Check out the list of invited speakers who have already committed to this prestigious meeting

Symposium 1: Emerging Frontiers in Glasses and Ceramics

Xufei Fang, IAM, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Pritam Deb, Tezpur University, India

Symposium 4:Frontiers in low dimension ferroic oxides

Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Junwei Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Steven P. Bennett, Naval Research Lab
Kelly Luo, University of Southern California
Íñigo Robredo, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Rohan Mishra, Washington University in St. Louis
Jiamian Hu, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Celesta Chang, Seoul National University
Junling Wang, City University of Hong Kong
Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan
Shui Dong, Southeast University
Cheng Song, Tsinghua University
Seung Sae Hong, University of California, Davis
Lucas Caretta, Brown University
Jan-Chi Yang,  National Cheng Kung University
Simon Moser, Universität Würzburg

SYMPOSIUM 5: Oxide Quantum Materials

Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory
Sieun Chae, Oregon State University
Woo Seok Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Ryan Comes, University of Delaware
Dillon Fong, Argonne National Laboratory
Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Hanjong Paik, University of Oklahoma
Xiaoqing Pan, University of California, Irvine
Kyle Shen, Cornell University
Qi Song, University of California, Irvine
Le Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yubo Qi, University of Alabama
Nicole Benedek, Cornell University
Sebastian Reyes-Lillo, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
Divine Kumah, Duke University
Neus Domingo Marimon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bai Yang Wang, Stanford University
Jiarui Li, Stanford University
Joohee Bang, Argonne National Laboratory
Henrik Sønsteby, University of Oslo, Norway

Symposium 6: Complex Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures

Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota
Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cheng-Tai Kuo ,SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Er-jia Guo, Institute of Physics
Ke Zou, The University of British Columbia
Liping Yu, University of Central Florida
Moritz L Weber, Kyushu University
Peter Sushko, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Qiyang Lu, Westlake University
Sossina Haile, Northwestern University
Sumner B Harris, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Srimanta Middey, Indian Institute of Science
Saeed SI Almishal, The Pennsylvania State University
Sung-Yoon Chung, KAIST
Tiffany Kaspar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Thomas Zac Ward, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Willam J. Bowman, University of California
Wenyi Huo, National Centre for Nuclear Research
Yue Qi, Brown University
Y. Eren Suyolcu, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Yayoi Takamura, University of California

Symposium 7: In situ/operando characterization of nanomaterials

Burak Guzelturk, Argonne National Laboratory
Colin Ophus, Stanford University
Yu-Tsun Shao, University of Southern California
Timothy Charlton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
James Torres, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rui Liu, Argonne National Laboratory
Elliot Kisiel, Argonne National Laboratory
Xiaojiang Li, Argonne National Laboratory
Xiaobing Hu, Northwestern University
Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Stanford University

Symposium 9: From Atoms to Applications of Wurtzite and Other Emerging Ferroelectrics

Jonathan Spanier, Drexel University
Zetian Mi, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Pennsylvania State University
Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania
Kazuki Okamoto, Tokyo Insitute of Science
Sanjay Nayak, Silicon Austria Labs GmbH

Symposium 10: Extreme Environment Microelectronics Materials and Devices

Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
MVS Chandrashekhar, Morgan State University
Danny Drury, Army Research Laboratory
Ahmad Islam, Air Force Research Laboratory
Kai Fu, University of Utah
Jingyu Tang, Carnegie Mellon University
Carl Grace, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

SYMPOSIUM 11: Characterization of Structure–Property Relationships in Functional Ceramics

Kayla Nguyen, University of Oregon
Katherine Sytwu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shelly Conroy, Imperial Collage London
Honggyu Kim, University of Florida
Quentin Ramasse, University of Leeds
Caleb Whittier, McMaster
Hemant Sharma, Argonne National Laboratory
Alexandra Gibbs, University of St-Andrews
Semën Gorfman, Tel Aviv University
Maksim Eremenko, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ashfia Huq, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Symposium 12: Electronic and Ionic Materials in Energy Storage and Conversion Systems

Bilge Yildiz, MIT
Chuancheng Duan, University of Utah
Corie Cobb, University of Washington
Jue Liu, Oak Ridge National Lab
Jie Xiao, University of Washington
Wanli Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Liangbing Hu, Yale University
Jon Ihlefeld, University of Virginia
Kai He, UC Irvine
Ruochun Wang, University of North Texas

SYMPOSIUM 13: Defects and Transport in Ceramics

Sossina Haile, Northwestern University
Yan-Yan Hu, Florida State University
Yue Qi, Brown University
Chia-Chin Chen, National Taiwan University
Farida Selim, Arizona State University
Matthäus Siebenhofer, TU Wien
Dong Ding, Idaho National Laboratory
Eric Wachsman, University of Maryland
Aaron Kohnert, Los Alamos National Lab

Symposium 15: Ceramic and Composite Materials and Systems for a Sustainable and Resilient Energy Future

Amit Bandyopadhyay, Washington State University
Kathy Lu, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Prabir Dutta, Ohio State
David M Reed, PNNL
Adrian Wagner, Idaho National Laboratory
Klaus van Benthem, University of Alabama
Huijuan Dai, US DOE-AMO
Xiao Zhao, Stanford University

Symposium 17: Ceramics for the Hydrogen Economy

Sandrine Ricote, Colorado School of Mines
Neal Sullivan, Colorado School of Mines
Christian Lenser, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Stephen Skinner, Imperial College London
Apurv Dash, Technical University of Denmark

Symposium 19: Glass and Interactions with its Environment – Fundamentals and Applications

Jincheng Du, University of North Texas
Cory L. Trivelpiece, Savannah River National Laboratory

Symposium 20: Symposium to Honor W. Craig Carter

Ming Tang, Rice University
Shen Dillon, UC Irvine
Wayne Kaplan, Technion
George Varnavides, UC Berkeley
Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT
Vanessa Wood, ETH
Jim Warren, NIST
Valeria Cannillo, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Karlene Maskaly, LLNL
Wenhao Sun, (U. Mich) University of Michigan
Greg Rohrer, CMU
Catherine M, Bishop, University of Canterbury
R. Edwin García, Purdue
Craig Carter, MIT
Carol Handwerker, Purdue
John Blendell, Retired from Purdue
Giovanna Bucci, LLNL
Martin Harmer, Lehigh
Rachel Zucker, Waymo
Dan Lewis, RPI

Symposium 26: Semiconductors and Microelectronics in Metal Halide, Chalcogenide and Oxide Perovskites

Farnaz Niroui, MIT
Letian Dou, Purdue (recently moved to Emory)
Dali Sun, NC State
Jun Liu, NC State
Hao Zeng, U Buffalo
Brooks Tellekamp, NREL
Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota
Barry Rand, Princeton University
Ioannis Spanopoulos, University of South Florida
Zhaoning Song, University of Toledo
Marina Leite, UC – Davis; mleite@ucdavis.edu
Bayram Saparov, University of Oklahoma
Bryan Huey, U of Connecticut (recently moved to Purdue)
Jayakanth Ravichandran, University of Southern California
Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University
Peijun Guo, Yale University
Mengxia Liu, Yale University
Xiong Gong, University of Texas – Arlington

Symposium 27: Two-Dimensional Materials: Synthesis, Theories, Properties, and Applications

Sang-Hoon Bae, Washington University in St. Louis
Cong Su, Yale University
Yuxuan Cosmi Lin, Texas A&M University
Aaron Franklin, Duke University
Xu Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Mauricio Terrones, Penn State University
Ilhan Aksay, Princeton University
Tania Roy, Duke University
Haoning Tang, MIT
Andrew  Mannix, Stanford
Sarptashi Das, PSU
Tianyi Zhang, Syracuse
Farnaz Niroui, MIT
Mark Hersam, Northwestern University
Antoine Kahn, Princeton University
Saien Xie, Princeton University

Symposium 28: Advanced Characterization of Functionalized Low-Dimensional Material Surfaces

Elizaveta Tiukalova, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ritesh Sachan, Oklahoma State University
Arava Hanu, Argonne National Laboratory
Alan Farhan, Baylor University

Symposium 30: Quo Vadis, High-Entropy Oxides?

Eddie Chu, National Tsing Hua University
Sourav Marik, Thapar
Abhishek Sarkar, IIT Dehli
Michael Stuer, EMPA
Bin Ouyang, FSU
Xiaoqing Pan, UC Irvine
Yingge Du, PNNL
Andrea Kirsch, Bochum
Raphael Hermann, ORNL

Symposium 31: Superconducting and 2D Magnetic Materials: From Basic Science to Applications

Riccardo Comin, MIT
Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan
Li Yang, Washington University in St Louis
Salvador Barraza-Lopez, University of Arkansas
Xiao Xiao Zhang, University of Florida
Fazel Tafti, Boston College
Christopher Broyles, LANL
Cheng Gong, University of Maryland
Chunhui (Rita) Du, Georgia Tech
Charles Ahn, Yale University
Adam Tsen, University of Waterloo
Michael Altvater, AFRL
Luis Balicas, Florida State University/Magnet Lab
Stephen Wilson, UC Santa Barbara
Jiun_Haw Chu, Univeristy of washington
Feng Ye, ORNL
Petro Maksymovych, Clemson University
C.W. Chu, University of Houston
Ken Burch, Boston College
Robert Cava, Princeton University

Symposium 32: Solid Oxide Cells for Sustainable Energy

Sossina Haile, Northwesten University
Meilin Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dong Ding, Idaho National Laboratory
Chuancheng Duan, The University of Utah
Bilge Yildiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zeyu Zhao, Idaho National Laboratory
Kevin Huang, The University of South Carolian
Xinfang Jin, UT Dallas
Hailei Zhao, Univ. Sci. tech. Beining
Kang Taek Lee, KAIST
Olga Marina, PNNL
Dane Morgan, Univ. WInsconsin Madision
Rose-Noelle Vannier, Central Lille
Peter Blennow, Topsoe
Jose Serra, INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGÍA QUÍMICA (UPV-CSIC)
Koji Amezawa, Tohoku University
Vasilis Kyriaku, University of Groningen
Aayan Banerjee, University of Twente
Massimo Santarelli, Politecnico di Torino
Iñigo Garbayo, The National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER)
Sebastian Moilin Gdansk, University of Technology
Miguel Laguna, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza

Symposium 33: Advances in Thermoelectrics: Bridging Theory and Application

Hugo Lebouteiller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michi Ohtaki, Kyushu University
Shuo Chen, University of Houston
Takao Mori, NIMS
Takamasa Hirai, NIMS
Jesse Maassen, Dalhousie University
Bed Poudel, Penn State University
Yu-Chih Tseng, Natural Resources of Canada
Esteban Zuniga Puelles, IFW
Doug Crane, DTP Thermoelectrics
Ryohei Nagahiro, The University of Tokyo
Takafumi Ishibe, Osaka University
Takahiro Yamada, Tohoku University
Nicolas Stein, Univ. Lorraine
Renkun Chen, US San Diego

Symposium 34: Advances and Current Challenges in Solid-State Battery Technologies

Jeff Sakamoto, UC Santa Barbara
Bilge Yildiz ,MIT
Brian Sheldon, Brown University
Omar Ozqur Capraz, University of Maryland
Peng Bai, Washington University in St. Louis
Yan-Yan Hu, Florida State University
Yaser Abu-Lebdeh, National Research Council of Canada
Bin Ouyang, Florida State University
Zeeshan Ahmad, Texas Tech University

SYMPOSIUM 36: Modeling and Simulations of Glass Structures and Properties

Carlo Massobrio, CNRS Strasbourg, France
Irmak Sargin, Middle East Technical University
Jessia Rimsza, Sandia National Lab
Pavel Ferkl, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Sebastien Kerisit, Pacific Northwest National Lab

Symposium 37: Optical and Electronic Materials and Devices

Marina S. Leite, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Davis
Dawn Tan, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design
S. K. Sundaram, Materials Science and Engineering, Alfred University

ACerS Spring Meeting

April 12 • 17, 2026