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. Google Maps

We look forward to seeing you!
 

Important Information:

Abstract submissions will open on July 24 and close on October 2.

Submit abstracts and register using the link below.

APS membership is not necessary for registration.

When registering, you will have the option to register for the banquet dinner (held at the IMU). The cost of the banquet dinner is $35 for students and $55 for non-students. You may also buy dinner tickets for guests.

Contributed talks:

10 min for the talk + 2 min for Q&A

Invited talks:

30 min for the talk + 6 min for Q&A

Posters:

Landscape - 36" high by 48" wide (3' x 4') or smaller

Iowa v Northern Illinois in football at Kinnick Stadium - 01 Sep 2018

Abstract and Registration

Register for the conference to join us for a wonderful time. 

Herky Celebrating with Fireworks

Program

See the events and presenters coming to the PSAPS conference this fall.

Old capitol building with flowers

Campus Maps

Handy maps to locate the IMU

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.

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

Maniya Maleki - University of Northern Iowa

Kyoungchul (KC) Kong - University of Kansas

Local Hotels

Find discounted hotel accommodations near the conference venue

Sponsors

  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction.
  • Pike Technologies
  • Raith