Press Tips for the 2021 APS April Meeting

Five press conferences will highlight interesting presentations at the 2021 APS April Meeting "Quarks to Cosmos"—covering the latest research in astrophysics, particle physics, nuclear physics, gravitation, and more. The theme this year is “Advancing Science in a Global and Inclusive Community.”

Details of each press conference and a list of other featured talks can be found at the links below.

Complimentary registration is available to journalists and public information officers for the express purpose of gathering and reporting news and information from the meeting. All prospective attendees must register to access the virtual meeting platform.

Staff reporters, freelance writers, and students are welcome. Those who have not previously attended APS meetings as press or do not directly receive the APS journals tip sheet may submit a request for APS press credentials by completing the form on this page.

All times are in Central Daylight Time (CDT). The meeting is held from Saturday, April 17 through Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

Press Conferences

Saturday, April 17

10:00 a.m. CDT Measuring Neutron Star Squeezability
NICER collaboration, NASA astronaut reveal size of most massive neutron star, highlight Space Station science
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• Zaven Arzoumanian (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
• Cole Miller (University of Maryland)
• Anna Watts (University of Amsterdam)
• Sanjay Reddy (University of Washington)
• Christina Koch (NASA)

12:00 p.m. CDT On the Pulse of Pulsars and Polar Light
Reimagined telescopes may fill the void left by Arecibo’s collapse
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• Cyndia Yu (Stanford)
  CMB E-mode Science With the BICEP/Keck Program (S09.8)
• Megan DeCesar (George Mason)
  The Search for Gravitational Waves With the NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array (B01.1)

Sunday, April 18

10:00 a.m. CDT The Future of Particle Accelerators Is Here
Behind the scenes of the Electron-Ion Collider, green accelerators that waste no energy, and chiral magnetic effect results debuting this summer
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• Elke-Caroline Aschenauer (BNL)
  The Electron-Ion Collider: A Collider to Unravel the Mysteries of Visible Matter—Its Experimental Equipment (X04.3)
• Jinfeng Liao (Indiana University Bloomington)
  Signatures of Chiral Magnetic Effect in the Collisions of Isobars (SP01.5)
• Georg Hoffstaetter (Cornell)
  The Cornell-BNL ERL Test Accelerator: Demonstration of the World's First Multipass Superconducting Linear Accelerator With Energy Recovery (E15.3)
• Dejan Trbojevic (BNL)
  Green Energy Future EIC Collider (Z07.1)

12:00 p.m. CDT Scientists May Detect Signs of Extraterrestrial Life in the Next 5 to 10 Years
Telescope launching this autumn could spot biosignatures on other planets within three days
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• Caprice Phillips (Ohio State)
  Detecting Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Gas Dwarfs With JWST (K05.2)

Monday, April 19

11:00 a.m. CDT The Fate of the Planet
Unconventional takes on pandemics and nuclear defense could protect humanity from catastrophic failure
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• Martin Rees (Cambridge)
  The World in 2050—and Beyond (X06.1)
• Frederick Lamb (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defense (Y05.2)

Additional Interesting Talks

Saturday, April 17

• 8:15 a.m. CDT Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary: Nobel Prize Session (A01) — Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), Andrea Ghez (UCLA), Roger Penrose (Oxford)
• 10:45 a.m. CDT New Results on the Higgs Boson (B02.1) — Caterina Vernieri (SLAC)
• 10:45 a.m. CDT A Quantum-Enhanced Search for Dark Matter Axions (B07.1) — Kelly Backes (Yale)
• 10:45 a.m. CDT Muon Collider Symposium I (B08) — various
• 11:57 a.m. CDT Precision MSP Timing With MeerKAT (B01.3) — Renee Spiewak (University of Manchester)
• 1:30 p.m CDT Muon Collider Symposium II (D14) — various
• 1:30 p.m. CDT Discovery of Pulsars in Context (D05.1) — Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford)
• 1:57 p.m. CDT Edward A. Bouchet Award (2021): Making a Universe Full of Axions and Justice (D08.2) — Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of New Hampshire)
• 2:30 p.m. CDT Gamma Rays From Fast Black-Hole Winds (D09.6) — Chris Karwin (Clemson University)
• 2:42 p.m. CDT Life Without Pythons Would Be So Simple (D01.3) — Geoff Penington (Stanford)
• 5:40 p.m. CDT Special Session on the First Results From the Fermilab Muon g−2 Experiment (E22) — Thomas Teubner (University of Liverpool), Dave Hertzog (University of Washington), Dominik Stoeckinger (Das Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik)

Sunday, April 18

• 9:06 a.m. CDT COVID-19 Research at Neutron Sources (G03.2) — Hugh O’Neill (ORNL)
• 10:45 a.m. CDT Truth and the Public Good: What to Do When There Is No Bottom to Science Denial (H06.1) — Adam Frank (University of Rochester)
• 10:45 a.m. CDT Muon Collider Symposium III (H08) — various
• 1:54 p.m. CDT Deep-Learning-Based Image Segmentation of Small Volumes in CT Images of the Brain (K08.3) — Jianxin Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• 2:30 p.m. CDT Detecting COVID-19 via Cherenkov Luminescence Imaging on a Cell Phone (K08.6) — Arbaaz Mahmood (Pakistan Science Club)
• 3:45 p.m. CDT Deconstructing Racism in Physics: Beyond Aspirations, Real Actions (L05) — Sarah Tuttle (University of Washington), Carol Scarlett (Florida A&M), Franklin Dollar (UC Irvine), Jesus Pando (Depaul), Sowjanya Gollapinni (Los Alamos)
• 3:45 p.m. CDT Filling in the Mass Gap: GW190814 (L03.1) — Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern)
• 5:05 p.m. CDT Yuri Orlov Wilson Prize Recipient—In Memoriam: Seminal Contributions to the Muon g–2 Experiment (L02.7) — Bill Morse (BNL)

Monday, April 19

• 2:30 p.m. CDT Prowling for Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrinos With PUEO (S10.6) — Remy Prechelt (University of Hawaii)
• 3:45 p.m. CDT Evolution of Primordial Neutrino Helicities in Astrophysical Magnetic Fields (T18.1) — Gordon Baym (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• 4:57 p.m. CDT Lewis Latimer: The Shadow Behind the Lightbulb (T07.3) — Garrett Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Tuesday, April 20

• 8:30 a.m. CDT Addressing Systemic Oppression in Physics: From Root Causes to Strategic Action (W01.1) — Brian Nord (Fermilab / UChicago)
• 11:57 a.m. CDT Needed Now: A Vision for Earth on Cosmic Time (X06.3) — Sandra Faber (UC Santa Cruz)
• 1:30 p.m. CDT Muon Collider Symposium IV (Y07) — various
• 2:42 p.m. CDT The Emerging Technologies Arms Race, Nuclear Weapons, and Global Security (Y05.3) — Sebastien Philippe (Princeton)
• 2:42 p.m. CDT Lattice QCD in the EIC Era (Y04.3) — William Detmold (MIT)