Undergraduate Contacts
Director Undergraduate Studies
choosingphysics [at] stanford.edu (Pre-Major Advising)
Physics Undergraduate Summer Research 2023
The Research Program has weekly Faculty Research Presentations and/or Professional Development Workshops. Except for the Orientation, which will be held on Monday, June 26 at 9:00 AM, all other events will be held in person and are scheduled to take place Wednesdays at 9:00 AM in Physics and Astrophysics Building, Room 102/103. During weeks where there is a Faculty Research Presentation, it will start at 9:00 AM. If there is no Faculty Research Presentation, the Professional Development Workshop will begin at 9:00 AM. All programs, unless otherwise noted, will conclude by 10:30am. All Research participants are required to attend and participate in these presentations and workshops.
NEWS
- Orientation will be on Monday, June 26, 9:00 - 10:20am in Physics and Astrophysics Building, room 102/103.
- We will hold mid-summer check-in meetings during week 5. Sign up and Mid Quarter Reflections survey links to be added later in the summer.
- Students will give a brief (~6-minute) presentation about their research at the end of the program (rather than presenting a poster at an in-person event). Presentations will be held on Thursday or Friday of week 10 of the program.
SCHEDULE FOR SUMMER 2023 - Details such as titles of talks will be added, but event timing is fixed.
All events will be held in person in the Physics and Astrophysics Building, room 102/103 and will begin at 9:00am Wednesday morning unless noted.
Upcoming Social Events
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream: Event on Thursday, July 27 at 5:30 PM; form due by noon, Wednesday, July 26
SLAC Tour: Event on Tuesday, August 8; sign up here ASAP, limited to 29 students, first-come basis
Stanford Student Observatory Tour: Event on Wednesday, August 9 (rain date is Thursday, August 10); sign up here
Professional Development Workshops and Faculty Research Presentations
| Date | Faculty Talk | Workshop or Title of Faculty Talk |
|---|---|---|
06/26 (MON) | Intro summer research | |
| 07/05 | Joonhee Choi | High Fidelity Quantum Science with Rydberg Atom Arrays |
| 07/12 | Shea Hess | Seen and Unseen – My Journey to the Far Side of the Sun |
| 07/19 | Intro to Physics Subfields (Contact info of panel members below)
| |
| 07/26 | Mid-quarter Check-ins | |
| 07/26 | ZX Shen | In Search for the Next Magic Stone |
| 08/02 | Mark Kasevich | Gravitational Physics with Atom Interferometry |
| 08/09 | Career Paths in Physics (Contact info of panel members below)
| |
08/15 (TUE) | Pat Burchat: Special (optional) session: Beyond the Bachelor's: Thinking about Advance Degrees on Tuesday, August 15 at 4:00 PM | |
| 08/16 | Kent Irwin | The quantum revolution and the search for most of the mass in the universe |
| 08/23 | -- | How to Give a Talk |
| 08/30 | Lauren Tompkins | Searching for Dark Matter with Accelerators |
09/01 (FRI) | Final presentations! | Mini talks will be from 9:30am – 11:30am in the 3rd floor of Building 160 |