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Job openings: part time Communication Specialist (work-study)

Fairfax, VA, 3/4/2020.

QMC is looking for an energetic Communication Specialist to join our team!

https://app.joinhandshake.com/jobs/3639762

This is a part-time, 8-16 hr/wk position. As a Communication Specialist of the QMC, you will be responsible for:
  • Making arrangement of, coordinating, and attending regular QMC events;
  • Creating and reviewing news reports for the events of the Center;
  • Maintaining a regular update of QMC website and social media with news posts, event calendar, updated information, etc.
  • Providing administrative support for the research and education operational processes;
  • Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Knowledge and ability to work with technical systems such as WordPress, MS Office or equivalence;
  • Strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills;
  • A strong work ethic and a positive, friendly attitude;
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and meet deadlines;
  • Be process- and detail-oriented.
To be considered for this position, please submit a copy of your resume and work sample through Handshake. Interviews will be on a rolling bases until the position is filled.
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2020 Mason March Meeting Scientific Program

10:00 am, March 5, 2020
Mason March Meeting Scientific Program

Exploratory Hall room 3301

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News

New publication on Valleytronics

Fairfax, VA, 2/1/2020.

QMC member Dr. Patrick Vora and student Sean Oliver have recently published their work of Valleytronics in 2D Phase Change Materials, Valley phenomena in the candidate phase change material WSe2(1-x)Te2x, doi:10.1038/s42005-019-0277-7, on Communications Physics.

Valleytronics and neuromorphic computing are under heavy investigation as next-generation information processing technologies. In valleytronics information is stored and manipulated by moving carriers between energy band extrema (i.e., valleys) in momentum-space. Achieving this requires a material where carriers can be selectively populated in individual valleys and manipulated on demand.  In this work, the team explored the possibility of achieving a single material, e.g. 2D transition metal dichalcogenide alloys, where both valleytronic and neuromorphic functionality can be combined. Their result shows that both valley polarization and valley coherence remain large in their alloy, which also appear to host valley-polarized excitons that are more resistant to phonon-induced depolarization mechanisms. This implies that at elevated temperatures alloys may outperform pure WSe2 in valleytronic applications.

According to Dr. Vora, these results are the first systematic examination of valley properties in 2D phase change materials and point to a new class of devices where valleytronics can be utilized in concert with phase change elements in hybrid next-generation computing architectures.

For more information please see the recent publication in Communications Physics or visit the Vora Lab.

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Events

QMC Seminar Series #3 – Special Event

11:45 am, December 12, 2019
Invited Speaker: Minsu Kim, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology

Topic: Polymer Engineering for Creating New Functionalities in Laser-induced Porous Graphene

Location: Johnson Center 337 (Meeting Room G)

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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium – Dr. Qi-Yu Liang

3:00 pm, December 6, 2019
Invited Speaker: Dr. Qi‐Yu Liang, University of Maryland

Topic: Time‐domain order‐by‐disorder transition in a Harper‐Hofstadter system

Location: Planetary Hall 131

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QMC Seminar Series #2 – Special Event

11:45 am, November 21, 2019
Invited Speaker: Michael Jarret, Booz Allen Hamilton

Location: Johnson Center 337 (Meeting Room G)