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- General Exam: Chun-Chih Tseng (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - December 6, 2022
- General Exam: John Franklin Crenshaw (Advisor: Andrew Connolly), University of Washington - October 25, 2022
- General Exam: Anne Therese Alesandrini (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington - October 25, 2022
- General Exam: Mia Kumamoto (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - October 24, 2022
- General Exam: Heather Harrington (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington - October 18, 2022
- General Exam: Jordan Fonseca (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - October 13, 2022
- General Exam: Dean Huang (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - September 29, 2022
- General Exam: Michael Pun (Advisor: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington - June 6, 2022
- General Exam: Elliott Runburg (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - May 27, 2022
- General Exam: Bootstrapping Lieb-Schultz-Mattis anomalies in one dimension: Ryan Lanzetta (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski), University of Washington - May 17, 2022
- General Exam: Developing Question Sequences to Identify and Remedy Student Reasoning Inconsistencies in Physics: Kristin Kellar (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington - May 3, 2022
- General Exam: Optical anisotropy in Van der Waals antiferromagnets: Kyle Hwangbo (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 2, 2022
- General Exam: Joshua Labounty (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - April 28, 2022
- General Exam: Pyxie Star (Chair: Miguel Morales) - March 29, 2022
- General Exam: Kevin John Cutler (Chair: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - March 10, 2022
- General Exam: Zachary Thomas Draper (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe), University of Washington - March 4, 2022
- General Exam: Chris Thomas (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - March 3, 2022
- General Exam: John Cenker (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - January 31, 2022
- General Exam: Modeling complex physical and biological systems with sparse deep neural networks: Olivia Thomas (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - January 21, 2022
- General Exam: Shervin Sahba (Chair: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - December 17, 2021
- General Exam: Roland Carlos Farrell (Advisor: Silas Beane), University of Washington - December 7, 2021
- General Exam: Zachary Montague (Chair: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington - December 2, 2021
- General Exam: Jared Canright (Advisor: Suzanne White), University of Washington - November 22, 2021
- General Exam: Characterizing, assessing, and developing physics covariational reasoning at the introductory level: Charlotte Zimmerman (Advisor: Suzanne White) , University of Washington - November 9, 2021
- General Exam: Unsupervised Machine Learning for Unbiased Chemical Classification in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: Samantha Tetef (Advisor: Gerald Seidler), University of Washington - October 19, 2021
- General Exam: Interaction-driven dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices: Xinxin Tang (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - October 4, 2021
- General Exam: Hybridized Methods of Quantum Simulation in the Interaction Picture: Abhishek Rajput (Chairs: Nathan Wiebe and Martin Savage), University of Washington - September 27, 2021
- General Exam: Lifshitz transition in an ideal type-II Weyl semimetal MnBi2-xSbxTe4: Qianni Jiang (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - July 29, 2021
- General Exam: Joseph Merritt (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski) - June 23, 2021
- General Exam: Wan Jin Yeo (Advisors: Jose Kutz and Samu Taulu), University of Washington - June 4, 2021
- General Exam: Towards b_fierz with 6He CRES: William Byron (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington - June 1, 2021
- General Exam: Quantum Simulation of Lattice QCD: Anthony Ciavarella (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington - May 18, 2021
- General Exam: Alexander Piers (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington - April 2, 2021
- General Exam: Andy Goldschmidt (Advisor: Jose Kutz) - March 24, 2021
- General Exam: Isaac Shelby (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - March 12, 2021
- General Exam: Modeling Hydra from neuron to muscle to behaviors: Hengji Wang (Advisor: Adrienne Fairhall), University of Washington - February 26, 2021
- General Exam: Astrophysical Implications of Non-Standard Dark Matter : Akaxia Cruz (Chair: Thomas Quinn), University of Washington - February 12, 2021
- General Exam: Tom Braine (Advisor: Gray Rybka) - February 3, 2021
- General Exam: Correlated and topological states in twisted graphene systems: Minhao He (Chair: Xiaodong Xu) - January 28, 2021
- General Exam: Wide-field quantum magnetic microscopy for bio-mechanical orientation measurements: Zeeshawn Kazi (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - December 18, 2020
- General Exam: The Muon g-2 beam: Injection monitoring and magnetic field weighting: Brynn MacCoy (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington - December 16, 2020
- General Exam: Trapped Ion Quantum Information: Two-Dimensional Crystals and Photon-Mediated Entanglement with Solid-State Qubits: Alexander Kato (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - November 6, 2020
- General Exam: Neutrino cross section sensitivity at the FASERnu detector: John William Spencer (Chair: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - September 22, 2020
- General Exam: Numerical Investigation of Optimal Vortex Whips at Low Reynolds Number: Khang D Nguyen (Advisor: Robert Breidenthal) - August 14, 2020
- General Exam: Surface Alpha Background Rejection in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: Alexandru Hostiuc (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - August 13, 2020
- General Exam: Neutral Excitons Coupled to Optical Nanocavities: David Rosser (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - August 12, 2020
- General Exam: Reduced order modeling for plasma physics: Alan Kaptanoglu (Advisor: Steven Brunton), University of Washington - July 9, 2020
- General Exam: Tuning an unconventional superconductor with elastic strain: Paul Malinowski (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu) - July 9, 2020
- General Exam: Hao Geng (Advisor: Marcel Den Nijs), University of Washington - July 2, 2020
- General Exam: Nuclear fission and collisions within time dependent extensions to superfluid systems in density functional theory: Ibrahim A Abdurrahman (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - June 5, 2020
- General Exam: Huangyu Xiao (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe) - May 28, 2020
- General Exam: Measurement of the phase-momentum correlation systematic error in the Muon g-2 experiment: Hannah Binney (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - May 15, 2020
- General Exam: Dake Zhou (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - March 17, 2020
- General Exam: Nick Du (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington - March 13, 2020
- General Exam: Isolating Single Donor Qubits in ZnO: Maria L Viitaniemi (Advisor: Fu, Kai-Mei) - January 28, 2020
- General Exam: Giant Tunneling Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Layered Antiferromagnet: Tiancheng Song (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu) - January 27, 2020
- General Exam: Visualizing electronic states in operating 2D devices: Paul Van Nguyen (Advisor: David Cobden) - December 12, 2019
- General Exam: Dimensionality Reduction for Complex Dynamical Systems: Seth Hirsh (Advisor: Jose Kutz) - December 12, 2019
- General Exam: Numerical study of dynamics and stability of frequency combs: Chang Sun (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - December 11, 2019
- General Exam: Background Suppression Techniques for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiments: Nicholas William Ruof (Advisor: Jason Detwiler) - November 14, 2019
- General Exam: Debye Mechanism of Giant Microwave Absorption in Superconductors: Michael David Smith (Advisor: Anton Andreev) - November 14, 2019
- General Exam: F=ma of a worm brain: discovering governing equations using biomechanical and control theoretic modeling: Charles S Fieseler (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - November 7, 2019
- General Exam: Finite temperature full multiple scattering calculation of ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Tun Sheng Tan (Advisor: John Rehr) - November 4, 2019
- General Exam: Quantum gates in a mixed-species trapped ion chain using stimulated Raman transitions: Liudmila Zhukas (Advisor: Boris Blinov) - October 24, 2019
- General Exam: A theoretical framework for hybridization between optical cavities: Kevin C. Smith (Advisor: David Masiello), University of Washington - October 22, 2019
- General Exam: Jun Hui See Toh (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta) - September 30, 2019
- General Exam: Sparse Sensor Placement: Emily E Clark (Advisor: Jose Kutz) - August 16, 2019
- General Exam: Two Higgs to 4b (and beyond): Searching for HH production in the 4b final state with the ATLAS detector: Sean Gasiorowski (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington - August 12, 2019
- General Exam: Scott Zeng (Advisor: Keiko Torii) - July 31, 2019
- General Exam: Conduction modeling in nanowire and nanoscale interconnects: Shifeng Zhu (Advisor: Scott Dunham), University of Washington - June 13, 2019
- General Exam: Probing 2D excitons through magneto-optical spectroscopy to 65 Tesla : Nathan P Wilson (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - June 13, 2019
- General Exam: Scattering in a Box: Exploring the 3-->3 Quantization Condition: Tyler Blanton (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe) - June 11, 2019
- General Exam: Data-Driven Methods for Diagnostics and Forecasting of Nonlinear Dynamics in Physics: Daniel Dylewsky (Advisor: Jose Kutz) - June 4, 2019
- General Exam: Finite Volume Corrections to Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering: Peter J Ehlers (Advisor: Silas Beane) - May 31, 2019
- General Exam: Project 8: Neutrino Mass and Tales of a Convoluted Beta Spectrum: Eric M Machado (Advisor: R.G. Hamish Robertson) - May 23, 2019
- General Exam: Searching for Long-Lived Particles at the Large Hadron Collider: Mason Proffitt (Advisor: Gordon Watts) - May 23, 2019
- General Exam: Joshua M Kahn (Advisor: David Cobden) - April 19, 2019
- General Exam: Bevin Huang (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu) - April 18, 2019
- General Exam: Jason Hempstead (Advisor: David Hertzog) - April 11, 2019
- General Exam: Bryce H Fore (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - March 12, 2019
- General Exam: Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties with the Source-Field Relationship using Tutorials in Electrodynamics: Bert Xue, University of Washington - January 17, 2019
- General Exam: Development and deployment of beam rotation sensors for the LIGO seismic isolation system: Michael Ross (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - January 14, 2019
- General Exam: David Sommer (Advisor: Scott Dunham), University of Washington - December 12, 2018
- General Exam: Disentangling symmetry protected topological phases: Tyler Ellison (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski) - December 10, 2018
- General Exam: Precision Atom Interferometry and Diffraction Phases: Daniel L Gochnauer (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - December 3, 2018
- General Exam: Properties of the layered topological semimetal WTe2: Wenjin Zhao (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - November 21, 2018
- General Exam: Michael J Wilensky (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - November 19, 2018
- General Exam: Raphael Cervantes (Advisor: Gray Rybka) - November 8, 2018
- General Exam: Strong Field Behavior of Broken Rotational Symmetry Phases in Solids: Shua Sanchez (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - October 29, 2018
- General Exam: Enabling CubeSats for Deep Space Exploration: Paul J Sturmer (Advisor: Robert Winglee), University of Washington - October 22, 2018
- General Exam: Ruby L Byrne (Advisor: Miguel Morales) - October 10, 2018
- General Exam: Sheh Lit Chang (Advisor: Peter Shaffer) - October 4, 2018
- General Exam: Xiayu Linpeng (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - September 25, 2018
- General Exam: William M Holden (Advisor: Gerald Seidler) - September 6, 2018
- General Exam: Bosong Sun (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - August 8, 2018
- General Exam: Andrew Baumgartner (Advisor: Andreas Karch) - August 7, 2018
- General Exam: Jennifer F Lilieholm (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - July 5, 2018
- General Exam: Joshua C Mutch (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - June 28, 2018
- General Exam: William M Holden (Advisor: Gerald Seidler), University of Washington - June 12, 2018
- General Exam: Marshall J Styczinski (Advisor: Erika Harnett), University of Washington - May 31, 2018
- General Exam: Ding Zhong (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 30, 2018
- General Exam: Natalie Klco (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington - May 25, 2018
- General Exam: Alaina M Green (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - May 14, 2018
- General Exam: Alan Zhan (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - April 24, 2018
- General Exam: Lisa M Goodhew (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington - April 10, 2018
- General Exam: Ethan Muldoon (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington - March 14, 2018
- General Exam: Sifang Chen (Advisor: Georg Seelig), University of Washington - December 14, 2017
- General Exam: Alexander Ditter (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - December 7, 2017
- General Exam: Carolyn G Shasha (Advisor: Kannan Krishnan), University of Washington - December 5, 2017
- General Exam: Kyle J Aitken (Advisor: Laurence Yaffe), University of Washington - November 29, 2017
- General Exam: Jesse Stryker (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington - October 26, 2017
- General Exam: Rachel E Osofsky (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington - October 5, 2017
- General Exam: Adam C Richie-Halford (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - July 17, 2017
- General Exam: Shi Jin (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - July 11, 2017
- General Exam: Ying-Ting Lin (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington - June 22, 2017
- General Exam: Evan Patrick Jahrman (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - May 25, 2017
- General Exam: Ali Ashtari Esfahani (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington - May 24, 2017
- General Exam: Pasqual Bawdon Rivera (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 23, 2017
- General Exam: Kyle Seyler (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 22, 2017
- General Exam: Erik A. Shaw (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - March 2, 2017
- General Exam: Luke A. Kippenbrock (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington - January 24, 2017
- General Exam: Tong Wan (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington - December 9, 2016
- General Exam: John M. Lombard (Advisor: Stephen R. Sharpe), University of Washington - November 22, 2016
- General Exam: Henry D. Brinkerhoff (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - November 14, 2016
- General Exam: Matthew Noakes (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - October 19, 2016
- General Exam: Colin H. Lamont (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - September 29, 2016
- General Exam: John Bryce Kalmbach (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - August 23, 2016
- General Exam: Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington - August 4, 2016
- General Exam: Ryan A. Valenza (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - June 10, 2016
- General Exam: Christopher L. Baldwin (Advisor: Christopher Laumann), University of Washington - June 10, 2016
- General Exam: Nichole A. Barry (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - June 3, 2016
- General Exam: Kyle Douglas Morgan (Thomas R. Jarboe), University of Washington - June 2, 2016
- General Exam: Songci Li (Advisor: Anton Andreev), University of Washington - April 28, 2016
- General Exam: Nikola L. Whallon (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - April 25, 2016
- General Exam: Yu-Sheng Liu (Advisor: Gerald Miller), University of Washington - March 7, 2016
- General Exam: Alison G. Duffy (Advisor: Adrienne L Fairhall), University of Washington - March 3, 2016
- General Exam: Iain S. Guinn (Advisor: Jason Detwiler ), University of Washington - February 17, 2016
- General Exam: Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge (Advisors: Ann Nelson & Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - February 8, 2016
- General Exam: Julieta Y. Gruszko (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - January 22, 2016
- General Exam: Micah J. Buuck (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - December 4, 2015
- General Exam: Isaac J. Backus (Advisor: Thomas R. Quinn), University of Washington - December 1, 2015
- General Exam: James M. Kunert (Jose Nathan Kutz), University of Washington - November 30, 2015
- General Exam: Alexis Rebecca Werner Olsho (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington - November 18, 2015
- General Exam: Michelle Brochmann (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington - October 12, 2015
- General Exam: Nathan S. Froemming (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - September 28, 2015