2019
PhD Thesis Defense: Kieran Murphy
2:00–3:00 pm Kersten Physics Teaching Center, room 206
“Granular materials as a model for how disordered systems adapt”
Zachariasen Lecture
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
How did Amy and Sheldon win their Nobel Prize?
David Saltzberg, University of California Los Angeles
PhD Thesis Defense: Yao Lu
11:00 am–12:00 pm GCIS W301
“Parametric Control of Flux-tunable Superconducting Circuits”
PhD Thesis Defense: Zoheyr Doctor
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 401
“Hearing and Seeing the Universe: Results from Gravitational-Wave and Optical Studies of Merging Neutron Stars and Black Holes”
Physics Department Student Honors & Awards Ceremony
3:00 pm Kersten Physics Teaching Center
Reception for Dam Son
5:00 pm Kersten Physics Teaching Center, room 206
A reception in honor of the 2018 Dirac Medal for Professor Dam T. Son
Physics Coding Club Hackathon
2:00–5:00 pm Physics Research Center, room 201
All ability levels and majors are welcome, and we have some ideas for projects to work on from learning how to start analysis to digging deeper.
RSVP: https://forms.gle/PJeKtRdpfrNLmNXW8, food will be provided