Physics 528, Autumn 2023

INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH

Marcel den Nijs
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle
PAA A114, Friday 14:30 pm - 16:20 pm

This course provides first-year Physics Graduate Students with an overview of research performed in our department
to assist them selecting a research group. Each week three different Faculty speak about their research for 30 minutes each
with two 10 minute long breaks for discussion.

For CREDIT in this course, a student must: attend ALL lectures
visit one specific research group at the end of the quarter
and return the Visit a Research Group Form before the end of final exam week.





The detailed Schedule below includes links to research pages provided by the speakers.
The Physics Department WEB site contains many more detailed links to specific research groups WEB sites.

Schedule

Friday September 29:
Friday October 6:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Alejandro Garcia, Searching for new phenomena using new techniques
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: Jason Detwiler, Creating Matter (Without Antimatter!) in the Laboratory
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Alvaro Chavarria, Low-energy astroparticle and nuclear physics with imaging detectors
Friday October 13:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Matt Yankowitz, Two-dimensional quantum materials
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: Gordon Watts, Searching at the edge of the Long Lifetime Frontier
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Mark Rudner, Fundamental physics from atomic to macroscopic scales
Friday October 20:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Arka Majundar, Nanophotonics for Information Science and Imaging
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: Deep Gupta, Quantum Dynamics, Simulation, and Sensing with Ultracold Atoms
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Shih-Chieh Hsu, Accelerating Discovery of Dark Universe with Artificial Intelligence
Friday October 27:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Miguel Morales, 21 cm Cosmology
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: Quentin Buat, A next generation rare pion decay experiment
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Sarah Keller, Experimental biophysics with phase-separating and bending sheets and membranes
Friday November 3:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Boris Blinov, Two-dimensional trapped ion crystals for quantum simulations and other fun things
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: David Cobden, New states of matter in two dimensions
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Samu Taulu, Magnetoencephalography: Theory and applications in brain imaging
Friday November 10:
  • Veterans Day
Friday November 17:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Mo Li, Steering light with sound --from 3 nm to 300 meters
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: Sara Mouradian, Increasing Qubit Count and Connectivity Without Sacrificing Fidelity
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Sanjay Reddy, Nuclear and particle astrophysics in the multi-messenger era
Friday November 24:
  • Thanksgiving break
Friday December 01:
  • 14:30-15:00 pm: Jerry Seidler, X-rays, Energy Science, and Environmental Physics
  • 15:10-15:40 pm: Marcel den Nijs Power law scaling in the human cortex and robotic arm brain interfaces
  • 15:50-16:20 pm: Arthur Banard, Probing classical and quantum nanosystems
Friday December 08:
Einstein pen in Boerhave Museum (Leiden) with note by Ehrenfest

ACCOMODATION POLICIES:

UW guidelines strongly recommend everybody to wear masks inside UW facilities. during the first 2 weeks of the quarter.

Students who require SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS or encounter special (un)expected circumstances
should contact me as early as possible, so we can address these in a timely fashion (before the next short test).
See also: Disability Resources for Students.

The RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS policies of the UW can be found here:
https://registrar.washington.edu/staffandfaculty/religious-accommodations-policy.