Hongyan Mei

Ph.D. student interested in nanophotonics

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

[Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jaschasd]

Title: Advice for a young investigator in the first and last days of the Anthropocene

Abstract: Within just a few years, it is likely that we will create AI systems that outperform the best humans on all intellectual tasks. This will have implications for your research and career! I will give practical advice, and concrete criteria to consider, when choosing research projects, and making professional decisions, in these last few years before AGI.

This is my current go-to academic talk. It's mostly targeted at early career scientists. It gets diverse and strong reactions. Let's try it here. Posting slides with speaker notes...

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The title is a play on a very opinionated and pragmatic book by the nobel prize winner ramon y cajal, who is one of the founders of modern neuroscience.

To get you in the right mindset, on the right we have a plot of GDP vs time.
That is you, standing precariously on the top of that curve.
You are thinking to yourself -- I live in a pretty normal world.
Some things are going to change, but the future is going to look mostly like a linear extrapolation of the present.

And the plot should suggest that this may not be the right perspective on the future.

This plot by the way looks surprisingly similar even if you plot it on a log scale. We didn't stabilize on our current rate of growth until around 1950.

[Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots @uwchancellor]

Big congrats to Hongyan (May) Mei PhD'24 on being named one of this year's @SchmidtFellows! 🌟 May’s innovative research on infrared spectroscopy systems is just the beginning — looking forward to the amazing impact you’ll make, @Hongyan_May! https://t.co/IKPIErJpmz

[Hongyan Mei @Hongyan_May]

@uwchancellor @SchmidtFellows Thank you so much Chancellor Mnookin! Thanks a lot for celebrating this with me!🥳 Go badgers!🦡

[Hongyan Mei @Hongyan_May]

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[Schmidt Science Fellows @SchmidtFellows]

We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery https://t.co/rB1faqzYY0

[UW Madison ECE @UWMadisonECE]

Five ECE PhD students presented at the @Materials_MRS Conference this month. They gave talks in optics and photonics ranging from passive infrared-to-visible light upconversion, to metasurfaces for optical trapping of atoms, to infrared optics with highly anisotropic materials.

[Tian Xie @xie_tian]

[1/N] Generative AI has revolutionized how we create text and images. How about designing novel materials? We at @MSFTResearch #AI4Science are thrilled to announce MatterGen: our generative model that enables broad property-guided materials design.
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https://t.co/wDExZ3zWcd

[Kats Research Group @KatsGroup]

Sharing some pictures of our group members engaging with the nanophotonics community at the @Materials_MRS #F23MRS conference in Boston!

@Hongyan_May @foowhiz @HamidRabee40936 Minjeong Kim

[UW-Madison College of Engineering @UWMadEngr]

.@UWMadisonECE’s @mickeykats teamed up with @USCViterbi and @WashUengineers researchers to create a record-setting crystal that can bend one infrared ray of light in two directions. It could lead to innovations in night vision, Lidar, microscopy and more.

https://t.co/aYSMBwyKLt

[Salahuddin Nur @SalahuddinQP]

So true ...

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.

#NobelPrize

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

[Dan Elton @moreisdifferent]

😍Very impressive work! This is the final nail in the coffin for #LK99 - no point wasting any more time trying to replicate the Korean paper at this point!

"Pure crystals of LK-99, synthesized by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany"

"Unlike previous synthesis attempts that relied on crucibles, the researchers used a technique called floating zone crystal growth that allowed them to avoid introducing sulfur into the reaction.

The result was a transparent purple crystal. Separated from impurities, LK-99 is not a superconductor, but an insulator with a resistance in the millions of ohms — too high to run a standard conductivity test."
https://t.co/lB0jnavFA2

[Eric Pop @profericpop]

This is a great #postdoc program @Stanford. Please re-tweet it to reach talented postdoc applicants.
#StanfordPRISM #AcademicTwitter

[Jennifer Fowlie @jennifer_fowlie]

SEM, EBSD, AFM

I'm right so don't @ me

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5

We made the rocks

[Hongyan Mei @Hongyan_May]

Obviously LK-99 is trending now and i am supposed to go to sleep hours ago. 🤷 shouldn’t check the Twitter (X) before bedtime…
Would love to see more opinions from DFT people and let’s see how it goes.
SC or NSC? Is LK-99 the future of RTSC?!! #LK99

[Elsa Zhou @elsa17z]

Thread: Chinese replication efforts of #LK99
July 31st 7 am China Standard Time (July 30th 11pm UTC), a Bilibili (Chinese YouTube) account posted their results from 8 replication tests.
XDR structural analysis is the same as what the papers says
https://t.co/MILX0u08xv