APS 2026 User Meeting
May 4-8, 2026
Argonne National Laboratory
The APS/CNM Users Meeting is a week-long event that includes user presentations, scientific awards, a poster session, and workshops dedicated to the wide array of research being conducted at Argonne’s largest user facilities.
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2026 Meeting Events and Deadlines
Opening Plenary Session
User Science Plenary Session 1
User Science Plenary Session 2
APS WK #1: Advances in High-pressure Research at APS-U with New and Emerging High-pressure Devices
(Organizers: Guoyin Shen and Nenad Velisavljevic)
Joint WK #2: Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Data Integration for Microelectronics Innovation
(Organizers: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Mathew Cherukara, Pierre Darancet, Hua Zhou)
APS WK #3: Opportunities of Time-Resolved Research at the APS: From Ultrafast Dynamics to Data-Driven Discovery and Exploring Science Enabled by a Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser
(Organizers: Xiaoyi Zhang, Philippe Piot, Donald A. Walko, Burak Guzelturk, Cunming Liu, Tyler Haddock, Haidan Wen, Lahsen Assoufid, and Stephen T. Pratt)
CNM WK #4: Frontiers in Nanoscale Interfaces in Electro-, Thermal-, and Photocatalysis
(Organizers: Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko)
Joint WK #5: Design, Measurement, and Manipulation of Quantum Materials
(Organizers: Richard Schaller, Jessica McChesney, and Jeffrey Guest)
APS WK #6: Exploring In-Operando Optical Spectroscopy and X-ray Scattering Approaches for Quantum Device Studies
(Organizers: Philip J. Ryan, Xiaojiang Li, and Apurva Mehta)
Joint WK #7: Advanced Characterization and Modeling for Critical Materials Innovation and Supply Chain
(Organizers: Hua Zhou, Ahmet Uysal, Luxi Li, Yuzi Liu, and Justin Connell)
Joint WK #8: Roadmap of In situ SAXS and XPCS after APS-U for Soft Matter Research
(Organizers: Xiao-Min Lin, Matt Helgeson, Amanda Marciel, Nozomi Ando, Mike Graham, Emanuela Del Gado, Bradley Olsen, Irmgard Bischofberger, Ryan-Poling Skutvik, Xiang Cheng, Paul Voyles, Jan Michael Carrillo, Pierre Darncet, and Safa Jamali)