Thesis Defense |
Events During the 2026 Summer Semester
May 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Taking Inventory of the Most Promising Lensed Radio Sources for Constraining Fundamental Properties of Dark Matter
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Stephen McKay
- The Physical Properties and Redshifts of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: Observational Studies with ALMA and JWST
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Stephen McKay
- Wednesday, May 27th
- Cameron Kuchta, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Measurements of Electron Pressure Anisotropy during Laboratory Magnetic Reconnection
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Jan Egedal
- Thursday, May 28th
- Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Dynamical Imprints in Galactic Disks: Tracing History with Stellar Ages, Motions, and Structure
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 CH, hosted by Elena D'Onghia
- Friday, May 29th
- Dean Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Baryoid Dark Matter: Explaining the Dark Matter-Baryon Coincidence
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or , hosted by Yang Bai
June 2026
- Tuesday, June 2nd
- Dmitry Zverevich, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Electron liquids and crystals in bilayer and topological quantum systems
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or , hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Wednesday, June 3rd
- Ricardo Ximenes, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Phenomenology of Dark Sector Inspired Portal Matter Models
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 CH, hosted by Lisa L Everett
- Monday, June 22nd
- Yurii Kvasiuk
- Precision Cosmology from Cross-Correlations of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5290, hosted by Moritz Muenchmeyer
- Tuesday, June 23rd
- Jacky Yip
- From Cosmic Structures to String Geometries with Topological and Machine Learning Methods
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Gary Shiu
July 2026
August 2026