PROGRAM CHAIR:
Stephanie Law
Pennsylvania State University
stephanie_law@avs.org
2D MATERIALS (2D)
- Topic Chair: Kai Xiao, Oak Ridge National Lab
- Topic Co-Chair: Cristina Satriano, University of Catania, Italy
- Rafik Addou, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida
- Jyoti Katoch/, Carnegie Mellon University
- Huamin Li, University at Buffalo-SUNY
- Peter Sutter, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Fei Yao, University at Buffalo
- Tiancong Zhu, Purdue University
ACTINIDES AND RARE EARTHS (AC)
- Topic Chair: James G. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Topic Co-Chair: Ladislav Havela, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Topic Co-Chair: David Shuh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Edgar Buck, Pacific Northwest National Lab
- Tomasz Durakiewicz, Idaho National Lab
- Krzysztof Gofryk, Idaho National Laboratory
- Itzhak Halevy, Ben Gurion University Be’er Sheva, Israel
- Alison Pugmire, LANL
- Paul Roussel, AWE, UK
- Eteri Svanidze, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
- Evgenia Tereshina-Chitrova, Institute of Physics CAS, Prague, Czechia
- Gertrud Zwicknagl, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
ADVANCED MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY TO EXPLORE FIELD-ASSISTED CHEMISTRY (AMS)
- Topic Co-Chair: Shawn Kathmann, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Sten V. Lambeets, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Daniel Perea, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ADVANCED SURFACE ENGINEERING (SE)
- Topic Co-Chair: Diana Berman, University of North Texas
- Topic Chair: Filippo Mangolini, The University of Texas at Austin
- Jyh-Ming Ting, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
AI/ML FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (AIML)
- Topic Co-Chair: Alain Diebold, SUNY Poly
- Topic Co-Chair: Erica Douglas, Sandia National Lab
- Topic Co-Chair: Tina Kaarsberg, Dept. of Energy
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE (SE)
- Topic Co-Chair: Jordan Lerach, PPG Industries
- Topic Co-Chair: Alexander Shard, National Physical Laboratory, UK
- Steve Consiglio, Tokyo Electron
- Andrew Francis, Medtronic, Inc.
- Jodi Grzeskowiak, Tokyo Electron
- David Morgan, Cardiff University, UK
- Hong Piao, FUJIFILM Electronic Materials USA., Inc.
- Benjamen Reed, National Physical Lab, UK
- Samantha G. Rosenberg, Lockheed Martin
- P.M.A. Sherwood, Kansas State University
- Timothy Spila, University of Illinois
- Lyndi Strange, PNNL
- Tanguy Terlier, Rice University
- Jeff Terry, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Julia Zakel, IONTOF GmbH, Germany
ATOMIC SCALE PROCESSING (AP)
- Topic Co-Chair: Bobby Bruce, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Topic Co-Chair: Eric A. Joseph, IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
- Heeyeop Chae, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea
- Erin Cleveland, University of Maryland
- April Jewell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL)
- Han-Bo-Ram Lee, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea
- Alyssa Mock, Weber State University
- Angelique Raley, TEL US
- Bridget Rogers, Vanderbilt University
- Junjie Zhao, Zhejiang University, China
AVS QUANTUM SCIENCE WORKSHOP (AQS)
- Topic Co-Chair: Ekta Bhatia, NY CREATES and University at Albany SUNY
- Topic Co-Chair: Kasra Sardashti, University of Maryland, College Park
- Topic Co-Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Philippe Bouyer, Quantum Delta, The Netherlands
- Joe Castellano, AIP Publishing
- Charles R. Eddy, Jr., Office of Naval Research Global – London, UK
- Sebastian Engelmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Sean Jones, Argonne National Laboratory
- Sisira Kanhirathingal, Rigetti Computing
- David Pappas, Rigetti Computing
BIOMATERIAL INTERFACES/BIOMATERIALS PLENARY (BP)
- Topic Chair: Sapun Parekh, University of Texas at Austin
- Topic Co-Chair: Christopher So, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
- Pierluigi Bilotto, CEST GmbH, Austria
- Kenan Fears, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Morgan Hawker, California State Univ., Fresno
- Markus Valtiner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Rong Yang, Cornell University
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND IMAGING INTERFACES (CA)
- Topic Co-Chair: Andrei Kolmakov, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Topic Co-Chair: Xiao-Ying Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ELECTRONIC MATERIALS & PHOTONICS (EM)
- Topic Co-Chair: Erin Cleveland, University of Maryland
- Topic Co-Chair: Philip Sanghyun Lee, University of Kentucky
- Parag Banerjee, University of Central Florida
- Erica Douglas, Sandia National Lab
- Michael A. Filler, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Cheng Gong, University of Maryland
- Sang M. Han, University of New Mexico
- Michael David Henry, Sandia National Lab
- Jessica Hilton, SPECS-TII, Inc.
- SeonHee Jang, University of Louisiana
- Jason Kawasaki, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Seth King, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
- Stephen McDonnell, University of Virginia
- Rachael L. Myers-Ward, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Guangxin Ni, Florida State University
- Michelle M. Paquette, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Daniel Pennachio, NRL
- Angus Rockett, Colorado School of Mines
- Nicholas Strandwitz, Lehigh University
- Samantha Tomiko Jaszewski, Sandia National Lab
- George Wang, Sandia National Lab
- Haozhe Harry Wang, Duke University
LIGHT SOURCES ENABLED SCIENCE MINI-SYMPOSIUM (LS)
- Topic Co-Chair: Jakub Drnec, ESRF, Grenoble, France
- Topic Co-Chair: Jessica McChesney, Argonne National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Slavomir Nemsak, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MAGNETIC INTERFACES AND NANOSTRUCTURES (MI)
- Topic Chair: Hendrik Ohldag, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Markus Donath, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
- Axel Enders, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Thomas Feggeler, Brookhaven National Lab
- Zheng Gai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Mikel B. Holcomb, West Virginia University
- Jeffry Kelber, University of North Texas
- Valeria Lauter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Greg Szulczewski, The University of Alabama
- Peng Wei, George Washington University
MEMS & NEMS (MN)
- Topic Co-Chair: Jaesung Lee, University of Central Florida
- Topic Co-Chair: Yanan (Laura) Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Jorge Castro, University of Texas at El Paso
- Robert Davis, Brigham Young University
- Vikrant Gokhale, Naval Research Laboratory
- Matthew Jordan, Sandia National Laboratories
- Sushma Kotru, University of Alabama
- Robert Roberts, University of Texas at El Paso
- Christian Zorman, Case Western Reserve University
NANOSCALE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (NSP)
- Topic Chair: Nikolai Klimov, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Topic Co-Chair: Alex Belianinov, Sandia National Laboratories
- Topic Co-Chair: Deep Jariwala, University of Pennsylvania
- Nancy Burnham, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Aubrey Hanbicki, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Erin Iski, University of Tulsa
- Joohoon Kang, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
- Marek Kolmer, Ames Laboratory
- Son Le, University of Maryland
- Yongtao Liu, ORNL
- Mausumi Mahapatra, Loyola University Chicago
- Andrew Mannix, Stanford University
- Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories
- Radislav Potyrailo, GE Research Center
- Aditya Sood, Princeton University
PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (PS)
- Topic Co-Chair: Kenji Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
- Topic Co-Chair: Angelique Raley, TEL Technology Center America, LLC
- Sumit Agarwal, Colorado School of Mines
- John Arnold, IBM Research Div., Albany, NY
- Philippe Bezard, IMEC, Belgium
- Bobby Bruce, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Luxherta Buzi, IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
- Thierry Chevolleau, CEA-Leti, France
- Maxime Darnon, CNRS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien
- Emilie Despiau-Pujo, CNRS-LTM, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Sebastian Engelmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Sathya Ganta, Applied Materials, USA
- Michael Gordon, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Hisataka Hayashi, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Japan
- Yohei Ishii, Hitachi High Technologies America Inc.
- W.M.M. (Erwin) Kessels, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Catherine Labelle, Intel
- Thorsten Lill, Lam Research Corporation
- David Lishan, Plasma-Therm LLC
- Lei Liu, Lam Research Corp.
- Pingshan Luan, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Kenji Maeda, Hitachi High Technologies, Japan
- Nathan Marcha, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson University
- Eric Miller, IBM Research Division, Albany, NY
- Phong Nguyen, Air Liquide Laboratories
- Nobuyuki Kuboi, Sony Corporation, Japan
- Premkumar Panneerchelvam, KLA-Tencor
- Erwine Pargon, CNRS-LTM, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Floran Peeters, LeydenJar Technologies
- Nicolas Posseme, CEA-LETI, France
- Francois Reniers, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Mohan Sankaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jeffrey Shearer, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Yu-Hao Tsai, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Necip Uner, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Christophe Vallee, University at Albany
- Steven Vitale, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Scott Walton, Naval Research Laboratory
- Jun-Chieh Wang, Applied Materials, USA
- Mingmei Wang, Lam Research Corp.
QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINI-SYMPOSIUM (QS)
- Topic Co-Chair: Ekta Bhatia, NY CREATES and University at Albany SUNY
- Topic Co-Chair: Kasra Sardashti, University of Maryland, College Park
- Topic Co-Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Charles R. Eddy, Jr., Office of Naval Research Global – London, UK
- Sebastian Engelmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Sean Jones, Argonne National Laboratory
- Sisira Kanhirathingal, Rigetti Computing
- Corey Rae McRae, University of Colorado Boulder/National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)
- David Pappas, Rigetti Computing
- Drew Rebar, Pacific Northwest National Lab
SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY (EL)
- Topic Co-Chair: Alyssa Mock, Weber State University
- Topic Co-Chair: Megan Stokey, Milwaukee School of Engineering
- Tom Tiwald, J.A. Woollam Co., Inc.
- Stefan Zollner, New Mexico State University
SURFACE SCIENCE (SS)
- Topic Chair: Nan Jiang, University of Illinois – Chicago
- Florencia Calaza, UNL-Conicet, Argentina
- Lifeng Chi, FUNSOM – Soochow Univ., China
- Abner de Siervo, State University of Campinas, Brazil
- M.Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano, Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry-CSIC, Spain
- Dan Killelea, Loyola University Chicago
- Barbara A.J. Lechner, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick, UK
- Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Mildred Quintana, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Tim Schäfer, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Dario Stacchiola, Brookhaven National Lab
SUSTAINABLE SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING (SM)
- Topic Co-Chair: Adam Hock, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Topic Co-Chair: Jeff Terry, Illinois Institute of Technology
THIN FILMS (TF)
- Topic Co-Chair: Mark Losego, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Topic Co-Chair: Junjie Zhao, Zhejiang University, China
- Sarah Atanasov, Intel
- Joe Becker, Kurt J. Lesker Company
- David Bergsman, University of Washington
- Ashley Bielinski, Argonne National Laboratory
- Devika Choudhury, ASM
- John Conley, Jr., Oregon State University
- Adriana Creatore, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Lauren Garten, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Steven M. George, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Elton Graugnard, Boise State University
- Robert Grubbs, IMEC, Belgium
- Subhadra Gupta, University of Alabama
- April Jewell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL)
- Alex Kozen, University of Vermont
- Adrie Mackus, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology
- Siamak Nejati, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Blake Nuwayhid, Naval Research Laboratory
- Gregory N. Parsons, North Carolina State University
- Sagar Udyavara, Lam Research
- Christophe Vallee, SUNY POLY, Albany
- Richard Vanfleet, Brigham Young University
- Rong Yang, Cornell University
- Matthias Young, University of Missouri
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION (UN)
- Topic Chair: Morgan Hawker, California State University, Fresno
- Topic Co-Chair: Liney Arnadottir, Oregon State University
- Topic Co-Chair: Ashleigh Baber, James Madison University
- Topic Co-Chair: Joshua Blechle, Wilkes University
- Topic Co-Chair: Erin Iski, University of Tulsa
VACUUM TECHNOLOGY (VT)
- Topic Chair: Sol Omolayo, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley
- Klaus Bergner, VACOM, Germany
- Russell Gleason, Infleqtion
- Christopher Malocsay, UC Components Inc.
- Freek Molkenboer, TNO Science and Industry, the Netherlands
- Jacob Ricker, NIST
- Julia Scherschligt, NIST
- Charles Smith, ORNL
- Marcy Stutzman, Jefferson Laboratory
- Alan van Drie, TAE Technologies
- Martin Wuest, Inficon, Liechtenstein