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The ASC 2026 Conference continues our long-standing tradition of creating an exciting program including a slate of vibrant plenary speakers, who will present high-level overviews on topics the program committees consider as critical for both near-future and next-generation applications.\u00a0 Perspectives will be addressed by the plenary speakers, on remarkable past progress, present developments and challenges, and future needs and emerging applications and niches that lie ahead.<\/p>\n

The program committees are very pleased and honored to introduce ASC 2026 plenary speakers.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Monday, September 7, 2026″ font_container=”tag:p|font_size:25|text_align:left|color:%238c6161″ google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1780595928732{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 35px !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1780608056672{margin-top: -25px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9386″ img_size=”600 x 800″ css=”.vc_custom_1780595320012{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1781191160316{margin-left: 35px !important;}”]Paul C. W. Chu<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Professor of Physics, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Founding Director and Chief Scientist, Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston<\/em>
\nPresident Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Paul C. W. Chu currently serves as Professor of Physics, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Founding Director and Chief Scientist of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. He is President Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n

He has been working on the physics of superconductivity and related materials for 60 years. In January 1987, he and his colleagues achieved superconductivity at 93 K (-180 \u00b0C), above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (-196 \u00b0C), making its commercialization more practical, and they continue to hold the current record high transition temperature of 164 K (-109 \u00b0C) in another compound when compressed. They recently achieved the record high ambient-pressure transition temperature of 151 K (-122 \u00b0C) in this compound following pressure-quenching. Presently, he is actively engaged in the basic and applied research of high temperature superconductivity. His research activities extend beyond superconductivity to magnetism and dielectrics. His work has resulted in the publication of more than 750 papers in refereed journals.<\/p>\n

He has been elected as a member of several prestigious national academies of science of the U.S. and other countries. He has received numerous awards, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, and has served on many different professional committees.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of HTS: Past, Present, and Future<\/p>\n

Presentation time:<\/strong> 8:05-8:50 AM<\/p>\n

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Program Overview<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Technical Program<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plenaries<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Special & Memorial Sessions<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session Moderators<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Authors<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ELEVATE<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”5\/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1655141200014{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1780595953915{margin-top: 10px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9422″ img_size=”600 x 800″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1780701145012{margin-left: 35px !important;}”]Irfan Siddiqi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

University of California-Berkeley, Department of Physics<\/em><\/p>\n

Irfan Siddiqi is the head of the Physics Department at UC Berkeley where he is the Douglas Giancoli Chair Professor. He is also a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Irfan received his undergraduate degree in chemistry & physics at Harvard University, and a PhD in applied physics from Yale University. His research group focuses on the development of advanced superconducting circuits for quantum information processing, including computation and metrology. Irfan is also the director of the Advanced Quantum Testbed at LBNL, which develops and operates full-stack quantum computing platforms based on superconducting qubits. He is known for key contributions to quantum measurement science, including real time observations of wavefunction collapse, tests of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, quantum feedback, and the development of a range of microwave frequency, quantum noise limited amplifiers and detectors. Irfan is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society. He is the recipient of the APS George E. Valley prize and the Joseph F. Keithley Award. He is also a recipient of the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award\u2014the university\u2019s highest award for commitment to pedagogy.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> Quantum Computing: Towards the Road to Advantage<\/p>\n

Presentation time:<\/strong> 4:15-5:00 PM<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: pending<\/strong><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=”blue” style=”shadow” border_width=”2″ css=”.vc_custom_1709684504410{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Tuesday, September 8, 2026″ font_container=”tag:p|font_size:25|text_align:left|color:%238c6161″ google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9432″ img_size=”500 x 700″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1781108337132{margin-left: 35px !important;}”]John Clarke
\n<\/strong><\/span>University of California-Berkeley, Department of Physics<\/em>
\nAwardee of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics<\/span><\/p>\n

John Clarke is a co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. He is Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been a faculty member since 1969, and held the Luis W. Alvarez Memorial Chair for Experimental Physics from 1994 to 1999. He received his B.A. (1964), Ph.D. (1968), and Sc.D. (2003) from the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n

His research centers on the theory, design, and applications of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). He is particularly known for fundamental studies of 1\/f flux noise in SQUIDs, which has been central to understanding decoherence limits in superconducting quantum circuits. His work also spans SQUID-based geophysical survey techniques, high-transition-temperature SQUIDs, SQUID amplifiers for axion dark matter searches, ultralow-frequency MRI, and the readout of superconducting flux qubits for quantum information processing.<\/p>\n

His honors include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1970), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1977), the Charles Vernon Boys Prize of the British Institute of Physics (1977), California Scientist of the Year (1987), the Fritz London Memorial Award for Low Temperature Physics (1987), the IEEE United States Activities Board Electrotechnology Transfer Award (1995), the Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science of the American Physical Society (1998), the Comstock Prize in Physics of the National Academy of Sciences (1999), the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award for Significant and Continuing Contributions to Applied Superconductivity (2002), the Scientific American 50 Award (2002), the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society (2004), and the Micius Quantum Prize (2021), awarded for pioneering superconducting quantum circuits and qubits.<\/p>\n

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (U.K.), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an International Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He holds Honorary Fellowships at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1997) and Darwin College, Cambridge (2023).<\/p>\n

Presentation title: <\/strong>From SLUGs to Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena<\/p>\n

Presentation time:<\/strong> 8:00-8:45 AM<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: View Here<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=”blue” style=”shadow” border_width=”2″ css=”.vc_custom_1709684504410{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Wednesday, September 9, 2026″ font_container=”tag:p|font_size:25|text_align:left|color:%238c6161″ google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9385″ img_size=”500 x 700″ css=”.vc_custom_1779145504586{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1781756291251{margin-left: 35px !important;}”]Samuel Benz
\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>NIST, Superconductive Electronics Group<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sam Benz is a NIST Fellow in the Superconductive Electronics Group that develops state-of-the-art dc, ac, and RF superconducting quantum-based voltage sources, standard reference instrument systems, and precision measurement techniques that NIST provides to U.S. Industry and national and international measurement laboratories. The group also has research programs in superconducting high-speed computing, quantum computing, and radio-frequency communications.<\/p>\n

Sam was raised in Dubuque, Iowa, on the Mississippi River. He received his B.A. from Luther College, Decorah, IA, in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1990. He is a Fellow of NIST, the American Physical Society (APS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has five patents and three U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals and received the 2016 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement. He is currently president-elect of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity.<\/p>\n

Presentation title: <\/strong>The Quantum Volt: How the Josephson Effect Revolutionized Standards and Measurement<\/p>\n

Presentation time:<\/strong> 8:00-8:45 AM<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: View here<\/a><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=”blue” style=”shadow” border_width=”2″ css=”.vc_custom_1709684504410{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Thursday, September 10, 2026″ font_container=”tag:p|font_size:25|text_align:left|color:%238c6161″ google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9449″ img_size=”500 x 700″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1780610109374{margin-left: 35px !important;}”]Lucio Rossi<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

University of Milan \/ INFN \u2013 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucio Rossi is Professor of Accelerator Physics at the University of Milan and Research Associate at INFN. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to superconducting magnets for particle accelerators and large research infrastructures. During the 1990s, he played a leading role in the development of the first full-scale prototypes of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) superconducting dipoles and contributed to the construction of the ATLAS detector magnet system.<\/p>\n

In 2001, he joined CERN to lead the Magnet and Superconductor Group for the LHC project, which he guided through construction, installation and commissioning phase until 2011. He subsequently conceived and directed the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project from 2010 to 2020, establishing the international program that is now delivering the major luminosity upgrade of the world\u2019s highest-energy accelerator.<\/p>\n

Since returning to Italy in 2020, Rossi has focused on advanced superconducting technologies for future accelerators, medical applications, and sustainable energy systems. He is the founder and coordinator of IRIS, Italy\u2019s national research infrastructure for applied superconductivity, and holds leading roles in several European and international programs on high-field magnets, HTS technologies and hadron therapy gantry R&D.<\/p>\n

Rossi is an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the IEEE Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in Applied Superconductivity, the EPS Rolf Wider\u00f6e Prize, and the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and delivered numerous invited plenary lectures worldwide. He is also active in scientific outreach and served as an IEEE Council on Superconductivity Distinguished Speaker during 2012\u20132013.<\/p>\n

Presentation title: <\/strong>Collaboration Modes in Superconductivity, Applications to Large-Scale<\/p>\n

Presentation time:<\/strong> 8:00-8:45 AM<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: pending<\/strong><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=”blue” style=”shadow” border_width=”2″ css=”.vc_custom_1709684518386{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Friday, September 11, 2026″ font_container=”tag:p|font_size:25|text_align:left|color:%238c6161″ google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1709684208688{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9434″ img_size=”500 x 700″ css=”.vc_custom_1780594194674{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1780610119433{margin-left: 35px !important;}”]Timothy Murphy<\/strong>
\nDeputy Director of Operations, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tim Murphy is Deputy Director for Laboratory Operations at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), where he has served in technical, management, and leadership roles since joining the MagLab in 1994. Trained as a physicist, he earned an M.S. in Physics from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Physics from Loras College. His research has focused on magnetism and superconductivity in correlated electron materials at ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields, alongside the development of advanced instrumentation for high-field experiments, including temperature sensors and sample-positioning systems. Tim played a central role in developing the NHMFL Millikelvin Facility and has deep expertise in cryogenic systems, high-field superconducting magnets, and experimental design. He is also widely engaged in education and outreach, having taught and organized the NHMFL Users Summer School, mentored students through the NSF REU program, and contributed to public-facing science communication. A 2024 American Physical Society Fellow, Murphy is recognized for contributions that bridge scientific innovation, facility operations, and community engagement.<\/p>\n

Presentation title: <\/strong>Materials Unlock the Future: Utilizing High Field Magnets to Expand Scientific Frontiers<\/p>\n

Presentation time:<\/strong> 8:00-8:45 AM<\/p>\n

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The ASC 2026 Conference continues our long-standing tradition of creating an exciting program including a slate of vibrant plenary speakers, who will present high-level overviews on topics the program committees consider as critical for both near-future and next-generation applications.\u00a0 Perspectives will be addressed by the plenary speakers, on remarkable past progress, present developments and challenges, and future needs and emerging applications and niches that lie ahead.\u00a0 The program committees are very pleased and honored to\u00a0introduce ASC 2026 plenary speakers who have accepted to speak thus far, and their tentative presentation titles.<\/p>\n

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Monday, September 7, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Celebrating the 40th<\/sup> Anniversary of HTS: Past, Present, and Future<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul C. W. Chu<\/strong>
\nTexas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston Science Center<\/p>\n

Quantum Computing: Towards the Road to Advantage<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Irfan Siddiqi<\/strong>
\nUniversity of California-Berkeley, Department of Physics<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 8, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

From SLUGs to Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John Clarke<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Physics, UC Berkeley
\nCo-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Current Status and Future of Superconducting Electronics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Samuel Benz
\n<\/strong>NIST, Superconductive Electronics Group<\/p>\n

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Thursday, September 10, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Collaboration Modes in Superconductivity, Applications to Large-Scale<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Lucio Rossi\u00a0<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Milan \/ INFN – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare<\/p>\n

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Friday, September 11, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Materials Unlock the Future: Utilizing High Field Magnets to Expand Scientific Frontiers<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Timothy Murphy
\n<\/b>National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU<\/p>\n

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Program Overview<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Technical Program<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plenaries<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Special & Memorial Sessions<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session Moderators<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Authors<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ELEVATE<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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As part of the ELEVATE Program and its mission to promote professional and leadership development, the\u00a0Early Career Plenaries<\/strong> event will be held at ASC 2026. This event continues the tradition established by the successful Young Scientist Plenary sessions at previous ASC and MT conferences, offering early career researchers making significant contributions to applied superconductivity the prestigious opportunity to present short plenary talks showcasing their achievements or visions for the future of the field.<\/p>\n

Early career speakers will be selected based on their demonstrated excellence, leadership potential, and recognition within the superconductivity community. The Organizing Committee believes these presentations enrich the conference experience by showcasing innovative ideas, emerging research directions, and the fresh perspectives of the next generation of scientists.<\/p>\n

Session Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, September 7, 2026
\n5:00 – 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Please check back later for the announcement of selected speakers and presentation titles.<\/em><\/p>\n

 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1779132367782{padding-bottom: 80px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow” border_width=”6″ css=”.vc_custom_1779132641147{background-color: #f2826a !important;}”][vc_column_text]Our Early Career Plenary Speakers are:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Andrea Masi<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Andrea Masi is a researcher in ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. Graduated in Material Science, he received his PhD in Systems for Energy and Environment in 2017, and since then has been working in the superconductivity field. His current activities embrace the development of HTS materials from several point of views, ranging from the material synthesis to the superconducting characterization of wires, tapes and cables. He is involved in activities devoted to the evaluation of the potential of iron-based wires and tapes and leads an EUROfusion Enabling Research (ENR) project focused on the development of pnictides wires via the power in tube method. He is also involved in the design and production of high-performance cables for fusion applications based on cuprates materials, focusing on critical issues such as cable stability and quench detection.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> HTS materials for fusion applications: challenges and perspectives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Shun Miura<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Shun Miura is a Doctor of Engineering, Nagoya University in Japan and is currently working as an assistant professor in Kyushu University in Japan. Shun Miura has been developing superconducting rotating machines for electric propulsion system for aircraft and urban air mobility in Kyushu University for seven years. In addition, he has been studying cabling design of coated conductors and electromagnetic phenomena of superconductivity such as flux pinning, AC loss and current distributions.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> Strategies of superconducting motors aimed at future cryo-electric aircraft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nReed Teyber
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Reed Teyber is a research scientist in the superconducting magnet program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His professional interests span a range of experimental and numerical topics across magnetics, cryogenics, instrumentation, and optimization. This background enables his work developing HTS magnet diagnostics and leading the LBNL magnet test facility upgrade towards hybrid LTS-HTS testing.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> Towards Smart, Protectable and Reconfigurable HTS Magnets<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nDaniele Torsello<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Daniele Torsello is currently a fixed-term assistant professor at the Department of Applied Science and Technology of Politecnico di Torino and an INFN associate researcher. With a background in both Materials Science and Physics, he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2020 from Politecnico di Torino, employing microwave techniques to study iron-based superconductors. Since 2023, Dr. Torsello is the principal investigator of an international project funded by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for the “study of high-temperature superconductors neutron radiation damage for compact fusion reactors” in collaboration with MIT-PSFC. Overall, his research is focused on investigating experimentally and computationally the response of superconductors to high energy particle irradiation. These studies are aimed at: 1) understanding the fundamental mechanisms of superconductivity in novel materials, 2) the optimization of vortex pinning in practical superconductors, and 3) the investigation of the radiation hardness of high-temperature superconductors for fusion applications.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> HTS for fusion applications: the challenges of irradiation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nHe Huang<\/strong><\/td>\n

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He Huang, who received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, is a young scientist in the field of superconducting materials. As an associate professor at the Key Laboratory of Applied Superconductivity, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, his research focuses on iron-based superconductors, aiming to understand their properties and potential applications. He has made groundbreaking advancements in the investigation and fabrication of high-performance superconducting wires and tapes, elevating the critical current density of iron-based superconducting tapes to new heights. He has collaborated with world-renowned laboratories in the United States, Japan, Geneva, and other countries, and has achieved many achievements in the field of iron-based superconducting wires and tapes, which greatly promoted the practical research of iron-based superconductors. His work has been highly regarded, for which he won the TOP CITED PAPER AWARD from IOP Publishing. He has published more than 40 journal papers in Superconductor Science and Technology, Scripta Materialia, Journal of Applied Physics<\/em>, et al. and has given several orals and posters at international conferences such as the ASC, EUCAS, ISS, et al.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> Status and Perspectives in Fabrication of Iron-based Superconducting Wires and Tapes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nTaiki Yamae<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Taiki Yamae is a researcher in the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2023. He is studying superconducting integrated circuits, especially adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron logic.<\/p>\n

Presentation title:<\/strong> Reversible circuits using adiabatic superconductor logic for energy-efficient computing systems<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nBoris Korzh<\/strong><\/td>\n

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Boris Korzh received a Master’s degree in Physics from Imperial College London in 2012, completing the research thesis at the Max Plank institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. He received a PhD in Physics from the University of Geneva in 2016, specializing in single photon detection with semiconductor- and superconductor-based devices as well as applications in quantum communication. Between 2017-2019 he was a postdoctoral scholar at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California and held a Visiting Researcher position at NIST, Boulder. In 2019 he became a member of the Research Staff at JPL and a Visiting Scientist at Caltech. In 2024 he became an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Geneva. His research interests include superconducting nanowire detectors and imagers, and their applications in quantum communication, high energy physics, astronomy, biomedicine, and remote sensing.<\/p>\n

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