Our own Distinguished Professor Terry Loring was featured in the August 10, 2023 UNM News: Mathematics formula K-Theory used to advance understanding of topological materials
Terry and his team, including Adjunct Research Professor Alex Cerjan, a physicist and full time Sandia National Laboratories researcher, recently published an experimental paper involving Terry's research on K-theory with the major advances in applications to critical problems in physics
- Wenting Cheng, Alexander Cerjan, Ssu-Ying Chen, Emil Prodan, Terry A. Loring, and Camelia Prodan. Revealing topology in metals using experimental protocols inspired by K-theory. Nat Commun 14, 3071 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38862-2
This experimental paper is getting noticed, see Nature Communications.
Terry and Alex have a blossoming collaboration with a number of grants already awarded and others pending. They just landed a second LDRD, on the electron structure of materials like twisted bi-layer graphene. This will fund 60% of a Postdoc in Pure Math for three years with a light teaching load.
In the UNM News article Terry "also notes that there are many projects involving similar mathematics and physics currently active in the Cerjan-Loring group here in Albuquerque, with a remote group working in Florida. This group includes students from UNM and Florida A&M. The students working in Albuquerque this summer are José García, Dominic Cordova and Micheal O Cobhthaigh from UNM and Ajani Roberts from Florida A&M. The mathematician at Florida A&M working with UNM is Vasile Lauric. Stephan Wong and Kahlil Dixon are two postdoctoral researchers in the group, currently working at Sandia."
Congratulations Terry and your team!
