Doctoral Defenses

Raquel Gama Lima Costa

Dissertation 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 Eller

Dissertation 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 Luskin

Dissertation 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 Pichchamuttu

Dissertation 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 Bhattacharyya

Dissertation 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") Wang

Dissertation 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 Tao

Dissertation 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 Zhao

Dissertation 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 Li

Dissertation 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