{"id":900,"date":"2025-04-26T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nghimire\/?page_id=900"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:22:48","slug":"group-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nghimire\/group-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Group News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/09\/2026: Mohamed Receives U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship, supporting a year of research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which began in January 2026. <strong>Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01\/17\/2026: <strong>Nirmal Ghimire<\/strong> attended Dr. Jeffrey W. Lynn&#8217;s retirement Symposium at the University of Maryland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>01\/17\/2026: <strong>Abhijeet Nayak<\/strong> attended t<span class=\"puwcIf C9DxTc \">he <\/span><span class=\"puwcIf C9DxTc \">9<\/span><span class=\"puwcIf C9DxTc \">th<\/span><span class=\"puwcIf C9DxTc \"> annual Winter on Fundamentals of Quantum Materials at the University of Maryland.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>01\/16\/2026: <strong>Resham presented<\/strong> a poster on &#8220;Altermagnetism in transition metal dichalcogenides,&#8221; at the Second Brainstroming Workshop on Altermagnetism at New Jersey Institute of Technology from Jan 14th &#8211; 16th. <strong>Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01\/15\/2026: We welcome undergraduate student <strong>Wyatt Haacker<\/strong> to our group. <strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11\/25\/2025: Mohamed gave an invited talk at a local High School (Trinity School at Greenlawn). Title: <strong>Symmetry and Magnetism: Beyond Silicon.<\/strong> <strong>Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11\/19\/2025: Mohamed&#8217;s paper on Ga dopped TmMn6Sn6 &nbsp;is published in <strong>Physical Review Materials<\/strong>. <strong>Congratulations to Mohamed!<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prmaterials\/abstract\/10.1103\/qbwt-qdt7\">Link to the paper.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11\/12\/2025: Nirmal gives a tutorial at the Rice Winter School on Quantum Materials Synthesis at Rice University. Title of the tutorial: <em>Single Crystal Growth of Quantum Materials by Molten-metal Flux Method<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>12\/10\/2025: Abhijeet attends the 2025 Rice Workshop on Quantum Geometry &amp; Winter School on Quantum Material Synthesis at Rice University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>11\/04\/2025: Our collaborative paper on Co1\/3NbS2 has been published today in <strong>Physical Review Letters<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/wh5t-12fn\">Link to the paper.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10\/03\/2025: Nirmal gives a colloquium at the Department of Physics at Northern Illinois University. <strong>Title:<\/strong> <strong>Altermagnets: A New Paradigm in Spintronics Materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09\/26\/2025: Hari Bhandari&#8217;s paper on Ga dopped YMn6Sn6&nbsp; is published in <strong>npj Quantum Materials. Congratulations to Hari! <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/eIkni\">Link to the paper.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09\/14\/2025: Nirmal gives an invited talk at CPS-APS Emerging Magetics Forum. <strong>Title: Altermagnetism in intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>08\/25\/2025: We welcome two returning undergraduate students, <strong>Daniel Lu<\/strong> and <strong>Mary Kate Carroll<\/strong>, and a high school intern from Mishakawa High School, <strong>Edward Kozlowski<\/strong>, in our lab for Fall 2025 semester.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>06\/28\/2025: Our collaborative paper on Mn5SiC gets published in <strong>Chemistry of Materials.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.chemmater.5c00868\">Link to the paper<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>06\/10\/2025:<strong> We welcome four Summer interns to our lab! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Kindelan:<\/strong>&nbsp; Science Teacher, Adams High School, South Bend through QuarkNet program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Max Busk:<\/strong> High School Student, Trinity High School, South Bend, through QuankNet program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breanna Drauden:<\/strong> Arizona State University, through&nbsp; REU program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Kate Carroll:<\/strong> University of Notre Dame, though NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NURF)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>05\/13\/2025: Resham&#8217;s paper is published in Nature Communications. <strong>Congratulations to Resham<\/strong>! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58642-4\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>04\/22-25\/2025: Mohamed attends 2025 Spring School on Electron Correlations and Topology at Rice University. <strong>Congratulations for winning best poster award -2nd position!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>04\/16\/2025: Resham receives <strong>departmental distinguished research award<\/strong> for his work on altermagnetism. <strong>Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>04\/15\/2025: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Rutgers University. Title: <em>Engineering Magnetic and Electronic Topological States in Kagome-Lattice Magnets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>03\/18\/2025: Hari Bhandari gives an invited talk at the APS March Meeting. Title: <em><span class=\"\">Engineering electronic and magnetic properties in the centrosymmetric kagome magnets RMn<sub>6<\/sub>Sn<sub>6<\/sub><\/span><\/em>. <strong>Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>03\/22\/2025: Hari&#8217;s paper on HoAgGe is published in Communications Materials. <strong>Congratulations to Hari!<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43246-025-00772-9\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>03\/16-21\/2025: Hari, Jamal, Mohamed, Abhijeet and Resham give contributed talk at the APS March Meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>03\/12\/2025: Nirmal gives a talk at the Quantum Materials Initiative Colloquium at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Title: Altermagnets: A New Paradigm in Spintronics Materials,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>01\/17\/2025: Nirmal gives a talk at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop at University of Maryland. Title: <em>Altermagnets: Anomalous Hall effect and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>01\/16\/2025: Nirmal gives a lecture on Kagome Magnets at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School at University of Maryland. Title: <em>Spin Crafting in Kagome Magnets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11\/24\/2024: Hari Successfully defends his PhD thesis. Title: <em>Study of Kagome Lattice Magnets. <\/em><strong>Congratulations!&nbsp;<\/strong>Good luck with your postdoc position at Rice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>11\/12\/2024: Our collaborative paper on YMn6Sn4Ge2 is published in PRB. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevB.110.195125\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10\/23\/2024: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Indiana University. Title: Altermagnetism in the intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoNb4Se8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>10\/02\/2024: Nirmal gives virtual colloquium at the department of physics and astronomy at Missouri State University. Title: <em>Engineering magnetic crystals for quantum phenomena.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>09\/26\/2024: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at University of Chicago at Illinois. Title: Altermagnetism in the intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoNb4Se8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>09\/15\/2024: Connor and Hari&#8217;s paper on TbMn6Sn6 is published in PRB. <strong>Congratulations to Connor and Hari!<\/strong>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevB.110.115134\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07\/29-08\/02\/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at the Telluride workshop on Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Oxides and Related Compounds in Telluride, CO. Title: <em>Magnetic chirality and spin textures in kagome magnets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>06\/11\/2024: Our collaborative paper on Ba4RuMn2O10 gets published in Chemistry of Materials. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.chemmater.4c00586\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05\/30\/2024: Nirmal gives a seminar at Naval Research Lab. Title: <em>Altermagnets: Anomalous Hall effect and beyond<\/em><\/p>\n<p>05\/29\/2024: Nirmal gives a talk on Altermagnetism at DOD basic needs workshop, at Army Research Lab in Adelphi, MD.<\/p>\n<p>04\/14-17\/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at the ARO future planning workshop at Arlington VA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>04\/01\/2024: Nirmal Gives a seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Title: <em>Synthesis design approach to electronic and magnetic topological materials.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>03\/08\/2024: Nirmal Gives an invited talk at APS March meeting on Altermagnetism. Title: <em>Topological antiferromagnets and altermagnets.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>03\/07\/2024: Hari&nbsp; gives a contributed talk at the APS March Meeting. Title: <em>Role of Ga doping in the kagome ferromagnet YMn<sub>6<\/sub>Sn<sub>6-x<\/sub>Ga<sub>x.&nbsp;<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p>02\/15\/2024: Jamal Sekh joins our group as Postdoc. <strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01\/23\/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at ND Nano Networking meeting . Title: <em>Synthesis-Driven Approach to Quantum Materials.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>01\/08\/2024: Hari&#8217;s paper on YMn6Sn4Ge6 is published in npj Quantum Materials. <strong>Congratulations to Hari!. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41535-023-00616-0\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12\/11\/2023: Nirmal gives a talk at the &#8220;Workshop on \u201cMagnetism and topology of RM<sub>6<\/sub>X<sub>6<\/sub> kagome metals\u201d at Iowa State University and Ames Lab. Title: <em>Fluctuation-driven phenomena in the kagome-net magnets RMn6Sn6.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11\/20\/2023: Our collaborative paper on IrGe4 is published in Inorganic Chemistry. <em>&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.inorgchem.3c01528\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09\/14\/2023: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Brown University. Title: <em>Synthetic design approach to Quantum Materials.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>09\/01\/2023:&nbsp; Graduate student Abhijeet Nayak joins our group. <strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>08\/15\/2023:&nbsp; Mohamed El Gazzah joins our group as a graduate student. <strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>07\/18\/2023: Nirmal&nbsp; gives a talk at Physical Review X seminar (virtual). 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