Current Partnerships

IOS members participate in a broad range of partnerships and collaborations throughout the scientific community. The partnerships featured below represent those that are directly managed and maintained through IOS.

X-lites Network

The Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space (X-lites) network promotes collaboration around the world to make use of new extreme light facilities, bringing together facility users and facility operators to support high-impact science and engineering using extreme light. The network spans 11 partner institutions across North America, Europe, and Asia, with goals to strengthen international collaboration, engage early-career researchers, improve communication in the field, and broaden participation in extreme light research. X-lites is supported by NSF Award 2201502 and NSF Award 2411691.

National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) - Quantum Photonic Integration and Deployment (QuPID)

IOS is a partner in the Quantum Photonic Integration and Deployment (QuPID) project, a University of Michigan–led team that recently earned a $4 million Phase 2 award through the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program. Building on an earlier $1 million pilot award, the team — which includes four IOS and Physics Department members, including Nobel Laureate Pierre Agostini — is developing plug-and-play quantum photonic chips that bring lab-grade quantum measurements into real-world environments. If successful, the project could advance to a $55 million NSF quantum center.

Affiliations

The Chemical Physics Program

Lecture Schedule: Frontiers in Chemical Physics Symposium

This biennial course brings the cutting edge of spectroscopy to Ohio State over the span of the spring semester. IOS coordinates the program, hosting five international leaders who each deliver a 3-day series of lectures. Students and faculty gain direct insight into both fundamental principles and the latest advances shaping the field. The next series will take place in spring 2027.

Please check our Events page for the most up-to-date information on this series.

Historically, the lectures have been given in room 2015 of McPherson Lab. Public lectures occur on Wednesday and Friday, with a lecture for graduate students only on Thursday.

List of previous speakers for the Frontiers in Chemical Physics Lecture series: PDF

The STEAM Factory

PostDoc STEAM Exchange Series

The STEAM Factory developed a series of STEAM Exchanges for postdocs. These events for postdocs occurred quarterly and were salon-style seminars centered around broad thematic topics (example topics included 'Conflict', 'Progress', 'Perseverance', 'Evolution', and 'Growth'). Diverse speakers were invited to present on their research and discipline as it related to the thematic topic. These discussions were intended to highlight current research, bringing multiple disciplinary perspectives to bear on a single issue with the purpose of enhancing scholarly community and sense of belonging, identifying opportunities for cross-collaboration, practicing presentation abilities, and encouraging the sharing of individual expertise, tools, and resources. 

Legacy Partnerships

The NSF NeXUS Project

Ohio State was awarded $9.5 million in NSF funding to develop the National eXtreme Ultrafast Science (NeXUS) facility, combining attosecond pulses, soft x-ray photon energies, and high repetition rate to enable measurements not currently possible anywhere else in the world. NeXUS was originally overseen and operated by IOS in its early development, and now operates independently as an NSF open-access user facility.

Mid-Infrared Strong-Field Interaction (MURI MIR)

At the present time we stand at a crossroad for discovery, where the road toward novel MIR technology can again transform SF physics, both our understanding of it and its applications. In fact, as presented in its proposal, increasing the wavelength is a faster, more robust path towards new physics than even increasing the intensity. The MURI MIR team will seize this opportunity with a broad in-depth research program aimed at advancing experiments, theory and technology for MIR SF interaction studies. In addition, our program is consciously constructed to directly connect these studies to Department of Defense (DoD) relevant applications in remote sensing, directed energy, tabletop coherent short wavelength light sources, compact particle accelerators and MIR laser technology.