#APSsummit26
Welcome to American Physical Society Global #physics Summit in Denver! Just watch out for the big bear and the snow.

I’ll see you tomorrow at 9 AM for my 30 minute talk on machine learning for error mitigation, and Tuesday afternoon for our NMR OTOC work

#APSSummit26 #quantum
March 16, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Hello, imposter syndrome! Good to see you, old friend! Sit and stay awhile for my prize talk at #APSSummit26 today. 🔭🧪
Insecurities don’t care about how old you are.
March 17, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Had fun talking with @websedgescience.bsky.social at the #APSSummit26 on how physics & math can explain fashion cycles! @aps-dsnp.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com
Mini skirts are back & according to physics...that might not be a coincidence. At #APSSummit26 @mathemmatician.bsky.social is bringing mathematical models to the runway of human behavior – because the laws of physics can apply to wardrobes AND particles. @apsphysics.bsky.social‬ youtu.be/lCpLFC7TMDA
Physics Explains Fashion? Cycles, Math & Style with Emma Zajdela
YouTube video by WebsEdgeScience
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March 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
What are quantum computers good for, and what would they suck at? Duff Neill at LANL says the "suck" category includes communication, data gathering & analysis because “I’m not going to load all the data from the Large Hadron Collider into it and wait for quantum magic to happen." #APSSummit26 🧪⚛️
March 18, 2026 at 9:52 PM
The APS Global Physics Summit is in full swing!

Such large conferences are always a bit overwhelming, so I'm starting a thread to digest it from my point of view as a computational biophysicist.

#APSsummit26
@apsphysics.bsky.social
March 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Ever wonder what distinguishes a quantum device from a quantum computer? Jiri Stehlik of IBM puts the boundary at 100 qubits. Any bigger and it’s a computer, any smaller and it’s just a sparkling quantum device. #APSSummit26 🧪⚛️
March 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Hello #APSSummit26! Our online editor @drmlharris.bsky.social is at the meeting all week and looking forward to hearing about some fascinating physics. We promise to post as many highlights as we can from the packed-out schedule. ⚛️🧪🔭
March 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
It’s back! The DBIO Focus Session on Collective Behaviors in Biology returns to #APSMarch #APSSummit26 🎉 Submit your abstract by Oct 23 and join us in Denver! go.aps.org/3I51s36
Invited Speakers: Jasmin Imran Alsous (Flatiron Institute) & Shiladitya Banerjee (Georgia Tech)
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We finally have an answer for why electric charge flows between two identical insulating materials when they touch each other, and that answer is...schmutz. 🧪⚛️ #APSSummit26 physicsworld.com/a/surface-co...
Surface contamination holds the key to a static electricity mystery – Physics World
Carbon-rich “schmutz” determines how charge moves between objects made from identical insulating oxides
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March 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
There’s no one to take a selfie with like the one and only Andreas Wallraff and Dave Schuster!

Glad to continue our now many year tradition of taking a selfie aps every year.
#apssummit26 #quantum
March 20, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Sarah Smith, an ORNL engineer working on the ITER fusion facility, gets the fun of answering the question fusion scientists love to hate: "When is someone, somewhere, going to get electricity from a fusion power plant?" #APSSummit26
March 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM
To kick off #APSSummit26, Nobel laureate John Clarke is describing how, after many failed efforts, he created the first superconducting low-inductance undulatory galvometer (SLUG) "between tea and going back to college for dinner a couple of hours later." You can see how it got its nickname. (1/n)
March 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Victoria Merriman from IOP Publishing reports from an #APSSummit26 satellite event held at the University of Dschang in Cameroon, bringing physicists from across central Africa together.

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Shining a light on central African physics – Physics World
Victoria Merriman reports back from a Global Physics Summit satellite event in Dschang, Cameroon
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April 22, 2026 at 12:51 PM
🎊 Congrats 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚, Univ. of Amsterdam, recipient of the 𝐃𝐒𝐍𝐏 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 for "𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺" Join and listen to them at the DSNP awards session #APSSummit26
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January 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
March 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Neill does, however, think that quantum computers will be useful for physical prediction. There's lots of experiments connected to theoretical nuclear physics that he'd like to do that are basically impossible at the moment, but a utility-scale quantum computer could simulate them. #APSSummit26
March 18, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Thank you to everyone who packed the room this morning at #APSSummit26 for my 30 min talk on our machine learning for practical quantum error mitigation (Nature Machine Intelligence) work.
March 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
For John Preskill, #quantum computing is part of the "complexity frontier" within physics, comparable to the "short distance frontier" exemplified by particle physics and the "long distance frontier" that cosmologists and astronomers are exploring. #APSSummit26 ⚛️🧪
March 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
John Preskill expressing thanks to quantum pioneers of the past century and wishing good fortune to the audience, the quantum explorers of the future in an inspiring talk at
#APSSummit26 #quantum
March 19, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I am the #APSSummit26 (aka #MarchMeeting26 and #AprilMeeting26) and speaking at the session celebrating Abhinav Kandala being awarded the 2026 Landauer Bennett Award in Quantum Computing. If you are at the meeting, please join us on Tuesday summit.aps.org/events/MAR-G03
Landauer Bennett | APS Meeting
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March 16, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Exciton fission enhanced silicon solar cell
http://dlvr.it/TRWw5W

Marc A. Baldo @mit.edu & colleagues
@cp-joule.bsky.social
#APSSummit26
March 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Circumventing a Golden Dome-style missile defence system could be as easy as sending the missile the “long way round”, avoiding defences that assume missile will fly over them, says Grego. In other words, newsflash, the world is round. #APSSummit26 🧪
March 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Smith's answer is, realistically, 2040s. Many private fusion companies say they’ll deliver at the start of the 2030s, but the problems ITER is being built to solve exist for the private sector, too. “There’s just not a natural abundance of tritium...these are challenges for everyone.” #APSSummit26
March 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I’m at #APSSummit26 #APSMarch all week, doing things like this for @physicsworld.bsky.social. Let me know if you’re giving a talk and you think I should see it. The schedule is super-packed but I always love meeting new people and hearing about the awesome physics they’re doing! 🧪⚛️
To kick off #APSSummit26, Nobel laureate John Clarke is describing how, after many failed efforts, he created the first superconducting low-inductance undulatory galvometer (SLUG) "between tea and going back to college for dinner a couple of hours later." You can see how it got its nickname. (1/n)
March 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Governments routinely spend $10^7-10^8 to obtain information on quantum mechanical problems. Examples include the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge. So if you can build a computer that can do things those machines can do, at that price point, governments will be interested. #APSSummit26
March 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM