Open House 2024

Wednesday, February 28 - Friday, March 1, 2024

Agenda


Wednesday February 28

6:15 pm - Walking tour to Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, Meet 21C Museum & Hotel Foyer

6:30 pm - Dinner with the Graduate Students, Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, Durham NC

Thursday, February 29

*all events below held in the Bolton Family Tower, Brodhead Center unless otherwise noted

8:00 am - 21C Museum & Hotel Foyer, shuttle to West Campus

8:30 am - Breakfast with Professor Steffen Bass, Chair

9:00 am - Welcome, Professor Mark Kruse, Director of Graduate Studies

9:30 am - Graduate School with Dean Alan Kendrick

10:00 am - Break

10:15 am - Cosmology and Astrophysics

10:45 am - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

11:15 am - Nonlinear Complex Systems

11:45 am - Biological Physics

12:15 pm - Lunch with Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Representatives

1:00 pm - Breakout Sessions: Women in Physics (Bolton Family Tower) or Life in Durham, NC (Rm 241)

1:30 pm - Breakout Sessions: First Year Overview (Bolton Family Tower) or Life in Durham, NC (Rm 241)

2:00 pm - Break

2:15 pm - Theoretical & Particle Physics

2:45 pm - High Energy Physics

3:15 pm - Experimental Nuclear Physics

3:45 pm - Walk to Triangle University Nuclear Labs (TUNL) Building

4:00 pm - TUNL Tour

5:15 pm - Board Shuttle, meet in Physics Building lobby

5:30 pm - Cocktail Reception, Main Gallery, 21C Museum & Hotel

6:30 pm - Chair's Dinner with Faculty, Current and Visiting Graduate Students, 21C Museum & Hotel

Friday, March 1

9:00 am - Board Shuttle, 21c Museum & Hotel (Check out of hotel and bring luggage with you)

9:30 am - Quantum Information Science, Chesterfield Building, Durham NC

10:00 am - Duke Quantum Center Panel Discussions and Lab Tours, Chesterfield Building, Durham, NC

12:00 noon - pick up luggage and depart for RDU