Preliminary Exam |
Events During the 2026 Fall Semester
August 2026
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
September 2026
- Wednesday, September 9th
- Gustav Romare
- Investigation of superconducting systems — From microscopics and numerics to phenomenology
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Ilya Esterlis
- Thursday, September 17th
- Mary Yu, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Magnetic Null Points Drifted by Magnetic Pressure and Tension Forces
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Jan Egedal
- Friday, September 18th
- Haotian Cao, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Intersecting AI and high energy theoretical physics
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Kyle Cranmer
- Tuesday, September 22nd
- Emma Brann, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Random-Alloy Disorder Analysis in Si/SiGe Systems
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Friesen
October 2026
- Friday, October 9th
- Leo Seen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Hunting for Galactic PeVatrons with IceCube
- 9:30 am - 11:30 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Ke Fang
- Tuesday, October 20th
- Ameya Thete
- Search for new physics in events with top quark pairs and missing transverse momentum with the CMS Experiment
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Tulika Bose
- Wednesday, October 21st
- 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
- Monday, November 30th
- Chen Li
- IceCube and Neutrino Astronomy
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Francis Halzen
December 2026