Events During the 2025 Fall Semester
August 2025
- Friday, August 1st
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, August 4th
- Michael Wolfe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Scaling Technologies for Si/SiGe Spin Qubits
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, August 7th
- Jacob Scott, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Utilizing the Quadrupole Transition for Cooling and Imaging of Cs Atoms
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, August 8th
- Rachel Myers, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Characterization of Tearing Mode Dynamics with the Radial Interferometer-Polarimeter on DIII-D
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by John Sarff/Brett Chapman
- Jimena Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Discovery and Characterization of Strong Gravitational Lenses in the Dark Energy Survey with Machine Learning
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Julian Beas-Gonzalez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Synthetic source injection in photometric surveys for cosmology
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Sunday, August 10th
- 8-week summer session ends
- Wednesday, August 13th
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Monday, August 18th
- Faculty contract year begins
- PhD Orientation
- Sam Hori, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Searches for astrophysical neutrinos from compact object mergers and gamma-ray active galactic nuclei with IceCube
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Justin Vandenbroucke
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Tuesday, August 19th
- Grad Professional Development
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Wednesday, August 20th
- Jessie Thwaites, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources in real time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Justin Vandenbroucke
- All Grad lunch/recess
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Thursday, August 21st
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Maxwell Nakos, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Search for the Highest Energy Neutrinos in IceCube
- 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Lu Lu
- Friday, August 22nd
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Sunday, August 24th
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 25th
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Hong Ming Lim , Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Applications of the 6s-5d quadrupole transition in neutral Cesium atoms
- 9:00 am - 11:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Tuesday, August 26th
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Wednesday, August 27th
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Anirudh Yadav, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Quantum statistics of single mode light interacting with an atomic ensemble
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Deniz Yavuz
- Thursday, August 28th
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Notebook reclamation project - 2025 edition
- Friday, August 29th
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
- Eunji Oh, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Progress toward efficient quantum networking with neutral atoms
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Mark Saffman
September 2025
- Monday, September 1st
- Labor Day
- Wednesday, September 3rd
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Friday, September 5th
- Arifa Khatee Zathul, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Understanding the production of astrophysical neutrinos in X-ray dense and gamma-ray obscured environments
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Francis Halzen
- PGSC Headshot Event
October 2025
- Tuesday, October 7th
- Tulika Bose
- Spring 2026 GAANN Fellowship Q&A Session
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin or
- Tuesday, October 14th
- Sharon Kahn, Grad Program Manager
- How to Finish
- 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Sharon Kahn, Grad Program Manager
- How to Prelim
- 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Thursday, October 16th
- Spencer Weeden, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Dielectric Loss in Superconducting Qubits
- 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Friday, October 17th
- Chi Lung Cheng
- Studies of Higgs Boson Self-interaction via Higgs Boson Pair Production and the Search for New Resonances with Prior-assisted Anomaly Detection in the ATLAS Experiment
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; , hosted by Keith Bechtol
November 2025
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Bindesh Tripathi
- Stable Perturbations in Shear-Flow Turbulence and Dynamos
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; B343 Sterling Hall, hosted by Paul Terry
- Thursday, November 27th
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 28th
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Saturday, November 29th
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Sunday, November 30th
- Thanksgiving Recess
December 2025
- Wednesday, December 10th
- Last Class Day
- Thursday, December 11th
- Study Day
- Friday, December 12th
- Exams Begin
- Saturday, December 13th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 14th
- Commencement
- Monday, December 15th
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 16th
- Exams
- Wednesday, December 17th
- Exams
- Thursday, December 18th
- Exams End