Physics Ph.D. Thesis Defense Schedule

Wednesday, July 09, 2008
2:00 pm, 36-428
"High Fidelity Quantum Gates with Ions in Cryogenic Microfabricated Ion Traps"

Presented by Jaroslaw Labaziewicz

Thesis Committee:
Isaac Chuang, Vladan Vuletic, Peter Shor

Friday, July 11, 2008
12:30 pm, NW22-268
"Quantum noise and radiation pressure effects in high power optical interferometers"

Presented by Thomas R Corbitt

Thesis Committee:
Nergis Mavalvala, Edmund Bertschinger, Erik Katsavounidis

Monday, July 28, 2008
2:00 pm, 4-331
"Phases and Phases Transitions of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems"

Presented by Pouyan Ghaemi

Thesis Committee:
Senthil Todadri, Patrick Lee, Young Lee

Friday, August 15, 2008
11:00 am, 4-331
"Cooling od Driven Systems"

Presented by Mark Rudner

Thesis Committee:
Leonid Levitov, Ray Ashoori, Mehran Kardar