Friday Program

Friday Dec/1 - MU Memorial Union

Registration, Oral Presentations (Plenary, Invited, Contributed), Posters, Coffee Breaks, Boxed Lunch, Visits to Physics Department and MURR Nuclear Reactor, Conference Banquet

Detailed conference program (APS site): https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/PSF23/APS_epitome#Friday

visits to MURR (research reactor) require pre-registration at https://forms.gle/ofyUgyWdMhrctHaj9 before Nov/21 (CLOSED)

List of Invited Speakers

Public Lecture (THURSDAY 7:00 pm):
- Rocky Kolb, The University of Chicago, The Quantum and the Cosmos
Plenary Speakers (FRIDAY):
- Andrew Geraci, Northwestern University: Optomechanical and spin-based sensing for Fifth forces, Dark Matter, and other Beyond the Standard Model physics
- Allison Kirkpatrick, University of Kansas: The James Webb Space Telescope: Revealing the Secrets of an Invisible Universe
- Maria Mills, University of Missouri: Magnetic tweezers investigations of the type IA topoisomerase of Mycobacterium smegmatis
Invited Speakers:
- FRIDAY:
  - Tom Folland, University of Iowa: Light in the lowest symmetry crystals - emergent light-matter interactions.
  - Hyonsoo Kim, Missouri Science and Technology University: Nodal superconductivity in synthetic miassite
  - Xueying Lu, Northwestern University: High-Gradient Acceleration with Short Pulses
  - Steven Prohira, University of Kansas: Detecting the highest energy neutrinos... with radar?
  - Shun Saito, Missouri Science and Technology University: Cosmology and galaxy evolution from emission line galaxy surveys
  - Caitlin Witt, Northwestern University: The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Pulsar Timing, the Gravitational Wave Background, and Beyond
- SATURDAY:
  - Denis Candido, University of Iowa: Entangling solid-state spin centers for quantum technologies
  - Colin DeGraf, Truman State University: Supermassive black hole mergers: from theoretical understanding to gravitational wave detections
  - Halyna Hodovanets, Missouri Science and Technology University: Two-fold symmetric anomalous angular magnetoresistance of the proposed tetragonal Weyl semimetal CeAlGe
  - Yonatan Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter
  - Mikhail Tikhonov, Washington University, St. Louis: Emergent simplicity in microbial ecosystems