Scientific Program

WednesdayAugust 13, 2025

Time
(all times in PT)
8:00 amRegistration Table OpenB67-3204
9:00 – 10:15 amSummer School Workshop Begins (Invitation only – limited participation)
B67-3111
10:15 – 10:45 amAM refreshment breakB67-3 lobby
10:45 am – 12:30 pmSummer School Continues (Invitation only – limited participation)B67-3111
12:30 – 1:30 pm LunchB67-3 lobby
1:30 – 2:15 pmFoundry Tour – in personB67-3 lobby
1:30 – 2:45 pmSummer School WorkshopB67-3111
2:45 – 3:00 pmPM refreshment breakB67-3 lobby
3:00 – 5:15 pmSummer School workshopB67-3111
5:15 pmSummer School workshop ends

ThursdayAugust 14, 2025

Time
(all times in PT)
8:15 amAM Refresher, Registration Table OpenB50
8:45 – 8:50 amUser Executive Committee Welcome
Jinghua Guo, UEC Chair
Berkeley Lab
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
8:50 – 9:00 amBerkeley Lab Welcome
Carol Burns
Deputy Laboratory Director for Research and Chief Research Officer
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
9:00 – 9:25 amMolecular Foundry Update
Ashfia Huq
Molecular Foundry Director
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
9:25 – 10:15 amKeynote
John Martinis
University of California, Santa Barbara
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
10:15 – 10:40 amBreak
10:40 – 11:05 amUser Highlight
Tod Pascal
University of California, San Diego
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
11:05 – 11:30 amUser Highlight
Zack Gainsforth
University of California, Berkeley
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
11:30 – 11:55 amUser Highlight
Shaun Tan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
11:55 am – 1:00 pmLunchB91 Patio
(1st floor)
1:00 – 2:30 pmBreakout Symposia/ Workshops
• Unraveling Decoherence: Materials, Disorder, and Emergent Phenomena
Nanohybrids for next generation optoelectronics and sensing
Nanofluidics and Biosensing: From Organ-on-Chip to Quantum Biology
Getting data Machine Learning ready (summer school tutorial-all day)
Various
2:30 – 3:00 pmPM refreshment break
3:00 – 4:30 pmSymposia/ Workshops continueVarious
4:30 – 5:15 pmPoster Slam!B50
Auditorium
Zoom
5:15 – 6:45 pmPoster Session and Reception with Live Jazz BandB91 Patio
(1st floor)

Friday – August 15, 2025

Time
(all times in PT)
8:30 amBreakfast, Registration Table OpenB50
9:00 – 9:50 amKeynote
Rebecca Abergel
University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
9:50 – 10:20 amNew Foundry CapabilitiesB50
Auditorium
Zoom
10:20 – 10:45 amBreak
10:45 – 11:10 amUser Highlight
Kyleigh Range
Michigan State University and Berkeley Lab
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
11:10 – 11:35 amPostdoc Paper Award Winner
Min Gee Cho
Berkeley Lab
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
11:35 am – 12:00 pmStudent Paper Award Winner
Eliza Neidhart
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
12:00 – 12:10 pmAward Announcements
B50
Auditorium
Zoom
12:10 – 12:55 pmCareer Panel DiscussionB91- 310
Zoom
12:10 – 1:15 pmLunchB91 Patio
(1st floor)
1:15 – 2:15 pmUser Town HallB91-310
Zoom
2:15 – 3:45 pmBreakout Symposia
Innovations in spin-based quantum materials
Nanophotonics: From Fab to Lab
Scaling Data Workflows: Challenges and Solutions for Multimodal Science
AI/ML enabled materials development
Various
3:45 – 4:15 pmAfternoon refreshment break
4:15 – 5:45 pmSymposia continueVarious
5:45 pmDay concludes