Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2026 Fall Semester
August 2026
- Tuesday, August 4th
- Caroline Laber-Smith, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Applications of Statistical Data Assimilation to Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Solar and CCSN Environments
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin or , hosted by A. Baha Balantekin
- Friday, August 7th
- Minyoung Kim, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Qubit control in Si/SiGe: Hopping based single qubit gates
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Benjamin Woods
- Sunday, August 9th
- 8-week Summer Session Ends
- Monday, August 17th
- Faculty Contract Year Begins
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Everyone is welcome
- All Grad Lunch/recess
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, August 20th
- Fabrizio Vassallo, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Astrophysical Probes of Particle Dark Matter
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Joshua Foster and Dan Hooper
- Tuesday, August 25th
- Joyce Lin, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Simulating Radio Strong Gravitational Lenses for the Dark Matter Substructure Inference Problem
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310 or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Thursday, August 27th
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Raheem Hashmani, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Physics and Machine Learning: How Each Can Benefit from the Other
- 9:30 am - 11:30 am; B343 Sterling, hosted by Kyle Cranmer
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Alysa Huffman, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Energy level measurement and analysis in Si/SiGe quantum dot devices
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Friday, August 28th
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
September 2026
- Wednesday, September 2nd
- Fall Semester Instruction Begins
- Monday, September 7th
- Labor Day
- Wednesday, September 23rd
- Roberta Candela , Biophysics PhD Graduate Student
- Study of Argon Dissolved in Water via EXAFS Spectroscopy
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling B343, hosted by Uwe Bergmann
October 2026
- Monday, October 19th
- Aakankshya Mishra
- Probing Element Specific Ultrafast Carrier and Spin Dynamics in Quantum and Magnetic Materials using X-FAST Instrument
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Uwe Bergmann
November 2026
- Wednesday, November 18th
- Zain Abhari, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Advances in Nonlinear X-Ray Spectroscopy and Instrumentation for Probing Ultrafast Processes
- 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm; Sterling B343 or , hosted by Uwe Bergmann
- Thursday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 27th
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Saturday, November 28th
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Sunday, November 29th
- Thanksgiving Recess
December 2026
- Wednesday, December 9th
- Last Class Day
- Thursday, December 10th
- Study Day
- Friday, December 11th
- Exams Begin
- Saturday, December 12th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 13th
- Commencement
- Monday, December 14th
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 15th
- Exams
- Wednesday, December 16th
- Exams
- Thursday, December 17th
- Exams End