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 (Alan Zhan (Advisor: Arka Majumdar), University of Washington) - Tue, Apr 24 2018
• General Exam (Lisa M Goodhew (Advisor: Paula Heron), University of Washington) - Tue, Apr 10 2018
• Information Session for Prospective Physics Majors (Marjorie Olmstead, University of Washington) - Thu, Apr 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) - Tue, Apr 3 2018
• Connecting The Dots 2018 (Please find agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Thu, Mar 22 2018
• Connecting The Dots 2018 (Please find agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Wed, Mar 21 2018
• Seeing Voices: Using Light to Restore and Preserve Early Recorded Sound (Dr. Carl Haber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) - Tue, Mar 20 2018
• Seattle TrackML Hackathon (Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington) - Tue, Mar 20 2018
• Connecting The Dots 2018 (Please find agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Tue, Mar 20 2018
• General Exam (Ethan Muldoon (Advisor: Peter Kammel), University of Washington) - Wed, Mar 14 2018
• UW QuarkNet Masterclass 2018 (Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington) - Sat, Mar 10 2018
• Final Exam: Enhancing EoR limits through improved instrumental calibration of the MWA (Nichole A Barry (Advisor: Miguel Morales), University of Washington) - Thu, Mar 1 2018
• General Exam (Sifang Chen (Advisor: Georg Seelig), University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 14 2017
• Fixed and growth mindsets in physics graduate admissions (Rachel Scherr, SPU) - Fri, Dec 8 2017
• General Exam (Alexander Ditter (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Thu, Dec 7 2017
• Final Exam: Large Area Atom Interferometry for High Precision (Benjamin T Plotkin-Swing (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) - Wed, Dec 6 2017
• General Exam (Carolyn G Shasha (Advisor: Kannan Krishnan), University of Washington) - Tue, Dec 5 2017
• Final Exam: Protoplanetary disks and planet formation: a computational perspective (Isaac J Backus (Advisor: Thomas R. Quinn), University of Washington) - Mon, Dec 4 2017
• General Exam (Kyle J Aitken (Advisor: Laurence Yaffe), University of Washington) - Wed, Nov 29 2017
• Final Exam: Development of new technologies for precision torsion-balance experiments (Matthew D Turner (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Tue, Nov 28 2017
• General Exam (Jesse Stryker (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington) - Thu, Oct 26 2017
• Final Exam: Improving Axion Signal Models Through N-Body Simulations (Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington) - Wed, Oct 25 2017
• General Exam (Rachel E Osofsky (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington) - Thu, Oct 5 2017
• Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Devices (Ardavan Oskooi and M.T. Homer Reid, Simpetus and MIT) - Thu, Sep 7 2017
• ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Fri, Aug 25 2017
• ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Thu, Aug 24 2017
• ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Wed, Aug 23 2017
• ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Tue, Aug 22 2017
• ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) - Mon, Aug 21 2017
• Final Exam: T6SS in P. aeruginosa: A novel model for toxin delivery (Jacqueline Corbitt (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, Aug 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) - Wed, Aug 9 2017
• Final Exam: Cold Mixed-Species Trapped Ion Chains for Quantum Computing (Tomasz P Sakrejda (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) - Wed, Aug 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) - Fri, Aug 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) - Fri, Jul 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) - Thu, Jul 27 2017
• Final Exam: Adsorption of gasses on suspended nanotubes and graphene (Boris Dzyubenko (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 25 2017
• Final Exam: Magneto transport properties in atomic thin WTe2 (Zaiyao Fei (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 25 2017
• Final Exam: The Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Replisome (Sarah Marie Mangiameli (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 24 2017
• Final Exam: Supersymmetric Localization and Probe Branes in the AdS/CFT Correspondence (Brandon J Robinson (Advisor: Andreas Karch), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 20 2017
• Final Exam: Developing the Precision Magnetic Field for the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment (Matthias Smith (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington) - Thu, Jul 20 2017
• Final Exam: MspA Nanopore for High-Resolution Single-Molecule Enzyme Dynamics (Jonathan M Craig (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 17 2017
• General Exam (Adam C Richie-Halford (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) - Mon, Jul 17 2017
• Final Exam: Electronic Transport Phenomena in Low Dimensional and Topological Materials (Songci Li (Advisor: Anton Andreev), University of Washington) - Fri, Jul 14 2017
• General Exam (Shi Jin (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) - Tue, Jul 11 2017
• General Exam (Ying-Ting Lin (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington) - Thu, Jun 22 2017
• Final Exam: Harnessing cell-to-cell variations to probe bacterial structure (Julie A. Cass (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) - Fri, Jun 2 2017
• Final Exam: Measurement of the W boson mass with the D0 detector (Michelle Brochmann (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington) - Thu, Jun 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) - Wed, May 31 2017
• General Exam (Evan Patrick Jahrman (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) - Thu, May 25 2017
• General Exam (Ali Ashtari Esfahani (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) - Wed, May 24 2017