Preliminary Exam |
Events During the 2025 Fall Semester
August 2025
- Friday, August 8th
- Julian Beas-Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Synthetic source injection in photometric surveys for cosmology
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Monday, August 18th
- Sam Hori, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Searches for astrophysical neutrinos from compact object mergers and gamma-ray active galactic nuclei with IceCube
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Justin Vandenbroucke
- Thursday, August 21st
- Maxwell Nakos, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Search for the Highest Energy Neutrinos in IceCube
- 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Lu Lu
- Monday, August 25th
- Hong Ming Lim , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Applications of the 6s-5d quadrupole transition in neutral Cesium atoms
- 9:00 am - 11:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Wednesday, August 27th
- Anirudh Yadav, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Quantum statistics of single mode light interacting with an atomic ensemble
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Deniz Yavuz
- Friday, August 29th
- Eunji Oh, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Progress toward efficient quantum networking with neutral atoms
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Mark Saffman
September 2025
- Friday, September 5th
- Arifa Khatee Zathul, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Understanding the production of astrophysical neutrinos in X-ray dense and gamma-ray obscured environments
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Francis Halzen
October 2025
- Thursday, October 16th
- Spencer Weeden, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Dielectric Loss in Superconducting Qubits
- 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Monday, October 27th
- Tyler Kovach
- Scalable autotuning of high-temperature quantum dot spin qubits
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; , hosted by Albrecht Karle
- Friday, October 31st
- Delaney Butterfield
- Performance Characterization of the IceCube Upgrade and Detection of First Neutrinos
- 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5310, hosted by Albrecht Karle
November 2025
December 2025