Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)
Enhancing diversity in materials research and education.
PREM stimulates the development of formal, long-term, collaborative research and education partnerships between minority-serving colleges and universities and the NSF Division of Materials Research (DMR)-supported centers and facilities.
Outreach
Small sizes, big ideas-Nanoscience in the classroom
Teachers are invited to a two day workshop, exploring nanoscience and nanotechnology at the W. M. Keck Materials Science Center at California State University Northridge.
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Publications
Dr. Nicholas Kioussis
"Controlling the non-equilibrium interlayer exchange coupling in magnetic tunnel junctions", H. Y. Tang, N. Kioussis, A. Kalitsov, W. H. Butler, and Roberto Car, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 057206 (2009).
Dr. Donna Sheng
"Supersolid Order of Frustrated Hard-Core Bosons in a Triangular Lattice System", H. C. Jiang, M. Q. Weng, Z. Y. Weng, D. N. Sheng, L. Balents, Phys. Rev. B 79, 020409 (2009) (pdf).
Dr. Gang Lu
"Density-gradient-corrected embedded atom method", Gang Wu, Gang Lu,Carlos J. García-Cervera, and Weinan E. Phys. Rev B 79, 035124 2009
Welcome To PREM
Fostering Innovation and Education in Computational Materials Science
This PREM is a partnership between the multidisciplinary W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center at California State University Northridge, a Hispanic-serving institution, and the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, the NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Princeton University.
Objectives
The PREMs educational and research efforts will focus on:
- fostering multidisciplinary and innovative research in computational materials science
- educating and training students in cutting-edge computational materials science
- stimulating and developing strong industry-university-national laboratory partnerships
- increasing recruitment, retention, and degree attainment by members of groups underrepresented in materials research
Research
The research emphasis will be on the development of physical models, numerical algorithms and robust simulation techniques for the study of:
- mechanical properties of metallic systems
- charge and spin transport in 2-dimensional interacting electron systems
- spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions
Highlights
- NanoTech WorkShop
Undergraduate student Jacob Gayles explaining in the nanoscale, the size of a particle affects important properties of the material. See more photos of the workshop
Undergraduate Sergio Orozco helping high school student Brian Huynh with physics problems. See more photos of the workshop
Students
Jacob Gayles - You can contact Jacob at jacob.gayles.35@my.csun.edu
Sergio Orozco - You can contact Sergio at sergio.orozco.46@my.csun.edu
Eric Sanchez - You can contact Eric at esanchez012004@yahoo.com
Raika Khodadad - You can contact Raika at raika.kouchaki.38@my.csun.edu
Theodore Charles - You can contact Theodore at theodore.charles.53@my.csun.edu