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2024 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society
Dec. 10, 2024—Prof. Caldwell attended the 2024 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston, MA. His presentation entitled “Exploiting and Controlling Lattice Symmetry for Infrared Nanophotonics and Thermal Transport”. This covered collaborative work with Prof. Deyu Li, Prof. Patrick Hopkins, among others, while highlighting research from Dr. Guanyu Lu and Dr. Joseph Matson, former students...
VINSE 24th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum
Nov. 26, 2024—Caldwell group members presenting at VINSE 24th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum Aditha Senarath Emmanuel K. Dabuo Thiago S. Arnaud Courtney Ragle Carson E. Snow Emanuela Riglioni Katja Diaz-Granados Emma Bartelsen
2nd Alain Aspect Symposium
Nov. 26, 2024—Prof. Caldwell is attending the 2nd Alain Aspect Symposium, with a focus on addressing climate change with quantum technologies. As part of the symposium he gave a talk highlighting the advances in polaritonics gas sensing using so called Tamm polaritons, an advance in his lab that came from funding from the Office of Naval Research....
Congrats to Katja!
Aug. 13, 2024—Congratulations to Katja Diaz-Granados for successfully defending her dissertation!
David Flores wins best poster award for VINSE REU
Aug. 2, 2024—David Flores, an NSF VINSE REU student from Penn State, won best poster award at the end of the season poster award! Congrats to David! Thank you to his two exceptional mentors John Buchner and Saurabh Dixit!!! That makes 5 years in a row for the Caldwell group!!!
Caldwell group attended 2024 Gordon Conference on plasmonics
Jul. 12, 2024—Had a great week at the 2024 Gordon Conference on plasmonics! Alumni and current students joined and really showed off the amazing students and postdocs!!! Even had time for a Caldwell group hike to a water fall!
Congrats to Ryan Kowalski! 2nd place poster at BNW2024!
Jun. 7, 2024—Ryan was awarded 2nd place for his poster at the hBN Workshop in Sydney! Well deserved!!! Excellent work Ryan!
Boron Nitride Workshop 2024 (BNW 2024), Sydney
Jun. 7, 2024—Josh Caldwell is one the organizers for the Boron Nitride Workshop. This series is dedicated entirely to boron nitride, and the inaugural meeting was held in Montpellier in 2023 (https://bnw2023.sciencesconf.org/). Over the last several years the BN community has grown immensely, and BN has become a material of choice for applications spanning electronics, polaritonics, lighting,...
Congrats to Josh Caldwell! 2024 School of Engineering Interdisciplinary Research Award!
May. 16, 2024—Josh Caldwell, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Vanderbilt’s Interdisciplinary Materials Science (IMS) graduate program, was honored with the Interdisciplinary Research Award for successfully leading interdisciplinary projects and integrating different fields of study to address complex research questions.
Luke Kim wins Materials & Advanced Devices award at ME Senior reception
May. 13, 2024—Congrats Luke! The Materials & Advanced Devices Award is presented to an Outstanding Senior showing the most promise in the study and pursuit of Materials and Advanced Devices Engineering.