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APS Global Physics Summit (APS GPS) is an annual scientific conference organized by the American Physical Society (APS). Formed by combining the society's historic March and April meetings, it covers fields from condensed-matter and materials physics to astrophysics, gravitation, nuclear and particle physics. APS describes it as the world's largest physics research conference, with approximately 14,000 participants.[1]
History
[edit]Scientific meetings were APS's primary activity after its founding in 1899.[2] The predecessor of the GPS, the March Meeting, developed over the years into the leading physics gathering worldwide. Its 1987 marathon session on high-temperature superconductivity became known as the "Woodstock of physics".[3][4] Attendance grew from about 6,000 in 2005 to 13,000 in 2024.[5]
APS combined the March and April meetings in 1999 for its centennial. It reunited them following its 125th anniversary, holding the first Global Physics Summit in Anaheim in March 2025. This reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary character of physics research and resolves difficulty faced by APS units whose subjects did not fit exclusively within either predecessor meeting.[6]
Programme and significance
[edit]Most contributed oral presentations receive ten minutes followed by two minutes for questions. Invited presentations receive 30 minutes and six minutes for questions.[7] Invited status is distinct from acceptance of a contributed abstract. Disciplinary programme committees solicit nominations and select speakers and symposia; selection is explicitly merit-based.[8] Focus topics display "forefront" research, evaluated for timeliness, community interest and uniqueness; a typical session contains one invited talk and about twelve contributed talks.[9] These procedures make an invitation a limited, peer-selected indication that a scientist's work is associated with a current research frontier, although the meeting's total attendance is not the audience of each parallel session.
Speakers ordinarily cannot receive invitations at consecutive summits.[10] An invitee may present only one scientific invited abstract, but may additionally submit contributed oral, non-technical or poster presentations.[11]
Honors and special sessions
[edit]Summit programmes combine Nobel-laurate sessions with APS prize ceremonies and lectures. APS dissertation awards recognize outstanding doctoral research across fields including quantum information, nuclear, particle, biological, computational and condensed-matter physics.[12] The 2026 Nobel session featured all three recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.[13]
Exhibition and media coverage
[edit]The scientific programme is accompanied by a convention-scale exhibition. More than 200 exhibitors participated in 2025.[14] The combination of densely scheduled talks, experimental apparatus and festival events continues the crowded, informal atmosphere associated with the March Meeting; the 2025 QuantumFest included demonstrations, performances, art installations and escape rooms.[15]
Research presented at the summit receives specialist and general-news coverage. Examples are Associated Press covering results suggesting that dark energy may vary over time[16] and IEEE Spectrum reporting on a diamond magnetic-field sensor demonstrated at the 2025 meeting with one-nanosecond resolution.[17]
Locations
[edit]| Year | Location |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Anaheim, California |
| 2026 | Denver, Colorado |
| 2027 | Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2028 | Chicago, Illinois |
References
[edit]- ↑ "APS Global Physics Summit 2025". NASA. Retrieved 14 September 2026.
- ↑ "Society History". American Physical Society. Retrieved 12 September 2026.
- ↑ "'Woodstock of Physics,' Quantum Computing Among Highlights of 2007". American Physical Society. 1 March 2007.
- ↑ "It's Electric, Exciting—and Elusive". Los Angeles Times. 11 July 1996. Retrieved 14 September 2026.
- ↑ "Get Ready for APS March Meeting 2024". American Physical Society.
- ↑ "Global Physics Summit 2025 promises record-breaking experience". American Physical Society. 21 January 2025.
- ↑ "Abstract submission policies". American Physical Society. Retrieved 12 September 2026.
- ↑ "Archived Newsletters: Summer 2017". APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics.
- ↑ "Winter 2024 Newsletter". APS Division of Materials Physics.
- ↑ "Invited abstracts". American Physical Society. Retrieved 12 September 2026.
- ↑ "Invited abstracts". American Physical Society. Retrieved 12 September 2026.
- ↑ "Honors policies and procedures". American Physical Society. Retrieved 12 September 2026.
- ↑ "Schedule-at-a-glance". American Physical Society. Retrieved 12 September 2026.
- ↑ "Joint APS meeting brings together the physics community". Sponsored content. Physics World. 12 March 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2026.
- ↑ "To celebrate quantum science's centennial, scientists embrace art and play". American Physical Society. 11 April 2025.
- ↑ "How will the universe end? A changing understanding of dark energy may provide a new answer". Associated Press. 19 March 2025.
- ↑ "Quantum Sensor Hits Nanosecond Resolution". IEEE Spectrum.
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