Pick up at Cumberland House Hotel Lobby Make sure to be in the hotel lobby at 5pm and leave with the group in order to gain access to the Nielsen Physics Building.

Planetarium Show Room: First Floor Experience UTK's in-house planetarium: Learn what is visible in the sky right now, and take a journey through the solar system as we explore some of the potentially-habitable worlds near us!

Walk to Tomato Head from Cumberland House Room: Lobby Profs. Johnston, Richers, and Mannik will meet the students in the hotel lobby for 6:30 PM and walk over to the restaurant downtown. Any students joining later can walk over to the restaurant on Market Square on their own.

Welcome Dinner w/ Faculty Pizza dinner at a Knoxville institution

Transport to IAMM from Cumberland House lobby Please meet in the lobby at 8:30am. If you miss the ground transportation for some reason, contact the front office at (865) 974-3342 to arrange a pickup

Breakfast in IAMM 145 Room: 145 IAMM: 2641 Osprey Vista Way

Lab tours Visiting Experimental Labs at the Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing (IAMM)

Transport to Nielsen

Meeting with Dept Head, Grad Program Director, Director of Labs

• Christine Cheney (University of Tennessee Department of Physics and Astronomy)
• Steve Johnston (University of Tennessee)
• Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Room: 307 Learn about our department and graduate program

Pizza Lunch with Faculty and Current Grad Students Room: 201 (Space Bar)

Pre-scheduled One-on-One Meetings with Faculty Based on your responses on the survey, we've arranged faculty meetings when possible. Please find your personalized meeting schedule at the link below. If you would like to add to this schedule, please get in touch with Prof Lee: llee@utk.edu Schedules last updated March 10, 2025.

Grad Student Poster Session Learn about some of the great research going on in the department from our current grad students

Pre-Colloquium Tea and Refreshments

Colloquium - Radioactive Molecules are Dying to Reveal New Physics

• Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz (MIT)

Room: 307 Abstract: Rapid progress in the experimental control and interrogation of molecules is enabling new opportunities for investigating the fundamental laws of our universe. In particular, molecules containing heavy, octupole-deformed nuclei, such as radium, offer enhanced sensitivity for measuring yet-to-be-discovered parity and time-reversal violating nuclear properties. In this colloquium, I will present recent highlights and perspectives from laser spectroscopy experiments on these species, as well as discuss the relevance of these experiments in addressing open problems in nuclear and particle physics.

Campus Tours w/ Grad Students or Downtime For campus tours, gather outside of colloquium after it ends to meet your grad student guides.

Dinner with Current Grad Students

Check out of Hotel on Time Checkout time is 11am. If going to ORNL, please make sure to checkout before coming to campus for the shuttle. The hotel can store your bags at the counter.

Pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with faculty Based on your responses on the survey, we've arranged faculty meetings when possible. Please find your personalized meeting schedule at the link from Monday afternoon. Your PDF schedule contains the schedule for both days.