The CCQ works in partnership with the City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, New York University (NYU) and the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) to offer graduate scholarships to a small group of students interested in research in fields of interest to CCQ. The scholarships are named in honor of distinguished condensed matter physicists associated with the institutions: Myriam Sarachik (CUNY), Joaquin Luttinger (Columbia), Pierre Hohenberg (NYU) and Sandro Sorella (SISSA).
CCQ Graduate Scholars are appointed at and receive degrees from their host university. They have the option of performing thesis research with a CCQ scientist, but this is not required. Scholars receive full financial support at the standard level set by their university, a CCQ mentor and a workspace in the CCQ for up to six years, provided they perform research in a field of interest to the CCQ. Students interested in the graduate scholarship should apply in the usual way to their host university and, following the University’s procedures, indicate interest in the fellowship. In most cases, each university makes one new scholarship offer every second year.
Graduate Scholars
Jaylyn C. Umana, Myriam Sarachik Flatiron Graduate Scholar
Jaylyn C. Umana is a senior at Columbia University studying physics and mathematics. He is interested in condensed matter theory and the development of computational methods.
Kiril Kolevski, Myriam Sarachik Flatiron Graduate Scholar
Kiril Kolevski is a PhD student at CUNY working with Shiwei Zhang at the CCQ. His current objective is to use Auxiliary-field Quantum Monte Carlo to help further our understanding of strongly correlated many-body systems.
Sophia Wolczko, Joaquin Luttinger Graduate Scholar
Sophia Wolczko is pursuing her PhD at Columbia University. She is currently researching tensor-network based methods for time evolution in quantum impurity problems for Dynamical Mean Field Theory.
Patrick Tscheppe, Joaquin Luttinger Graduate Scholar
Patrick Tscheppe is a graduate student at Columbia University. He is studying the interplay of strong magnetic fields, electronic correlations and topology in moiré and related systems.
Alev Orfi, Pierre Hohenberg Graduate Scholar
Alev Orfi is a graduate student at NYU. She plans to continue working at the intersection of condensed matter physics, quantum information and machine learning.
Jungho Daniel Choi, Pierre Hohenberg Graduate Scholar
Jungho Daniel Choi is pursuing his Ph.D. at NYU. He is studying models of topological states in twisted moiré materials.
Antonio Francesco Mello, Sandro Sorella Graduate Scholar
Antonio Francesco Mello is pursuing his Ph.D. at the SISSA. He plans to work on higher dimensional tensor network methods.
Andrew Kille, Pierre Hohenberg Graduate Scholar
Andrew Kille is a Ph.D. student at New York University under the supervision of Dries Sels. At CCQ, he is working with Sels and Miles Stoudenmire on developing tensor network and belief propagation methods for continuous-variable many-body systems.
Fellowships
Myriam Sarachik Flatiron Fellowship
The CCQ-CUNY Graduate Center scholarships are named for the experimental physicist Myriam Sarachik, a former professor of physics at the City College of New York who, great personal and professional difficulties, made significant breakthroughs in low-temperature solid-state physics. More information about Sarachick may be found at https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/202201/sarachik.cfm
Joaquin Luttinger Fellowship
The CCQ-Columbia University scholarship is named after former Columbia University professor Joaquin (Quin) Mazdak Luttinger, who established important aspects of the modern understanding of semiconductors and metals, including the first comprehensive theory of the many-body physics of interacting electrons in solids. More information about Luttinger may be found at https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/luttinger-joaquin.pdf
Pierre Hohenberg Fellowship
The CCQ–NYU scholarship is named for theoretical physicist and former NYU professor Pierre Hohenberg, who made profound discoveries in superconductivity, statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics. The celebrated Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density functional theory is foundational to the CCQ’s work. More information about Hohenberg can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Hohenberg
Sandro Sorella Scholarship
The CCQ-SISSA scholarship is named after theoretical physics Sandro Sorella, who over his decades long career at SISSA made fundamental advances to the quantum Monte Carlo methodology and to our understanding of strong electronic correlations. More information about Sorella can be found at https://www2.sissa.it/news/memory-sandro-sorella