Previous Student Presentations

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Previous student presentations

Spring 2024
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerAdvisorTitle
Wednesday, February 283:00 pmOCSE A204Comprehensive Exam and M. Sc. defenseRenju R. PeroorDmytro BozhkoMagnetism: from quantum limit to classical mechanics
Thursday, April 114:45 pmOCSE A204Ph.D. defenseJonathon DavidsonKaren LiveseyLangevin simulations of magnetic nanoparticles: from self-assembly to magnetic relaxation
Monday, April 2210:40 amENGR 417M.Sc. DefenseAdrian LeanzaAnatoliy GlushchenkoAligning liquid crystal materials through nanoparticles: a review of recent progress
Fall 2023
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerAdvisorTitle
Thursday, November 169:00 amOCSE A204Comprehensive examMedhanie EstiphanosEzio IacoccaCurrent-induced solitons in the hydrodynamic formulation of magnetization dynamics
Thursday, November 161:00 pmOCSE A204Ph.D. dissertation defenseMatthew CopusRobert CamleyLinear and nonlinear dynamics of spin waves: dispersion relations, frequency combs, rogue waves, localized half-frequency modes
Thursday, November 3012:15 pmOCSE A240M.Sc. defenseAlison RoxburghEzio IacoccaNanodesigned magnonic crystals
Thursday, November 301:15 pmOCSE A240M.Sc. defenseGhanem AlatteiliEzio IacoccaExploring magnon band structure in artificial spin ice for arbitrary geometries
Summer 2023
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerAdvisorTitle
Friday, June 232:00 pmOCSE A204M.Sc. defenseColton EvansZbigniew CelinskiThe effect of deposition conditions on the critical temperatures of Niobium Nitride thin films
Friday, June 233:30 pmOCSE A240M.Sc. paper presentationYu HaoZbigniew CelinskiInfluence of magnetic external field and particle size on the formation of a single domain state
Spring 2023
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerAdvisorTitle
Thursday, March 234:45 pmVirtualPh.D. defenseMing Chih TsaiKathrin SpendierThe Study of Diffusion, Rotation, and Reaction in Biological Systems
Monday, April 33:00 pmOCSE B215Ph.D. defenseJeramy LewisRobert CamleyApplications of Nonlinear and Computational Physics in Magnetism and Epidemiology
Thursday, April 612:15 pmUC 126Ph.D. defenseTristan PaulGuy HagenImproving Sensitive Microscopy Techniques: SERS, SIM, and Spinning Disks
Monday, April 101:00 pmTBDPh.D. defenseYaroslav BalytskyiKelly McNearInterdisciplinary Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms
Thursday, April 134:30 pmOCSE A204Ph.D. defenseReed JonesRair Macêdo and Robert CamleyThe physics of optical devices with liquid crystals and crystal quartz
Fall 2022
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerTitle
Tuesday, November 812:15 pmOCSE A204M.Sc. paper presentationChristian PetersonRotational rigid body dynamics, Jacobi elliptic functions, and a detumbling satellite
Friday, November 113:00 pmOCSE A204 & ZoomPh.D. dissertation defenseViktoriia SavchukHybrid plasmonic nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Friday, November 183:30 pmOCSE A204Ph.D. dissertation defensePaul CoutureFerromagnetic resonance characterization of composite EMI shielding materials
Friday, December 1610:00 amOCSE A204Ph.D. dissertation defenseSara GoldmanInvestigations of the magnetic properties of NiFe films and multilayers for use in on-wafer inductors
Spring 2022
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerTitle
Friday, April 81:15 pmOCSE A204 & ZoomPh.D. dissertation defenseMark WatsonTurbulence in two-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic systems with a lattice Boltzmann model
Thursday, April 14th4:00 pmOCSE A204 & ZoomPh.D. dissertation defenseCasey (Artek) ChalifourImprovements on magnetic nanoparticle characterization theories
Spring 2021
DateTimePlaceType of eventSpeakerTitle
10/0512:15 pmOCSE A204Comprehensive examYaroslav BalytskyiInterdisciplinary applications of physics and machine learning
10/1912:15 pmOCSE A204Comprehensive examReed JonesFun with liquid crystals: 1. designing fast tunable optical filters 2. metastable states
10/2212:15 pmZoomComprehensive examMing TsaiPlant germination in magnetic fields
11/034:30 pmOCSE A204Comprehensive examJonathon DavidsonSelf-assembled magnetite nanoparticles above a hard drive: the effect of the soft underlayer and changing the separation of reversed magnetic regions
11/161:15 pmOCSE A204Ph.D. dissertation defenseKyle CulhaneApplications of plasmonic noble metal nanomaterials in biomedical imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics
12/079:00 1mUC309Comprehensive examJustin CaseLaser deposition of nanoparticles on thinly coated substrates