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It was nice to have a full in-person March Meeting again! Our group gave a total of 7 talks, and had our first group dinner at March Meeting, with none other than Texas BBQ. 🙂

Here is our paper on FeGe published in Nat. Phys. today: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01985-w Thank you also you Rice News office for writing a nice piece on our work: https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/magnetism-fosters-unusual-electronic-order-quantum-material

Ming is very humbled to receive the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Ardentec Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA), and received the certificate from Prof. Cheng Chin from the University of Chicago during the 2023 APS

ALS published a science highlight piece on our FeGe work: https://als.lbl.gov/charge-density-wave-found-in-magnetic-kagome-crystal/

We participated in a virtual workshop on quasi-1D quantum materials. Videos of the talks can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@quasi-1d/featured

Ming worked on an invited perspective on nematicity in the iron-based superconductors with Anna Böhmer, Jiun-Haw Chu, and Sam Lederer. The final print has appeared in Nature Physics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01833-3  

Paper reporting discovery of charge density wave in kagome metal FeGe in collaboration with Pengcheng Dai’s group has appeared in Nature today: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05034-z Here is the news release published by Rice: https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/interwoven-charge-and-magnetism-intertwine-kagome-material Congrats to Xiaokun and Ji Seop and everyone

We welcome Zheng Ren as a junior fellow in the Rice Academy of Fellows program to join our group!

We had four people passing their 3rd year candidacy exams this past term. Congrats to all!

A great way to end the semester, we congratulate the following folks on their achievements this past year! Yucheng won the Chuoke Award as the third year PhD student! Ben and Trey (both freshman) won the SURF fellowship to work