PhD Defenses | Department of Physics and Astronomy

Upcoming PhD Defenses

Dec
11
2020

Thesis Defense: "Volatile Organic Compound Detection and Disease Diagnostics Using DNA-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Sensor Arrays"

Christopher Kehayias (University of Pennsylvania)

1:00pm - 2:00pm

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https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97797244525?pwd=…

Past PhD Defenses

Thesis Defense: “Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter Models from the Structure of Milky-Way-Mass Galaxies and the Dynamics of the Solar Neighborhood”

Davis Varghese (University of Pennsylvania)

12:00pm - 1:00pm Zoom link to follow

Committee Members: Robyn Sanderson (Advisor), Gary Bernstein, Mariangela Bernardi, Mark Devlin, Josh Klein

Chair (for Defense): Mariangela…

Thesis Defense: “An Experimental and Computational Study of Pattern Formation in Insect Cuticle and a Novel Administration of a Sensemaking Instrument in Physics Education"

Stephen Hackler (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00am - 11:00am See Zoom link

Thesis Defense: “NOVEL LIQUID CRYSTAL SELF-ASSEMBLY, DRIVEN ASSEMBLY, AND SELF-SHAPING IN CONFINED ENVIRONMENTS”

Wei-Shao Wei (university of Pennsylvania)

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Zoom Meeting Link

https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94996508184

Meeting ID: 949 9650 8184…

Jul
13
2020

Thesis Defense: “Weak Lensing and Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey”

Lucas Secco, University of Pennsylvania

3:00pm - 5:00pm

https://sasupenn.zoom.us/j/96923613757

Jun
30
2020

Thesis Defense: "Reactor Antineutrinos in the SNO+ Water Phase and Detector R&D for Large-scale Neutrino Detectors"

Tanner Kaptanoglu, University of Pennsylvania

2:00pm - 3:00pm

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