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APS Global Physics Summit 2026 Program Committee
March Chairline
- Chair: Nitin Samarth (DMP), The Pennsylvania State University
- Chair-elect/chair of Sorters meeting: Jennifer Ross (DBIO), The Pennsylvania State University
- Vice chair: Bulbul Chakraborty (DCMP), Brandeis University
- Past chair: Kenneth Brown (DQI), Duke University
April Chairline
- Chair: Joshua Frieman (DAP), University of Chicago
- Chair-elect/chair of Sorters Meeting: Ramona Vogt (DNP), Lawrence Livermore National Lab / University of California, Davis
- Vice chair: Sekhar Chivukula (DPF), University of California, San Diego
- Past chair: David Garfinkle (DGRAV), Oakland University
2026 Joint Program Committee
- DAP: Scott Dodelson, University of Chicago
- DBIO: Vernita Gordon, The University of Texas at Austin
- DBIO: Michelle Wang, Cornell University
- DCMP: Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego
- DCMP: Shirley Chiang, University of California, Davis
- DCOMP: Alan Jackson, Central Michigan University
- DCOMP: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- DCP: Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- DFD: Irmgard Bischofberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- DGRAV: Jenne Driggers, California Institute of Technology
- DGRAV: Maura McLaughlin, West Virginia University
- DLS: Irina Novikova, College of William & Mary
- DLS: Markus Raschke, University of Colorado
- DMP: Quanxi Jia, University of Buffalo
- DNP: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- DPB: Mark Boland, University of Saskatchewan
- DPF: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
- DPF: Hitoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley
- DPOLY: Charles Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- DPOLY: Rafael Verduzco, Rice University
- DQI: Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University
- DQI: Kevin Satzinger, Google
- DQI: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- DSNP: Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- DSNP: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
- DSOFT: Alberto Fernandez de Las Nieves, Universitat de Barcelona
- DSOFT: Michelle Driscoll, Northwestern University
- DSOFT: Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota
- DSOFT: Xiaoming Mao, University of Michigan
- FPS: Don Lincoln, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- FPS: M.V. Ramana
- GCCM: Brittany Branch, Sandia National Laboratories
- GDS: Aobo Li, University of California, San Diego
- GDS: Mingda Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- GERA: Rama Podila, Clemson University
- GERA: BJ Stanbery, Colorado School of Mines
- GFB: Gordon Drake, University of Windsor
- GFB: Sebastian Koenig, North Carolina State University
- GHP: Bernd Surrow, Temple University
- GIMS: Laurel Winter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- GMAG: Barry Zink, University of Denver
- GMED: Matija Milanic, University of Ljublijana
- GMED: Yutaka Natsuaki, University of Southern California
- GMED: Jennifer Pursley, Massachusetts General Hospital
- GPC: Morgan O'Neill, University of Toronto
- GPER: Michael Loverude, California State University
- GPER: MacKenzie Stetzer, University of Maine
- GPMFC: Andrew Ludlow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- GQMS: David George Mandrus, University of Tennessee
- Tutorial Program Chair: Kieran Mullen, University of Oklahoma
- PR/PRL: Nikhil Karthik, American Physical Society
- PR/PRL: Sami Mitra, American Physical Society
- Undergraduate Research: Alejandro de la Puente, Society of Physics Students
- Undergraduate Research: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
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