Unlock Your Potential: Join the Empowering Future Leaders Webinar!

Are you ready to take your mentoring skills to the next level? Whether you're an experienced mentor or someone seeking guidance, we have an incredible opportunity for you. Introducing the MRS Early Career Professionals Subcommittee's latest webinar: Empowering Future Leaders: Mentoring Strategies for Young Researchers. Leadership and mentorship play a pivotal role in personal and professional growth, enabling mentees to thrive in their chosen fields. Our esteemed panel of experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories will share their wisdom, providing you with invaluable insights and strategies to navigate the complex world of academia and research. By joining this webinar, you'll gain access to a wealth of knowledge. Our experienced mentors will offer guidance, share their expertise, and provide the emotional support needed to help budding researchers flourish. Whether you're just starting out or looking to enhance your mentoring skills, this webinar is designed to empower you on your journey. Led by professional career coach, Alaina G. Levine from Quantum Success Solutions, this session will cover compelling topics such as:

1. How your relationship with a mentee (or a mentor) can foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.
2. How to become more resilient and overcome challenges to develop critical skills.
3. How to cultivate positive environments that encourage creativity, promote diversity and facilitate knowledge exchange.

Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to become an influential mentor or find the mentorship you've been seeking. Register now for the Empowering Future Leaders webinar and embark on a journey of personal and professional growth. Together, let's unlock the potential of young researchers and shape the future of their success. Share with a colleague and see you there!

MXenes, a family of 2D transition metal carbides, carbonitrides, and nitrides, has expanded over the past decade to include nearly 50 different compositions currently. These 2D nanomaterials can be made in four 2D thicknesses, with combinations of more than ten transition metals, tunable surface chemistry, and the capability for hosting species between their 2D flakes. The March 2023 issue of MRS Bulletin focuses on 2D MXenes, their synthesis, fundamental understanding of their properties, and applications. The talks in this webinar will complement the articles in this MRS Bulletin issue.

Interested in getting a permanent Green Card to work in the United States? Generally, a foreign national seeking permanent residence through employment must be sponsored by his or her employer, who must complete the PERM Labor Certification process before sponsoring the foreign national for an immigrant visa.

From start to finish, the PERM process can take six months or longer. However, there are numerous routes to an employment-based permanent residence that do not require PERM Labor Certification, thereby allowing foreign nationals and their employers to avoid this complicated process while also potentially significantly reducing wait time to obtain employment-based permanent residence.

This presentation will cover and compare the criteria for EB-1A classification for foreign nationals of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, EB-1B classification for foreign nationals who are outstanding researchers and professors, and the National Interest Waiver (“NIW”) Category.

Sponsored and presented by Getson & Schatz

Human activities over the last quarter-millennium have led to a dramatic increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, causing unprecedented global warming and climate change. Carbon-capture technologies that can remove CO2 from industrial sources or directly from the air can reverse these trends, provided novel materials that can separate CO2 selectively and energy-efficiently can be developed. The April, 2022 issue of MRS Bulletin highlights promising new materials for CO2 capture, including solid sorbents, liquid solvents, and membranes, as well as new approaches for accelerated design of such materials based on machine learning.

This webinar will feature talks from several authors from the MRS Bulletin issue, and an interactive Q&A session will follow each talk.

TALK PRESENTATIONS:

• Direct Air Capture by Membranes
  Shigenori Fujikawa, Kyushu University
  
• Development of Sorbent Materials for the Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2
  Xiaoyang Shi, Columbia University
  
• Accelerated Discovery of Porous Materials for Carbon Capture by Machine Learning: A Review
  Yunchao Xie, University of Missouri

The ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic situation since early 2020 has led to numerous challenges in efforts to respond to the pandemic, including availability of PPE (Personal protective equipment), ventilators, and space in hospitals, reliability of diagnostic testing, and effective treatments for varied symptoms. Clinicians, scientists, and engineers have pursued heroic research efforts to curb the pandemic. The September 2021 theme issue of MRS Bulletin examines several research areas involving the development of materials for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of COVID-19. This includes materials science and engineering approaches to develop methods for disinfecting PPE to address shortages, rapid and reliable diagnostic tests, biomaterial-based vaccines, and nanomaterial-based treatments.

The talks in this webinar will cover some of these aspects. An interactive Q&A session and discussions will follow the presentations.

Talk Presentations

• Recent developments in filtration media and respirator technology in response to COVID-19
  Peter Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Talk begins at 6:19
     
• Nucleic acid delivery and nanoparticle design for COVID vaccines
  Jason Andreson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Talk begins at 36:15
     

Learn everything you need to know about the U.S. immigration system and how to maximize your chances of winning a green card in the EB-1/NIW categories.

Presented by Getson & Schatz

Talk Presentations:

• Ultrafast Visualization of Phase Transitions in Nonequilibrium Warm Dense Matter
  Mianzhen Mo, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  Talk begins at 15:54
     
• Properties on Demand in Quantum Materials: Using External Perturbations to Control Material Properties
  Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Talk beings at 37:11
     
• Revealing Momentum-dependent Electron-phonon and Phonon-phonon Coupling in Complex Materials with Ultrafast Electron Diffuse Scattering
  Hermann A. Durr, Uppsala University
  Talk begins at 58:06
     

Research and innovation in flexible and wearable electronics has advanced significantly in recent years, as materials scientists and engineers have made great inroads in this exciting field. As our knowledge of how to harness the power of materials to create and implement sensors that can monitor our health and other vital parameters has expanded, so have career opportunities. In this lively panel discussion, we will highlight the growing area of flexible and wearable electronics within the MS&E world and showcase the challenges and opportunities in this arena. We will share career prospects for this area, including career paths and jobs, entry points, requisite skills, and most importantly, how and why materials scientists and engineers can contribute to this revolution.

The MRS Career Discovery Series will provide a snapshot into career paths available to researchers within a given topical area in materials science and engineering. While aspects of the science within those fields will be discussed, emphasis will be placed on career prospects in the area including requisite skills needed, challenges and opportunities in the field, and pros and cons of working in each sector.

Upcoming sessions will take place on September 8 and November 16; a full list of session topics will be announced shortly.

Quantum computing technology has seen rapid advancements in demonstrations of both individual qubit device performance as well as small-scale system demonstrations. Recent advances and opportunities in materials science for quantum computing include issues in synthesis and fabrication, materials characterization, and simulation. The July, 2021 issue of MRS Bulletin will highlight these opportunities, which can aid in the future of this burgeoning industrial sector as well as a productive research outlook with respect to investments and collaborations.

This webinar will expand on the MRS Bulletin issue with talks from leading experts in the field. Each talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the speaker.

Talk Presentations:

• Atomic-Precision Advanced Manufacturing for Si Quantum Computing
  Ezra Bussmann and Shashank Misra, Sandia National Lab
  Talk begins at 9:01
      
• Novel Characterization of the Quantum States of Single-spin Qubits
  Benoit Voisin, University of New South Wales - Sydney
  Talk begins at 39:04
       
• Characterization and Control of Diamond Surfaces for Qubits and Novel Materials Probes
  Shimon Kolkowitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Nathalie de Leon and Lila Rodgers, Princeton University
  Talk begins at 1:03:20