IPS Meeting 2024 and Nobel Week

Last week I attended the IPS Meeting 2024, held this year at Nanyang Technological University, and gave a plenary talk on flatband lattices, covering material we recently published in an invited review in Nanophotonics. Among the many interesting talks this year, the plenary presentation by Antonio Castro Neto on the creation of carbon thin films and liquid crystals via oxidation of graphene (see e.g. this paper).

This week the Nobel Prizes were announced, with machine learning and AI dominating the Physics and Chemistry prizes. It's quite remarkable that one of the Physics laureates (Hopfield) published his prize-winning work as a single author theory paper in 1982, when he was already 49 years old! It's never too late to do your most impactful work!

Singapore Academies South-East Asia Fellowship (SASEAF) Programme 2024

The SG Academies South-East Asia Fellowship (SASEAF) Programme aims to attract bright postgraduate researchers from South-East Asia to Singapore research institutions for a 2-year long fellowship. It is administered by three academies in Singapore - the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS), together with the Academy of Medicine Singapore (AMS), and the Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng) - and funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF).

Applications should prepare a short (up to 2 pages) research proposal in consultation with a host faculty member. While applicants may propose any field of research done in Singapore’s research institutions, the topics of Infectious Diseases, Population Health/Public Health, and Sustainability, including Urban Agriculture will be favoured in the current round.

The successful applicant will receive a monthly stipend of up to SG$6,500, relocation allowance, and access to professional development and networking opportunities during their time in Singapore.

For more information including the application procedure and documents required, please check out the official website. If you are interested in having me as a host PI, please contact me well in advance of the application deadline of 30th November so that we have sufficient time to prepare a competitive proposal. A list of past awardees can be found here.