Banquet Speaker
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UT Austin
condensed matter theory
“Fancy Meeting You Here: Exotic Particles Lurking in Ordinary Crystals”
Plenary Speakers
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UT Dallas/UT Southwestern
biomedical physics
"The Physics and Chemistry of Molecular Imaging"
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UT Austin
astrophysics
"First Look from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment"
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University of Houston
neutrino physics
"Neutrino Oscillations: From Discovery to Precision Measurements"
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California Institute of Technology
planetary protection
"Mars 2020 Mission Overview and the Importance of Planetary Protection"
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UT Austin
biophysics
"Why bacteria care about things you learned in your classical mechanics class"
Invited Speakers
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Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A.C.
terahertz spectroscopy
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Texas State
optoelectronics
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Texas Tech
gravitational-wave source modeling and detection
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SMU
particle physics
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UT Austin
high-energy theory, quantum information
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UT Dallas space physics
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Texas A&M
dark matter annihilation, satellite galaxies