction and New Developments.”
2019
November 2019: Condensed Matter Seminar – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Invited Talk: “Spin-triplet superconductivity and high-field reentrance in UTe2.”
October 2019: Physics Colloquium – George Mason University, Virginia. Invited talk: “Exotic superconductivity in uranium ditelluride.”
October 2019: Exploring New Science Frontiers at NSLS-II – Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. Invited talk: “Correlations and Topology in Actinide Quantum Materials.”
October 2019: NHMFL Users’ Workshop – Santa Fe, New Mexico. Invited talk: “Unconventional Superconductivity in UTe2 in Magnetic Fields.”
September 2019: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2019 – Okayama, Japan. Invited talk: “UTe2: A nearly-ferromagnetic spin triplet superconductor.”
July 2019: Calorimetry Conference 2019 – Pojoaque, NM. Invited talk: “The Heavy Fermion Spin Triplet Superconductor UTe2.”
May 2019: MapleFest 2019, Emergent Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems – UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Invited talk: “Uranium compounds still offer surprises; the newest spin triplet superconductor.”
May 2019: Quantum Ferromagnetism and Related Phenomena – MPI Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany. Invited talk: “Spin triplet superconductivity in nearly ferromagnetic UTe2.”
2018
November 2018: Condensed Matter Seminar - Duke University, North Carolina. Invited talk: "Spontaneously Polarized Half-Gapped Superconductivity."
October 2018: CNAM Colloquium - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Invited talk: "Spontaneously Polarized Half-Gapped Superconductivity."
March 2018: APS March Meeting – Los Angeles, California. Invited talk: “The persistence of the intermediate valence in SmB6 under pressure.”
February 2018: CNAM Colloquium - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Invited talk: "Beneath Hidden Order."
2017
November 2017: Seaborg Seminar – Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Invited talk: “Mapping the correlated f-state responsible for hidden order in URu2Si2.”
September 2017: J-Physics 2017 Satellite Workshop – Tokai, Japan. Invited talk: "The correlated f-state in URu2Si2."
September 2017: J-Physics 2017 International Workshop – Hachimantai, Japan. Invited talk: "Magnetic excitations in the hidden order and antiferromagnetic phases of URu2-xFexSi2."
April 2017: MSD Seminar – Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. Invited talk: "Ironing out Hidden Order."
March 2017: APS March Meeting – New Orleans, Louisiana. Contributed talk: "URu2-xFexSi2 - Magnetic excitations in Hidden Order and Antiferromagnetic phases."
February 2017: CNAM Colloquium - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Invited talk: "The Underlying Intermediate Valence in SmB6."
January 2017: Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop, Greenbelt, Maryland. Invited talk: "Actinide quantum materials."
2016
November 2016: Center for Computational Materials Sciences 2016 Workshop, Stony Brook, New York. Invited talk: "Synthesis and measurements at NIST and UMD."
October 2016: Sigma Xi 2016 Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator Lecture – National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Invited talk: "The Allure of Hidden Order."
October 2016: Seminar – New York University, New York, New York. Invited talk: "Quashing Hidden Order with Iron."
September 2016: Seminar – National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida. Invited talk: “SmB6 – Obstinately Intermediate Valent, Plausibly Topologically Nontrivial.”
July 2016: American Conference on Neutron Scattering 2016 – Long Beach, CA. Contributed talk: “Electron Correlations and Hidden Order in URu2Si2.”
June 2016: 6th International Workshop on the Dual Nature of f-electrons – Idaho Falls, Idaho. Invited talk: “Magnetic excitations in URu2Si2: hidden order and antiferromagnetism.”
March 2016: APS March Meeting – Baltimore, Maryland. Contributed talk: “Magnetic excitations in URu2Si2 paramagnetic and Hidden Order phases.”
2015
November 2015: Seminar - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Invited talk: “Spin fluctuations, superconductivity, and quantum criticality in electron doped cuprates.”
October 2015: MSD seminar – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. Invited talk: “f-electrons and (maybe) topological states in samarium hexaboride.”
October 2015: Seminar – UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California. Invited talk: “Magnetic excitations in URu2Si2 and the Hidden Order phase.”
July 2015: 20th International Conference on Magnetism – Barcelona, Spain. Poster: "Magnetic excitations through the hidden order transition in URu2Si2."
May 2015: Argonne APS/CNM Users Meeting – Argonne, Illinois. Invited talk: “Looking for hidden phonons in URu2Si2.”
April 2015: 45èmes Journées des Actinides – Průhonice, Czech Republic. Contributed talk: “Magnetic and lattice excitations in hidden order compound URu2Si2.”
March 2015: APS March Meeting – San Antonio, Texas. Contributed talk: “Onset of ferromagnetism in EuB6.”
2014
November 2014: Physics Colloquium – Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri. Invited talk: “Adventures in electron correlations.”
October 2014: Chemical Physics Seminar – University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Invited talk: “The weird world of Hidden Order.”
March 2014: APS March Meeting – Denver, Colorado. Contributed talk: “Valence and moment of Sm in SmB6 under pressure.”
2013
June 2013: High Pressure Neutron Workshop – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Contributed talk: “The pressure-induced antiferromagnetic transition in URu2Si2.”
March 2013: APS March Meeting – Baltimore, Maryland. Contributed talk: “Phonons in URu2Si2.”
February 2013: Seminar – UC Riverside, Riverside, California. Invited talk: “New and Unusual Electronic States in Materials.”
February 2013: Seminar – NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Invited talk: “Emergent States in Electronic Materials.”
February 2013: Chez Pierre seminar – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Invited talk: “Emergent electronic behavior in novel materials.”
February 2013: Colloquium – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Invited talk: “Unusual Electronic Behavior in Materials.”
January 2013: Condensed matter seminar – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Invited talk: “Emergence in electronic materials.”
January 2013: ICAM/I2CAM NSF site visit – UC Davis, Davis, California (in absentia). Poster: "High Magnetic Fields and New Electron Physics."
2012
October 2012: Seminar – National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida. Invited talk: “Emergent electronic states – from topology to correlations.”
September 2012: CMMD seminar – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. Talk: “Phonons as a probe of electronic order in the uranium intermetallic URu2Si2.”
July 2012: XIIth Fundamentals of Plutonium Workshop - Abington Hall, Cambridge, UK. Poster: "Uranium substitution into Pu-Ga alloys."
July 2012: Quantum matter seminar - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Invited talk: "Expanding the topological insulator horizon."
July 2012: Plutonium Futures 2012 - Cambridge, UK. Poster: "The role of phonons in the heavy fermion compound URu2Si2."
May 2012: Condensed matter seminar - UC Davis, Davis, California. Invited talk: "At the End of the Dome - Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in LCCO."
February 2012: APS March Meeting - Boston, Massachusetts. Invited talk: "Superconductivity in the topological semimetal YPtBi."
February 2012: APS March Meeting - Boston, Massachusetts. Contributed talk: "Temperature-dependent phonon dispersions in URu2Si2."
February 2012: Condensed matter seminar - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Invited talk: "Synthesis and scrutiny of topological materials."
January 2012: Condensed matter seminar - UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California. Invited talk: "The materials behind the topological states."
2011
December 2011: CM-AMO seminar - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Invited talk: "Making and Investigating Topologically Nontrivial Compounds."
November 2011: Topological group seminar - Stanford University, Stanford, California. Invited talk: "Superconductivity and topological electrons in YPtBi."
May 2011: CMMD Seminar - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. Invited talk: "Tunable electronic ground states in the actinide heavy fermion compound URu2Si2."
March 2011: APS March Meeting - Dallas, Texas. Contributed talk: "High field magnetotransport in high purity crystals of topological insulator Bi2Se3."
March 2011: Condensed matter seminar - UC Irvine, Irvine, California. Invited talk: "Prospecting for surface conduction in the topological insulator Bi2Se3."
February 2011: Condensed matter seminar - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Invited talk: "The challenge of measuring surface transport in 3D topological insulators."
February 2011: Condensed matter seminar - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Invited talk: "Seeking out the surface states in a 3D topological insulator."
February 2011: Condensed matter seminar - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. Invited talk: "Chasing 2D transport in a 3D topological insulator."
February 2011: Seminar - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Invited talk: "3D topological insulators and the quest for surface states."
January 2011: Condensed matter seminar - Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana. Invited talk: "The search for surface transport in 3D topological insulators."
January 2011: Seminar - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Invited talk: "Looking for 2D transport in a 3D topological insulator."
2010
December 2010: Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields VII - Tallahassee, Florida. Poster: "High Field Magnetotransport in Topological Insulator Bi2Se3."
June 2010: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2010 - Santa Fe, New Mexico. Poster: "Neutron diffraction study of URu2Si2 under hydrostatic pressure."
June 2010: Maple Lab Dedication - UC San Diego, La Jolla, California. Invited talk: "Elusive topological surface transport in bismuth selenide."
April 2010: Condensed matter seminar - Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. Invited talk: "An experimental hunt for the surface states of a 3D topological insulator."
April 2010: MRS Spring Meeting - San Francisco, California. Invited talk: "Onset of antiferromagnetism in URu2Si2 under nearly hydrostatic conditions."
March 2010: CNAM Colloquium - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Invited talk: "Where are the surface states? An experimental perspective on 3D topological insulators."
March 2010: APS March Meeting - Portland, Oregon. Contributed talk: "Search for topological surface conduction in high mobility Bi2Se3 crystals."
January 2010: Exotic Insulating States of Matter - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Poster: "Growth and characterization of bismuth selenide crystals."
2009
March 2009: APS March Meeting - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Contributed talk: "Superconductivity in SrFe2-xNixAs2 single crystals."
2008
March 2008: MRS Spring Meeting - San Francisco, California. Poster: "Suppression of Hidden Order and Emergence of Ferromagnetism in URu2-xRexSi2."
March 2008: APS March Meeting - New Orleans, Louisiana. Contributed talk: "Unconventional Magnetic Scaling Exponents near a T=0 Transition in URu2-xRexSi2."
February 2008: Stewardship Science Academic Alliance Symposium - Washington, DC. Talk: "Experimental investigation of magnetic, superconducting, and other phase transitions in novel f electron materials at ultrahigh pressures."
January 2008: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York. Invited talk: "Magnetic and Superconducting Order in URu2Si2: Effects of Applied Pressure and Re Substitution."
2007
October 2007: Workshop on Neutron Scattering in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems - Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany. Invited talk: "Applied pressure and Re substitution studies of URu2Si2."
March 2007: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Invited talk: "Probing the Unusual Properties of URu2Si2 via Applied Pressure and Re Substitution."
March 2007: APS March Meeting - Denver, Colorado. Contributed talk: "The Search for Quantum Criticality in the URu2-xRexSi2 Phase Diagram."
February 2007: Stewardship Science Academic Alliance Symposium - Washington, DC. Poster: "Evolution of ordered states under pressure in f- and d-electron systems."
2005
September 2005: IICAM Workshop on Correlated Thermoelectricity and 3rd Conference on Concepts in Electron Correlation - Hvar, Croatia. Posters: "Tuning phase transitions in URu2Si2 via pressure and chemical substitution" and "Quantum criticality and non Fermi liquid behavior in Sc1-xUxPd3."
August 2005: Stewardship Science Academic Alliance Symposium - Las Vegas, Nevada. Poster: "Low-Temperature Correlated Electron Physics Under Pressure."
March 2005: APS March Meeting - Los Angeles, California. Contributed talk: "Ordered Magnetic State in PrFe4Sb12 Single Crystals."