2026 NeXUS User Workshop
October 15-16 on The Ohio State University campus
This year’s workshop will include a special focus on quantum applications of ultrafast and opportunities for AI-enabled ultrafast science.
- 8:00 am, Check in and continental breakfast
- 9:00 am, Opening and welcome, Director's overview*
- 9:40 am, NeXUS Capabilities Updates*
- 10:15 am, Plenary Presentations*
- 11:45 am, NeXUS User Committee
- 12:00 pm, 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
- 8:00 am, Continental breakfast
- 8:30 am, NeXUS lab tours
- 9:30 am, Breakout Sessions
- 11:45 am, Concluding remarks
- 12:00 pm, NeXUS Research Scientist Office Hours (reservation required)
Plenary Session
James McCusker, Michigan State University
Session Moderator
Lin X. Chen
Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University; Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
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
Michael Chini
Associate Professor of Physics and Deputy Director of Institute for Optical Science, The Ohio State University
Joseph Perry Corbett
James C. & Carole E. Garland Assistant Professor of Physics, Miami University
Breakout Sessions
1 AI-enabled Ultrafast Science
