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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

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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

 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1655141200014{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][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”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1712859443263{margin-top: -25px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”9386″ img_size=”500 x 675″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Paul C. W. Chu<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Abstract<\/strong>: View here<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1779126878490{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”7281″ img_size=”500 x 700″ css=”.vc_custom_1709682781187{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Irfan Siddiqi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Presentation title:<\/strong> Current Status and Future of Quantum Computing<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: View here<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=”blue” style=”shadow” border_width=”2″ css=”.vc_custom_1709684477315{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=”9389″ img_size=”900 x 1100″ add_caption=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1779146861434{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]John Clarke
\n<\/strong><\/span>Department of Physics, UC Berkeley<\/em>
\nAwardee of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics<\/span><\/p>\n

John Clarke\u2019s research is based on the theory, design and applications of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), which are ultrasensitive detectors of magnetic flux. He worked on non-equilibrium properties of superconductors, notably the phenomenon of charge imbalance. He and his students developed SQUID magnetometers that, together with a novel remote magnetic reference scheme, significantly improved the accuracy of magnetotellurics, a geophysical survey technique. He was active in the development of SQUIDs based on high-transition temperature superconductors.<\/p>\n

John Clarke\u2019s research is based on the theory, design and applications of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), which are ultrasensitive detectors of magnetic flux. He worked on non-equilibrium properties of superconductors, notably the phenomenon of charge imbalance. He and his students developed SQUID magnetometers that, together with a novel remote magnetic reference scheme, significantly improved the accuracy of magnetotellurics, a geophysical survey technique. He was active in the development of SQUIDs based on high-transition temperature superconductors.<\/p>\n

His current interests include the application of SQUIDs configured as quantum-noise limited amplifiers to search for the axion (a candidate for cold dark matter), the use of SQUIDs as ultrasensitive magnetometers in ultralow frequency magnetic resonance imaging, and the use of SQUIDs to read out superconducting flux qubits for applications in quantum information. John received the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2004. He is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, from which he received the Comstock Prize in Physics in 1999, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

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

Abstract<\/strong>: View here<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=”blue” style=”shadow” border_width=”2″ css=”.vc_custom_1709684492286{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]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>Current Status and Future of Superconducting Electronics<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>: View here<\/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=”7271″ img_size=”500 x 700″ css=”.vc_custom_1709683452763{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Lucio Rossi<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Abstract<\/strong>: View here<\/strong>[\/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=”7463″ img_size=”500 x 700″ css=”.vc_custom_1709683493785{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Timothy Murphy<\/strong>
\nDeputy Director of Operations, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Presentation title: <\/strong>Materials Unlock the Future: Utilizing High Field Magnets to Expand Scientific Frontiers<\/p>\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 – 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

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

\n

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
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n

\n

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

Presentation title:<\/strong> Large-scale superconducting nanowire detectors for quantum technologies<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1662134459752{margin-right: 140px !important;padding-right: 80px !important;}”][vc_column_inner]

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