Previous Student Presentations

Seminars

Previous student presentations

Fall 2023
Date Time Place Type of event Speaker Advisor Title
Thursday, November 16 9:00 am OCSE A204 Comprehensive exam Medhanie Estiphanos Ezio Iacocca Current-induced solitons in the hydrodynamic formulation of magnetization dynamics
Thursday, November 16 1:00 pm OCSE A204 Ph.D. dissertation defense Matthew Copus Robert Camley Linear and nonlinear dynamics of spin waves: dispersion relations, frequency combs, rogue waves, localized half-frequency modes
Thursday, November 30 12:15 pm OCSE A240 M.Sc. defense Alison Roxburgh Ezio Iacocca Nanodesigned magnonic crystals
Thursday, November 30 1:15 pm OCSE A240 M.Sc. defense Ghanem Alatteili Ezio Iacocca Exploring magnon band structure in artificial spin ice for arbitrary geometries
Summer 2023
Date Time Place Type of event Speaker Advisor Title
Friday, June 23 2:00 pm OCSE A204 M.Sc. defense Colton Evans Zbigniew Celinski The effect of deposition conditions on the critical temperatures of Niobium Nitride thin films
Friday, June 23 3:30 pm OCSE A240 M.Sc. paper presentation Yu Hao Zbigniew Celinski Influence of magnetic external field and particle size on the formation of a single domain state
Spring 2023
Date Time Place Type of event Speaker Advisor Title
Thursday, March 23 4:45 pm Virtual Ph.D. defense Ming Chih Tsai Kathrin Spendier The Study of Diffusion, Rotation, and Reaction in Biological Systems
Monday, April 3 3:00 pm OCSE B215 Ph.D. defense Jeramy Lewis Robert Camley Applications of Nonlinear and Computational Physics in Magnetism and Epidemiology
Thursday, April 6 12:15 pm UC 126 Ph.D. defense Tristan Paul Guy Hagen Improving Sensitive Microscopy Techniques: SERS, SIM, and Spinning Disks
Monday, April 10 1:00 pm TBD Ph.D. defense Yaroslav Balytskyi Kelly McNear Interdisciplinary Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms
Thursday, April 13 4:30 pm OCSE A204 Ph.D. defense Reed Jones Rair Macêdo and Robert Camley The physics of optical devices with liquid crystals and crystal quartz
Fall 2022
Date Time Place Type of event Speaker Title
Tuesday, November 8 12:15 pm OCSE A204 M.Sc. paper presentation Christian Peterson Rotational rigid body dynamics, Jacobi elliptic functions, and a detumbling satellite
Friday, November 11 3:00 pm OCSE A204 & Zoom Ph.D. dissertation defense Viktoriia Savchuk Hybrid plasmonic nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Friday, November 18 3:30 pm OCSE A204 Ph.D. dissertation defense Paul Couture Ferromagnetic resonance characterization of composite EMI shielding materials
Friday, December 16 10:00 am OCSE A204 Ph.D. dissertation defense Sara Goldman Investigations of the magnetic properties of NiFe films and multilayers for use in on-wafer inductors
Spring 2022
Date Time Place Type of event Speaker Title
Friday, April 8 1:15 pm OCSE A204 & Zoom Ph.D. dissertation defense Mark Watson Turbulence in two-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic systems with a lattice Boltzmann model
Thursday, April 14th 4:00 pm OCSE A204 & Zoom Ph.D. dissertation defense Casey (Artek) Chalifour Improvements on magnetic nanoparticle characterization theories
Spring 2021
Date Time Place Type of event Speaker Title
10/05 12:15 pm OCSE A204 Comprehensive exam Yaroslav Balytskyi Interdisciplinary applications of physics and machine learning
10/19 12:15 pm OCSE A204 Comprehensive exam Reed Jones Fun with liquid crystals: 1. designing fast tunable optical filters 2. metastable states
10/22 12:15 pm Zoom Comprehensive exam Ming Tsai Plant germination in magnetic fields
11/03 4:30 pm OCSE A204 Comprehensive exam Jonathon Davidson Self-assembled magnetite nanoparticles above a hard drive: the effect of the soft underlayer and changing the separation of reversed magnetic regions
11/16 1:15 pm OCSE A204 Ph.D. dissertation defense Kyle Culhane Applications of plasmonic noble metal nanomaterials in biomedical imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics
12/07 9:00 1m UC309 Comprehensive exam Justin Case Laser deposition of nanoparticles on thinly coated substrates