2022
Brendan Saxberg's PhD Thesis Defense
11:00 am–1:00 pm
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Using topology to build "impossible" electronic devices in graphene heterostructures Andrea Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kha-I To's PhD Thesis Defense 11/9 at 9:30 am CDT
9:30–10:30 am
Krutik Patel's PhD Thesis Defense
2:00–3:00 pm
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
The Borexino Experiment: A parable of pioneering design, determined resolve, and textbook results
Andrea Pocar, UMass
John Devany's PhD Thesis Defense 11/3 at 10:30 am CDT
10:30–11:30 am
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum-Resolved EELS *
Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Claire Baum’s PhD Thesis Defense
4:30–5:30 pm
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
QCD critical point and the predictable randomness of relativistic fluids
Misha Stephanov, University of Illinois, Chicago
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture
3:30 pm
Listening to Cosmic Symphonies Above the Quantum Din
Nergis Mavalvala, MIT