Invited:

  1. “Identifying Quantum Defects at Relevant Length Scales: Experimental and Computational Investigations.” J. C. Thomas. The Community for Autonomous Scientific Experimentation, Berkeley, CA, USA (2025).
  2. “2D Material Quantum Defect Discovery: Autonomous Experimentation Combined with First-Principles Screening.” J. C. Thomas. Computational Microscopy Conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA (2024).
  3. “Controlling Quasiparticle Excitations in 2D Solids Through Atomically Precise Heterostructures.” A. Weber-Bargioni, J. C. Thomas. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2023).
  4. “Quantum Defects by Design in 2D Materials: Routes for Pairing Experiment with High-Throughput Screening and Autonomous Discovery.” J. C. Thomas. Rice University Nanoscale Imaging Series, Houston, TX, USA (2023).
  5. “Machine-Driven Applications in Scanning Probe Microscopy at the Atomic Scale.” J. C. Thomas. Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2021).
  6. “Machine Learning in Scanning Probe Microscopy.” J. C. Thomas. Berkeley Lab’s Energy Sciences Area, Science Hour, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2021).

Recent Contributed:

  1. “Quantum Defect Candidates at Modified Substitution Sites within WS2.” J. C. Thomas, W. Chen, Y. Xiong, B. Barker, J. Zhou, W. Chen, A. Rossi, N. Kelly, Z. Yu, D. Zhou, S. Kumari, J. Robinson, M. Terrones, A. Schwartzberg, D. F. Ogletree, E. Rotenberg, M. Noack, S. Griffin, A. Raja, D. Strubbe, A. Weber-Bargioni, G. Hautier. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2023).
  2. “Defect Implementation in 2D vdW Materials: Highly Correlated Fermion States and Autonomous Experimentation.” J. C. Thomas, A. Weber-Bargioni. Graphene, Manchester, UK (2023).
  3. “One-Dimensional Bose Gas within Mirror Twin Boundary Formations in WS2.” J. C. Thomas. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2023).
  4. “Artificially Intelligent Investigations on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Scanning Probe Microscopy.” J. C. Thomas. ACS Spring Meeting, Indianapolis, IN (2023).
  5. “Tomonaga–Luttinger Liquid Formation in Mirror Twin Boundaries within WS2.” J. C. Thomas, A. Rossi, J. Küchle, E. Barré, Z. Yu, D. Zhou, S. Kumari, H.-Z. Tsai, E. Wong, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwick, J. Robinson, M. Terrones, A. Raja, A. Schwartzberg, D. F. Ogletree, J. B. Neaton, M. F. Crommie, F. Allegretti, W. Auwärter, E. Rotenberg, A. Weber-Bargioni. APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (2023).
  6. "Hyperspectral Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy over WS2 and Au{111}" J. C. Thomas. ECOSS35, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022).
  7. “Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Defect Functionalization with Magnetic Impurities – Defect Introduction and Identification.” J. C. Thomas. MRS Spring Meeting, Honolulu, HI (2022).
  8. “Scanning Probe Characterization over Defective WS2 and Au{111}.” J. C. Thomas, A. Rossi, D. Smalley, L. Francaviglia, Z. Yu, T. Zhang, S. Kumari, J. Robinson, M. Terrones, M. Ishigami, E. Rotenberg, E. Barnard, A. Raja, E. Wong, D. F. Ogletree, M. M. Noack, A. Weber-Bargioni. APS March Meeting, Chicago, IL (2022).
  9. “Machine-Driven Characterization and Classification over Au and WS2.” J. C. Thomas. Machine Learning and Automated Experiment in Scanning Probe Microscopy, Virtual School, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2021).
  10. “Defect Engineering within Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Using Magnetic and Rare-Earth Metals.” J. C. Thomas, K. A. Cochrane, A. Weber-Bargioni. APS March Meeting (2021).

Recent Posters:

  1. “Quantum Defects by Design in 2D Materials.” J. C. Thomas, G. Hautier, A. Weber-Bargioni. Molecular Foundry User Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA (2024).
  2. “Engineered Defects within Tungsten Disulfide: Candidates for Atomic Scale Quantum Emitters.” J. C. Thomas, A. Weber-Bargioni. Quantum Systems Accelerator All Hands Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA (2023).
  3. "Autonomous Hyper Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy." J. C. Thomas, M. M. Noack, A. Weber-Bargioni. UCLA IPAM: Multi-Modal Imaging with Deep Learning and Modeling, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2022).
  4. "Engineering Local Quantum States via the Introduction of 0D and 1D Defects in 2D Materials." J. C. Thomas, A. Weber-Bargioni. molQueST, Ascona, Switzerland (2022).
  5. “Defect Engineering within Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Machine Learning Approachs towards STM/STS Tip Shaping on Au.” J. C. Thomas, K. A. Cochrane, A. Weber-Bargioni. Graphene, Virtual (2020).