Physics Department
Physics Department
Upcoming Events
Department of Physics 2025-26 Graduating Class and Department Members
Husky Union Building 211 (Ballroom)
Past Events
- General Exam (John Goldak (Advisor: Peter Shaffer), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Grace Song (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Anna Wirth-Singh (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Teresa Lo (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Kent Wilson (Advisor: Sarah Keller), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Eric Lester (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Tahiyat Rahman (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington ) -
- General Exam (Eric Anderson (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Probing and controlling magnetism in two-dimensional materials (John Cenker (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington ) -
- Final Exam: Development of a quantum, magnetic-imaging platform for biophysical measurements (Isaac Shelby (Advisor: Paul Wiggins), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Machine Learning for Aero-Optical Wavefront Forecasting (Shervin Sahba (Advisor: Jose Kutz), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- General Exam (Haoran Zhao (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Sam Borden (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Michaela Guzzetti (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Characterizing and Assessing Expert and Student Covariational Reasoning in Introductory Physics Contexts (Charlotte Zimmerman (Advisor: Suzanne White), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Exploring the Frontiers of Computation: Quantum Simulation of Quantum Field Theories (Anthony Ciavarella (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Jiaqi Cai (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Optical Study of Symmetry Breaking in Two-dimensional Antiferromagnets (Kyle Hwangbo (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Christian Nave (Advisor: Jason Detwiler), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Ramya Bhaskar (Advisor: Martin Savage), University of Washington ) -
- 2023 Physics Department Graduation Ceremony (Department of Physics 2022-23 Graduating Class and Department Members) -
- Final Exam: Beam Dynamics Challenges in the Muon g-2 Experiment (Brynn MacCoy (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington ) -
- 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) -
- Final Exam: Rotationally equivariant learning of generalizable protein structure-to-function maps (Michael Pun (Advisor: Armita Nourmohammad), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: The Influence of Dark and Ordinary Matter Physics on Galaxy Formation (Akaxia Cruz (Advisor: Thomas Quinn), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Measurement-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions (Joseph Merritt (Advisor: Lukasz Fidkowski), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Quantum-enabled magnetic imaging for DNA biophysical measurements (Zeeshawn Kazi (Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Alexander Joseph Schuy (Advisor: Shih-Chieh Hsu), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: MuSun: A Complete Analysis of the Precision Measurement of Nuclear Muon Capture in Deuterium (Ethan Muldoon (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Yinong Zhang (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- 2023 Physics Awards Ceremony -
- Final Exam: Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Using the Full MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Dataset (Alexandru Hostiuc) -
- Department Town Hall hosted by the Physics Climate & Diversity Committee -
- Faculty Meeting -
- General Exam (Harry Ni (Advisor: Alvaro Chavarria), University of Washington) -
- Open meeting on graduate student stipends -
- Supporting Women+ in Physics Workshop 2023 (See description for more details) -
- Supporting Women+ in Physics Workshop 2023 (See description for more details) -
- Final Exam: The interplay between magnetism and electronic structure in topological materials (Qianni Jiang (Advisor: Jiun-Haw Chu), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- General Exam (Ellis Thompson (Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz), University of Washington) -
- Virtual Session for Admitted Students & Families (Physics Student Services) -
- Society of Physics Students Zone 17 Meeting -
- 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) -
- General Exam (Jules Berlin Nde Kengne (Advisor: Margaret Cheung), University of Washington ) -
- General Exam (Michael Clancy (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Christian Pederson (Chair: Kai-Mei Fu), University of Washington ) -
- General Exam (Jiayi Zhu (Chair: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -