General Exams

Past Events

• 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) - Tue, Oct 19 2021
• General Exam: Interaction-driven dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices (Xinxin Tang (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Mon, Oct 4 2021
• General Exam: Hybridized Methods of Quantum Simulation in the Interaction Picture (Abhishek Rajput (Chairs: Nathan Wiebe and Martin Savage), University of Washington) - Mon, Sep 27 2021
• General Exam: Lifshitz transition in an ideal type-II Weyl semimetal MnBi2-xSbxTe4 (Qianni Jiang (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 29 2021
• General Exam (Joseph Merritt (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski) ) - Wed, Jun 23 2021
• General Exam (Wan Jin Yeo (Advisors: Jose Kutz and Samu Taulu), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 4 2021
• General Exam: Towards b_fierz with 6He CRES (William Byron (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington) - Tue, Jun 1 2021
• General Exam: Quantum Simulation of Lattice QCD (Anthony Ciavarella (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington) - Tue, May 18 2021
• General Exam (Alexander Piers (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington) - Fri, Apr 2 2021
• General Exam (Andy Goldschmidt (Advisor: Jose Kutz)) - Wed, Mar 24 2021
• General Exam (Isaac Shelby (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, Mar 12 2021
• General Exam: Modeling Hydra from neuron to muscle to behaviors (Hengji Wang (Advisor: Adrienne Fairhall), University of Washington) - Fri, Feb 26 2021
• General Exam: Astrophysical Implications of Non-Standard Dark Matter  (Akaxia Cruz (Chair: Thomas Quinn), University of Washington) - Fri, Feb 12 2021
• General Exam (Tom Braine (Advisor: Gray Rybka) ) - Wed, Feb 3 2021
• General Exam: Correlated and topological states in twisted graphene systems (Minhao He (Chair: Xiaodong Xu)) - Thu, Jan 28 2021
• General Exam: Wide-field quantum magnetic microscopy for bio-mechanical orientation measurements (Zeeshawn Kazi (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington) - Fri, Dec 18 2020
• General Exam: The Muon g-2 beam: Injection monitoring and magnetic field weighting (Brynn MacCoy (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington) - Wed, Dec 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) - Fri, Nov 6 2020
• General Exam: Neutrino cross section sensitivity at the FASERnu detector (John William Spencer (Chair: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington) - Tue, Sep 22 2020
• General Exam: Numerical Investigation of Optimal Vortex Whips at Low Reynolds Number (Khang D Nguyen (Advisor: Robert Breidenthal) ) - Fri, Aug 14 2020
• General Exam: Surface Alpha Background Rejection in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR (Alexandru Hostiuc (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 13 2020
• General Exam: Neutral Excitons Coupled to Optical Nanocavities (David Rosser (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 12 2020
• General Exam: Tuning an unconventional superconductor with elastic strain (Paul Malinowski (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu)) - Thu, Jul 9 2020
• General Exam: Reduced order modeling for plasma physics (Alan Kaptanoglu (Advisor: Steven Brunton), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 9 2020
• General Exam (Hao Geng (Advisor: Marcel Den Nijs), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 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) - Fri, Jun 5 2020
• General Exam (Huangyu Xiao (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe) ) - Thu, 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) - Fri, May 15 2020
• General Exam (Dake Zhou (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington) - Tue, Mar 17 2020
• General Exam (Nick Du (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington) - Fri, Mar 13 2020
• General Exam: Isolating Single Donor Qubits in ZnO (Maria L Viitaniemi (Advisor: Fu, Kai-Mei)) - Tue, Jan 28 2020
• General Exam: Giant Tunneling Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Layered Antiferromagnet (Tiancheng Song (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu)) - Mon, Jan 27 2020
• General Exam: Visualizing electronic states in operating 2D devices (Paul Van Nguyen (Advisor: David Cobden) ) - Thu, Dec 12 2019
• General Exam: Dimensionality Reduction for Complex Dynamical Systems (Seth Hirsh (Advisor: Jose Kutz)) - Thu, Dec 12 2019
• General Exam: Numerical study of dynamics and stability of frequency combs (Chang Sun (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) - Wed, Dec 11 2019
• General Exam: Background Suppression Techniques for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiments (Nicholas William Ruof (Advisor: Jason Detwiler)) - Thu, Nov 14 2019
• General Exam: Debye Mechanism of Giant Microwave Absorption in Superconductors (Michael David Smith (Advisor: Anton Andreev)) - Thu, Nov 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) - Thu, Nov 7 2019
• General Exam: Finite temperature full multiple scattering calculation of ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy (Tun Sheng Tan (Advisor: John Rehr)) - Mon, Nov 4 2019
• General Exam: Quantum gates in a mixed-species trapped ion chain using stimulated Raman transitions (Liudmila Zhukas (Advisor: Boris Blinov)) - Thu, Oct 24 2019
• General Exam: A theoretical framework for hybridization between optical cavities (Kevin C. Smith (Advisor: David Masiello), University of Washington) - Tue, Oct 22 2019
• General Exam (Jun Hui See Toh (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta)) - Mon, Sep 30 2019
• General Exam: Sparse Sensor Placement (Emily E Clark (Advisor: Jose Kutz)) - Fri, Aug 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) - Mon, Aug 12 2019
• General Exam (Scott Zeng (Advisor: Keiko Torii)) - Wed, Jul 31 2019
• General Exam: Conduction modeling in nanowire and nanoscale interconnects (Shifeng Zhu (Advisor: Scott Dunham), University of Washington) - Thu, Jun 13 2019
• General Exam: Probing 2D excitons through magneto-optical spectroscopy to 65 Tesla  (Nathan P Wilson (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Thu, Jun 13 2019
• General Exam: Scattering in a Box: Exploring the 3-->3 Quantization Condition (Tyler Blanton (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe)) - Tue, Jun 11 2019
• General Exam: Data-Driven Methods for Diagnostics and Forecasting of Nonlinear Dynamics in Physics (Daniel Dylewsky (Advisor: Jose Kutz)) - Tue, Jun 4 2019
• General Exam: Finite Volume Corrections to Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering (Peter J Ehlers (Advisor: Silas Beane)) - Fri, May 31 2019