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SUMMARY:George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Ram Seshadri (UC Santa Barbara)
DESCRIPTION:Event interval: Single day eventAccessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.eduEvent Types: Academics\,Lectures/SeminarsEvent sponsors: The George H. Cady Endowed Lectureship in Chemistry was established in memory of Prof. Cady by his family and many friends and colleagues in 1994. George H. Cady earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, in 1930 under the direction of Joel H. Hildebrand. Cady held positions at the University of South Dakota\, M.I.T.\, U.S. Rubber Company\, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass before joining the UW as assistant professor in 1938. He worked on the Manhattan Project (1942-43)\, chaired the Department of Chemistry (1961-65)\, and became professor emeritus in 1972. Prof. Cady was a distinguished inorganic chemist who\, among many honors\, shared the first Prix Moisson\, a prestigious prize named after the father of fluorine chemistry.Link: https://www.materials.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/ram-seshadriGeorge H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry"TBD"Professor Ram Seshadri – Materials Department\, University of California\, Santa BarbaraHost: Douglas Reed
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/george-h-cady-endowed-lecture-in-inorganic-chemistry-prof-ram-seshadri/
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SUMMARY:Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Ram Seshadri
DESCRIPTION:Event interval: Single day eventCampus location: Bagley Hall (BAG)Campus room: BAG 260Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.eduEvent Types: Academics\,Lectures/SeminarsLink: https://www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/ram-seshadri \n"Rapid\, High-Temperature Microwave Synthesis of Useful Materials"Professor Ram Seshadri – Materials Department and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry\, University of California\, Santa BarbaraHost: Douglas Reed \nI will introduce assisted microwave methods for high-temperature reactions and describe how they have accelerated the preparation of phosphor\, thermoelectric\, magnetic\, and battery materials in my research group over the years. In contrast to microwave heating for solution reactions\, these are techniques that employ domestic (≈$100) microwave ovens to readily achieve temperatures as high as 1400°C in minutes. In this talk\, I will focus on the preparation of battery electrodes materials for Li–ion and Na–ion batteries. I will close with a description of how these microwave methods are being scaled for industrial use. \nRam Seshadri received a Ph.D. in solid state chemistry in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)\, Bangalore\, working with Professor C. N. R. Rao FRS. After some years as a postdoctoral fellow in Caen\, France and Mainz\, Germany\, he returned to IISc in 1999 to start his independent career as an assistant professor. He moved to the Materials Department in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara in 2002. In 2020\, he was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor in the Materials Department and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is the Fred and Linda R. Wudl Professor of Materials Science and has served as the Director of the Materials Research Laboratory: A National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF-MRSEC) since 2015. He recently took on the additional role of associate dean for research in the College of Engineering. His research contributions are embodied in 450+ journal publication\, and broadly addresses the topic of structure–composition–property relations in functional\, crystalline inorganic and hybrid materials. Ram is the editor of Annual Reviews of Materials Research and is a lead editor of Physical Review Materials.
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/__trashed-183/
LOCATION:Bagley Hall (BAG)
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T123000
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SUMMARY:Brad Ramshaw (Cornell University): Searching for chiral superconductors using ultrasound
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brad Ramshaw\, Cornell University\nFor more than a century\, superconductors have been the paradigmatic ‘quantum material’\, providing fundamental discoveries like gauge symmetry breaking and impacting technologies from medical imaging to quantum computing. Despite their central importance\, characterizing new types of superconductors is still a difficult task: all superconductors have zero resistance\, but their more subtle properties related to entanglement and topology are hard to probe experimentally. I will introduce chiral topological superconductors in two dimensions – a type of superconductivity with a ‘knot’ in the superconducting wave function. These superconductors can host Majorana edge modes and bound states in their vortex cores\, but finding a real-life example has proven challenging. I will show how we use ultrasound – deforming a crystalline lattice in a manner not unlike how gravity waves deform spacetime – to test whether a particular superconductor has the ‘right ingredients’ to be a 2D topological superconductor. I will present the progress we have made thus far – ruling out many proposed candidate materials and discovering an unexpected new type of superconductivity along the way. Most recently\, this has led us to the discovery of a multi-component superconducting state in UTe2 under hydrostatic pressure – a state that may indeed be topological. Finally\, I will give a prognosis for what I think the most promising route is for discovering a 2D topological superconductor.
URL:https://phys.washington.edu/events/2026-11-19/searching-chiral-superconductors-using-ultrasound#new_tab
LOCATION:PAT C520
CATEGORIES:Physics
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SUMMARY:Tristan Shi (UW Chemistry): Title TBA
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tristan Shi\, UW Chemistry\nTBA
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/tristan-shi-uw-chemistry-title-tba/
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