Final Exams

Past Events

• 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
• Final Exam: Search for long-lived particles decaying in the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the LHC (Heather L. Russell (Advisor: Henry J Lubatti), University of Washington) - Fri, Dec 2 2016
• Final Exam: Holographic tools for probing the dynamics of strongly coupled field theories (John F. Fuini (Advisor: Laurence G Yaffe), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 17 2016
• Final Exam: The role of nuclear physics in the evolution of supernovae and neutron stars, neutrino opacities, equation of state,transport coefficients, and dark matter production (Ermal Rrapaj (advisors: Sanjay K. Reddy), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 16 2016
• Final Exam: Toward a Loophole-Free Bell Inequality Violation with Barium Ions (Carolyn A. Auchter (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 15 2016
• Final Exam: A Search for hep solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Timothy Joseph Winchester (Advisor: Nikolai Tolich), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 9 2016
• Final Exam: Understanding near Fermi-level electronic structure through x-ray emission spectroscopy (Devon R. Mortensen (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 8 2016
• Final Exam: Searches for Beyond Standard Model Higgs Bosons (Pedro Henrique Sales De Bruin (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 4 2016
• Final Exam: The Phase Structure of Lattice Chiral Perturbation Theory and Instanton Dependent Greens Functions on the Lattice (Derek P. Horkel (Advisor: Stephen R. Sharpe), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 2 2016
• Final Exam: Semiconductor Defects: Optical Response and Spin Relaxation from Basic Principles (Todd A. Karin (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 25 2016
• Final Exam: Functionality, Robustness and Control of Nonlinear Network Dynamics: Modeling and Understanding the C. elegans Connectome (James M. Kunert (Advisor: Jose Nathan Kutz), University of Washington) - Mon, Jun 6 2016
• Final Exam: Applications of Quantum Field Theory, from the Formal to the Phenomenological (Dorota M. Grabowska (Advisor: David B. Kaplan), University of Washington) - Fri, May 20 2016
• Final Exam: Developments in the Theory of X-ray Absorption and Compton Scattering (Egor Klevak (Advisor: John J Rehr), University of Washington) - Tue, May 10 2016
• Final Exam: Variability of Point Sources of Gamma Rays Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Eric E. Wallace (Advisor: Thompson H Burnett), University of Washington) - Wed, Mar 9 2016
• Final Exam: Precision measurement of the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient of the He-6 beta-decay (Ran Hong (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington) - Wed, Jan 13 2016
• Final Exam: Search for Weakly-interacting, Long-lived particles that Decay to Displaced Hadronic Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at vs = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector (Daniel R. Blackburn (Advisor: Henry J Lubatti), University of Washington) - Tue, Dec 8 2015
• Final Exam: Aluminum Content Tunability of Structural and Optical Properties in Wide-Gap Semiconducting Al(x)Ga(1-x)2O3 (Benjamin Krueger (Advisor: Marjorie A Olmstead), University of Washington) - Tue, Dec 8 2015
• Final Exam: Investigating and Improving Student Understanding of Key Ideas in Quantum Mechanics throughout Instruction (Paul J. Emigh (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 3 2015
• Final Exam: Computational Studies on Novel Atomic Force Microscopy Techniques and Plasmonic-Enhanced Organic Photovoltaics (Durmus U. Karatay (Advisor: David S. Ginger Jr), University of Washington) - Mon, Nov 30 2015
• Final Exam: Progress toward a measurement of the 5D3/2 - 6S1/2 magnetic dipole transition moment in Ba+ (Spencer Williams (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 18 2015
• Final Exam: Molecular Dissociation in Tritium Beta Decay: Toward validating the theory used in neutrino mass experiments (Laura Irene Bodine (Advisor: R. G. Hamish Robertson), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 18 2015
• Final Exam: Identifying and addressing student difficulties with electrostatic and magnetostatic concepts (Ryan L. C Hazelton (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington) - Fri, Aug 14 2015
• Final Exam: Dark Matter Particle Astrophysics: How Dark Matter Can Affect Subhalos, Neutrinos, and Neutron Stars (Bridget A. Bertoni (Advisor: Ann E Nelson), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 13 2015
• Final Exam: An Investigation of Student Understanding of Classical Ideas Related to Quantum Mechanics: Potential Energy Diagrams and Spatial Probability Density (Brian Michael Stephanik (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 12 2015
• Final Exam: Fixing the Standard Model: From Dark Matter to the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (Seyda Ipek (Advisor: Ann E Nelson), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 31 2015