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2026

• Congratulations to Xin Tian for presenting the poster "Gaussian Fixed Manifolds in Information Geometry -- Large-N Saddles, GKPW Kernels, and Spin Squeezing" at the International Congress of Basic Science and for discussing with S. T. Yau at the poster.

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier, Colton Lelievre, and Yi Li for posting "Nonintegral Flux Trapping in Frustrated Josephson Networks of Triplet Superconductors" as arXiv:2604.24734.

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier and Yi Li for publishing "Spatially inhomogeneous triplet pairing order and Josephson diode effect induced by frustrated spin textures" in Physical Review B 113, 174517 (2026).

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier, Junyi Zhang, and Yi Li for publishing "Anisotropic Josephson coupling of d-vectors arising from interplay with frustrated spin textures" in Physical Review Letters 136, 206001 (2026).

• Congratulations to Yi Li and Grayson Frazier for publishing "Berry Phase Enforced Spinor Pairing Order" in Physical Review Research Letter 8, L022037 (2026).

• Congratulations to Yi Li for joining the Department of Physics at Princeton University as a Visiting Research Scholar.

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier for receiving the KITP Graduate Fellowship.

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier for receiving the JHU Dissertation Prize Fellowship.

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier for receiving the Kadanoff Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for the Physics Fair volunteer demonstration “The Magic of Superconductors: Levitating, Pinning, and Racing” at Johns Hopkins University.

 

2025

• Congratulations to Junyi Zhang and Yi Li for posting "Spontaneous π flux trapping in granular rings of unconventional superconductors" as arXiv:2509.24581 and submitting it to Physical Review Letters.

• Congratulations to Chris J. Lygouras, Junyi Zhang, Jonah Gautreau, Mathew Pula, Sudarshan Sharma, Shiyuan Gao, Tanya Berry, Thomas Halloran, Peter Orban, Gael Grissonnanche, Juan R. Chamorro, Kagetora Mikuri, Dilip K. Bhoi, Maxime A. Siegler, Kenneth K. Livi, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Satoru Nakatsuji, B. J. Ramshaw, Yi Li, Graeme M. Luke, Collin L. Broholm, and Tyrel M. McQueen for publishing Type I and Type II superconductivity in a quasi-2D Dirac metal in Materials Advances.

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow for becoming Research Group Leader/Staff at Sandia National Laboratories.

• Congratulations to Canon Sun for joining Brown University as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

• Congratulations to Junyi Zhang on joining Nanyang Technological University and receiving a faculty position in China.

• Congratulations to Grayson Frazier for presenting "Fractional Mermin-Ho Relation in a Spinor Superconductor" at the 13th International Conference on ETOPIM.

• Congratulations to Yi Li on the invited talk, “Novel Unconventional Superconductivity and Phase-Sensitive Probes" at the 13th International Conference on ETOPIM.

• Congratulations to Yi Li on the invited talk, “Novel Unconventional Superconductivity and Phase-Sensitive Probes" at the New York University Conference on Quantum Matter and Quantum Computing.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for the Physics Fair volunteer demonstration “The Magic of Superconductors: Levitating, Pinning, and Racing” at Johns Hopkins University.

 

2024

• Congratulations to Grayson R. Frazier, Junjia Zhang, Junyi Zhang, Xinyu Sun, and Yi Li for publishing "Designing Phase Sensitive Probes of Monopole Superconducting Order" in Physical Review Research.

• Congratulations to Lucas Guerra for entering the physics PhD program at Princeton.

• Congratulations to Rongrong Liu for entering the astronomy PhD program at Harvard after receiving graduate-school offers from Stanford, Caltech, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

• Congratulations to Yi Li on giving the invited workshop talk, "Three-dimensional Landau Levels," at KITP.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the condensed matter seminar "Exploring Itinerant Ferromagnetism: From Puzzle Games to Correlated Quantum Phenomena" at Boston University.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the condensed matter seminar, "Berry phase Enforced Spinor Pairing Order" at the University of Michigan.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the condensed matter seminar, "Guiding Center Algebra in Three-dimensional Landau Levels", at Temple University.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the colloquium titled "Exploring itinerant ferromagnetism: From puzzle games to correlated quantum phenomena” at Temple University.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the outreach talk “Quantum Mechanics on Your Face” at the RISE Conference for middle and high school students.

 

2023

• Congratulations to Yi Li for receiving the DOE EXPRESS Co-PI grant "Entanglement-Informed Translations Between Adiabatic Quantum Computing and Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm".

• Congratulations to Colton Lelievre for receiving the "Natural Materials Poster 1st Prize" at the Rice Center for Quantum Materials Workshop.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for co-organizing the Aspen Center for Physics Winter Conference “Disorder and Quantum Phases of Matter.”

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the Society of Physics Students talk “Symmetry and topology of quantum physics in solids.”

• Congratulations to Jasmine Ilyas-Grande, advised through the Johns Hopkins Women in Science and Engineering Program, for entering JHU as an undergraduate student.

 

2022

• Congratulations to Run Xiao, Junyi Zhang, Juan Chamorro, Jinwoong Kim, Tyrel M. McQueen, David Vanderbilt, Morteza Kayyalha, Yi Li, and Nitin Samarth for publishing "Integer quantum Hall effect and enhanced g-factor in quantum confined Cd3As2 films" in Physical Review B - Letter.

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow and Yi Li for posting "Monopole Superconductivity in Magnetically Doped Cd3As2" as arXiv:2204.04249.

• Congratulations to Leo Lo for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving an APS March Meeting invited talk on "Monopole Charge Density Wave States in Weyl Semimetals."

 

2021

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow, Junjia Zhang, and Yi Li for publishing "Ferromagnetic Percolation Transition in a Multiorbital Flat Band Assisted by Hund’s Coupling" in Physical Review B.

• Congratulations to Rongrong Liu for receiving the JHU Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the Society of Physics Students talk “Monopoles in condensed matter physics.”

 

2020

• Congratulations to Yi Li for receiving the Catalyst Award from Johns Hopkins University.

• Congratulations to Zihao Qi, Eric Bobrow, Junyi Zhang, and Yi Li for posting "Robust Flat Bands with Tunable Energies in Honeycomb Superlattices" as arXiv:2012.07806.

• Congratulations to Canon Sun and Yi Li for posting "Z2 Topologically Obstructed Superconducting Order" as arXiv:2009.07263.

• Congratulations to Canon Sun, Shu-Ping Lee, and Yi Li for posting Vortices in a "Monopole Superconducting Weyl Semi-metal" as arXiv:1909.04179.

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow, Keaton Stubis, and Yi Li for having the 15-puzzle itinerant ferromagnetism work being substantively discussed in Graduate Texts in Physics: Physics and Mathematics of Quantum Many-Body Systems, H. Tasaki (Springer, 2020).

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow, Canon Sun, and Yi Li for publishing "Monopole Charge Density Wave States in Weyl Semimetals" in Physical Review Research.

• Congratulations to Junjia Zhang for receiving the JHU Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award.

• Congratulations to Sydney Timmerman for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for co-organizing the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Program Workshop “Quantum Biology for Quantum Sensing and Information Processing.”

 

2019

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow, Keaton Stubis, and Yi Li for having the 15-puzzle itinerant ferromagnetism work featured in Quanta Magazine’s article A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for receiving the NSF CAREER Award.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for receiving the NSF QLCI-CG Co-PI grant Conceptualizing a Quantum Information Bioscience Institute for Quantum Sensing and Simulations in Novel Hybrid Architectures.

• Congratulations to A. Scheie, K. Ross, P. Peter Stavropoulos, E. Seibel, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A. Tang, Yi Li, Hae-Young Kee, R. J. Cava, and C. Broholm for publishing Counterrotating Magnetic Order in the Honeycomb Layers of NaNi2BiO6−δ in Physical Review B.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for mentoring Ciara Tang through the Johns Hopkins Women in Science and Engineering Program.

 

2018

• Congratulations to Yi Li for receiving the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for receiving the DOE Co-PI grant EFRC Institute for Quantum Matter.

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow, Keaton Stubis, and Yi Li for publishing Exact Results on Itinerant Ferromagnetism and the 15-puzzle Problem in Physical Review B as a Rapid Communication.

• Congratulations to Tomoya Asaba, Yongjie Wang, Gang Li, Ziji Xiang, B. J. Lawson, Colin Tinsman, Lu Chen, Songrui Zhao, David Laleyan, Yi Li, Zetian Mi, and Lu Li for publishing Magnetic Field Enhanced Superconductivity in Epitaxial Thin Film WTe2 in Scientific Reports.

• Congratulations to Eric Bobrow and Yi Li for publishing Stability of the Nagaoka-type Ferromagnetic State in a t2g-orbital System on a Cubic Lattice in Physical Review B.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for publishing Topological Nodal Cooper Pairing in Doped Weyl Metals with collaborator F. D. M. Haldane in Physical Review Letters.

• Congratulations to Saavanth Velury for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

 

2017

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the invited talk Monopole harmonic superconductivity in doped Weyl semimetals at the APS Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting.

• Congratulations to Yi Li on giving the workshop talk, "Monopole harmonic superconductivity in doped Weyl semimetals," at KITP.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the international conference talk titled "Topological Nodal Cooper Pairing in Doped Weyl Metals” at the Gordon Conference on Topological Phases.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the international conference talk Monopole harmonic superconductivity in doped Weyl semimetals at the Nordita Conference “Frontiers of topological quantum matter”.

• Congratulations to Yi Li for giving the international workshop talk Characterization of topological superconductivity in doped Weyl semi-metal systems at the Chinese University of Hong Kong workshop “Topological Phases and Critical Phenomena”.

 

2016

• Congratulations to Yi Li for joining Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.