Dear Colleagues:

We invite you to submit Focus Topic Invited Speaker Nominations for the session on “Complex Oxide Interfaces and Heterostructures” (DMP, 13.1.4) at the 2016 American Physical Society March Meeting (Baltimore, Maryland, March 14 - March 18, 2016, USA).

Deadline for Nominations: August 17, 2015

Focus Topic Description: Complex oxide heterostructures display a range of impressive multi-functionality, encompassing superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, magnetism, multiferroicity, and strongly correlated Mott-Hubbard insulator-type behavior in addition to novel interface-stabilized ground states such as two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs), 2D superconductivity, novel magnetism, and topological phases. The extreme sensitivity of these phenomena to composition and interface structure offers endless possibilities for fundamental studies of the interactions between the structural and electronic degrees of freedom that give rise to these fascinating phenomena, and thus providing many insights into materials physics in addition to the capability to design completely new devices. Local symmetry breaking, charge transfer, magnetic and electrostatic interactions, and coupling between structural modes are just some of the many mechanisms that can lead to the appearance of novel interfacial functionalities and can be employed for rational design of artificial materials with desirable structural, electronic and magnetic properties.

The aim of this focus session is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent experimental and theoretical results on complex-oxide heterostructures and their interfaces. The topics covered in this session will include advances in the growth and characterization of complex-oxide heterostructures, development of interface-related measurement techniques, theory and modeling of oxide heterostructures and interfaces, experimental investigation and tuning of interface-related properties in conducting, insulating and magnetic oxides, chemical and electrochemical effects in manifestation of physical functionalities, applications based on interface-related phenomena in complex-oxide heterostructures, and new phenomena appearing in complex oxides owing to heterostructuring.

Instructions: Suggestions for invited speakers should be submitted at the APS nomination website, http://www.aps.org/units/dmp/meetings/invited.cfm. Please select category, 13.1.4 Complex Oxide Interfaces and Heterostructures (DMP), and complete the nomination form in full.

Your nomination will go to the organizers of the Focus Topic for which you have suggested a candidate and will aid the organizers in their selection of invited speakers. In suggesting speakers, please keep in mind that speakers who gave an invited talk at the previous March Meeting are ineligible
(2015 March Meeting invited speakers: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR15/APS_Invited).

On behalf of the symposium organizers,
James Rondinelli, Northwestern University

Sergei V. Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory