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Edgerton Merrill Speaker Series welcomes Valerie Hsieh

The Edgerton Merrill Speaker Series, established at Columbia in Fall 2024, creates a space for gender minorities in physics and related fields to present research, exchange ideas, and build collaborations. The first advertised spring talk featured Valerie Hsieh on February 6, 2025.

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Topological Matter Group
February 06, 2025
Poster for Valerie Hsieh's Edgerton Merrill Speaker Series talk on graphene heterostructures

The series is named for Winifred Edgerton Merrill, the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics and the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia, in 1886.

Valerie Hsieh opened the Spring 2025 program with “Probing graphene heterostructures with atomic force microscopy techniques.”