PCCM Poster Night

Broad view of poster presenters set up and ready in Brush Gallery — 30th Anniversary of PCCM Poster Night 2024 @ Brush Gallery

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials celebrated its 30^th anniversary with a Poster Night on November 6^th, 2024 at the Brush Gallery in McDonnell Hall. The event featured 32 Princeton University graduate students and postdocs representing the current IRGs and Seed projects, who presented their cutting-edge research in materials science. The posters were ranked by a panel of faculty judges in four different categories: motivation for the work, clarity of the poster, style and the excitement of the research results.

Prof. Leslie Schoop delivered the opening remarks for the 30th Anniversary of PCCM Poster Night.
From left to right: Prof. N. Phuan Ong, Prof. Leslie Schoop and Prof. Richard Register gather at the beginning of PCCM Poster Night 2024.
Poster presenters interact with their colleagues.
Postdocs and grad students present their work to the judges.
Prof. N. Phuan Ong shows his interest on a poster.
Postdocs and students interact over a poster presentation.
1st place: Sangwoo Sim, on the right, presenting his poster.
2nd place: Dilimulati Aierken, on the left, standing by his poster.
3rd place: Lila Nassar facing us, interacting with a colleague by her poster.
PCCM Education Outreach Director, Dr. Janine Nunes, talking to poster presenters.

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials hosted its Poster Night on March 30, 2022 at the Brush Gallery in McDonnell Hall. This event featured 23 Princeton University graduate students and postdocs who presented their cutting edge research in materials science. The posters were ranked by a panel of three judges in four different categories: motivation for the work, clarity of the poster, style and the excitement of the research results.

2024 Poster Winners:

1st place: Sangwoo Sim, Physics, “Quantum point contact in graphene: transmission and shot noise”
2nd place: Dilimulati Aierken , Chemical and Biological Engineering, “Accelerated simulations reveal physicochemical factors governing stability and composition of RNA clusters”
3rd place: Lila Nassar, Physics, “Quantum sensing of the Van der Waals Material TaCo2Te2 using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond”

2022 Poster Winners:

1^stplace: Peter Czajka, Physics graduate student, "Planar Thermal Hall Effect in RuCl3," advisor- Nai Phuan Ong (IRG-A)
2^ndplace: Pengjie Wang, Physics postdoc "One-Dimensional Luttinger Liquids in a Two-Dimensional Moiré Lattice," advisor-Sanfeng Wu (IRG-A)
3^rd place: Yejoon Seo, CBE graduate student, "Exploring the Physical Aging Behavior of HPMCAS via Thermal Analysis," advisor- Rodney D. Priestley (IRG-B)

2018 Poster Winners:
1^st place: Victoria Lee, Chemical and Biological Engineering
2^nd place: Berthold Jaeck, Physics
3^rd place: Jingjie Hu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

2017 Poster Winners:

Mallika Randeria, Graduate Student, Physics
Mattias Fitzpatrick, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Wesley Reinhart, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering.