Banquet Speaker

Prof. Allan MacDonald
UT Austin
condensed matter theory
“Fancy Meeting You Here: Exotic Particles Lurking in Ordinary Crystals”

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dean Sherry
UT Dallas/UT Southwestern
biomedical physics
"The Physics and Chemistry of Molecular Imaging"
Prof. Karl Gebhardt
UT Austin
astrophysics
"First Look from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment"
Prof. Lisa Whitehead Koerner
University of Houston
neutrino physics
"Neutrino Oscillations: From Discovery to Precision Measurements"
Dr. Moogega Stricker
California Institute of Technology
planetary protection
"Mars 2020 Mission Overview and the Importance of Planetary Protection"
Prof. Vernita Gordon
UT Austin
biophysics
"Why bacteria care about things you learned in your classical mechanics class"