Group Kayaking and Barbecue
09-13-2024
The Ma group recently went kayaking on Charles river and had a barbecue together. Incredible sights and delicious food!
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CATS Annual Review at Boston College!
02-06-2024
We were delighted to welcome our CATS (EFRC Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals) colleagues to conduct the annual review at Boston College. The open poster session fostered vibrant interactions between our students and the CATS research team.
CuWiP 2024 was a success!
01-22-2024
We successfully hosted the CuWiP 2024 on our campus, thanks to the unwavering support from Wellesley College, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gregory Kalscheur, S.J., Graf, colleagues, student volunteers, department staff, as well as Laura Steinberg, Seidner Family Executive Director of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
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Our team (led by Prof. Mingda Li at MIT) win a ticket to the phase II of NSF Convergence Accelerator Track I
12-23-2023
Advancing Sustainable Topological Material Prototype Devices for Energy-efficient Applications. Congrats to the team and look forward to convergent teamwork!
Our collaborative work with Prof. Mark Hersam’s group (Northwestern) and Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s group (MIT) is now published online in Nature. Congrats!
12-20-2023
We received the DURIP award for building a new magneto-optics system! Congratulations to the group!
12-12-2023
Qiong joined the npj Spintronics as one of the Editorial Board Members. Looking forward to this new task and the opportunity of learning from the spintronics community.
11-03-2023
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Prof. Qiong Ma and Prof. Benedetta Flebus as Co-Organizer of APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics
11-01-2023
Boston College is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting the APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) from January 19th to 21st, 2024. On behalf of our dedicated local committee from Boston College and Wellesley, I am reaching out to provide essential application information to students.
CUWiP serves as a dynamic platform, uniting accomplished physicists who identify as women or gender minorities with over 2,000 undergraduate women in physics. The event aims to spotlight the array of career opportunities within physics for women and celebrate the significant contributions of women in this field. Students eager to participate can now access the application portal, which opened on Monday, August 28, 2023. The application window will conclude promptly at 5 PM ET on Monday, October 23, 2023. It's important to note that registration is a prerequisite for attendance for all students, including those from Boston College and Wellesley. Comprehensive details about APS CUWiP at Boston College/Wellesley can be found on our official website: https://sites.bc.edu/cuwip/ with a FAQ page https://sites.bc.edu/cuwip/faq/. Moreover, information regarding the other conference locations is accessible through the APS CUWiP webpage at www.aps.org/cuwip.
Group Hiking Weekend
10-14-2023
The Ma and Xu groups recently enjoyed a joint outing, exploring the Skyline Outer Reservoir Loop.
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Quantum Geometry Workshop at Boston (Oct 11-13)
10-13-2023
Qiong Ma, Liang Wu (Upenn), Liang Fu (MIT) and Jennifer Cano (Stony Brook) recently organized a workshop on Quantum Geometry in Condensed Matter. The workshop happened in the northern suburb of Boston and was a great success.
Qiong received the OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH 2024 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD. Congrats to the group!
09-28-2023
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We welcome Pablo and Xuguo as graduate researchers!
09-06-2023
Looking forward to working with you!
We welcome Pablo and Xuguo as graduate researchers!
09-06-2023
Looking forward to working with you!
Qiong has been awarded the IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Low-Temperature Physics.
06-06-2023
This prize recognizes the contributions of early career physicists in low-temperature physics. It is given to three awards internationally over three years.
Welcome Bo Zhang as our undergraduate researcher!
03-21-2023
Qiong has been awarded the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Award!
03-04-2023
“The Doctoral New Investigator grants program aims to promote the careers of young faculty by supporting research of high scientific caliber.”
We are thrilled to be part of the NSF Convergence Accelerator team on Sustainable Topological Energy Materials!
03-03-2023
Over the past decade, topological materials have emerged as a promising area of research, with numerous lab-scale demonstrations of electronic and spintronic devices with no energy dissipation, next-generation photovoltaic and photodetectors, and high-efficiency waste recovery, among other applications. However, progress in the industrialization and mass production of these materials beyond the lab scale has been slow.Through this program, our team aims to foster joint academic-industrial collaboration to increase the role of topological materials in creating a cleaner, low-carbon world. We are excited about the opportunity to work with other experts in this field and contribute to advancing topological materials.
New Collaboration Announced
03-02-2023
We are honored to join the MURI research program on Topological Flat Bands for Correlated Electron Systems. We are excited about the opportunity to collaborate with all members of the team and look forward to working together.
Qiong has been awarded the 2023 Sloan Fellowship
02-23-2023
A Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available to young researchers, in part because so many past fellows have gone on to become towering figures in science, including 56 Nobel laureates
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Our paper “Photocurrent as a Multi-Physics Diagnostic Tool for Quantum Materials” with collaborators Roshan Krishna Kumar, Su-Yang Xu, Frank H.L. Koppens, and Justin C. W. Song has been published in Nature Reviews Physics
02-23-2023
This technical review highlights the essential principles of photocurrent diagnostics, which are used for various purposes such as resolving band structure, characterizing topological materials, differentiating various types of carrier scattering ranging from femtosecond to nanosecond timescales, and enabling new types of remote-sensing protocols and photocurrent nanoscopy.
Physicist named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
08-01-2022
Assistant Professor Qiong Ma is named to the organization’s 40th anniversary class of 18 early-career scholars recognized for exemplary research.
Qiong gave an invited seminar at Case Western. Thank Shulei for the hosting!
11-16-2021
There are two fundamental ways for us to understand nature. One way is to understand our world by breaking it into smaller and smaller building blocks. Primary examples include the discoveries of chemical elements and elementary particles. The other way is: given the same building blocks, we ask what the possible ways are for them to be organized by nature...
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Women in Physics
09-08-2021
Female physicists, postdocs, faculty members and students who are interested in pursuing physics, gather together and have fun over pizza every month. During this event, students get to know their peers, gain advice from their seniors, form study groups, and learn about research groups they are potentially interested to join.
A guest faculty speaker will be invited at the last event every semester to give a presentation on research, academics, and career opportunities. This event is organized by Profs. Benedetta Flebus and Qiong Ma in the Department of Physics and strongly supported by the entire department. Any female students and researchers who are interested in physics are welcome to join this monthly event. To join this event, please email Prof. Qiong Ma (qiong.ma@bc.edu) and/or Prof. Benedetta Flebus (benedetta.flebus@bc.edu).
Qiong gave an invited talk at the International Workshop for Transport and Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Systems organized by Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics.
08-03-2021
We are privileged to join CATS, an EFRC funded by DOE.
08-01-2021
We are privileged to join the Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals (CATS), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by DOE.
Our collaborative work with Prof. Ni Ni and Prof. Suyang Xu is published in Nature! Congrats Anyuan!
06-21-2021
Our collaborative work with Prof. Ni Ni‘s group at UCLA and Prof. Suyang Xu‘s group on MnBi2Te4 at Harvard on the layer Hall effect in even-number-layered MnBi2Te4 is published in Nature. This work is also in collaboration with Prof. Brian Zhou and Prof. Ken Burch at Boston College. Check it out!
Our review article with Prof. Ken Burch and Dr. Adolfo Grushin is published in Nature Materials! Congrats everyone!
06-14-2021
Our review article “Topology and geometry under the nonlinear electromagnetic spotlight” with Prof. Ken Burch and Dr. Adolfo Grushin is published in Nature Materials. Check it out!
Welcome Thomas to our group as a formal graduate student!
06-10-2021
We are very fortunate to have Siyuan (Thomas) continue working with us as a formal graduate student starting in the fall! Siyuan has made tremendous efforts in building the early facilities for our lab.
Welcome to our first postdoc Zumeng Huang!
06-01-2021
Welcome our first postdoc researcher Zumeng Huang joining us! Zumeng just obtained his Ph.D. in Physics with Prof. Weibo Gao at Nanyang Technological University Singapore.