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