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David Cobden

Professor

Contact Information

cobden@uw.edu

206-543-2686

Personal Website

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Fields of Interest

Condensed Matter ExperimentQuantum Information

Biography

PhD, Physics, Cambridge University, 1992

MSc, Optoelectronics, University of St Andrews, 1987

BA, Physics, Oxford, 1986

Professor, University of Washington, 2011-

Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, 2002-11

Lecturer, Univ. of Warwick, 2000-01
Marie-Curie Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, 1998-99
Postdoc, UC Berkeley 1995-97
EPSRC fellow, Cambridge 1993-94
Fellow, American Physical Society

Research

Research Groups

• Nanodevice Physics

Courses Taught

Autumn 2023

• PHYS 546 A: Condensed-Matter Physics
• PHYS 546 B: Condensed-Matter Physics

Spring 2023

• PHYS 544 A: Applications of Electromagnetic Theory
• PHYS 544 B: Applications of Electromagnetic Theory

Winter 2023

• PHYS 486 A: Senior Honors Seminar
• PHYS 488 A: Honors Thesis
• PHYS 495 A: Seminar on Current Problems in Physics

Autumn 2022

• PHYS 224 A: Thermal Physics

Spring 2022

• PHYS 568 A: Theory of Solids

Winter 2022

• PHYS 567 A: Theory of Solids

Autumn 2021

• PHYS 224 A: Thermal Physics

Spring 2021

• PHYS 568 A: Theory of Solids

Winter 2021

• PHYS 567 A: Theory of Solids
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Autumn 2020

• PHYS 224 A: Thermal Physics

Spring 2020

• PHYS 568 A: Theory of Solids

Winter 2020

• PHYS 567 A: Theory of Solids

Autumn 2019

• PHYS 224 A: Thermal Physics

Spring 2019

• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Winter 2019

• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Autumn 2018

• PHYS 323 A: Electromagnetism
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Spring 2018

• PHYS 117 A: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 B: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 C: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 D: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 F: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 G: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 H: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 I: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 117 J: General Physics Laboratory
• PHYS 121 AM: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 AN: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 AO: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 AP: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 AQ: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 AR: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 AS: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BM: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BN: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BO: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BP: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BQ: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BR: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BS: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BT: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 BU: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CM: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CN: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CO: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CP: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CR: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CT: Mechanics
• PHYS 121 CU: Mechanics
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Winter 2018

• PHYS 325 A: Quantum Mechanics - Course Website
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Autumn 2017

• PHYS 324 A: Quantum Mechanics - Course Website
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

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Mum's paintings

Affiliations

Affiliated Departments: 

• Arts & Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Physics

News & Events

Related News

• Six CEI researchers among world’s most influential scholars - January 4, 2021
• An Exotic State of Matter Discovered in 2-D Material - January 22, 2018
• Physicists conduct most precise measurement yet of interaction between atoms and carbon surfaces - May 28, 2015

Related Events

• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: TIQM Summer Workshop 2023 - August 5, 2023 to August 7, 2023
• Physics Department: TIQM Inaugural Workshop (Multiple Speakers) - January 19, 2020 - 9:00am to 6:00pm

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