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Events During the 2025 Fall Semester
August 2025
- Monday, August 4th
- Michael Wolfe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Scaling Technologies for Si/SiGe Spin Qubits
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, August 7th
- Jacob Scott, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Utilizing the Quadrupole Transition for Cooling and Imaging of Cs Atoms
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, August 8th
- Rachel Myers, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Characterization of Tearing Mode Dynamics with the Radial Interferometer-Polarimeter on DIII-D
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by John Sarff/Brett Chapman
- Jimena Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Discovery and Characterization of Strong Gravitational Lenses in the Dark Energy Survey with Machine Learning
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Wednesday, August 20th
- Jessie Thwaites, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources in real time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Justin Vandenbroucke
September 2025
October 2025
- Friday, October 17th
- Chi Lung Cheng
- 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
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; , hosted by Keith Bechtol
November 2025
- Wednesday, November 5th
- Paul Gradney
- Laboratory Investigation of Collisionless Kinetic Effects and 3D Topological Triggers for Magnetic Reconnection
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Jan Egedal
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Bindesh Tripathi
- Instability Saturation and Turbulent Dynamos in Shear Flows
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall, hosted by Paul Terry
- Monday, November 24th
- Zachary Jerzyk, Physics Graduate Student
- First ionization potentials of Cr, Mo, and W calculated with SHCI
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Matthew Otten
December 2025
- Thursday, December 4th
- Dylan Teague, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Measurement of the Three Top Quarks Process with the CMS Detector at the LHC
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Kevin Black
- Friday, December 5th
- He He, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Study of ZZ+jets and Electroweak ZZ+2jets Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV in Four-Lepton Events Using the CMS Detector at the LHC
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Matthew Herndon