We are excited to announce the next APS Prairie Conference!
This year’s meeting will be held October 22–24 at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa.
Venue: Iowa Memorial Union, 125 N Madison St, Iowa City, IA 52245
Important Dates:
Abstract submissions will open on July 24 and close on September 24.
Submit abstracts here
Register here
When registering, you will have the option to register for the banquet dinner (held at the IMU). The cost of the banquet dinner is and $35 for students and $55 for non-students. You may also buy dinner tickets for guests.
Highlights:
- Tour several University of Iowa research facilities, including the Iowa Spaceflight Lab, the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Lab, and the MatFAB Cleanroom.
- Participate in a career panel, a graduate school application panel, and an outreach-themed session featuring speakers from across the Prairie Section.
- Meeting features invited talks across the full spectrum of physics research.
Participation of graduate and undergraduate students is highly encouraged.
Invited Speakers:
Keynote Public Speaker: Eliu A. Huerta - Argonne National Lab
Lia Medeiros - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Alexander McLeod - University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Firdevs Duru - Coe College
Qunfei Zhou - University of Kansas
Ali Sulaiman - University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Jason Wang - Northwestern University
Chandan Setty - Iowa State University
Colby Haggerty - University of Iowa
Elizabeth Tolman - University of Iowa
Tanner Trickle - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Robert Streubel - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kateryna Foyevtsova - University of Notre Dame
Xiaojie Wang - Missouri University of Science and Technology
Gregory T. Forcherio - NSWC Crane
Alan M. Dibos - Q-NEXT, Argonne National Lab
Maria Brigida Brunetti - University of Kansas
Joshua Foster - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ahmad Hosseinizadeh - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Melinda Soares-Furtado - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Campus Map:
View the meeting website for more details.
Conference email: psaps-uiowa-2026@team.uiowa.edu
We hope you will join us in Iowa City, IA!