Physics 528, Autumn 2025
INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
Marcel den Nijs
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle
PAA A114, Friday 13:30 pm - 15:20 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 class.
The detailed Schedule below includes links to research pages provided by the speakers.
The Physics Department WEB site contains detailed links to specific research groups WEB sites.
Schedule
| Friday September 26: |
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| Friday October 3: |
- 13:30-14:00 pm: Paul Wiggins, Cellular biophysics: What is the rationale for the mysterious temporal oscillations in cellular metabolites and regulation?
- 14:10-14:40 pm: Shih-Chieh Hsu, Real-Time AI for Particle Physics
- 14:50-15:20 pm: Kai-Mei Fu, Quantum Defects
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| Friday October 10: |
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| Friday October 17: |
- 13:30-14:00 pm: Laurence Yaffe, Large-N QCD
- 14:10-14:40 pm: Sanjay Reddy, Nuclear and Multi-messenger Astrophysics
- 14:50-15:20 pm: Sarah Keller, Phase separation in living and artificial membranes.
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| Friday October 24: |
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| Friday October 31: |
- 13:30-14:00 pm: Charles Marcus, Synthetic Quantum Matter
- 14:10-14:40 pm: Mo Li, Integrated and Quantum Photonics
- 14:50-15:20 pm: David Masiello, Inelastic Scattering of Structured Matter Waves for Quantum and Photonic Materials Characterization
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| Friday November 7: |
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| Friday November 14: |
- 13:30-14:00 pm: Samu Taulu, Magnetoencephalography: Theory and applications in brain imaging
- 14:10-14:40 pm: tba , tba
- 14:50-15:20 pm: tba , tba
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| Friday November 21: |
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| Friday November 28: |
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| Friday December 05: |
- Visit your choice of a specific research group this week or earlier. Submit
your research group visiting form electronically as an upload on Canvas.
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Einstein pen in Boerhave Museum (Leiden) with note by Ehrenfest
Resources:
Physics Graduate Study Guide
Physics Graduate WEB pages
UWGS_2025-Student-Handbook
Graduate School WEB site
NSF Graduate Fellowships
ACCOMODATION POLICIES:
UW Disability Resources for Students
Religious Accommodations policy of the UW
Students who require special accommodations or encounter special circumstances
should contact me as early as possible,
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