Physics 309
Spring 2019

Undergraduate Seminar 

Course Materials:

• Week 1: 1/22            Introduction to Undergraduate Seminar
  Syllabus
  Overheads
  Worksheet
  
  
• Week 2: 1/29           Talk 1: Seth Aubin
  Title: Ultra-Cold Matter Technology: Physics and Applications.
  
  
• Week 3: 2/5            Talk 2: David Armstrong
  Topic: The Qweak parity violation experiment.
  
  
• Week 4: 2/12          Talk 3: Jeff Nelson
  Topic: How to detect a particle.
  
  
• Week 5: 2/19          Talk 4: Bill Cooke
  Topics: Thin film batteries and the Williamsburg Landing project.
  
  
• Week 6: 2/26          Talk 5: Irina Novikova
  Title: Quantum Enhancement of Optical Sensors with Hot Atoms.
  
  
• Week 7: 3/12          Talk 6: Chris Carone
  Title: Quantum Gravity.
  
  
• Week 8: 3/19         Talk 7: Mumtaz Qazilbash
  Title: Infrared Spectroscopy of Collective Quantum Phenomena.
  
  
• Week 9: 3/26         Talk 8: Jo Dudek
  Topic: Nuclear theory and lattice QCD.
  
  
• Week 10: 4/2         Talk 9: Tricia Vahle
  Topic: Accelerator neutrino physics.
  
  
• Week 11: 4/9         Talk 10: Eugeniy Mikhailov
  Topic: Improving laser-based detectors.
  
  
• Week 12: 4/16       Student Talks, week 1
  
  
• Week 13: 4/23       Student Talks, week 2