Physics Department

Upcoming Events

General Exam

Rithi Anandwade (Advisor: Sara Mouradian), University of Washington
April 29, 2025 - 11:30am
Moles 115

Final Exam: Heterogenous Integration of Colloidal Quantum Dots with Silicon Nitride Nanophotonics

David Sharp (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington
April 30, 2025 - 2:00pm
PAT C-421

Final Exam: Improving Student Fluency in Applying Basic Skills when Solving Problems in Quantum Mechanics

John Goldak (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington
May 13, 2025 - 2:00pm
PAT C-211

2025 Physics Department Graduation Celebration

Department of Physics 2024-25 Graduating Class and Department Members
June 13, 2025 - 3:00pm
Physics Astronomy Auditorium, A102 and A118

Past Events

Final Exam: Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions, Scrambling & Quantum Simulations of Many-Body Neutrino Systems: Ramya Bhaskar (Advisor: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington - April 9, 2025
General Exam: Maria Dawid (Advisor: Vincenzo Cirigliano), University of Washington - April 7, 2025
General Exam: Chong Xia (Advisor: James Heath), University of Washington - April 3, 2025
General Exam: Ethan Hansen (Advisor: Kai-Mei C Fu), University of Washington - March 28, 2025
Pi Day Celebration - March 14, 2025
General Exam: Xan McPherson (Advisor: Samu Taulu), University of Washington - March 12, 2025
General Exam: Jane Frances Gunnell (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - March 10, 2025
General Exam: Murali Saravanan (Advisor: Marilena Loverde), University of Washington - March 10, 2025
Faculty Meeting - March 5, 2025
General Exam: Lingnan Shen (Advisor: Di Xiao), University of Washington - March 3, 2025
Final Exam: Computational Design of Sequence-Specific DNA-Binding Proteins: Robert Pecoraro (Advisor: David Baker), University of Washington - February 19, 2025
General Exam: David Bell (Advisor: Adrienne L. Fairhall), University of Washington - February 5, 2025
Final Exam: Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Multi-Lepton and Dijet Final States via Vector Boson Fusion Processes using the ATLAS Detector: Haoran Zhao (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - February 3, 2025
General Exam: Helen Chen (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - January 31, 2025
Final Exam: Learning the statistics and dynamics of immune repertoires to characterize signatures of functional responses : Zachary Montague (Advisor: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington - January 29, 2025
General Exam: Sarah Edwards (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - January 23, 2025
General Exam: Toby Chu (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - January 15, 2025
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - January 8, 2025
General Exam: Anna Okounkova (Chair: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - December 13, 2024
General Exam: Ali Garabaglu (Advisor: Quentin Buat), University of Washington - December 6, 2024
General Exam: James Sinnis (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington - December 5, 2024
General Exam: Al Snow (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington - December 3, 2024
General Exam: Wilder Schaaf (Advisor: Stephen R. Sharpe), University of Washington - December 2, 2024
General Exam: Carl Thomas (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - November 25, 2024
General Exam: Alex Golub (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington - November 19, 2024
Final Exam: Uncovering principles of the central dogma of biology: noise, growth robustness, and overabundance : Teresa Lo (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - November 14, 2024
General Exam: Tharindu Fernando (Chair: Ting Cao), University of Washington - November 13, 2024
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - November 6, 2024
General Exam: Zhiyao Li (Advisor: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington - October 15, 2024
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - October 2, 2024
General Exam: Yasmene Elhady (Advisor: Christopher Mundy), University of Washington - September 23, 2024
General Exam: John Stroud (Advisor: Sanjay K. Reddy), University of Washington - August 13, 2024
Final Exam: Uncovering high energy physics from low energy physics: Roland Carlos Farrell (Chair: Silas R. Beane), University of Washington - August 2, 2024
Final Exam: Design and Applications of Multi-layer Meta-Optics: Anna Wirth-Singh (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - August 1, 2024
Final Exam: Manipulating graphene properties from proximity to twist engineering: Chun-Chih Tseng (Chair: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - July 25, 2024
Final Exam: Topics in Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice: Michael Clancy (Advisor: David B. Kaplan), University of Washington - July 24, 2024
Final Exam: A defective approach to the conformal bootstrap: Ryan Lanzetta (Chair: Lukasz Michal Fidkowski), University of Washington - July 15, 2024
General Exam: David Sharp (Chair: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - July 11, 2024
Final Exam: Optical investigations of interacting excitons and electrons in moire heterostructures: Jiayi Zhu (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 10, 2024
General Exam: William Holtzmann (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 9, 2024
Final Exam: 2D Chiral Algebras from Koszul Duality & Associativity: Victor Eduardo Fernandez (Chair: Natalie Paquette), University of Washington - July 8, 2024
Final Exam: Integer and fractional Chern insulators in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures : Jiaqi Cai (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 1, 2024
Final Exam: Emergent Phenomena and Applications in Artificially Stacked Multilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Yinong Zhang (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 1, 2024
Final Exam: Optically Accessible Spin Qubits in ZnO : Vasileios Niaouris (Chair: Kai-Mei C Fu), University of Washington - July 1, 2024
General Exam: Robert Pecoraro (Chair: David Baker), University of Washington - June 26, 2024
2024 Physics Department Graduation Celebration: Department of Physics 2023-24 Graduating Class and Department Members - June 8, 2024
General Exam: Kade Cicchella (Advisor: Lukasz Michal Fidkowski), University of Washington - June 5, 2024
General Exam: Dmitriy Nickolaevich Kim (Advisor: Gerald A. Miller), University of Washington - May 30, 2024
General Exam: Manish Kumar (Chair: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - May 30, 2024
General Exam: Akira Pfeffer (Chair: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - May 30, 2024
General Exam: Matt Kafker (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - May 29, 2024
Final Exam: Electronic Transport in Monolayer Topological Insulator WTe2: Elliott Runburg (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - May 29, 2024
Final Exam: Increasing Sensitivity to the Epoch of Reionization 21cm Signal by Characterizing (Analyzing?) Precision Instrument Digital Systems : Pyxie Star (Chair: Miguel F Morales), University of Washington - May 28, 2024
General Exam: Quantum many body scars in Z2 Lattice Gauge Theory: Jeremy Hartse (Chair: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington - May 28, 2024
Final Exam: Superconducting Resonator Development for the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment : Tom Braine (Chair: Gray Rybka), University of Washington - May 28, 2024
Final Exam: Interferometric Instrumentation and Power Spectrum Measurements of the Epoch of Reionization with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array: Dara Storer (Chair: Miguel F Morales), University of Washington - May 24, 2024
General Exam: Nikita Zemlevskiy (Chair: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington - May 24, 2024
Final Exam: Engineering Dynamically Tunable Strain in 2D Materials and their Device Heterostructures : Jordan Fonseca (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 24, 2024
Final Exam: Deriving Scattering Amplitudes from Hadron Spectra: Novel Quantization Conditions in Lattice QCD and Their Applications : Zachary Thomas Draper (Chair: Stephen R. Sharpe), University of Washington - May 24, 2024
General Exam: Omar Basel Beesley (Chair: David Hertzog), University of Washington - May 23, 2024
Final Exam: Discovery of the Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Moire MoTe2 : Eric Anderson (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 22, 2024
Final Exam: Microwave absorption in disordered vortex lattices of type II superconductors : Yuankang Liu (Chair: Boris Spivak), University of Washington - May 20, 2024
General Exam: Jonathan Destefano (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - May 20, 2024
General Exam: Matthieu Chalifour (Chair: David Masiello), University of Washington - May 16, 2024
General Exam: Arnab Manna (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - May 7, 2024
Supporting underrepresented groups and first-generation students in STEM: Hosted by the Climate and Diversity Committee at the UW Physics Department - May 3, 2024
General Exam: Jared Abramson (Chair: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - May 3, 2024
General Exam: Charles Cardot (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - May 2, 2024
Variance sum rule for entropy production: Felix Ritort, University of Barcelona - April 30, 2024
General Exam: Caio Nascimento (Advisor: Marilena Loverde), University of Washington - April 26, 2024
General Exam: Charles Lewis (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington - April 24, 2024
Final Exam: Stochasticity, conflicts, and instability: Biological strategies for optimal growth in a complex environment: Dean Huang (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - April 12, 2024
General Exam: Daniela Koch (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - March 14, 2024
Final Exam: Analysis of the Anomalous Spin Precession of the Muon for the Fermilab Muon $g-2$ Experiment: Joshua Labounty (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - March 14, 2024
Final Exam: Modeling Protein Dynamics and the Topological Assembly Pathway of the Multi-subunit Macromolecular Complexes : Jules Nde (Advisor: Margaret Shun Cheung-Wyker), University of Washington - March 12, 2024
General Exam: Victor Eduardo Fernandez (Chair: Natalie Paquette), University of Washington - March 8, 2024
Final Exam: Nanopore sequencing of ALIEN DNA : Chris Thomas (Chair: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - March 8, 2024
General Exam: Yiyun Dong (Chair: Samu Taulu), University of Washington - March 4, 2024
Energy Transition: Dr. Kathryn Oseen-Senda - February 29, 2024
Final Exam: Charge and Optical Stability of Color Centers in Diamond for Quantum Applications: Christian Pederson (Advisor: Kai-Mei C Fu), University of Washington - February 26, 2024
General Exam: Heonjoon Park (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - February 26, 2024
General Exam: Chengxuan Li (Chair: Margaret Shun Cheung-Wyker), University of Washington - February 23, 2024
General Exam: Henry Froland (Advisor: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington - January 26, 2024
Q&A session about opportunities at LAN: Tom Bowles, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) - January 24, 2024
General Exam: Adina Ripin (Advisor: Mo Li), University of Washington - January 18, 2024
General Exam: Han Kyou Choi (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - January 16, 2024
Final Exam: Photonic Flat Bands in Dielectric Metasurfaces: Christopher Munley (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - December 15, 2023
Final Exam: Sparse deep neural networks for modeling physical and biological systems : Olivia Zahn (Advisor: Jose Nathan Kutz), University of Washington - December 14, 2023
Final Exam: Deep Learning Applications for Particle Physics in Tracking and Calorimetry : Alex Schuy (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - December 7, 2023
General Exam: Yuankang Liu (Advisor: Boris Spivak), University of Washington - December 5, 2023
Final Exam: Virtual Reality in Physics Education: Designing a New Frontier of Physics to Practice the Creation of Knowledge : Jared Canright (Advisor: Suzanne White Brahmia), University of Washington - December 5, 2023
Final Exam: Exploring Neural Correlates of Cognition During a Complex Decision Making Task: John Ferre (Advisor: Adrienne Fairhall), University of Washington - December 4, 2023
Final Exam: Leveraging machine learning for image cytometry : Kevin John Cutler (Advisor: Joseph D Mougous & Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - December 1, 2023
Final Exam: Developments in the application of Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy towards the precise determination of MeV-scale $\beta$-energy spectra : William Byron (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington - December 1, 2023
General Exam: John Goldak (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington - December 1, 2023
General Exam: Grace Song (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - December 1, 2023
General Exam: Anna Wirth-Singh (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - November 8, 2023
General Exam: Teresa Lo (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - October 13, 2023
General Exam: Kent Wilson (Advisor: Sarah Keller), University of Washington - October 6, 2023
General Exam: Eric Lester (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - October 6, 2023
General Exam: Tahiyat Rahman (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - September 26, 2023
General Exam: Eric Anderson (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - September 25, 2023
Final Exam: Probing and controlling magnetism in two-dimensional materials : John Cenker (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - August 28, 2023
Final Exam: Development of a quantum, magnetic-imaging platform for biophysical measurements : Isaac Shelby (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - August 15, 2023
Final Exam: Machine Learning for Aero-Optical Wavefront Forecasting : Shervin Sahba (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - August 10, 2023
Final Exam: Laser Cooling and Trapping of 6Li: Experimental Tools for Many-Body Fermionic Dynamics and Ring Trap: Xinxin Tang (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - August 9, 2023
General Exam: Haoran Zhao (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - August 3, 2023
General Exam: Sam Borden (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - August 2, 2023
General Exam: Michaela Guzzetti (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington - July 27, 2023
Final Exam: Characterizing and Assessing Expert and Student Covariational Reasoning in Introductory Physics Contexts : Charlotte Zimmerman (Advisor: Suzanne White), University of Washington - July 25, 2023
Final Exam: Exploring the Frontiers of Computation: Quantum Simulation of Quantum Field Theories : Anthony Ciavarella (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington - July 24, 2023
General Exam: Jiaqi Cai (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 14, 2023
Final Exam: Optical Study of Symmetry Breaking in Two-dimensional Antiferromagnets : Kyle Hwangbo (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 14, 2023
General Exam: Christian Nave (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - June 27, 2023
General Exam: Ramya Bhaskar (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington - June 15, 2023
2023 Physics Department Graduation Ceremony: Department of Physics 2022-23 Graduating Class and Department Members - June 10, 2023
Final Exam: Beam Dynamics Challenges in the Muon g-2 Experiment : Brynn MacCoy (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington - June 8, 2023
Final Exam: Equivalence Principle Tests and Direct Searches for Ultra Light Dark Matter with Fused Silica Torsion Fibers : Erik A Shaw (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - June 2, 2023
Final Exam: Rotationally equivariant learning of generalizable protein structure-to-function maps : Michael Pun (Advisor: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington - June 2, 2023
Final Exam: The Influence of Dark and Ordinary Matter Physics on Galaxy Formation: Akaxia Cruz (Advisor: Thomas Quinn), University of Washington - June 2, 2023
Final Exam: Measurement-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions: Joseph Merritt (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski), University of Washington - June 1, 2023
Final Exam: Quantum-enabled magnetic imaging for DNA biophysical measurements: Zeeshawn Kazi (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - June 1, 2023
General Exam: Alexander Joseph Schuy (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - May 31, 2023
Final Exam: MuSun: A Complete Analysis of the Precision Measurement of Nuclear Muon Capture in Deuterium: Ethan Muldoon (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington - May 30, 2023
General Exam: Yinong Zhang (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 26, 2023
Final Exam: Information Content and Analysis of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy using Machine Learning: Samantha Tetef (Advisor: Gerald Seidler), University of Washington - May 25, 2023
2023 Physics Awards Ceremony - May 24, 2023
Final Exam: Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Using the Full MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Dataset : Alexandru Hostiuc - May 24, 2023
Department Town Hall hosted by the Physics Climate & Diversity Committee - May 19, 2023
Faculty Meeting - May 17, 2023
General Exam: Harry Ni (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington - May 15, 2023
Open meeting on graduate student stipends - May 10, 2023
Supporting Women+ in Physics Workshop 2023: See description for more details - May 6, 2023
Supporting Women+ in Physics Workshop 2023: See description for more details - May 5, 2023
Final Exam: The interplay between magnetism and electronic structure in topological materials : Qianni Jiang (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - May 1, 2023
Final Exam: Quantum Simulation Algorithms with Applications to Quantum Error Correction and Topological Data Analysis: Abhishek Rajput (Advisors: Martin Savage and Nathan Wiebe), University of Washington - April 28, 2023
General Exam: Ellis Thompson (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - April 24, 2023
Virtual Session for Admitted Students & Families: Physics Student Services - April 18, 2023
Society of Physics Students Zone 17 Meeting - April 14, 2023 to April 15, 2023
Final Exam: Results from a 3.1 kg day Target Exposure with Skipper CCDs from DAMIC at SNOLAB and other Beyond the Standard Model Searches with Semiconductor Detectors : Alexander Piers (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington - March 10, 2023
General Exam: Jules Berlin Nde Kengne (Advisor: Margaret Cheung), University of Washington - March 3, 2023
General Exam: Michael Clancy (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington - March 2, 2023
General Exam: Christian Pederson (Chair: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - February 28, 2023
General Exam: Jiayi Zhu (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - February 13, 2023
General Exam: Vasileios Niaouris (Chair: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - February 3, 2023
General Exam: Dara Storer (Chair: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - February 3, 2023
Faculty Meeting - February 1, 2023
General Exam: Ivan Alexandrovich Chernyshev (Chair: Martin Savage), University of Washington - January 26, 2023
Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP): Stephen Sharpe and Suzanne White Brahmia - January 20, 2023 to January 22, 2023
UW Physics Slam 2023: Physics Slammers (See description for more info) - January 21, 2023
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - January 18, 2023
General Exam: Christopher Munley (Chair: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - January 13, 2023
Final Exam: Many body dynamical delocalization of kicked ultracold quantum gases : Jun Hui See Toh (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - December 13, 2022
General Exam: Chun-Chih Tseng (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington - December 6, 2022
Final Exam: Trapping and Cooling Two-Dimensional Crystals of Barium Ions: Alexander Kato (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - December 2, 2022
Final Exam: Natural Radioactive Background Suppression in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments : Nicholas William Ruof (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - December 2, 2022
Final Exam: Mathematical methods for enhanced spatial resolution of magnetoencephalography forward and inverse modeling : Wanjin Yeo (Advisors: Jose Kutz and Samu Taulu), University of Washington - November 28, 2022
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - November 16, 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
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - October 19, 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
Final Exam: Fission within the Time Dependent Superfluid Local Density Approximation: Ibrahim Abdurrahman (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - September 30, 2022
General Exam: Dean Huang (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - September 29, 2022
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - September 21, 2022
Final Exam: Precession frequency analysis for Run-2 and Run-3 of the Muon g-2 experiment: Hannah Binney (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - September 16, 2022
Final Exam: Modeling Hydra from neuron to muscle to behaviors: Hengji Wang (Chair: Adrienne Fairhall), University of Washington - August 18, 2022
Final Exam: Entanglement between Quarks in Hadrons : Peter J Ehlers (Advisor: Silas Beane), University of Washington - August 15, 2022
Final Exam: The Axion Universe: Huangyu Xiao (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe), University of Washington - July 27, 2022
Snowmass Community Summer Study Workshop: Seattle CSS Local Organizing Committee - July 17, 2022 to July 26, 2022
Probing electronic correlation and topology in twisted multilayer graphene: Minhao He (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 22, 2022
Seattle Snowmass 2022: Physics Slam: Jorge Torres, Heather Harrington, & Noah Bray-Ali - July 21, 2022
Summiting the Unknown: New Physics, Celebrating the Legacy of Ann Nelson: Various Speakers - July 16, 2022
Summiting the Unknown: New Physics, Celebrating the Legacy of Ann Nelson: Various Speakers - July 15, 2022
Final Exam: Data-driven modeling and control of uncertain quantum dynamics : Andy Goldschmidt (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - July 14, 2022
Summiting the Unknown: New Physics, Celebrating the Legacy of Ann Nelson: Various Speakers - July 14, 2022
Final Exam: Recent Progress of Quantum Gravity: Karch-Randall Braneworld, Entanglement Island and Graviton Mass : Hao Geng (Chair: Marcel Den Nijs) - July 7, 2022
Physics Department Graduation Ceremony: Department of Physics 2021-22 Graduating Class and Department Members - June 11, 2022
Neural Network Methods for Signals in Engineering and Physical Sciences: PHYS 427 Students - June 8, 2022
General Exam: Michael Pun (Advisor: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington - June 6, 2022
Final Exam: Tuning Superconductivity in an Iron-based Superconductor with Uniaxial Stress : Paul Malinowski (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - May 27, 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
Physics Info Session for Admitted Students: Marjorie Olmstead, University of Washington - April 13, 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
Final Exam: Search for events with two displaced vertices from pair-produced neutral long-lived particles decaying to hadronic jets in the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector with full Run 2 data: Audrey K Kvam (Advisor: Henry Lubatti), University of Washington - January 20, 2022
General Exam: Shervin Sahba (Chair: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - December 17, 2021
Final Exam: Donor Qubits in ZnO Nanowires: Maria L Viitaniemi (Chair: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - December 10, 2021
Final Exam: An exploration of data-driven system identification and machine learning for plasma physics : Alan Kaptanoglu (Advisor: Steven Brunton), University of Washington - December 10, 2021
Final Exam: Pions in Neutron-rich Matter: Implications for Neutron Stars and Supernovae : Bryce H Fore (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - December 8, 2021
General Exam: Roland Carlos Farrell (Advisor: Silas Beane), University of Washington - December 7, 2021
Final Exam: Novel methods in trapped-ion quantum computing: single-photon-sensitive time-resolving camera, sympathetic cooling, and qudits: Liudmila Zhukas (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - December 3, 2021
Final Exam: Modeling Complex Multicomponent Materials with First-Principles Based Statistical Mechanics and Machine Learning : David Sommer (Advisor: Scott Dunham), University of Washington - December 3, 2021
General Exam: Zachary Montague (Chair: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington - December 2, 2021
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - December 1, 2021
Three-body scattering in the presence of bound states: Sebastian Dawid, University of Indiana - November 30, 2021
General Exam: Jared Canright (Advisor: Suzanne White), University of Washington - November 22, 2021
Final Exam: A Search for Wavelike Dark Matter with Dielectrically-loaded Multimode Cavities : Raphael Cervantes (Advisor: Gray Rybka) - November 16, 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
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - November 3, 2021
Final Exam: Quantum light-matter interaction of two-dimensional optical transitions coupled to dielectric nanocavities : David Rosser (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - November 2, 2021
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - October 20, 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
Physics EPIC 2.0: For graduate students/postdocs who have participated in EPIC 1.0 - October 5, 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
FASER tracker performance and electron energy resolution in the FASERv pilot detector: John William Spencer (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - August 20, 2021
Final Exam: Neutron stars as laboratories for fundamental physics: from dense QCD to dark matter : Dake Zhou (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - August 18, 2021
Final Exam: Searches for resonant and non-resonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the 4b final state with the ATLAS detector: Sean Gasiorowski (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington - August 10, 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
Final Exam: Analytical forward models for magnetic induction of asymmetric, icy ocean worlds with implications for spacecraft investigations: Marshall J Styczinski (Advisor: Erika Harnett), University of Washington - July 20, 2021
Final Exam: Emergent phenomena and device applications in magnetic van der Waals heterostructures : Tiancheng Song (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - July 14, 2021
Final Exam: Quantum complexity of symmetry-protected topological phases of matter : Tyler Ellison (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski), University of Washington - June 25, 2021
General Exam: Joseph Merritt (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski) - June 23, 2021
Final Exam: The Debye Mechanism in Superconductors: Michael David Smith (Advisor: Anton Andreev) - June 14, 2021
Physics Virtual Graduation Ceremony 2021: Department of Physics 2020-21 Graduating Class - June 12, 2021
Final Exam: Probing the symmetry-breaking phases in iron-based superconductors with combined strain, transport and x-ray techniques: Joshua Sanchez (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu) - June 10, 2021
Final Exam: Improving 21-cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum Limits by Characterizing and Mitigating Radio Frequency Interference : Michael J. Wilensky (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - June 10, 2021
Final Exam: Enabling the Next Generation of 21 cm Cosmology: Precision Analysis Techniques for Radio Cosmology Observations: Ruby L Byrne (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - June 9, 2021
General Exam: Wan Jin Yeo (Advisors: Jose Kutz and Samu Taulu), University of Washington - June 4, 2021
Final Exam: Numerical Investigation of The 2D Vortex Whip : Khang Nguyen (Advisor: Robert Breidenthal) - June 4, 2021
Final Exam: Measuring the anomalous precession frequency w_a for the Muon g-2 experiment: Jason Hempstead (Advisor: David Hertzog) - June 3, 2021
Final Exam: Advances to Three-Particle Quantization Conditions: Hadron Scattering Amplitudes from Lattice QCD : Tyler Blanton (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe), University of Washington - June 3, 2021
General Exam: Towards b_fierz with 6He CRES: William Byron (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington - June 1, 2021
Final Exam: 3d Bosonization: Flavor-Violated, on a Boundary, Quivered, and Stacked: Kyle J Aitken (Advisor: Laurence Yaffe), University of Washington - June 1, 2021
Final Exam: Theoretical models of hybrid light-matter systems and their applications : Kevin C Smith (Advisor: David Masiello), University of Washington - June 1, 2021
Final Exam: Nature of the electronic states in monolayer WTe2: Bosong Sun (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - May 28, 2021
Final Exam: Extended Search for Dark Matter with ADMX: Nick Du (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington - May 28, 2021
General Exam: Quantum Simulation of Lattice QCD: Anthony Ciavarella (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington - May 18, 2021
Final Exam: Topologically Critical Behavior in ZrTe5 : Joshua C Mutch (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington - May 14, 2021
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - April 7, 2021
General Exam: Alexander Piers (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington - April 2, 2021
General Exam: Andy Goldschmidt (Advisor: Jose Kutz) - March 24, 2021
Final Exam: Micro-focus ARPES of operating 2D devices : Paul Van Nguyen (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - March 16, 2021
General Exam: Isaac Shelby (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington - March 12, 2021
Final Exam: Numerical Modeling of Frequency Combs: Functionality, Stability and Control : Chang Sun (Chair: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - March 11, 2021
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - March 3, 2021
General Exam: Modeling Hydra from neuron to muscle to behaviors: Hengji Wang (Advisor: Adrienne Fairhall), University of Washington - February 26, 2021
Final Exam: Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties with the Source-Field Relationship in Upper-Division Electromagnetism : Bert C Xue (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), 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
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - February 3, 2021
General Exam: Tom Braine (Advisor: Gray Rybka) - February 3, 2021
Axions Beyond Gen 2: See abstract for more information - January 25, 2021 to January 28, 2021
General Exam: Correlated and topological states in twisted graphene systems: Minhao He (Chair: Xiaodong Xu) - January 28, 2021
Faculty Meeting: Physics Faculty - January 6, 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
Final Exam: Dimensionality Reduction for Complex Dynamical Systems: Seth Hirsh (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - December 16, 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
Final Exam: Theory of Finite-temperature and Non-equilibrium X-ray Absorption : Tun Sheng Tan (Advisor: John Rehr), University of Washington - December 15, 2020
Final Exam: Increasing Access and Capabilities of CubeSats for Investigation of Earth Trojan Asteroids : Paul J Sturmer (Advisor: Robert Winglee) - November 30, 2020
Final Exam: Vertical Contrast Interferometry and Bloch-bands Approach to Atom Optics: Daniel L Gochnauer (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - November 20, 2020
Grad School Info Session - 2020: Marjorie Olmstead, University of Washington - November 10, 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
Prospective Physics Major Information Meeting: Prof. Marjorie Olmstead - October 1, 2020
General Exam: Neutrino cross section sensitivity at the FASERnu detector: John William Spencer (Chair: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington - September 22, 2020
Northwest Quantum Nexus Seminar Series: Engineering Quantum Defects for Quantum Network Applications: Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington - September 2, 2020
Final Exam: Experiments with Trapped Ions: Entanglement, Novel Traps, and Quantum Jumps: Jennifer F Lilieholm (Advisor: Boris Blinov), University of Washington - August 20, 2020
Final Exam: Emergent phenomena in two-dimensional magnetic crystals: Bevin Huang (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - August 19, 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
Final Exam: Engineering Interfacial Effects and Layered Behavior in 2D Materials: Nathan P Wilson (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - August 11, 2020
Final Exam: Exploring the phases of 2+1 dimensional gauge theory through bosonization, holography & more : Andrew Baumgartner (Advisor: Andreas Karch) - August 11, 2020
Final Exam: Constraining the Neutrino Mass Using the Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy : Ali Ashtari Esfahani (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington - August 4, 2020
Characterizing and Leveraging Students' Conceptual Resources for Mechanical Wave Propagatio: Lisa M. Goodhew (Advisor: Paula Heron) - July 29, 2020
Final Exam: Dopant qubits in direct bandgap materials : Xiayu Linpeng (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - July 28, 2020
Final Exam: Electronic Transport of a 2D quantum material WTe2 : Wenjin Zhao (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - July 24, 2020
Final Exam: Compiling Quantum Gauge Theories for Quantum Computation: Jesse Stryker (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington - July 14, 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
Physics Virtual Graduation Ceremony: Department of Physics 2019-20 Graduating Class - June 13, 2020
Final Exam: Data-Driven Methods for Physics-Constrained Dynamical Systems: Daniel E Dylewsky (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - June 9, 2020
Final Exam: Greedy sparse sensor selection from a practical perspective: Emily E Clark (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - June 8, 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
Final Exam: Calculating Nature Naturally: Toward Quantum Simulation of Quantum Fields: Natalie Klco (Advisor: Martin Savage) - June 5, 2020
Physics Awards and Appreciation Virtual Department Gathering: Physics Department, University of Washington - June 4, 2020
General Exam: Huangyu Xiao (Advisor: Stephen Sharpe) - May 28, 2020
Final Exam: An investigation of student difficulties in qualitative and quantitative physics problems: Examples from linear kinematics, rolling motion, fluid mechanics, and vector superposition: Sheh Lit Chang (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington - May 26, 2020
Final Exam: Precision Mechanical Rotation Sensors for Terrestrial Gravitational Wave Observatories: Michael P Ross (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - May 21, 2020
Final Exam: Quantum Monte Carlo studies of the BCS-BEC crossover: Adam C Richie-Halford (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - May 20, 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
Control Theory for C. elegans Calcium Imaging Dynamics: Charles S. Fieseler (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington - March 18, 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
Final Exam: A Fourier-Bessel Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: John G. Lee (Advisors: Blayne Heckel and Eric G Adelberger), University of Washington - March 10, 2020
Imaging and time-stamping optical photons with nanosecond resolution: Dr. Andrei Nomerotski, Brookhaven National Laboratory - February 11, 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
TIQM Inaugural Workshop: Multiple Speakers - January 20, 2020
TIQM Inaugural Workshop: Multiple Speakers - January 19, 2020
TIQM Inaugural Workshop: Multiple Speakers - January 18, 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
The X17 Particle: George Bertsch and Gerald Miller, University of Washington - December 5, 2019
The Tritium Recoil-Ion Mass Spectrometer Experiment (TRIMS): Lin, Ying-Ting (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington - December 2, 2019
Final Exam: Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Mixtures of Ytterbium and Lithium: Alaina M Green (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta) - November 19, 2019
Advancing Atom Interferometry with a Bloch-bands Approach: Katherine McAlpine (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta) - November 18, 2019
Unveiling the Nature of Dark Matter with Cosmological Observables: Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University) - November 15, 2019
Final Exam: Magnetic Field Determination for Run 1 of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment: Rachel E Osofsky (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia) - November 15, 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
Final Exam: Probing Sulfur and Phosphorus Electronic Structure with Experimental Developments and Theoretical Calculations of Tender X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: William M Holden (Advisor: Gerald Seidler), University of Washington - November 1, 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
Physics Slam: See Event Info for Details - October 19, 2019
General Exam: Jun Hui See Toh (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta) - September 30, 2019
EPIC: Empowering Prevention & Inclusive Community: EPIC, University of Washington - September 26, 2019
Final Exam: Development of Laboratory-Based X-ray Spectroscopies for Materials Research : Evan Patrick Jahrman (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - August 19, 2019
General Exam: Sparse Sensor Placement: Emily E Clark (Advisor: Jose Kutz) - August 16, 2019
DM@LHC 2019: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 16, 2019
DM@LHC 2019: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 15, 2019
DM@LHC 2019: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 14, 2019
DM@LHC 2019: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 13, 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
A Comprehensive Radiogenic Background Model for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: Micah Buuck (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - July 26, 2019
Final Exam: Developments for the measurement of the beta-neutrino angular correlation in the the decay of He-6: Yelena S Bagdasarova (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia) - July 11, 2019
Physics Graduation: Physics Department - June 15, 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
Final Exam: Using Advanced X-ray Spectroscopic Methods to Probe Actinide 5f Electronic Structure : Alexander Ditter (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler) - 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
Final Exam: The Search for Double-Beta Decay to Excited States in 76-Ge using the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: Ian S Guinn (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - June 3, 2019
General Exam: Finite Volume Corrections to Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering: Peter J Ehlers (Advisor: Silas Beane) - May 31, 2019
Final Exam: Optical study of 2d magnets and their heterostructures for valleytronic: Ding Zhong (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - May 30, 2019
Final Exam: Better Input, Better Output: Improving Photometric Redshifts by enhancing training data and optimizing : John Bryce Kalmbach (Advisor: Andrew J. Connolly) - May 30, 2019
Final Exam: Fission Dynamics in a Microscopic Theory: Shi Jin (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - May 29, 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
Final Exam: Nonequilibrium nanoparticle dynamics for the development of Magnetic Particle Imaging : Carolyn G Shasha (Advisor: Kannan Krishnan) - May 21, 2019
Final Exam: Design and Optimization of Dielectric Metasurface Optics: Alan Zhan (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington - May 20, 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
Final Exam: MuSun: A Precision Measurement of Muon Capture in Deuterium with a Cryogenic Time Projection Chamber: Rachel A Ryan (Advisor: Peter Kammel) - March 12, 2019
General Exam: Bryce H Fore (Advisor: Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington - March 12, 2019
Final Exam: DNA-based reaction-diffusion system for engineering programmable macroscopic materials: Sifang Chen (Advisor: Georg Seelig) - March 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) - March 7, 2019
Final Exam: Measuring the Precession Frequency in the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment: Aaron T Fienberg (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - January 18, 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
Final Exam: A guide to modeling and interpreting nanopore experiments: Henry D. Brinkerhoff (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
Final Exam: Neural Mechanisms of Trial and Error Learning: a Study from Bird Song: Alison G Duffy (Advisor: Adrienne L Fairhall), University of Washington - December 6, 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
Discussion of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine joint report on Sexual Harassment in Academia: Sharona E Gordon (University of Washington) - October 17, 2018
General Exam: Ruby L Byrne (Advisor: Miguel Morales) - October 10, 2018
General Exam: Sheh Lit Chang (Advisor: Peter Shaffer) - October 4, 2018
Final Exam: Quantum Dynamics in Rugged Energy Landscapes, and Other Topics in Disordered Systems: Christopher L Baldwin (Advisor: Christopher Laumann), University of Washington - September 28, 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
Final Exam: Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession of mercury atoms: Yi Chen (Advisor: Blayne Heckel), University of Washington - August 16, 2018
Final Exam: The Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment: From Simulation to Reality: Nathan S Froemming (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - August 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 - August 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 - August 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 - August 9, 2018
General Exam: Bosong Sun (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - August 8, 2018
General Exam: Andrew Baumgartner (Advisor: Andreas Karch) - August 7, 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 - July 27, 2018
Final Exam: Improving the Accuracy and Application of Nanopore DNA Sequencing: Matthew Noakes (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - July 24, 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
Final Exam: Probing valley and magnetic photoexcitations in 2D crystals and their heterostructures: Kyle L Seyler (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - June 5, 2018
Final Exam: Interlayer Valley Excitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures: Pasqual B Rivera (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington - June 4, 2018
2018 Spring Recognition BBQ (RSVP Only): Hosted by UW Physics Department, University of Washington - June 1, 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
2018 Awards Banquet (RSVP Only): Hosted by UW Physics Department, University of Washington - May 25, 2018
General Exam: Natalie Klco (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington - May 25, 2018
Final Exam: The search for a organizing physical framework for statistics: Colin H Lamont (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - May 18, 2018
Building a physics community for everyone: Why it matters, steps to get there: Risa Wechsler, Stanford University - May 15, 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
Information Session for Prospective Physics Majors: Marjorie Olmstead, University of Washington - April 5, 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 - April 3, 2018
Connecting The Dots 2018: Please find agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - March 22, 2018
Connecting The Dots 2018: Please find agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - March 21, 2018
Seeing Voices: Using Light to Restore and Preserve Early Recorded Sound: Dr. Carl Haber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - March 20, 2018
Seattle TrackML Hackathon: Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington - March 20, 2018
Connecting The Dots 2018: Please find agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - March 20, 2018
General Exam: Ethan Muldoon (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington - March 14, 2018
UW QuarkNet Masterclass 2018: Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington - March 10, 2018
Final Exam: Enhancing EoR limits through improved instrumental calibration of the MWA: Nichole A Barry (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington - March 1, 2018
General Exam: Sifang Chen (Advisor: Georg Seelig), University of Washington - December 14, 2017
Fixed and growth mindsets in physics graduate admissions: Rachel Scherr, SPU - December 8, 2017
General Exam: Alexander Ditter (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington - December 7, 2017
Final Exam: Large Area Atom Interferometry for High Precision: Benjamin T Plotkin-Swing (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - December 6, 2017
General Exam: Carolyn G Shasha (Advisor: Kannan Krishnan), University of Washington - December 5, 2017
Final Exam: Protoplanetary disks and planet formation: a computational perspective: Isaac J Backus (Advisor: Thomas R. Quinn), University of Washington - December 4, 2017
General Exam: Kyle J Aitken (Advisor: Laurence Yaffe), University of Washington - November 29, 2017
Final Exam: Development of new technologies for precision torsion-balance experiments: Matthew D Turner (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - November 28, 2017
General Exam: Jesse Stryker (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington - October 26, 2017
Final Exam: Improving Axion Signal Models Through N-Body Simulations: Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington - October 25, 2017
General Exam: Rachel E Osofsky (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington - October 5, 2017
Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Devices: Ardavan Oskooi and M.T. Homer Reid, Simpetus and MIT - September 7, 2017
ACAT 2017: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 25, 2017
ACAT 2017: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 24, 2017
ACAT 2017: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 23, 2017
ACAT 2017: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 22, 2017
ACAT 2017: Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section - August 21, 2017
Final Exam: T6SS in P. aeruginosa: A novel model for toxin delivery: Jacqueline Corbitt (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - August 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 - August 9, 2017
Final Exam: Cold Mixed-Species Trapped Ion Chains for Quantum Computing: Tomasz P Sakrejda (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington - August 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 - August 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 - July 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 - July 27, 2017
Final Exam: Adsorption of gasses on suspended nanotubes and graphene: Boris Dzyubenko (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - July 25, 2017
Final Exam: Magneto transport properties in atomic thin WTe2: Zaiyao Fei (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington - July 25, 2017
Final Exam: The Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Replisome: Sarah Marie Mangiameli (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - July 24, 2017
Final Exam: Supersymmetric Localization and Probe Branes in the AdS/CFT Correspondence: Brandon J Robinson (Advisor: Andreas Karch), University of Washington - July 20, 2017
Final Exam: Developing the Precision Magnetic Field for the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment: Matthias Smith (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington - July 20, 2017
Final Exam: MspA Nanopore for High-Resolution Single-Molecule Enzyme Dynamics: Jonathan M Craig (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - July 17, 2017
General Exam: Adam C Richie-Halford (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington - July 17, 2017
Final Exam: Electronic Transport Phenomena in Low Dimensional and Topological Materials: Songci Li (Advisor: Anton Andreev), University of Washington - July 14, 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
Final Exam: Harnessing cell-to-cell variations to probe bacterial structure: Julie A. Cass (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington - June 2, 2017
Final Exam: Measurement of the W boson mass with the D0 detector: Michelle Brochmann (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington - June 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 - May 31, 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
Final Exam: Addressing Beyond Standard Model physics using cosmology: Akshay A. Ghalsasi (Advisor: Ann E Nelson), University of Washington - 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 - May 19, 2017
Physics Awards Banquet (RSVP Only): Hosted by Physics Department, University of Washington - May 16, 2017
How hard is it to simulate quantum field theory?: John Preskill, Caltech - May 12, 2017
Final Exam: Ytterbium and Lithium Quantum Gases: Heteronuclear Molecules and Bose-Fermi Superfluid Mixtures: Richard Roy (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington - 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 - March 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 - March 7, 2017
General Exam: Erik A. Shaw (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington - March 2, 2017
Final Exam: A Piezoelectrically Tuned RF-Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions: Christian Boutan (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington - February 3, 2017
Designing and implementing a new introductory physics course for the life sciences: David Smith, UW Physics - February 2, 2017
General Exam: Luke A. Kippenbrock (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington - January 24, 2017
Final Exam: Ion Photon Entanglement with the Parabolic Mirror Trap: Chen-Kuan Chou (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington - January 18, 2017
General Exam: Tong Wan (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington - December 9, 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 - December 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 - December 2, 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
Final Exam: Holographic tools for probing the dynamics of strongly coupled field theories: John F. Fuini (Advisor: Laurence G Yaffe), University of Washington - August 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 - August 16, 2016
Final Exam: Toward a Loophole-Free Bell Inequality Violation with Barium Ions: Carolyn A. Auchter (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington - August 15, 2016
Final Exam: A Search for hep solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Timothy Joseph Winchester (Advisor: Nikolai Tolich), University of Washington - August 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 - August 8, 2016
General Exam: Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington - August 4, 2016
Final Exam: Searches for Beyond Standard Model Higgs Bosons: Pedro Henrique Sales De Bruin (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington - August 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 - August 2, 2016
Final Exam: Semiconductor Defects: Optical Response and Spin Relaxation from Basic Principles: Todd A. Karin (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington - July 25, 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
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 - June 6, 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
Final Exam: Applications of Quantum Field Theory, from the Formal to the Phenomenological: Dorota M. Grabowska (Advisor: David B. Kaplan), University of Washington - 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 - May 10, 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
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 - March 9, 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
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 - January 13, 2016
US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015): Multiple speakers, University of Washington - December 18, 2015
US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015): Multiple speakers, University of Washington - December 17, 2015
US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015): Multiple speakers, University of Washington - December 16, 2015
US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015): Multiple speakers, University of Washington - December 15, 2015
US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015): Multiple speakers, University of Washington - December 14, 2015
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 - December 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 - December 8, 2015
General Exam: Micah J. Buuck (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington - December 4, 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 - December 3, 2015
General Exam: Isaac J. Backus (Advisor: Thomas R. Quinn), University of Washington - December 1, 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 - November 30, 2015
General Exam: James M. Kunert (Jose Nathan Kutz), University of Washington - November 30, 2015
The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Increasing Diversity at the PhD Level in Physics & Astronomy: Keivan Guadaloupe Stassun, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University - November 19, 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
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 - August 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 - August 18, 2015
Final Exam: Identifying and addressing student difficulties with electrostatic and magnetostatic concepts: Ryan L. C Hazelton (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington - August 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 - August 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 - August 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 - July 31, 2015

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