Raquel Gama Lima CostaDissertation Title: Reweighting methods for elucidation of conformational ensembles of proteins Date & Time: March 31, 2025 at 10:00 am Location: 1136 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: David Fushman (CHAIR), Pratyush Tiwary, Silvina Matysiak, Susan Krueger, Jeffery Klauda |
Benjamin EllerDissertation Title: Structural and Excitonic Properties of Quantum Defect-Tailored Ultrashort Carbon Nanotubes from Density Functional Theory Date & Time: March 14, 2025 at 3:00 pm Location: 3150 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: YuHuang Wang (CO-CHAIR), Charles W. Clark (CO-CHAIR), Jacek Kłos, Min Ouyang, Victor Yakovenko |
Jamie LuskinDissertation Title: Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for Dark Matter Detection Applications Date & Time: December 5, 2024 at 12:00 pm Location: REMOTE DEFENSE http://go.umd.edu/Luskin_Defense Examining Committee: Yanne Chembo, Matthew Shaw, Daniel Lathrop, Carlos Rios Ocampo, Johnpierre Paglione |
Sumedha PichchamuttuDissertation Title: Advancing Materials for Solid State Batteries Date & Time: September 18, 2024 at 10:00 am Location: REMOTE DEFENSE http://go.umd.edu/Pichchamuttu_Defense Examining Committee: Liangbing Hu, Shenqiang Ren, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, You Zhou, Chunsheng Wang |
Debankur BhattacharyyaDissertation Title: Nonequilibrium statistical physics of feedback-controlled and autonomous information-thermodynamic systems Date & Time: June 17, 2024 at 2:00 pm Location: 1116 IPST Building (Seminar Room) Examining Committee: Christopher Jarzynski, Victor Yakovenko, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Pratyush Tiwary, Daniel Lathrop |
Qingfeng ("Kee") WangDissertation Title: Quantum computation for quantum chemistry Date & Time: April 9, 2024 at 9:00 am Location: REMOTE DEFENSE https://duke.zoom.us/j/91545527294 Examining Committee: Christopher Monroe, Alexey Gorshkov, Quraishi Qudsia, Xiaodi Wu, Christopher Jarzynski |
Junheng TaoDissertation Title: How non-Hermitian superfluids are special Date & Time: March 12, 2024 at 2:00 pm Location: 3150 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: Steven Rolston (CO-CHAIR), Ian Spielman (CO-CHAIR), William D. Phillips, Trey Porto, Mohammad Hafezi |
Renjie ZhaoDissertation Title: Analyzing Dynamical Processes with Local Molecular Field Theory Date & Time: November 17, 2023 at 3:00 pm Location: 1116 IPST Building (Seminar Room) Examining Committee: John Weeks (CO-CHAIR), Pratyush Tiwary (CO-CHAIR), Christopher Jarzynski, Garegin Papoian, Yifei Mo |
Kungang LiDissertation Title: Relaxation Time Fluctuations in Transmons with Different Supercconducting Gaps Date & Time: October 13, 2023 at 10:00 AM Location: 3150 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: Christopher Lobb (CHAIR), Frederick C. Wellstood, Benjamin S. Palmer, Steven M. Anlage, John Cumings |