FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Physicists from around the world will travel to the University of Arkansas this June for the 76th annual Physical Electronics Conference.

The conference, scheduled for June 20-23, provides an annual forum for the dissemination and discussion of novel and fundamental theoretical and experimental research in the physics, chemistry, biology and engineering of surfaces and interfaces.

Registration information can be found here.

Graduate students with theses or dissertations in these areas will compete for the prestigious Wayne B. Nottingham Prize, which comes with a $1,500 prize. The University of Arkansas’ Benjamin A. Gray won the Nottingham Prize in 2013, becoming the first from the university to capture the award.

Invited speakers for the conference are Jochen Mannhart, director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany; Agnes Barthelemy, senior member of the Institut Universitaire of France and the joint laboratory CNRS/Thales, an affiliate of the University of Paris-Sud; and Jonathan W. Thibado, principal engineer at Intel Corp.

All poster and oral presentations will be made at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development.

Sponsors for the conference include the U of A’s Office of Research and Economic Development, and the university’s departments of physics, biological sciences and chemistry and biochemistry. Corporate sponsors include Scienta Omicron, SPECS, Intel and Texas Instruments.

For more information, contact Paul Thibado, professor of physics, at thibado@uark.edu.