Semiconductor physics conference, satellite symposium and FLEET workshop
It is a wonderful opportunity for Australia’s semiconductor physics community, as Sydney hosts the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS22, 27-30 June), the premier forum for new semiconductor physics.
Nobel Laureates Prof Klaus von Klitzing (Quantum Hall Effect) and Prof Kostya Novoselov (graphene) join an impressive array of 60 international speakers, and over 500 domestic and international researchers will choose from 16 program streams covering the full range of semiconductor science and technology. In addition to many of FLEET’s regular international collaborators, speakers at ICPS22 will include FLEET PI Allan MacDonald (U Texas, Austin), and FLEET Scientific Advisor Prof Francois Peeters.
Leveraging the presence in Australia of so many leading researchers in semiconductor physics, FLEET will host a satellite symposium the following Friday, 1 July at the Headlands Austinmer Beach resort south of Sydney. FLEET’s ICPS Satellite Symposium will be an intimate workshop with 11 speakers leading discussions of the latest research in topics relevant to FLEET including 2D materials, topological materials and spin phenomena, and exciton and exciton-polariton science. Speakers will include Allan MacDonald and Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li (U Texas Austin), Sankar Das Sarma (Maryland), Francois Peeters (Antwerp), Marcos Guimaraes (Groningen) and Jelena Klinovaja (Basel).
Following the satellite symposium, FLEET’s first full, in-person meeting since December 2019 will follow, with FLEET’s Annual Workshop (4-8 Jul) based at the Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong. almost 150 members and affiliates will attend, and as at all FLEET events, the accompanying 14 family and children will join members at all social events. Free-on-site child-care and carers’ grants will help ensure that no-one misses out on the science, and the full research program will also be live-streamed for members who cannot attend. Excursions will include the laboratories at UOW’s Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), facilities of Centre partner ANSTO, and the Innovation Campus Science Space.