Physics Department

Past Events

• Final Exam: New Developments in Fermionic Many-Body Physics within Time-Dependent Density Func. Thry (Matt Kafker (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) - Fri, Dec 12 2025
• Final Exam: TopmetalSe: Development of a CMOS Imager for Selena (Harry Ni (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 11 2025
• General Exam (Hunter Parker (Advisor: Boris Blinov)) - Thu, Dec 11 2025
• Final Exam: Engineering Photons for Quantum Networks: Temporal-Mode Control, Optimization and Post-Selection Demonstrated in Trapped Ions (Carl Thomas (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington) - Mon, Dec 8 2025
• Final Exam: Analytical Inverse Problems in bSSFP MRI: Exploiting Geometric Constraints for... (Yiyun Dong (Advisor: Samu Taulu), University of Washington) - Fri, Dec 5 2025
• Final Exam: The CAGE Scanner: A Novel Surface Event Rejection Technique in High Purity Germanium... (Grace Song (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington ) - Wed, Dec 3 2025
• Final Exam: Exploring the Next Generation of Moire Materials  (Ellis Thompson (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington) - Tue, Dec 2 2025
• Final Exam: Exploring Quantum Phenomena in 2D Materials: From Valley Topology and Exciton Selection (Tharindu Fernando (Advisor: Ting Cao), University of Washington) - Tue, Nov 25 2025
• Final Exam: Towards integration of AI-enabled designer de novo protein into solid-state chips for small molecule identification (Akira Pfeffer (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Thu, Nov 20 2025
• General Exam (Hannah Jean Boyer (Advisor: Andrew H Laszlo), University of Washington) - Mon, Nov 17 2025
• General Exam (Cameron Flynn (Advisor: Suzanne White Brahmia), University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 14 2025
• General Exam (Cullen Gantenberg (Advisor: David B. Kaplan), University of Washington ) - Thu, Nov 13 2025
• General Exam (Jiayi Wang (Advisor: Margaret Shun Cheung-Wyker), University of Washington) - Mon, Nov 10 2025
• Final Exam: Quasi-Background-Free Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches with LEGEND: Statistical.. (Sam Borden (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) - Mon, Nov 10 2025
• General Exam (Elliot Maderazo (Advisor: Isabel Garcia Garcia), University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 7 2025
• General Exam (Ella Camille Henry (Advisor: Masha Baryakhtar), University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 7 2025
• Final Exam: Improving the Methodology and Instrumentation for On-Scalp Magnetoencephalography (MEG) (Xan McPherson (Advisor: Samu Taulu), University of Washington) - Tue, Nov 4 2025
• General Exam (Miles Cochran-Branson (Advisor: Quentin Buat), University of Washington) - Thu, Oct 23 2025
• General Exam (Nicolas Williams (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Tue, Sep 23 2025
• General Exam (Agam Shayit (Advisor: Xiaosong Li), University of Washington) - Wed, Sep 17 2025
• Final Exam: Effective Field Theory Methods; From New Physics Searches in Beta Decays to Strong Interactions (Maria Dawid (Advisor: Vincenzo Cirigliano), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 20 2025
• Final Exam: Designing, Operating and Analyzing: The Quest for Axion Dark Matter with ADMX (Michaela Guzzetti (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 20 2025
• Final Exam: Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the bbbb Final State with the ATLAS Detector (Charles Lewis (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 20 2025
• Final Exam: Functionalized nano-optics for studying optical and mechanical properties of low-dimensional materials (Arnab Manna (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 19 2025
• Final Exam (Han Kyou Choi (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 18 2025
• Final Exam (Caio Bastos De Senna Nascimento (Advisor: Marilena Loverde), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 18 2025
• General Exam (Mikael Kovtun (Advisor: Xiaosong Li), University of Washington) - Fri, Aug 15 2025
• Final Exam: Using Neutron Stars to Probe Fundamental Physics (Mia Kumamoto (Advisor: Sanjay K. Reddy), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 12 2025
• Final Exam (Chengxuan Li (Advisor: Margaret Shun Cheung-Wyker), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 12 2025
• Final Exam: The Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Twisted MoTe2 (Heonjoon Park (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 7 2025
• General Exam (Ruoyu Zhang (Advisor: Mark S Rudner), University of Washington) - Wed, Jul 30 2025
• Final Exam: Interference of ultracold atoms held within an optical lattice (Tahiyat Rahman (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 25 2025
• Final Exam: Strain engineering 2D materials for quantum information applications (Adina Ripin (Advisor: Mo Li), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 18 2025
• Final Exam: Density Functional Theory augmented Multiplet Ligand Field Theory Applied to X-ray Spect (Charles Cardot (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 18 2025
• General Exam (Tommy Nguyen (Advisor: Kai-Mei C Fu), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 11 2025
• General Exam (Jack Murphy Barlow (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 8 2025
• 2025 Physics Department Graduation Celebration (Department of Physics 2024-25 Graduating Class and Department Members) - Fri, Jun 13 2025
• Final Exam: Bacterial Deepfakes: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Deep Learning Models for Bacterial Microscopy Image Segmentation  (Daniela Koch (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 6 2025
• Physics End of Year BBQ - Fri, Jun 6 2025
• Final Exam: New X-ray Spectroscopy Instrumentation and Methodologies for Applications and Fundamental Research  (Jared Abramson (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Tue, Jun 3 2025
• Final Exam: Towards High-redshift Cosmology with Lyman-break Galaxies Detected by LSST (John Franklin Crenshaw (Advisor: Andrew Connolly), University of Washington) - Tue, Jun 3 2025
• Final Exam: Optical readout and control of correlated electron phases in 2D semiconductor moire superlattices  (William Holtzmann (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Mon, Jun 2 2025
• Faculty Job Search Panel – Advice from Physics Faculty - Fri, May 30 2025
• Final Exam: A search for neutral long-lived particles decaying into displaced jets in the ATLAS calorimeter in proton-proton collisions at the LHC  (Mason Proffitt (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington) - Fri, May 30 2025
• Final Exam: Centering Student Ideas in Introductory Physics Instruction (Anne Therese Alesandrini (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington) - Thu, May 29 2025
• Final Exam: Helping Students Recognize and Resolve Reasoning Inconsistencies: An Application of DualProcess Theories  (Kristin Kellar (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington) - Wed, May 21 2025
• Final Exam: Improving Student Fluency in Applying Basic Skills when Solving Problems in Quantum Mechanics  (John Goldak (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington) - Tue, May 13 2025
• Final Exam: Heterogenous Integration of Colloidal Quantum Dots with Silicon Nitride Nanophotonics (David Sharp (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) - Wed, Apr 30 2025
• General Exam (Rithi Anandwade (Advisor: Sara Mouradian), University of Washington) - Tue, Apr 29 2025
• General Exam (Hannah D Rarick (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) - Wed, Apr 16 2025