Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2023 Summer Semester
May 2023
- Monday, May 1st
- Colin Whisler, Physics Graduate Student
- Nanoscale Enhancement of Dipole Emission: Modeling Multi-Photon Effects and Microwave Emission from Small Josephson Junctions
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Victor Brar
- Tuesday, May 2nd
- Minhal Gardezi, Dept of Physics
- Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?
- 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Auditorium of Genetics/Biotech, hosted by WN@TL
- Friday, May 5th
- Last class day for spring semester
- Deadline for Graduate students to withdraw from the Spring term
- Saturday, May 6th
- Study day
- Sunday, May 7th
- Final exams
- Monday, May 8th
- Final exams
- Alex Zeng Wang, Physics Graduate Student
- Higgs production with a top quark pair in the diphoton channel, di-Higgs production in the bb-diphoton channel, and Inner Tracker upgrade with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Professor Sau Lan Wu
- Jay Chan, Physics Graduate Student
- Investigation of Higgs Boson Decaying to Di-muon and Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson decaying to Di-b-quark
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Sau Lan Wu
- Tuesday, May 9th
- Final exams
- Praful Gagrani, Physics Graduate Student
- Mathematics of evolving ecologies in chemical reaction networks and the origins of biochemical life
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Eric Smith
- Wednesday, May 10th
- Final exams
- Thursday, May 11th
- Final exams
- Susan Sorensen, Physics Graduate Student
- New Approaches to Transverse NMR Gyroscopes
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin or , hosted by Thad Walker
- Friday, May 12th
- Urvashi Gupta, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Pressure-driven tearing and energy transport in finite beta Reversed Field Pinch computations
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm;
- Sunday, May 14th
- Graduate School Spring 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Wednesday, May 17th
- Aedan Gardill, Physics Graduate Student
- Nanoscale metrology using the spin and charge states of single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Shimon Kolkowitz
- Thursday, May 18th
- Mrunal Prashant Korwar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Macroscopic Dark Matter
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Tuesday, May 30th
- Jack Dolde, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Precision Measurements with a Multiplexed Optical Lattice Clock
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
June 2023
- Monday, June 5th
- Scott Lucchini, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- The Magellanic Corona and its Role in the Evolution of the Magellanic Stream
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin or
- Tuesday, June 6th
- Sohair Abdullah, Physics Graduate Student
- Will gamma rays break superconducting quantum computers? And can surface encapsulation improve the performance of individual quantum bits?
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Wednesday, June 7th
- Steph Kubala, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Lundquist Number Scaling in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Wednesday, June 14th
- Yujun Choi, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Characterization of noise sources in semiconductor qubit devices
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am;
- Manuel Silva, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Measurement of the Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Flux using Starting Track Events in IceCube
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin and
July 2023
- Tuesday, July 4th
- Independence Day
- Thursday, July 6th
- Abigail Shearrow, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Toward implementation of protected charge-parity qubits
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Thursday, July 20th
- Keenan Smith, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Probing defects in WSe2 with combined cryogenic STM/KPFM
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
August 2023
- Thursday, August 3rd
- Susmita Mondal, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Analysis on ZZ vector boson polarization using CMS Run 2 data
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Friday, August 4th
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Requests for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Sunday, August 13th
- 8-week summer session ends
- Thursday, August 17th
- Wilson B Lough, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Biophysical applications of Lie groups and moving frames
- 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Monday, August 21st
- Faculty contract year begins
- Thursday, August 24th
- Leah Tom, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Defect Identification using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Optimization of Long Single-Channel One-dimensional Quantum Wires
- 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Friday, August 25th
- Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces
- 10:00 am - 11:30 am; B343 Sterling
- Sunday, August 27th
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 28th
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period begins
- variety of speakers
- Incoming PhD Orientation
- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2223 CH, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Wednesday, August 30th
- Grad Student lunch/Recess
- Thursday, August 31st
- Sharon Kahn
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Classical Mechanics
- 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Sharon Kahn
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Statistical Mechanics
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin