Events

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Lindsay Babcock,  Michael Gennari, Samantha Jewett, Tristan Mills

Four 4th years will briefly describe their own varied coop experiences and then we will open the floor for a panel Q&A. Come with your questions about the Coop process: finding a position, matching, academic vs. industry, courses you should take to prepare yourself for coop etc.

There will be Timbits.
Everyone is welcome to attend.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Sherry Suyu

Simons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute
Associate Professor, Technische Universität München
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Mike Rossi

Mike Rossi graduated UW Physics in 2011, and went on to found Smile.io, where he is the current CEO. Smile.io builds reward program software for thousands of eCommerce businesses around the word - rewarding 10s of millions of online shoppers each year. The company has 60 employees, and is growing rapidly.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Dr. Mahmood Sabooni, Institute for Quantum Computing

Have you ever looked at a flame dancing in the air and asked yourself what a flame really is? For instance, what happens when we burn firewood (matter) and thus change it to light and heat (energy). Simply speaking, when you ask such questions you are wondering about two physical quantities, light and matter. Clearly many over the history of time have thought about the interaction between light and matter, and some have thought more in depth in order to understand the basic phenomenon related to this interaction.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

On September 18th, we will be visiting the Perimeter Institute, the epicentre for theoretical physics, with focus ranging from quantum foundation, to quantum gravity, to quantum fields and strings, particle physics, to condensed matter and quantum information science, and to cosmology.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Agata Branczyk (Perimeter) 

Light moves at nature’s speed limit, and doesn’t degrade for hundreds of kilometres, making it our best medium for sending information over long distances. But to send quantum information, we require quantum light.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Professor Wei Tsen (UW Chemistry/IQC) 

The discovery of graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials has led to a new vanguard in condensed matter physics. Not only does dimensionality allow for robust control of the electronic properties of layered materials, novel heterostructures with no traditional analog can further be created by interfacing different 2D species. In this talk, I will give an overview of the 2D materials field, discuss a few recent breakthroughs, and present some of our own results on 2D magnetic systems.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Alan Jamison, Department of Physics & Astronomy and IQC

I will begin by describing how we use a collection of high power lasers to cool a hot atomic beam from 1000K to 1nK. At such ultracold temperatures all thermal motion has ceased, making quantum mechanical effects dominate. One example of this behavior is the Bose-Einstein condensation transition, which sees thousands or even millions of atoms occupy the same quantum state, bringing quantum behavior to relatively large scales where it may be directly observed.

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Miriam Diamond

Phys10 Undergraduate Seminar Series - on Teams

Latham Boyle
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Over the past half-century, physicists have established the "standard model" of particle physics, which does a spectacular job of passing (nearly) all of the tests to which it has been subjected.  But some of the most basic patterns in this model remain unexplained.  Dr. Latham Boyle will introduce a few of these patterns, and some ideas for how to understand them, along with relating to a remarkable mathematical object called "exceptional Jordan Algebra".