Student Experience Conference 2025

TUTSEC 2025: Quantum Noir

Claiming Space in Quantum Science
TEAM-UP Together Student Experience Conference, October 29-30, 2025, Denver, CO.

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#TUTSEC2025 Conference Schedule

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TEAM-UP Together Student Experience Conference
@ SPSCON 2025

#TUTSEC2025 aims to inspire and educate the next generation of leaders in physics and astronomy through engaging talks, workshops, panels, and opportunities to network.

Conference Sessions Include:

Scientists sharing their career journeys and pathway
Session on Using Your Voice to Communicate Your Science
Quantum scientists and professionals career pane
Talks & discussions on Physics Identity & belonging
Celebration & award dinner
Networking & fun!

Speakers

Keynote Speaker - Femi Fadugba

Daniel R. Hart
K. Renee Horton
Kayla Lee
LaToya Anderson
Michelle Lollie
Ron Gamble
Simone Hyater-Adams
William L. Wilson

Keynote Speaker

While studying at Oxford, Femi Fadugba published research in quantum computing. His sci-fi novels, The Upper World (coming soon to Netflix!) and The Mirror World, bring relativity and quantum physics to life through young adult storytelling. Now, as CEO of ShepherdXR, he’s building a virtual reality game that helps middle schoolers master math—and speak the language of physics for themselves.

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Plenary & Topic Speakers

Daniel R. Hart

IBM-HBCU Quantum Scholar-in-Residence and Visiting Research Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Mathematics, Southern University and A&M College

K. Renee Horton

NASA Chief Engineer, Subsonic Flight Demonstrator Project and the GoSwift Project, Armstrong Flight Research Center

Kayla Lee

Head of Quantum Programs & Data at IBM Quantum Network & Programs

LaToya Anderson

High-Performance Computing Research Facilitator, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Michelle Lollie

Advanced Laser Scientist, Quantinuum

Ron Gamble

Cosmic Origins Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland—College Park

Simone Hyater-Adams

Founder, MEGA Imagination LLC

William L. Wilson

Executive Director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard University

Special Thanks to the TUTSEC Planning Committee

Italian Johnson

Physics, Jackson State University

Julian Jackson

TUT Scholar, physics major, Univ of California, San Diego

Charles D. Brown II

Physics Professor, Yale University and Member, AIP Board of Directors

Robert Hilborn

Retired Associate Executive Officer, AAPT

Arlene Modeste Knowles

Associate Director, TEAM-UP Together, AIP

Kamsi Nebo

TEAM-UP Together Program Coordinator, Community Engagement, AIP

Morgan Harding

TEAM-UP Together Program Coordinator, AIP

Quantum Noir: Claiming Space in Quantum Science

#TUTSEC2025 is an extension of the TEAM-UP Together program, which provides resources such as scholarships, mentoring, and professional development to physics and astronomy majors across the United States who have faced unequal access to opportunities in these fields.

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