Events During the 2026 Summer Semester
May 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Last Class Day
- Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Gravitational Imaging with Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Soren Ormseth, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Modelling Nonequilibrium Superconducting Dynamics for MKID Applications
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin, hosted by Peter Timbie
- Saturday, May 2nd
- Study Day
- Sunday, May 3rd
- Exams Begin
- Monday, May 4th
- Exams
- Shihui Zang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmological Information Recovery from Large-Scale Structure
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Moritz Munchmeyer
- Carter Fox, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- New low-switching orderings by stacking order engineering of 2d materials
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Jun Xiao
- Tuesday, May 5th
- Exams
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Exams
- Samyak Jain, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Neutrino astronomy and oscillations with IceCube
- 10:15 am - 12:15 pm; 5310 CH, hosted by Francis Halzen and Dan Hooper
- Stephen McKay
- Identifying and Characterizing Dusty Star-forming Galaxies with ALMA and JWST
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280, hosted by Stephen McKay
- Thursday, May 7th
- Exams
- Friday, May 8th
- Exams End
- Commencement: Doctoral & Medical Professional
- Physics Graduation Celebration Event
- Saturday, May 9th
- Commencement: Bachelor’s, Master’s, Law
- Sunday, May 17th
- Faculty Contract Year Ends
- Monday, May 18th
- 4-week Summer Session Begins
- Monday, May 25th
- Memorial Day
- Tuesday, May 26th
- 3-week Summer Session Begins
June 2026
- Tuesday, June 2nd
- Dmitry Zverevich, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Electron liquids and crystals in bilayer and topological quantum systems
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Sunday, June 14th
- 4-week Summer Session Ends
- 3-week Summer Session Ends
- Monday, June 15th
- 8-week Summer Session Begins
July 2026
- Saturday, July 4th
- Independence Day
August 2026
- Sunday, August 9th
- 8-week Summer Session Ends
- Monday, August 17th
- Faculty Contract Year Begins