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AIP Early Career Conferences for Historians of the Physical Sciences
Conference mission

AIP sponsors a series of conferences that generally take place once every two years and that focus on historians of the physical sciences in the early stages of their careers. This includes graduate students and recent PhD recipients, postdocs, independent scholars, and people in early-stage faculty positions.

In addition to providing these scholars with a forum for presenting their work, the conference series also aims to provide career support and to foster a truly global community of historians who work in our area. To reach as broad a community as possible, AIP provides financial assistance for travel, and recent iterations of the conference have been held in different locations around the globe.

Planning has begun for the seventh Early Career Conference, which we anticipate will be held in Toronto, Canada, in the summer of 2027.


Photo: Participants at the Sixth AIP Early Career Conference, which was held in Salvador, Brazil, in August 2025. Photo courtesy of Climério Silva Neto.

2025 — Sixth AIP Early Career Conference

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Participants at the Sixth Early Career Conference.

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Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | August 4–9, 2025

Organizing committee
Climério Silva Neto, Carla Rodrigues Almeida, Rebecca Charbonneau, Duim Huh, Jinyan Liu, Jean-Philippe Martinez, Elena Schaa

Sixth AIP Early Career Conference program (.pdf, 202 kb) Sixth AIP Early Career Conference book of abstracts (.pdf, 308 kb)

2023 — Fifth AIP Early Career Conference

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Participants at the Fifth AIP Early Career Conference.

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Copenhagen, Denmark | August 31–September 3, 2023

Organizing committee
Joanna Behrman, Jenifer Barton, Julia Bloemer, Magnus Bøe, Rebecca Charbonneau, Climério Silva Neto

Fifth AIP Early Career Conference program (.pdf, 1 mb) Fifth AIP Early Career Conference book of abstracts (.pdf, 253 kb)

2018 — Fourth AIP Early Career Conference

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A presentation at the Fourth Early Career Conference.

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Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain | October 17–20, 2018

Organizing committee
Jenifer Barton, Joanna Behrman, Gabriel Henderson, Jean-Philippe Martinez, Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha

Fourth AIP Early Career Conference program (.pdf, 319 kb)

2016 — Third AIP Early Career Conference

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Participants at the Third Early Career Conference.

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Annapolis, Maryland, USA | April 6–9, 2016

Organizing committee
Teasel Muir-Harmony, Victoria Andrade, Daniel Liu, Daniel Jon Mitchell, Benjamin Wilson

Third AIP Early Career Conference program (.pdf, 100 kb)

2014 — Second AIP Early Career Conference

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Participants at the Second Early Career Conference.

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College Park, Maryland, USA | March 30–April 1, 2014

Organizing committee
Lisa Ruth Rand, Indianara Silva, Gabriel Henderson, Christian Joas, Thiago Hartz

Second AIP Early Career Conference program (.pdf, 71 kb)

2011 — First AIP Early Career Conference

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Participants at the First Early Career Conference.

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College Park, Maryland, USA | July 27–31, 2011

Organizing committee
Amy Fisher, Fábio Freitas, Anna Holterhoff, Christian Joas, Joseph Martin, Ann Robinson, Pierre Teissier, Xiaodong Yin

First AIP Early Career Conference program (.pdf, 1 mb)