Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) are three-day regional conferences for undergraduate physics majors. The goal of CUWiP is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with an opportunity to experience a professional conference, information about graduate school and professions in physics, and access to other women in physics of all ages with whom they can share experiences, advice, and ideas.
The first CUWiP was held in 2006 at the University of Southern California. In 2012, APS became the institutional home of CUWiP. APS provides organizational support, institutional memory, and a home for external financial support necessary to operate and continually improve CUWiP events. A complete listing of CUWiP sites is compiled below.
Keynote Speaker: Nadya Mason; University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Argonne National Laboratory
Auburn University
Boston University
Brown University
Cornell University & Ithaca College
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University/PPPL
Texas Christian University
University of California, Merced
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Central Florida
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Washington
Keynote Speaker: Donna Strickland; University of Waterloo
Keynote Speaker: Mary James; Reed College
Keynote Speaker: Andrea Liu; University of Pennsylvania
Black Hills State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Temple University
Texas A&M University, College Station
University of California, Irvine
University of Chicago
University of Maryland, College Park/NIST
University of Minnesota
University of Oklahoma
University of South Florida
University of Toronto (Canada)
Washington State University
Yale University
Keynote Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti; CERN Director
College of William and Mary
Michigan State University
Northwestern University
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
The College of New Jersey
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
University of California, Davis
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Washington, Seattle
Utah State University
Keynote Speaker: Pat Burchat; Stanford, Particle and Condensed Matter Physics
Arizona State University
Cal Poly Pomona/Pomona College/Harvey Mudd College
Columbia University/Barnard College/City College of New York
George Washington University
Iowa State University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Queen’s University (Canada)
University of Kansas
University of North Florida
University of Oregon
University of Toledo
University of Virginia
Keynote Speaker: Nergis Mavalvala; MIT, Astrophysics and Quantum Physics (gravitational waves)
Harvard University
McMaster University
Montana State University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rice University
University of California Los Angeles
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Wisconsin
Virginia Tech
Wayne State University
Keynote Speaker: Ginger Kerrick; NASA, Astrophysics
Black Hills State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Old Dominion University/Jefferson Lab
Ohio State University
Oregon State University
Syracuse University
University of California, San Diego
University of Texas, San Antonio/Southwest Research Institute
Wesleyan University
Keynote Speaker: Gabriela Gonzalez; Louisiana State University, Astrophysics (gravitational waves)
North Carolina Research Triangle
Purdue University
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Michigan
University of Mississippi
University of Texas at Brownsville
Yale University
Keynote Speaker: Debra Fischer; Yale, Astronomy
Florida State University
Louisiana State University
Pennsylvania State University
Stony Brook University/BNL
UC Berkeley
University of Chicago/ANL/FNAL
University of Maryland/NIST
University of Utah
Keynote Speaker: Margaret Murnane; NIST/CU Boulder, Optics
California Institute of Technology
Colorado School of Mines
Cornell University
University of Central Florida
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Speaker: Persis Drell; SLAC/Stanford, Particle Physics
Case Western Reserve University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of Tennessee
University of Washington
Yale University
Keynote Speaker: France Cordova; Purdue, Astrophysics
University of Southern California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Purdue University
North Carolina State University
University of Oregon
Keynote Speaker: Young Kee Kim; FNAL/U of Chicago, Particle Physics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ohio State University
Duke University
Keynote Speaker: Meg Urry; Yale, Astrophysics
University of Southern California
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yale University
Keynote Speaker: Mildred Dresselhaus; MIT, Solid State
University of Southern California
University of Michigan
Yale University
University of Southern California
University of Southern California
US Physics Degrees obtained by Women and Attendance at CUWIP over time