Preliminary Exam |
Events During the 2026 Summer Semester
May 2026
- Monday, May 4th
- 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
- Wednesday, May 6th
- 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
- Friday, May 8th
- 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
- 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
June 2026
- Monday, June 29th
- Justin Edwards
- Seeing the unseen: Passive frequency upconversion imaging of incoherent near-infrared light
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling (NOTE UPDATED LOCATION!), hosted by Mikhail Kats
July 2026
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
- Simulating Radio Strong Gravitational Lenses for the Dark Matter Substructure Inference Problem
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Keith Bechtol