Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Defect Engineering and Characterization
The placement of this session within the GRS will depend on the number of received abstracts whose topics align with the theme of this session.
Discussion Leader: Artur Lozovoi (The City College of New York, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Tom Delord (CUNY- City College of New York, United States)
"Superconductor-induced Suppression of the Electric Noise in a Near-surface NV Spin"
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Eleanor Nichols (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Towards quantum-confined spin-qubits in monolayer, semiconducting WSe2 "
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Experimental and Theoretical Methods for Defect Characterization
The placement of this session within the GRS will depend on the number of received abstracts whose topics align with the theme of this session.
Discussion Leader: Christopher Savory (University College London, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Fangzhou Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
"Impurity Auger Recombination in Gallium Nitride from First Principles"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Seán Kavanagh (University College London (UCL) & Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Symmetry-breaking and Reconstruction at Point Defects in Solids"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Tom Verstijnen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Isoelectronic Doping of GaAs with Bi and N Studied with DFT and X-STM"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Darian Smalley (University of Central Florida, United States)
"Metrology and Characterization of Point Defects in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Enhanced with Machine Learning"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Quantum Technologies: The Role of Defects
The placement of this session within the GRS will depend on the number of received abstracts whose topics align with the theme of this session.
Discussion Leader: Hannah Stern (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Xingyi Wang (University of Washington, United States)
"Correlate Optical Properties of Point Defects to Atomic Coordinates in ZnO Nanostructures"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Pranta Saha (University of California, Davis, United States)
"Color Center Photonics in Triangular Geometry"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Ethan Williams (Dartmouth College, United States)
"Comparison of Power Spectra in Diamond at 2.5 GHz for Nitrogenic Defects"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Ryan Parker (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
"Photonic indistinguishability of the tin-vacancy center in nanostructured diamond"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: After the PhD: Job Opportunities in the Public and Private Sectors
Discussion Leaders: Hongling Lu (University of Michigan, United States) and Ymir Frodason (University of Oslo, Norway)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
After the PhD: Job Opportunities in the Public and Private Sectors
Chitraleema Chakraborty (University of Delaware, United States)
Joel Varley (Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States)
Richard Brierley (Nature Physics, United Kingdom)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes