2026 NeXUS User Workshop

1 Registration Deadline: Friday, Oct. 2nd

No cost to register

2 Location

Physics Research Building, First Floor
The Ohio State University
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This year’s workshop will include a special focus on quantum applications of ultrafast and opportunities for AI-enabled ultrafast science.

Workshop Schedule At-a-Glance

  • 8:00 am, Check in and continental breakfast 
  • 9:00 am, Opening and welcome, plenary presentations* 
  • 11:00 am, Director's overview* 
  • 11:45 am, Buffet lunch 
  • 1:00 pm, Science Sessions 
  • 3:30 pm, Poster session; NeXUS Research Scientist Office Hours (reservations required) 
  • 5:00 pm, NeXUS lab tours
  •  6:00 pm, Hosted dinner

*sessions will be live-streamed

Plenary Speakers

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Lin X. Chen

Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University; Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
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Michael Wasielewski

Professor of Chemistry; Director, Institute for Quantum Information Research and Engineering (INQUIRE); Director, Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT), Northwestern University

Invited Speakers

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Joseph Perry Corbett

James C. & Carole E. Garland Assistant Professor of Physics, Miami University
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Alice Kunin

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University

Breakout Sessions

1 AI-enabled Ultrafast Science

Saw-Wai Hla, moderator

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Saw-Wai Hla

Professor of Physics, Ohio University; Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

1 Quantum Applications of Ultrafast Science

Kenneth Knappenberger and Bryan Kudsich, moderators

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Kenneth Knappenberger

Department Head and Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
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Bryan Kudisch

Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University