ICAM – I2CAM Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

Collaborations

ICAM-I2CAM scientists work together to advance our understanding of frontier sciences and explore new possibilities in research. Below is a list of the many collaborations and exchanges that have taken place through ICAM-I2CAM sponsored support and exchange awards.

2013 – 2014

Natalie Jaschke

Dortmund University – University of California, Davis

Matias Rafti

Synthesis and characterization of Crystalline Microporous Coordination Polymers with applications to liquid phase separations
Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry, La Plata, Argentina – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Weilu Zhang

Electronic Raman spectroscopy Study on Iron-based Superconductor LiFeAs
Chinese Academy of Sciences – Rutgers University

2012 – 2013

Maxim Dzero

Theoretical approach to topological Kondo insulators
Kent State University – Karlsruhe Institute

Khansaa Essa

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Surface energy of nanometals (such as copper, iron)
University of Jordan – University of California, Davis

Prashant Jain

Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Hybrid Inorganic‐Organic Frameworks
Los Alamos National Laboratory – Kyoto University

Hassan Masoud

Harnessing Self‐Oscillating Gels to Design Active Soft Matter Systems
New York University – Princeton University

Jennifer Misuraca

Innovative avenues towards developing new families of high temperature superconducting materials, and measurements of their electronic structure
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Haridas Mundoor

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Exciton – Plasmon Interaction in Quantum dot – Metal Nano Structures
Indian Institute of Science – University of Colorado, Boulder

Paul Syers

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Mapping out the Fermi Surface
University of Maryland – University of Cambridge

Luke Somers

Chemical Identification and DNA Sequencing by Tunneling between Graphene Leads
Rutgers University – Northeastern University

Ilya Vekhter

Developing the theory for coherent photon emission in superconductor-semiconductor
nanostructures

University of Florida – University of London

2011 – 2012

Anat Burger

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Abduction and Asylum in the Lives of Transcription Factors
University of California, San Diego - Ecole Normale Superieure

Celestino Creatore

Quantum many-body phenomena in coupled cavity systems
University of Cambridge – NEST: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Xiaoyu Deng

Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of f-electron semiconducting compounds
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris – Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kripa Gowrishankar

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Hydrodynamic description of the Spindle
The National Centre for Biological Sciences – University of California, Davis

Qingkun Liu

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Study of Viscoelastic Properties of Complex Fluids by Means of Optical Angular Momentum Transfer and Use of Birefringent and/or Shape-Anisotropic Colloids
Zhejiang University – University of Colorado, Boulder
Nanoparticle alignment, assembly & positioning in LCs explored using quantum dots, rods, and multipods
Zhejiang University – University of Colorado, Boulder (08-09)

Sujay Ray

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Single Molecule Studies of Human Telomere-Binding Proteins (TEBP)
Kent State University – University of California, Berkeley

Bohdan Senyuk

Liquid Crystalline Self-Organization of Graphene Dispersions
University of Colorado, Boulder – Rice University

Aping Zhang

Fabrication of 3D Metamaterial Molecules Using Digital Micro-Mirror Device-Based Nanofabrication Technology
University of California, San Diego – Zhejiang University

Jianqiang Zhao

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Light-directed assembly of gold nanorods and photodeformable elastomeric colloidal microparticles in liquid crystals
Fudan University – University of Colorado, Boulder

2010 – 2011

Deniz Alpay

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Tissue engineering and SiRNA delivery systems
Sabanci University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Magnus Andersson

Dynamic control of the lactose permease membrane transporter
University of California, Irvine – University of California, Los Angeles

Gia-Wei Chern

Exotic phases and phase transitions in quantum spin-orbital systems
University of Wisconsin, Madison – Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rafael Fernandes

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Collective excitation in unconventional superconductors: Fe-based and cuprate superconductors
University of Wisconsin – Ames Laboratory

Johanna M. Froyd-Rankenberg

Elucidating the biophysical principles underlying the phospholipid regulation of protein targets
Kent State University – University of Amsterdam

Tao Hu

Electronic and magnetic phenomena in transition metal oxides
University of California, San Diego – Kent State University

Li Jiang

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) - Assisted Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy
Zhejiang University – University of California, Davis

Michael Murrell

Non-equilibrium mechanics of a biomimetic actin cortex
University of Chicago - Institut Curie: Laboratoire Physico-Chimie

Dan Parshall

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Investigation of electron-phonon coupling in a new superconductor
University of Colorado, Boulder – Karlsruhe Institute

Gorkem Soyumer

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Investigation of the electronic and mechanical properties of graphene
Sabanci University – Boston University

Yaoran Sun

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Confined liquid crystals and topological defects for tunable and dynamically controlled photonic crystals and waveguides
Zhejiang University – University of Colorado, Boulder

2009 – 2010

Trirup Choudhury

Organic photovoltaic liquid crystalline materials
Assam University – University of Colorado, Boulder

Budhadipta Dan

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Topological defects, structures, and self-assembly in novel liquid crystalline
Rice University – University of Colorado, Boulder

Andreas Dolfen

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Simulation of strongly correlated systems with exact diagonalization at finite temperature
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH – Rutgers University

Eric Duchon

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Develop an advanced quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for boson-fermion mixtures
Ohio State University - University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics

Ilya Eremin

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Collective excitations in unconventional superconductors: Fe-based and cuprate superconductors
University of Wisconsin – Ames Laboratory

Julian Evans

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Structured liquid crystal polymer-nanoparticle composite materials for electro-optic and photonic applications
University of Colorado, Boulder – University of the Netherlands Antilles

Shachi Gosavi

Investigation of topological effects in chromatin remodeling
University of California, San Diego - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

Elad Harel

Dissecting fundamental mechanisms of DNA photostability and photodamage using electronic quantum coherence
University of Chicago – Weizmann Institute of Science

John Harden

Giant flexoelectricity of bent-core nematic liquid crystals: Its origin and potential applications for microscale energy conversion
Florida State University – Kent State University

Nazar Ileri

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Controlled molecular transport through nanofilters with tapered and cylindrical pores
University of California, Davis – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Yasuyuki Kato

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Cold atoms in optical lattices
University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics – Ohio State University

Demet Tatar Kesten

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Nanoscale morphology evolutions in ion sputter erosion
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Harvard University

Tatiana Kuriabova

Theory of active liquid-crystalline gels and mitotic spindle self-organization
University of Colorado, Boulder – Harvard University

Wen-Juan Li

STM, LEED, and HREELS studies of pnictides
Boston College – University of Tennessee

Clayton Lapointe

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Complex Colloids in Complex Ordered Fluids
University of California, Los Angeles – University of Colorado, Boulder
Chiral symmetry breaking and interactions of lithographically fabricated colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystals
University of California, Los Angeles – University of Colorado, Boulder (10-12)

Angel Martinez

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Chiral interactions of photopolymerized colloids in complex ordered fluids
University of Colorado, Boulder – University of Queensland

Fionn McLoughlin

Biophysical characterization of the binding specificity and affinity of protein kinases to phosphatidic acid
University of Amsterdam – Kent State University

Dalgis Mesa

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Investigation of the spin-lattice coupling in Fe-based superconductors
Louisiana State University - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics

Gunnar Moller

Creating and Manipulating Topological States of Matter in 2D p-wave Chiral Superconductors
University of Cambridge - University of Colorado, Boulder

Catherine Pepin

Travel visits from Paris to LSU and LANL to enable long-term partnerships with 3 research groups
Louisiana State University – Los Alamos National Laboratory

Mohammad Qureshi

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Single molecule studies of human nucleotide excision repair and DNA damage checkpoint
Kent State University – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Darko Tanaskovic

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Dynamical mean field theory
Rutgers University – Florida State University

Fangfu Ye

Liquid crystalline elastomers and their structural and elastic randomness
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Syracuse University

Dong Ki Yoon

Light-controlled self-assembly of liquid crystal colloids
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) – University of Colorado, Boulder

2008 – 2009

Suman Anand

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Optical trapping and manipulation of defects in liquid crystals
The University of Dundee – University of Colorado, Boulder

Nicholas Butch

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
High magnetic field properties of URu2-xRexSi2
University of California, San Diego – Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rajdeep Deb

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Characterization of novel light-sensitive and luminescent azo- or ester- based liquid crystals by optical techniques
Assam University – University of Colorado, Boulder

Lorenzo DeLeo

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Advanced impurity solvers for Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Rutgers University - Centre de Physique Theorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique

Kory Golchert

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
To apply coil spinning NMR technique (DS) to protein samples from RM lab
University of California, Irvine - UMR 3299, Service Interdisciplinaire sur les Systèmes Moléculaires et les Matériaux

Ivan Klevets

Elasticity-mediated and electrically-controlled interactions of colloidal particles of complex shapes and their self-assembly in liquid crystal media
University of Colorado, Boulder – Institute for Condensed Matter Physics (ICMP) of the NAS of Ukraine

Kristina Lilova

Junior Exchange Award
Measuring the high temperature thermodynamic properties of a series of complex oxide solutions containing rare earths and tetravalent metals such as Zr, Hf and Ce
Bulgaria – University of California, Davis

Sourin Mukhopadhyay

Development of a 20 Tesla spectroscopic imaging STM for Nanoscale studies of complex electronic/magnetic materials
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research – Cornell University

Ali Naji

Physics of viral entry
University of California, Riverside – University of California, Los Angeles

Florentin Popescu

Novel Phases and Quantum Critical Behavior in Correlated Electron Materials
Boston College – Kent State University

Ramarao Pratibha

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Nano structured liquid crystals as tunable metamaterials
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology – University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Prentiss

Protein Structure Prediction using Basin-Hopping
University of California, San Diego – University of Cambridge

Lifang Shi

Development of a new scanning probe and optical microscopy-based methodology for probing signaling process at single cell level
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – University of California, Davis

Young Gul Song

Investigations on New Multiferroic Materials; Low-Dimensional Frustrated Magnets
Center for Novel States of Complex Materials Research, Seoul National University – Rutgers University

Oksana Trushkevych

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Liquid crystal nanomaterials and nanophotonics
University of Cambridge – University of Colorado, Boulder

Vladislav Volman

To investigate aspects of neuro-glia communication in cultured cortical networks
University of California, San Diego – Tel Aviv University

Shimon Weiss

Molecular imaging of cell signaling in small living Organisms L ErbB signaling axis of zebrafish
University of California, Los Angeles – Weizmann Institute of Science

Yifeng Yang

Emergent Behavior in Heavy Electron Materials
University of California, Davis – Los Alamos National Laboratory

Michael Zochowski

Investigating structural network modifications underlying dynamics of information processing
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Tel Aviv Univeristy

2008 and older

Kazuhiro Fujita

Synthesis of high purity cuprate superconductors and measurement of intrinsically inhomogeneous electronic structure in these materials
University of Tokyo (Physics) – Cornell University (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics)

Kay Kunes

Theoretical modeling of amyloid protein self assembly
UC Davis – Lausanne, Switzerland (2005 Meeting on Physical Science Approaches to Amyloidogenic Proteins )
UC Davis – Crete, Greece (2007 Meeting on Protein Assembly in Materials, Biology, and Medicine: Direct Impact on Biological Nanosciences)

Nelson Page

Simulations of protein membrane interactions in neurons
UC Davis (Physics/Materials Science) – Cargese, France (2006 Advanced Workshop [Summer School] on Biological Physics)

M. Sairam Swaroop

Junior Exchange Award
Electronic transport through DNA nanodevices
JNCASR, Bangalore, India – UC Davis (Department of Physics)

Anne Poduska

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
Synthesis of metal oxide materials and science outreach/education
Cornell University (Chemistry) – Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Biological Chemistry JNCASR (Materials Science), Bangalore, India

Sichun Yang

Junior Scientist Exchange Award
New Models for self assembly of proteins in amyloid structures
UCSD Center for Theoretical Biological Physics – Cambridge University (Physics)

ICAM-I2CAM

In this section

Thrust Areas