ICMM-CSIC is hosting a congress to honor our research professor Mari Ángeles Vozmediano

'A View from the Dirac cone' is a workshop where we celebrate all of her outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical physics and honor her capacity and responsibility as a mentor.

The Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM), CSIC, is hosting a special scientific congress: an event created to honor ICMM's research professor Mari Ángeles Vozmediano. Entitled 'A view from the Dirac cone', the workshop aims to celebrate all of her outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical physics and honor her capacity and responsibility as a mentor, explains the organizing committee.

The event will take place on April, 24th and 25th at the Assembly Hall at ICMM, located at Cantoblanco Campus, in Madrid. All the program details can be checked on its webpage, illustrated with beautiful artwork made by Vozmediano herself.

Vozmediano and her work as a researcher and a mentor

After synthesizing graphene and the materials described by the Dirac equation, the actual modeling of novel materials is fed with concepts and techniques traditionally belonging to high-energy physics. Maria Vozmediano’s background in quantum field theory, cosmology, and superstrings gave her an original perspective that resulted in significant contributions to the understanding of these condensed matter systems.

Her pioneering work on how long-range Coulomb interactions renormalize the Fermi velocity in graphene is a seminal reference in the field. Her mechanism for emergent non-Fermi liquid behavior caused by Coulomb interactions was also highly influential and remains one of her most cited works.

More recently, her contributions have established to what extent strain in Dirac and Weyl materials can be modeled using curved backgrounds and emergent gauge fields. Her expertise on this topic allowed her to spearhead contemporary research on exotic transport phenomena related to quantum field theory anomalies. She has co-authored several reviews on these topics, including “Gauge Fields in Graphene” with more than 1000 citations.

But there are more: she has been the advisor of several Ph.D. theses on graphene and topological insulators prior to both Nobel Prizes using methods of cosmology and effective actions. Her pedagogical skills and love for the blackboard have also benefited several scientists spreading her original view of the field.

Organizing Committee

This event is organized by Eduardo Castro (CF-UM-UP, FCUP, Portugal), Karl Landsteiner (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC), José Ángel Silva Guillén (IMDEA Nanociencia), Adolfo G. Grushin (Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble), Alberto Cortijo (UAM), Fernando de Juan (Donostia International Physics Center, UPV-EHU, IKERBASQUE) and Belén Valenzuela (ICMM-CSIC).

More info and registration: here.