Graduate Program Events |
Events During the Week of October 12th through October 19th, 2025
Monday, October 13th, 2025
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
- How to Finish
- Time: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Sharon Kahn, Grad Program Manager
- Abstract: Join for this 30 minute workshop to help you prepare to finish your PhD. All are welcome, but if you are planning to finish in the next 6-9 months, I recommend that you attend!
- How to Prelim
- Time: 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Sharon Kahn, Grad Program Manager
- Abstract: Join for this 30 minute workshop to help you prepare for your Prelim Exam. All are welcome, but if you are planning to prelim in the next 6-9 months, I recommend that you attend!
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
- No events scheduled
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
- Preliminary Exam
- Dielectric Loss in Superconducting Qubits
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Place: B343 Sterling
- Speaker: Spencer Weeden, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Abstract: Superconducting circuits are leading candidates for realizing quantum bits ("qubits"). To build a useful quantum computer, it is necessary to understand and mitigate energy relaxation in these qubits. Currently, energy relaxation is dominated by amorphous oxide layers residing at circuit interfaces. Here we study energy relaxation as a function of qubit frequency and time for various qubit geometries. We compare our experimental results with Monte Carlo simulations, and develop a model that describes energy relaxation due to defects residing at the substrate-air interface and along the Josephson junction leads.
- Host: Robert McDermott
Friday, October 17th, 2025
- Thesis Defense
- Studies of Higgs Boson Self-interaction via Higgs Boson Pair Production and the Search for New Resonances with Prior-assisted Anomaly Detection in the ATLAS Experiment
- Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Place:
- Speaker: Chi Lung Cheng
- Host: Keith Bechtol