Students may sign up on-site to enjoy a complimentary box lunch while participating in an informal discussion with an expert on a topic of interest. Sign up begins on Sunday, March 5, at 3:00 p.m. in the Registration Area of Caesars Forum main lobby. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendance is limited to eight students per topic/expert. You must show your ticket and badge at the door and sit at the table number listed on your ticket.
| Unit | Name | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| DBIO | Arup Chakraborty | MIT | Biophysics of the Immune System |
| DBIO | Sujit Datta | Princeton University | Collective Behavior and Cellular Motility |
| DCMP | Sriram Ganeshan | The City College of NY | Fluid Dynamics Applications in Many Body Quantum Systems |
| DCMP | Kai Liu | Georgetown University | Magnetism And Spintronics |
| DCMP | Dragana Popovic | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory | Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields |
| DCMP | Shirley Chiang | University of California Davis | Epitaxial Growth of Metals on Semiconductors And Surface Phase Transitions |
| DCOMP | Marivi Fernandez Serra | Stoneybrook University | Research And Career Opportunities in Machine Learning Applications in Density Functional Theory |
| DCOMP | Eva Zurek | University of Buffalo | Material Design Through Crystal Structure Prediction |
| DCOMP | Talat Rahman | University of Central Florida | Computational Modeling of Optical and Chemical Properties of Defected 2D Materials for a Sustainable Future |
| DLS | Margaret Murnane | University of Colorado & JILA | Light Science and Applications |
| DMP | Peter Fischer | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | Opportunities And Challenges to Do Materials Science Research at a National Laboratory |
| DMP | Anand Bhattacharya | Argonne National Lab | Thin Films and Interfaces of Quantum Materials |
| DMP | Prineha Narayang | UCLA | Theory And Quantum Materials |
| DMP | Judy Cha | Cornell | Career Paths in Academia Versus Industry |
| DMP | Ross McDonald | Los Alamos National Lab | National Laboratories and High Magnetic Field Research |
| DMP | Jorge Munoz | UT El Paso | Career Paths in Computational Materials Physics |
| DPOLY | Jian Ping Gong | Hokkaido University | Polymer Physics, Gels, Mechanical Properties |
| DPOLY | Vivek Sharma | University of Illinois-Chicago | Polymer Physics, Food Rheology and Processing |
| DSOFT | PT Brun | Princeton | Academic Soft Matter Research |
| DSOFT | Laura Gray | Solvay Materials | Industrial Soft Matter Research |
| DSOFT | Kyle Welch | PRL | Soft Matter and Scientific Publishing |
| DQI | Robin Blume-Kohout | Sandia National Laboratories | Characterizing And Benchmarking Quantum Computing Devices |
| DQI | Dominik Zumbühl | University of Basel | Quantum Computing |
| DQI | Christina Giarmatzi | University of Technology Sydney | Non-Markovian Noise in Quantum Devices |
| DQI | Sebastian Deffner | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Quantum Thermodynamics—State and Perspectives of the Field |
| DQI | Olivia Lanes | IBM Quantum | Quantum Computing: Applying to Graduate School and Industry Jobs |
| FIAP | Katarina Cicak | NIST | Quantum Computing |
| FIAP | James Adams | NIST | Scientific Leadership & Government |
| FIAP | Matthew Thompson | Zap Energy Inc | Fusion Development & Industry |
| FIAP | Anne Matsuura | Intel Labs | Science & Industry |
| FIP | Marilena Longobardi, Christine Darve | Basel University, European Spallation Source, ERIC | Careers Outside Academia |
| GDS | Rama Vasudevan | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Machine Learning for Physics and Materials Science |
| GDS | Jennifer Hobbs | Zurich North America | How To Succeed as A Data Scientist in Industry As A Physicist |
| GMAG | Dr. Valeria Lauter | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Career And Education Pathways at the DOE National Laboratory System |
| GMAG | Xianglin Ke | Michigan State University | Journey To a University Academic or Faculty Position |
| GMAG | Benjamin Jungfleisch | University of Delaware | Transitioning From Physics Graduate School to Being a Postdoc |
| GSCCM | Nenad Velisavljevic | Lawrence Livermore National Lab and HPCAT | High Pressure Experiments and X-Ray Diagnostics |