Physics Department
Physics Department
Upcoming Events
Department of Physics 2025-26 Graduating Class and Department Members
Husky Union Building 211 (Ballroom)
Past Events
- Final Exam: Discovering plasticity rules for learning and resilience in neural circuits (David Bell (Advisor: Adrienne Fairhall), University of Washington) -
- An Introduction to Intellectual Property and Commercialization at UW: CoMotion (Judy Bridges, UW CoMotion) -
- General Exam (Jessie Yang (Advisor: Quentin Buat), University of Washington) -
- Physics Department: Final Exam (Eric Lester (Cobden group)) -
- General Exam (Derek Waleffe (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Numerically Exact Configuration Interaction at Quadrillion-Determinant Scale (Agam Shayit (Advisor: Xiaosong Li, Chemistry)) -
- Final Exam: New Developments in Fermionic Many-Body Physics within Time-Dependent Density Func. Thry (Matt Kafker (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: TopmetalSe: Development of a CMOS Imager for Selena (Harry Ni (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Hunter Parker (Advisor: Boris Blinov)) -
- 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) -
- Final Exam: Analytical Inverse Problems in bSSFP MRI: Exploiting Geometric Constraints for... (Yiyun Dong (Advisor: Samu Taulu), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: The CAGE Scanner: A Novel Surface Event Rejection Technique in High Purity Germanium... (Grace Song (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington ) -
- Final Exam: Exploring the Next Generation of Moire Materials (Ellis Thompson (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Exploring Quantum Phenomena in 2D Materials: From Valley Topology and Exciton Selection (Tharindu Fernando (Advisor: Ting Cao), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- General Exam (Hannah Jean Boyer (Advisor: Andrew H Laszlo), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Cameron Flynn (Advisor: Suzanne White Brahmia), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Cullen Gantenberg (Advisor: David B. Kaplan), University of Washington ) -
- General Exam (Jiayi Wang (Advisor: Margaret Shun Cheung-Wyker), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Quasi-Background-Free Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches with LEGEND: Statistical.. (Sam Borden (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Elliot Maderazo (Advisor: Isabel Garcia Garcia), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Ella Camille Henry (Advisor: Masha Baryakhtar), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Improving the Methodology and Instrumentation for On-Scalp Magnetoencephalography (MEG) (Xan McPherson (Advisor: Samu Taulu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Miles Cochran-Branson (Advisor: Quentin Buat), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Nicolas Williams (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Agam Shayit (Advisor: Xiaosong Li), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Effective Field Theory Methods; From New Physics Searches in Beta Decays to Strong Interactions (Maria Dawid (Advisor: Vincenzo Cirigliano), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Designing, Operating and Analyzing: The Quest for Axion Dark Matter with ADMX (Michaela Guzzetti (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- Final Exam: Functionalized nano-optics for studying optical and mechanical properties of low-dimensional materials (Arnab Manna (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam (Han Kyou Choi (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam (Caio Bastos De Senna Nascimento (Advisor: Marilena Loverde), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Mikael Kovtun (Advisor: Xiaosong Li), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Using Neutron Stars to Probe Fundamental Physics (Mia Kumamoto (Advisor: Sanjay K. Reddy), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam (Chengxuan Li (Advisor: Margaret Shun Cheung-Wyker), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: The Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Twisted MoTe2 (Heonjoon Park (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Ruoyu Zhang (Advisor: Mark S Rudner), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Interference of ultracold atoms held within an optical lattice (Tahiyat Rahman (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Strain engineering 2D materials for quantum information applications (Adina Ripin (Advisor: Mo Li), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Density Functional Theory augmented Multiplet Ligand Field Theory Applied to X-ray Spect (Charles Cardot (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Tommy Nguyen (Advisor: Kai-Mei C Fu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Jack Murphy Barlow (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- 2025 Physics Department Graduation Celebration (Department of Physics 2024-25 Graduating Class and Department Members) -
- 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) -
- Physics End of Year BBQ -
- Final Exam: New X-ray Spectroscopy Instrumentation and Methodologies for Applications and Fundamental Research (Jared Abramson (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Towards High-redshift Cosmology with Lyman-break Galaxies Detected by LSST (John Franklin Crenshaw (Advisor: Andrew Connolly), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Optical readout and control of correlated electron phases in 2D semiconductor moire superlattices (William Holtzmann (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- Faculty Job Search Panel – Advice from Physics Faculty -
- 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) -