Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2026 Summer Semester
May 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Last Class Day
- 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
- Saturday, May 2nd
- Study Day
- Sunday, May 3rd
- Exams Begin
- Monday, May 4th
- Exams
- Shihui Zang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmological Information Recovery from Large-Scale Structure
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Moritz Munchmeyer
- Carter Fox, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Creating new low-switching orderings by stacking order engineering of 2D materials
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Jun Xiao
- Tuesday, May 5th
- Exams
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Exams
- Samyak Jain, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Neutrino astronomy and oscillations with IceCube
- 10:15 am - 12:15 pm; 5310 CH or , hosted by Francis Halzen and Dan Hooper
- 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
- Thursday, May 7th
- Exams
- Friday, May 8th
- Exams End
- Commencement: Doctoral and Medical Professional
- Brighton Coe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Offset charge jumps in Si/SiGe quantum dot qubits from radiation
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5310 CH, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Physics Graduation Celebration Event
- Saturday, May 9th
- Commencement: Bachelor’s, Master’s, Law
- Tuesday, May 12th
- Owen Eskandari
- Single-spin readout in Si/SiGe quantum dots via proton-assisted tunneling
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Mark Friesen
- Sunday, May 17th
- Faculty Contract Year Ends
- Monday, May 18th
- 4-week Summer Session Begins
- Monday, May 25th
- Memorial Day
- Tuesday, May 26th
- 3-week Summer Session Begins
- 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
- Sunday, June 14th
- 4-week Summer Session Ends
- 3-week Summer Session Ends
- Monday, June 15th
- 8-week Summer Session Begins
- 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
- Saturday, July 4th
- Independence Day
August 2026
- Sunday, August 9th
- 8-week Summer Session Ends
- Monday, August 17th
- Faculty Contract Year Begins