Events During August, 2022
- Tuesday, August 2nd
- Non-partisan voting information session; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Zoom:
- , Susan Nossal
- Wednesday, August 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- 8 week summer session ends
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- APS Chapters Virtual Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- , Marciano Bagnoli
- Thursday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall or
- Nanophotonic Systems for Novel Applications: From Spaceflight to Self-Assembled Materials to Thermal Radiation, Joel Siegel, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 5th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Improving the performance of quantum computing with neutral atoms, Xiaoyu Jiang , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 8th
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Random Entanglement and History-Dependent Random Sequences, Gage Bonner, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, August 9th
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day
- Wednesday, August 10th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thursday, August 11th
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; Chamberlin 5280
- On the Measurement of Graphene Systems using Scanned Probe Techniques, Wyatt Behn , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 12th
- Physics Town Hall; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall or
- Physics Town Hall - Reporting, various speakers
- Tuesday, August 16th
- GREAT IDEAS DEI Reading Group; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274 or online at
- GREAT IDEAS DEI coffee hour
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Effects of Nuclear Uncertainties on r-Process Observables, Kelsey Lund , NC State University
- Wednesday, August 17th
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274
- New Physics with PeV Astrophysical Neutrino Beams, Ibrahim Safa , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Monday, August 22nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Interesting Aspects of Nearly Extremal Black Holes, Upamanyu Moitra, ICTP
- Tuesday, August 23rd
- Thesis Defense; 9:00 am; Chamberlin 4274
- Sterile Neutrino Search with the NOvA Detectors, Harry Hausner , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 24th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Two problems for strong CP: Topological quantization and the first postulate of quantum mechanics, Bjorn Garbrecht, Munich Tech. U.
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Chamberlin 4274
- Measuring the Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with IceCube DeepCore, Kayla DeHolton , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, August 25th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm;
- A Few New Techniques for Probing IceCube Data and a Search for High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos, Bunheng Ty, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Friday, August 26th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am;
- Constructing an Extended TFT from an A-infinity Algebra, Weng-Him Cheung , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 28th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2022: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 29th
- Academic Calendar
- Graduate School Fall 2022: Fall Degree Window Period begins
- Tuesday, August 30th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
- Escapers, merger remnants and double-faced stars: studying exotic white dwarfs with ZTF and Gaia, Ilaria Caiazzo , Caltech
- Wednesday, August 31st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Summer Fun; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hill or 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Weekly Recess, Sharon Kahn
- Climate & Diversity; 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Bystander Intervention Skills for Physics Faculty and Staff, Tamie Klumpyan, UW Office of Human Resources