Physics Department
Physics Department
Past Events
- Fixed and growth mindsets in physics graduate admissions (Rachel Scherr, SPU) -
- General Exam (Alexander Ditter (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Large Area Atom Interferometry for High Precision (Benjamin T Plotkin-Swing (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Carolyn G Shasha (Advisor: Kannan Krishnan), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Protoplanetary disks and planet formation: a computational perspective (Isaac J Backus (Advisor: Thomas R. Quinn), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Kyle J Aitken (Advisor: Laurence Yaffe), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Development of new technologies for precision torsion-balance experiments (Matthew D Turner (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Jesse Stryker (Advisor: David Kaplan), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Improving Axion Signal Models Through N-Body Simulations (Erik Wayne Lentz (Advisor: Leslie Rosenberg), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Rachel E Osofsky (Advisor: Alejandro Garcia), University of Washington) -
- Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Devices (Ardavan Oskooi and M.T. Homer Reid, Simpetus and MIT) -
- ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) -
- ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) -
- ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) -
- ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) -
- ACAT 2017 (Please find Agenda in link, URL in Abstract section) -
- Final Exam: T6SS in P. aeruginosa: A novel model for toxin delivery (Jacqueline Corbitt (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- Final Exam: Cold Mixed-Species Trapped Ion Chains for Quantum Computing (Tomasz P Sakrejda (Advisor: Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- Final Exam: Reduced Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of $^{199}$Hg (Brent Graner (Advisor: Blayne Heckel & Boris B. Blinov), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Polarized Lepton-Nucleon Elastic Scattering, Beam Dump Experiments, and Search for New Physics (Yu-Sheng Liu (Advisor: Gerald Miller), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Adsorption of gasses on suspended nanotubes and graphene (Boris Dzyubenko (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Magneto transport properties in atomic thin WTe2 (Zaiyao Fei (Advisor: David Cobden), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: The Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Replisome (Sarah Marie Mangiameli (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Supersymmetric Localization and Probe Branes in the AdS/CFT Correspondence (Brandon J Robinson (Advisor: Andreas Karch), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Developing the Precision Magnetic Field for the E989 Muon g-2 Experiment (Matthias Smith (Advisor: David Hertzog), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: MspA Nanopore for High-Resolution Single-Molecule Enzyme Dynamics (Jonathan M Craig (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Adam C Richie-Halford (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Electronic Transport Phenomena in Low Dimensional and Topological Materials (Songci Li (Advisor: Anton Andreev), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Shi Jin (Advisor: Aurel Bulgac), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Ying-Ting Lin (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Harnessing cell-to-cell variations to probe bacterial structure (Julie A. Cass (Advisor: Paul A Wiggins), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Measurement of the W boson mass with the D0 detector (Michelle Brochmann (Advisor: Gordon T. Watts), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Electron Detection Systems for the KATRIN Spectrometer and Detector Section (Eric L Martin (Advisor: R. G. Hamish Robertson), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Evan Patrick Jahrman (Advisor: Gerald T. Seidler), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Ali Ashtari Esfahani (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Pasqual Bawdon Rivera (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- General Exam (Kyle Seyler (Advisor: Xiaodong Xu), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Addressing Beyond Standard Model physics using cosmology (Akshay A. Ghalsasi (Advisor: Ann E Nelson), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: Statistics and Applications of Baryon Correlation Functions in Lattice QCD (Michael L Wagman (Advisor: Martin J. Savage), University of Washington) -
- Physics Awards Banquet (RSVP Only) (Hosted by Physics Department, University of Washington) -
- How hard is it to simulate quantum field theory? (John Preskill, Caltech) -
- Final Exam: Ytterbium and Lithium Quantum Gases: Heteronuclear Molecules and Bose-Fermi Superfluid Mixtures (Richard Roy (Advisor: Subhadeep Gupta), University of Washington) -
- 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) -
- 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) -
- General Exam (Erik A. Shaw (Advisor: Jens Gundlach), University of Washington) -
- Final Exam: A Piezoelectrically Tuned RF-Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions (Christian Boutan (Advisor: Gray Rybka), University of Washington) -
- Designing and implementing a new introductory physics course for the life sciences (David Smith, UW Physics) -
- General Exam (Luke A. Kippenbrock (Advisor: Diana M S Parno), University of Washington) -
