2026 Users Meeting Program Information

General Information

Thank you to our generous exhibitors for supporting this year's meeting!

2026 Poster Session Booklet

The APS/CNM Users Meeting is a week-long event that includes user presentations, scientific awards, a poster session, and workshops dedicated to the wide array of research being conducted at Argonne's largest user facilities.

For questions, contact [email protected].

2026 Meeting Events and Deadlines

Opening Plenary Session

User Science Plenary Session 1

User Science Plenary Session 2

APS WK #1: Advances in High-pressure Research at APS-U with New and Emerging High-pressure Devices
(Organizers: Guoyin Shen and Nenad Velisavljevic)

Joint WK #2: Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Data Integration for Microelectronics Innovation
(Organizers: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Mathew Cherukara, Pierre Darancet, Hua Zhou)

APS WK #3: Time-Resolved Opportunities at the APS and Beyond: Upgraded Capabilities and Compact X-ray FEL Visions
(Organizers: Xiaoyi Zhang, Philippe Piot, Donald A. Walko, Burak Guzelturk, Cunming Liu, Tyler Haddock, Haidan Wen, Lahsen Assoufid, and Stephen T. Pratt)

CNM WK #4: Frontiers in Nanoscale Interfaces in Electro-, Thermal-, and Photocatalysis
(Organizers: Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko)

Joint WK #5: Design, Measurement, and Manipulation of Quantum Materials
(Organizers: Richard Schaller, Jessica McChesney, and Jeffrey Guest)

APS WK #6: Exploring In-Operando Optical Spectroscopy and X-ray Scattering Approaches for Quantum Device Studies
(Organizers: Philip J. Ryan, Xiaojiang Li, Apurva Mehta, and Paul Welander)

Joint WK #7: Advanced Characterization and Modeling for Critical Materials Innovation and Supply Chain
(Organizers: Hua Zhou, Ahmet Uysal, Luxi Li, Yuzi Liu, and Justin Connell)

Joint WK #8: Roadmap of In situ SAXS and XPCS after APS-U for Soft Matter Research
(Organizers: Jeffrey Richards, Simon Rogers, HongRui He, Suresh Narayanan, Ivan Kuzmenko, Xiao-Min Lin, and Subramanian Sankaranarayanan)

Important Deadlines:

Friday, October 31, 2025: Plenary session speaker nominations

Monday, November 17, 2025: Workshop proposal submissions

Wednesday, December 3, 2025: Workshop selections

Monday, February 2, 2026: Award nominations due

Friday, February 6, 2026: Workshop budgets and agendas due

Friday, February 13, 2026: Last day for early bird registration pricing!

Monday, March 9, 2026: Speaker abstracts due - EXTENDED TO Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Monday, March 23, 2026: Poster session abstracts due - EXTENDED TO Friday, April 3, 2026

Monday, April 20, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. CT: Registration deadline

Useful Links

Information for Workshop Organizers