Final Exams

Past Events

• Final Exam: Topologically Critical Behavior in ZrTe5  (Joshua C Mutch (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington) - Fri, May 14 2021
• Final Exam: Micro-focus ARPES of operating 2D devices  (Paul Van Nguyen (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) - Tue, Mar 16 2021
• Final Exam: Numerical Modeling of Frequency Combs: Functionality, Stability and Control  (Chang Sun (Chair: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) - Thu, Mar 11 2021
• Final Exam: Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties with the Source-Field Relationship in Upper-Division Electromagnetism  (Bert C Xue (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington) - Fri, Feb 26 2021
• Final Exam: Dimensionality Reduction for Complex Dynamical Systems (Seth Hirsh (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) - Wed, Dec 16 2020
• Final Exam: Theory of Finite-temperature and Non-equilibrium X-ray Absorption  (Tun Sheng Tan (Advisor: John Rehr), University of Washington) - Tue, Dec 15 2020
• Final Exam: Increasing Access and Capabilities of CubeSats for Investigation of Earth Trojan Asteroids  (Paul J Sturmer (Advisor: Robert Winglee)) - Mon, Nov 30 2020
• Final Exam: Vertical Contrast Interferometry and Bloch-bands Approach to Atom Optics (Daniel L Gochnauer (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 20 2020
• Final Exam: Experiments with Trapped Ions: Entanglement, Novel Traps, and Quantum Jumps (Jennifer F Lilieholm (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington ) - Thu, Aug 20 2020
• Final Exam: Emergent phenomena in two-dimensional magnetic crystals (Bevin Huang (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 19 2020
• Final Exam: Engineering Interfacial Effects and Layered Behavior in 2D Materials (Nathan P Wilson (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 11 2020
• Final Exam: Exploring the phases of 2+1 dimensional gauge theory through bosonization, holography & more  (Andrew Baumgartner (Advisor: Andreas Karch)) - Tue, Aug 11 2020
• Final Exam: Constraining the Neutrino Mass Using the Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy  (Ali Ashtari Esfahani (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 4 2020
• Characterizing and Leveraging Students' Conceptual Resources for Mechanical Wave Propagatio (Lisa M. Goodhew (Advisor: Paula Heron)) - Wed, Jul 29 2020
• Final Exam: Dopant qubits in direct bandgap materials  (Xiayu Linpeng (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 28 2020
• Final Exam: Electronic Transport of a 2D quantum material WTe2  (Wenjin Zhao (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 24 2020
• Final Exam: Compiling Quantum Gauge Theories for Quantum Computation (Jesse Stryker (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 14 2020
• Final Exam: Data-Driven Methods for Physics-Constrained Dynamical Systems (Daniel E Dylewsky (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) - Tue, Jun 9 2020
• Final Exam: Greedy sparse sensor selection from a practical perspective (Emily E Clark (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) - Mon, Jun 8 2020
• Final Exam: Calculating Nature Naturally: Toward Quantum Simulation of Quantum Fields (Natalie Klco (Advisor: Martin Savage)) - Fri, Jun 5 2020
• Final Exam: An investigation of student difficulties in qualitative and quantitative physics problems: Examples from linear kinematics, rolling motion, fluid mechanics, and vector superposition (Sheh Lit Chang (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington) - Tue, May 26 2020
• Final Exam: Precision Mechanical Rotation Sensors for Terrestrial Gravitational Wave Observatories (Michael P Ross (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Thu, May 21 2020
• Final Exam: Quantum Monte Carlo studies of the BCS-BEC crossover (Adam C Richie-Halford (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) - Wed, May 20 2020
• Control Theory for C. elegans Calcium Imaging Dynamics (Charles S. Fieseler (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) - Wed, Mar 18 2020
• Final Exam: A Fourier-Bessel Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law (John G. Lee (Advisors: Blayne Heckel and Eric G Adelberger), University of Washington) - Tue, Mar 10 2020
• The Tritium Recoil-Ion Mass Spectrometer Experiment (TRIMS) (Lin, Ying-Ting (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington) - Mon, Dec 2 2019
• Final Exam: Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Mixtures of Ytterbium and Lithium (Alaina M Green (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta)) - Tue, Nov 19 2019
• Advancing Atom Interferometry with a Bloch-bands Approach (Katherine McAlpine (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta)) - Mon, Nov 18 2019
• Final Exam: Magnetic Field Determination for Run 1 of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment (Rachel E Osofsky (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia)) - Fri, Nov 15 2019
• Final Exam: Probing Sulfur and Phosphorus Electronic Structure with Experimental Developments and Theoretical Calculations of Tender X-ray Emission Spectroscopy (William M Holden (Advisor: Gerald Seidler), University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 1 2019
• Final Exam: Development of Laboratory-Based X-ray Spectroscopies for Materials Research  (Evan Patrick Jahrman (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 19 2019
• A Comprehensive Radiogenic Background Model for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR (Micah Buuck (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 26 2019
• Final Exam: Developments for the measurement of the beta-neutrino angular correlation in the the decay of He-6 (Yelena S Bagdasarova (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia)) - Thu, Jul 11 2019
• Final Exam: Using Advanced X-ray Spectroscopic Methods to Probe Actinide 5f Electronic Structure  (Alexander Ditter (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler)) - Thu, Jun 13 2019
• Final Exam: The Search for Double-Beta Decay to Excited States in 76-Ge using the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR (Ian S Guinn (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) - Mon, Jun 3 2019
• Final Exam: Optical study of 2d magnets and their heterostructures for valleytronic (Ding Zhong (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Thu, May 30 2019
• Final Exam: Better Input, Better Output: Improving Photometric Redshifts by enhancing training data and optimizing  (John Bryce Kalmbach (Advisor: Andrew J. Connolly)) - Thu, May 30 2019
• Final Exam: Fission Dynamics in a Microscopic Theory (Shi Jin (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) - Wed, May 29 2019
• Final Exam: Nonequilibrium nanoparticle dynamics for the development of Magnetic Particle Imaging  (Carolyn G Shasha (Advisor: Kannan Krishnan)) - Tue, May 21 2019
• Final Exam: Design and Optimization of Dielectric Metasurface Optics (Alan Zhan (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) - Mon, May 20 2019
• Final Exam: MuSun: A Precision Measurement of Muon Capture in Deuterium with a Cryogenic Time Projection Chamber (Rachel A Ryan (Advisor: Peter Kammel)) - Tue, Mar 12 2019
• Final Exam: DNA-based reaction-diffusion system for engineering programmable macroscopic materials (Sifang Chen (Advisor: Georg Seelig)) - Fri, Mar 8 2019
• Final Exam: Investigation of Background from the Inter-Spectrometer Penning Trap and Secondary Electron Emission in the KATRIN Experiment (Luke A Kippenbrock (Advisor: Diana M S Parno)) - Thu, Mar 7 2019
• Final Exam: Measuring the Precession Frequency in the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment (Aaron T Fienberg (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington) - Fri, Jan 18 2019
• Final Exam: A guide to modeling and interpreting nanopore experiments (Henry D. Brinkerhoff (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Mon, Jan 14 2019
• Final Exam: Neural Mechanisms of Trial and Error Learning: a Study from Bird Song (Alison G Duffy (Advisor: Adrienne L Fairhall), University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 6 2018
• Final Exam: Quantum Dynamics in Rugged Energy Landscapes, and Other Topics in Disordered Systems (Christopher L Baldwin (Advisor: Christopher Laumann), University of Washington) - Fri, Sep 28 2018
• Final Exam: Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession of mercury atoms (Yi Chen (Advisor: Blayne Heckel), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 16 2018
• Final Exam: The Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment: From Simulation to Reality (Nathan S Froemming (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 16 2018
• Final Exam: Searching for Dark Matter with Boosted Higgs(bb) Decays in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector (Nikola L Whallon (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 14 2018