Preliminary Oral Exam

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August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2012. Previous/next year.
Sep12 Gustavo Marques Tavares - Explaining the t-tbar Asymmetry with a Light Axigluon
Sep15 Alex Kitt - The Effects of Strain on the Phonons in Graphene
Oct05 Joseph Larkin - Combining Nanopores and Nanoantennas
Oct17 Jingdi Zhang - Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Transport Study of Strongly Correlated Materials: Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 and BiFeO3
Dec01 George Keiser Near Field Coupling in Metamaterials
Dec14 Bo Chen Growth and X-Ray Spectroscopy Studies of Correlated Vanadium Oxides
Dec15 Clare Bernard Top Physics with the ATLAS Detector
Dec19 Luis Ibáñez Muon Capture on the Deuteron: The Musun Experiment
Jan17 David Sperka The CMS High Level Trigger and W' Searches at 7 TeV
Jan31 Kang Liu Phase Transition Kinetics and Critical Phenomena in the Site Diluted Ising Model
Feb01 Colin Howard Examining the Interaction Between Phonons and Dirac Fermion Quasiparticles on the Surface of the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 via Helium Atom Scattering
Mar19 Wei Li Cascading Failures in Interdependent Lattice Networks: The Critical Role of the Length of Dependency Links
Apr06 Andrew Clough The Effect of Solvent Swelling on the Properties of Polystyrene Thin Films
Apr06 Michael Kruskal Raw Data Analysis of ATLAS Backgrounds
Apr13 Qian Li Strategy of Competition between Two Groups based on an Inflexible Contrarian Opinion Model
Apr19 Javad Noorbakhsh Modeling Collective Behavior in Dictyostelium Discoideum
Apr26 John Ogren Neurophotonic Rhodopsins: Spectroscopic Characterization of Neuronal Triggers, Silencers, and in vivo Voltage Sensors
Apr27 Xiao Luo MuSun: Muon Capture on Deutron
May11 Cheng-Wei Liu Quantum Phase Transitions via Quasi-adiabatic Evolution
Jun20 Duan Wang Quantifying and Modeling Cross-Correlations in Multiple Time Series