Physics Department

Upcoming Events

2026 Physics Department Graduation Celebration

Department of Physics 2025-26 Graduating Class and Department Members

June 12 2026, 4pm

Husky Union Building 211 (Ballroom)

Past Events

• General Exam (Pasqual Bawdon Rivera (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Tue, May 23 2017
• General Exam (Kyle Seyler (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) - Mon, May 22 2017
• Final Exam: Addressing Beyond Standard Model physics using cosmology (Akshay A. Ghalsasi (Advisor: Ann E Nelson), University of Washington) - Mon, 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) - Fri, May 19 2017
• Physics Awards Banquet (RSVP Only) (Hosted by Physics Department, University of Washington) - Tue, May 16 2017
• How hard is it to simulate quantum field theory? (John Preskill, Caltech) - Fri, 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) - Mon, 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) - Thu, Mar 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) - Tue, Mar 7 2017
• General Exam (Erik A. Shaw (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Thu, Mar 2 2017
• Final Exam: A Piezoelectrically Tuned RF-Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions (Christian Boutan (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) - Fri, Feb 3 2017
• Designing and implementing a new introductory physics course for the life sciences (David Smith, UW Physics) - Thu, Feb 2 2017
• General Exam (Luke A. Kippenbrock (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington) - Tue, Jan 24 2017
• Final Exam: Ion Photon Entanglement with the Parabolic Mirror Trap (Chen-Kuan Chou (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Wed, Jan 18 2017
• General Exam (Tong Wan (Advisor: Peter S. Shaffer), University of Washington) - Fri, Dec 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) - Mon, Dec 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) - Fri, Dec 2 2016
• General Exam (John M. Lombard (Advisor: Stephen R. Sharpe), University of Washington) - Tue, Nov 22 2016
• General Exam (Henry D. Brinkerhoff (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Mon, Nov 14 2016
• General Exam (Matthew Noakes (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Wed, Oct 19 2016
• General Exam (Colin H. Lamont (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Thu, Sep 29 2016
• General Exam (John Bryce Kalmbach (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 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) - Wed, Aug 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) - Tue, Aug 16 2016
• Final Exam: Toward a Loophole-Free Bell Inequality Violation with Barium Ions (Carolyn A. Auchter (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Mon, Aug 15 2016
• Final Exam: A Search for hep solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Timothy Joseph Winchester (Advisor: Nikolai Tolich), University of Washington) - Tue, Aug 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) - Mon, Aug 8 2016
• General Exam (Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 4 2016
• Final Exam: Searches for Beyond Standard Model Higgs Bosons (Pedro Henrique Sales De Bruin (Advisor: Anna Goussiou), University of Washington) - Thu, Aug 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) - Tue, Aug 2 2016
• Final Exam: Semiconductor Defects: Optical Response and Spin Relaxation from Basic Principles (Todd A. Karin (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 25 2016
• General Exam (Christopher L. Baldwin (Advisor: Christopher Laumann), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 10 2016
• General Exam (Ryan A. Valenza (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 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) - Mon, Jun 6 2016
• General Exam (Nichole A. Barry (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 3 2016
• General Exam (Kyle Douglas Morgan (Thomas R. Jarboe), University of Washington) - Thu, Jun 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) - Fri, 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) - Tue, May 10 2016
• General Exam (Songci Li (Advisor: Anton Andreev), University of Washington) - Thu, Apr 28 2016
• General Exam (Nikola L. Whallon (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington) - Mon, Apr 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) - Wed, Mar 9 2016
• General Exam (Yu-Sheng Liu (Advisor: Gerald Miller), University of Washington) - Mon, Mar 7 2016
• General Exam (Alison G. Duffy (Advisor: Adrienne L Fairhall), University of Washington) - Thu, Mar 3 2016
• General Exam (Iain S. Guinn (Advisor: Jason Detwiler ), University of Washington) - Wed, Feb 17 2016
• General Exam (Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge (Advisors: Ann Nelson & Sanjay Reddy), University of Washington) - Mon, Feb 8 2016
• General Exam (Julieta Y. Gruszko (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) - Fri, Jan 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) - Wed, Jan 13 2016
• US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015) (Multiple speakers, University of Washington) - Fri, Dec 18 2015
• US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015) (Multiple speakers, University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 17 2015
• US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum 2015 (HFSF 2015) (Multiple speakers, University of Washington) - Wed, Dec 16 2015