Final Exams

Upcoming Events

Final Exam: Improving the Methodology and Instrumentation for On-Scalp Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Xan McPherson (Advisor: Samu Taulu), University of Washington

November 4 2025, 12pm

PAT C-520

Final Exam: Exploring Quantum Phenomena in 2D Materials: From Valley Topology and Exciton Selection

Tharindu Fernando (Advisor: Ting Cao), University of Washington

November 25 2025, 1pm

PAT C-421

Final Exam: Exploring the Next Generation of Moire Materials

Ellis Thompson (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington

December 2 2025, 1pm

PAA A-210

Final Exam: New Developments in Fermionic Many-Body Physics within Time-Dependent Density Func. Thry

Matt Kafker (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington

December 12 2025, 3pm

PAT C-520

Past Events

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
Final Exam: Simulation-based study of developing a novel dedicated breast cancer scanner (PETX) combining positron emission tomography (PET) and mammography (X-ray) (Geng Zeng (Advisor: Paul E. Kinahan), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 13 2018
Final Exam: Finite-beta simulations of HIT-SI and HIT-SI3 using the NIMROD code (Kyle Douglas Morgan (Advisor: Thomas R. Jarboe), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 9 2018
Final Exam: Investigating and improving student understanding of superposition in introductory and quantum physics courses (Tong Wan (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 27 2018
Final Exam: Improving the Accuracy and Application of Nanopore DNA Sequencing (Matthew Noakes (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 24 2018
Final Exam: Probing valley and magnetic photoexcitations in 2D crystals and their heterostructures (Kyle L Seyler (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Tue, Jun 5 2018
Final Exam: Interlayer Valley Excitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures (Pasqual B Rivera (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Mon, Jun 4 2018
Final Exam: The search for a organizing physical framework for statistics (Colin H Lamont (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, May 18 2018
Final Exam: From Quantum Gravity to Combinatorial Hives: Addressing Longstanding Puzzles with Novel Approaches (John M Lombard (Advisor: Stephen R. Sharpe), University of Washington) - Tue, Apr 3 2018
Final Exam: Enhancing EoR limits through improved instrumental calibration of the MWA (Nichole A Barry (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington) - Thu, Mar 1 2018
Final Exam: Large Area Atom Interferometry for High Precision (Benjamin T Plotkin-Swing (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Wed, Dec 6 2017
Final Exam: Protoplanetary disks and planet formation: a computational perspective (Isaac J Backus (Advisor: Thomas R. Quinn), University of Washington) - Mon, Dec 4 2017
Final Exam: Development of new technologies for precision torsion-balance experiments (Matthew D Turner (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Tue, Nov 28 2017
Final Exam: Improving Axion Signal Models Through N-Body Simulations (Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington) - Wed, Oct 25 2017
Final Exam: T6SS in P. aeruginosa: A novel model for toxin delivery (Jacqueline Corbitt (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, Aug 11 2017
Final Exam: An investigation of student understanding of basic concepts in Galilean and special relativity (Alexis Rebecca Werner Olsho (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 9 2017
Final Exam: Cold Mixed-Species Trapped Ion Chains for Quantum Computing (Tomasz P Sakrejda (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 9 2017
Final Exam: Surface Alpha Interactions in P-Type Point-Contact HPGe Detectors: Maximizing Sensitivity of 76Ge Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches (Julieta Y Gruszko (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) - Fri, Aug 4 2017
Final Exam: Reduced Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of $^{199}$Hg (Brent Graner (Advisor: Blayne Heckel & Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 28 2017
Final Exam: Polarized Lepton-Nucleon Elastic Scattering, Beam Dump Experiments, and Search for New Physics (Yu-Sheng Liu (Advisor: Gerald Miller), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 27 2017
Final Exam: Adsorption of gasses on suspended nanotubes and graphene (Boris Dzyubenko (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 25 2017
Final Exam: Magneto transport properties in atomic thin WTe2 (Zaiyao Fei (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 25 2017
Final Exam: The Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Replisome (Sarah Marie Mangiameli (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 24 2017
Final Exam: Supersymmetric Localization and Probe Branes in the AdS/CFT Correspondence (Brandon J Robinson (Advisor: Andreas Karch), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 20 2017
Final Exam: Developing the Precision Magnetic Field for the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment (Matthias Smith (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 20 2017
Final Exam: MspA Nanopore for High-Resolution Single-Molecule Enzyme Dynamics (Jonathan M Craig (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 17 2017
Final Exam: Electronic Transport Phenomena in Low Dimensional and Topological Materials (Songci Li (Advisor: Anton Andreev), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 14 2017
Final Exam: Harnessing cell-to-cell variations to probe bacterial structure (Julie A. Cass (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 2 2017
Final Exam: Measurement of the W boson mass with the D0 detector (Michelle Brochmann (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington) - Thu, Jun 1 2017
Final Exam: Electron Detection Systems for the KATRIN Spectrometer and Detector Section (Eric L Martin (Advisor: R. G. Hamish Robertson), University of Washington) - Wed, May 31 2017
Final Exam: Addressing Beyond Standard Model physics using cosmology (Akshay A. Ghalsasi (Advisor: Ann E Nelson), University of Washington) - Mon, May 22 2017
Final Exam: Statistics and Applications of Baryon Correlation Functions in Lattice QCD (Michael L Wagman (Advisor: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington) - Fri, May 19 2017
Final Exam: Ytterbium and Lithium Quantum Gases: Heteronuclear Molecules and Bose-Fermi Superfluid Mixtures (Richard Roy (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Mon, May 1 2017
Final Exam: Correcting for Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in the Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture on the Deuteron (Michael H. Murray (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington) - Thu, Mar 16 2017
Final Exam: An image segmentation, lineage and analysis tool for bacteria: Applications in cell proliferation and cytoplasmic dynamics (Stella Stylianidou (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Tue, Mar 7 2017
Final Exam: A Piezoelectrically Tuned RF-Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions (Christian Boutan (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) - Fri, Feb 3 2017
Final Exam: Ion Photon Entanglement with the Parabolic Mirror Trap (Chen-Kuan Chou (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Wed, Jan 18 2017
Final Exam: ATLAS Pixel DAQ Upgrade (Nick Dreyer, University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 15 2016
Final Exam: A Search for Long Lived Neutral Particles Decaying to Hadronic States in Proton-Proton Collisions in the ATLAS Detector (Rachel C. Rosten (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington) - Mon, Dec 5 2016