Preliminary Oral Exam

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