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Events During the 2020 Summer Semester
May 2020
- Thursday, May 14th
- Zachary Buckholtz, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Progress Towards an Atomic Metamaterial
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Virtual: , hosted by Deniz Yavuz (Advisor)
- Thursday, May 28th
- David Gold, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Continuous-Wave Optical Modulation via Stimulated Raman Scattering
- 1:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by Deniz Yavuz (Advisor)
June 2020
- Monday, June 1st
- Kit Newton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Stability of Diffuse Optical Tomography in the Bayesian Framework
- 1:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by Lisa Everett and Qin Li, Faculty Co-Advisors
- Wednesday, June 17th
- Baris Ozguler, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Theory and Simulations of Interacting Quantum Systems
- 10:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Maxim Vavilov (Advisor)
July 2020
- Thursday, July 2nd
- Joseph Olson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Exploring driven, high Lundquist number magnetic reconnection in the laboratory: studies of sub-ion scale plasmoids, and the interplay between shocks and magnetic flux pileup
- 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Zoom, hosted by Jan Egedal, Faculty Advisor
- Monday, July 13th
- Jason Milhone, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Instability, ion heating, and flow drive in high-? hall plasmas
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Cary Forest, Faculty Advisor
- Friday, July 24th
- Dahan Kim, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Techniques to improve neurovascular 4D-flow MRI and its applications
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Kevin Johnson, Faculty Advisor
- Wednesday, July 29th
- Chad Bustard, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmic Ray Transport and the Galaxy Gas Cycle
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Ellen Zweibel, Faculty Advisor
August 2020
- Monday, August 3rd
- Ken Flanagan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Development of high-beta weakly magnetized plasma Couette flow in pursuit of electromagnetic instabilities in the Hall regime
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Cary Forest, Faculty Advisor
- Wednesday, August 5th
- Diptaranjan Das, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- A study of Collective effects and Dark state based localization protocols in cold atoms
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Deniz Yavuz (Advisor)
- Thursday, August 6th
- Austin Schneider, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Precision measurements of the astrophysical neutrino flux
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by Albrecht Karle, Faculty Advisor
- Wednesday, August 12th
- Adrian Fraser, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Role of Stable Eigenmodes in Shear-flow Instability Saturation and Turbulence
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Paul Terry, Faculty Advisor
- Alex Cole, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Cosmological and String Theoretic Data
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by Gary Shiu, Faculty Advisor
- Tuesday, August 18th
- Shaun Alsum, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Effective Field Theory Search Results from the LUX Run 4 Data Set, and Construction of the LZ System Test Platforms
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; , hosted by Kim Palladino, Faculty Advisor
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Alex Opremcak, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- High-Fidelity Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit using an On-Chip Microwave Photon Counter
- 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; Virtual , hosted by Robert McDermott (Advisor)
- Neil Leonard, Physics MS Graduate Student
- Flavored Gauge Mediation with Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; virtual , hosted by Lisa Everett, Faculty Advisor
- Friday, August 28th
- Blake Wetherton, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Reconnection in the Age of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Virtual, hosted by Jan Egedal, Faculty Advisor