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News archive of Andreas Bill's group

  • Congratulations to Brendan Chan who won the CNSM Outstanding Thesis Award for his Master's thesis in our group.
  • Congratulations to Renyu Wang wo received the Margaret Heeb Summer Research Scholarship in honor of Wilman Jordan to work on superconducting-magnetic hybrid systems.
  • Trevor Bowman joins the group to work on magnetic Josephson junctions in the clean limit. Welcome!
  • Christopher Burgess joins the group to work on electronic properties of multilayers of 2D materials using a GPU. Welcome!
  • Vlad Larionov Congratulations! Vlad obtained a job at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. His tasks are closely tied to the work he is doing for his Master's degree in the group: the implementation of codes onto GPUs.
  • Read the letter published on the webiste of the APS Far West Section. I am on the chair line (2015-2018) of the Far West Section (FWS) of the American Physical Society (APS). Please contact me if you have questions or suggestions for its activities. And don't forget to become a member of the section; it is free if you are an APS member already!
  • Book chapter published with colleagues from Germany (G. Seibold) and Estonia (V. Hizhnyakov) in High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors and Related Novel Materials (first chapter) for the 90th birthday of Alex Mueller, Nobel laureate for the discovery of high temperature superconductivity. See Ref. 1 of the publication list.
  • Nicholas Werner joins the group to work on multilayer structures. Welcome!
  • Brendan Chan Congratulations! Brendan finished his Master's degree and will join the PhD program at The Ohio State University in the Fall 2017. Brendan worked on magnetic Josephson junctions in the diffusive regime and presented at the APS March meeting in 2017. He was supported in part by the NSF grant. Great job!
  • Travis Thompson Congratulations! Travis finished his Master's degree with Prof. Tapavicza in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He will stick around working on DFT, GPU programming and the crystallization of solids in our group.
  • Jacquelinne Mejia Sandoval Congratulations! Jacquelinne finished her Honors Thesis and graduated with a B.A. in Physics. She will be seeking a job and applying for the single subject credential program. crystallization of solids in our group.
  • Renyu Wang joins the group to work on magnetic Josephson junctions. Welcome!
  • CSULB Physics Alumni LinkedIn Group and Twitter (@CSULBPhysics) The department has a CSULB Physics Alumni LinkedIn group since several years. We are also on twitter. Follow us at @CSULBPhysics.
  • APS Bridge Program Andreas Bill and 8 Bridge Students attended the APS Graduate Education and Bridge Program conference in Washington DC in February 2017. They presented the Master's program and three students presented their research. AB and Bridge Fellow Leslie Davis also participated in the National Advisory Board meeting to present the CSULB Bridge Site activities. The trip ended with the meeting of the Bridge Program Architect's Council, of which AB is a member, to discusses the next phase of the Bridge Program.
  • Andreas Bill is the 2017 Chair of APS Far West Section. As such he went in January 2017 to the APS Convocation and Congressional Visit Day to promote Science at Congress and Senate, to participate in the 2nd APS Medal award evening and the Convocation of the APS sections, forums and divisions.
  • The latest paper in Physical Review B (2016) offers a comprehensive comparative study of magnetic Josephson junctions and the symmetries of the pair correlations involved. The analysis leads to classify magnetic heterostructures and to classify 0-π transitions (reversal of the direction of the Josephson current) in superconducting-magnetic hybrid structures.
  • Congratulations to Luis Leal who finished his Master's thesis on Pair Correlations in Clean Hybrid Systems" and accepted a PhD position at the University of Rochester.
  • Alberto Garcia joined the group for his Master's thesis in Fall 2016. He works on dynamical aspects of superconducting-magnetic hybrid structures.
  • Travis Thompson and Raphael Monroy joined Spring 2016 for a semester and summer project and are continuing the work on their respective projects Travis works on the crystallization of solids and thin films, while Raphael's work is centered on studying the link between inhomogeneous magnetization and spin-orbit interaction.
  • We published a paper (2016) with former Master's student Thomas E. Baker on the effect of magnetic boundary conditions for the reversal of current in a magnetic Josephson junction. See the publication list.
  • The Far West Section annual meeting of the American Physical Society is coming up at UC Davis!
  • The Far West Section annual meeting of the American Physical Society took place October 29-31, 2015 at CSU Long Beach. It was a success with 150 attendees over two days and a half. A. Bill was the local chair of the conference and member of the program committee. FWS2015 website of the conference!
  • Congratulations to George Wang who finished his Master's degree in Summer 2015 and joins the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (NM) to do his PhD.
  • Congratulations to Luis Leal and Brendan Chan! Luis obtained a summer Research Assistant scholarship from ORSP and Brendan Chan received a summer research fellowship from the department of Physics & Astronomy for the summer 2015.
  • We welcome Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal as our new faculty member in Experimental Physics for the Fall 2015!
  • Brendan Chan and Vlad Larionov join the group in Summer 2015. Jaylen Wimbish and Raphael Monroy also join for a summer project in 2015.
  • A. Bill mourns the loss of his Ph.D. advisor, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. h.c. Ernst Sigmund. A bright physicist who with Vladimir Hizhnyakov were among the very first (in 1988) to predict that electronic inhomogeneities and stripes play a major role in the Physics of high temperature superconductors. Ernst Sigmund later became president (1996-2006) of the youngest german University in Cottbus (Brandenburg), and founded a company in 2003 that produces Wankel motors (Wankel SuperTech GmbH). He passed away February 23, 2015 at the age of 69. I will miss his wit, generosity and always surprising points of views. See the obituary in Physik Journal, April 2015, p. 53 (pdf)
  • A. Bill elected for the chair line of the Far West Section of the American Physical Society (APS) to start in 2015.
  • APS Bridge Site The department became the fourth APS Bridge site in the US. Read the article in Physics Today. The program intends at promoting qualified students from underrepresented groups in Physics to bridge from our Master's program to a PhD and be successful in it. This effort is led by A. Bill, C.Kwon, G. Pickett (PI & Co-PIs).
  • Luis Leal joins the group in Summer 2014.
  • Two new publications on magnetic Josephson junctions (see publication list). The publication in New Journal of Physics also has a short abstract video. Check it out!

  • Sabbatical leave (2013-14). Andreas Bill went on sabbatical leave at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Spain. Contact should be made via email.

  • Congratulations to former student Thomas E. Baker who won the Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a graduate student (Nov. 2013). The research has been done during his Master's thesis in our group and is related to the work submitted recently (See the publication list). George Wang from our group also presented a talk on "Simulations of the Time Dependent Crystallization of Amorphous Thin Films".

  • New National Science Foundation Grant! The group has been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation for 2013-2016.

  • Department of Physics & Astronomy at CSU Long Beach has been chosen as 4th Bridge Site and only Master's granting institution in the USA. The award (PIs: A. Bill, C. Kwon, G. Pickett) promotes the transfer of qualified students from underrepresented groups in Physics to Ph.D. programs. Five Bridge Students have joined the department in Fall 2014.

  • Southern California Physics GRE Boot Camp, August 23-24, 2013 at CSU Long Beach The southern CA Physics GRE Boot Camp sponsored by the CPAPC and organized by C. Kwon and A.B. took place Friday August 23 and Saturday 24th, 2013. Over 80 students with 42% underrepresented minorities in Physics and 27% women attended the two day meeting. See the CPAPC website for more information.

  • Congratulations to Adam Moke who has been added to the Dean's list of University Scholars and Artists, following the path of Tom Baker (2012) and Adam Richie-Halford (2010).

  • Congratulations to Hamed Sadeghi and Adam Moke who started their PhD at USC and UCLA in the Fall 2013, respectively.

  • The Southern California Condensed Matter Theory Meeting was organized by S. Haas (USC), M. Peterson and A.B. at CSU Long Beach on April 12, 2013. See the program on the following socalCMT13 webpage of the meeting.

  • APS March Meeting of 2013 in Baltimore, MD Tom Baker and A.B. presented talks on the long range triplet component of the order parameter in a magnetic Josephson junction.

  • Hamed Sadeghi and Adam Moke presented talks at the Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada-Hawaii section of the American Physical Society (APS) on November 2,3, 2012 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in November 2012.

  • Physics Faculty Co-Organize Superconductivity And Magnetism Workshop In South America Read the account of the conference, organized by T. Gredig and A.Bill together with M.E. Gomez (chair, U. del Valle, Co) and A. Hoffmann (ANL). See the proceedings of the conference published in Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism.

  • Congratulations to Tom Baker who won the CSU wide Student Research Competition in the Physical Sicences and Mathematics! He won first place in a competition that was open to the entire California State University system (23 campuses). Read the story in the CSULB Newsletter.
    Tom followed also the path of Adam Richie-Halford in being chosen to appear on the Dean's list of University Scholars and Artists. Tom joined the PhD program at UC Irvine in the Fall 2012.

  • Second Physics GRE Boot Camp - May 19,20 2012
    We celebrate the second successful Physics GRE boot camp at CSU Long Beach. The camp attracted about 30 students among whom 60% belong to groups of the population that are underrepresented in Physics. The Physics GRE Boot Camp is organized under the umbrella of the California Professoriate for Access to Physics Careers. A summary and pictures of the camp will be available soon on the GRE Boot Camp webpage. Expect a similar camp next year!
  • We are developing a Computational Physics option with a fully equipped, externally funded (see the funding page), computational physics laboratory. Please have a look at our Computational Physics webpage.

  • International Workshop on "Trends in Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetism", Cali, Colombia, June 29-July 1, 2011. Together with Maria-Elena Gomez, Axel Hoffmann and Thomas Gredig, we organized this conference and presented our own work on the topic. The proceedings of the conference will appear in Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (Springer Vlg).