December 8-10, 2025
A strong start for a new CNRS–University of Chicago collaboration in superconducting radio-frequency science!
From December 8 to 11, we held a three-day kickoff workshop in Chicago, supported by the IRL Particle Physics & Cosmology (IRL PPC), bringing together teams from CNRS, the University of Chicago, Fermilab, and Argonne National Laboratory.
This workshop marks the launch of a new seed program jointly supported by CNRS and UChicago—one of the very first initiatives to receive both a CNRS–UChicago Joint PhD Grant and a FACCTS award (France and Chicago Collaborating in the Sciences).
The project is driven by Akira Miyazaki (IJCLab) together with Orlando Quaranta, Tejas Guruswamy (Argonne National Laboratory), and Daniel Bafia (Fermilab – SQMS Center), all fully engaged in advancing ultrahigh-performance superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) resonant cavities, a key technology for future accelerators.
Hannah Hu (PhD student at the Enrico Fermi Institute & Fermilab) also joins the project.
A highlight of the workshop was a rich series of seminars across our partner laboratories:
– Akira Miyazaki
– Colloquium at the Enrico Fermi Institute (UChicago) — “Detection of dark matter axions at high frequency: journey from classical microwaves to quantised photons”
https://efi.uchicago.edu/events/event/2026/
Video Recording : https://efi.uchicago.edu/talks
– Seminars at Argonne & Fermilab — “New research opportunities in nonequilibrium superconducting cavities: theory and experiments”
– Carlos Redondo Herrero, CNRS–UChicago Joint PhD student
– Seminars at Argonne & Fermilab — “New insights in the multilayer theory of superconducting RF cavities”