Dr. Mark Siemens is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Denver (DU). His research group studies quantum aspects of laser light, including hydrodynamics, and light-matter interactions. He is the faculty advisor for DU’s Society of Physics Students, which is locally and nationally recognized for their physics outreach.

Edward Kinney is a professor in the department of physics at CU Boulder and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research is focused on understanding the quark and gluon structure of the proton and neutron using high energy particle accelerator beams. After growing up in Florida, he received both SB and PhD degrees from MIT in Cambridge, MA. Over his career he has performed experiments at US labs such as SLAC, Fermilab, Brookhaven, and Jefferson Lab, as well as at the VEPP-3 accelerator in Novosibirsk, Russia and the German electron-proton collider HERA in Hamburg, Germany. The common theme in these experiments is to understand how three very light quarks and a very strong gluonic force field come together to make the massive visible matter of the universe.

Margaret Murnane is a Fellow of JILA and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado. She runs a joint, multi-disciplinary, research group with her husband, Prof. Henry Kapteyn. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Margaret, with her group and collaborators, uses coherent beams of laser and x-ray light to capture the structure and function of materials at the nanoscale. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the AAAS, and Directs the STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center. Recent awards include the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, and the IOP Isaac Newton Award and Prize.