Tentative

EVENT
SCHEDULE

All events take place on campus. Specific locations will be announced closer to the tournament date.

8:30 AM

Check In

8:30 – 9:00 AM • Physics North Entrance

9:00 AM

Introduction

9:00 – 9:45 AM • Physics North 1

10:00 AM

Lab Section

10:00 – 11:30 AM • Room assignment by team

11:45 AM

Team Free Response Questions

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM • Room assignment by team

1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 – 3:00 PM

Use code PHYSICS at Binge Coffe House to donate 20% of purchase to Berkeley SPS

3:00 PM

GUTS Round

3:00 – 4:30 PM • Physics North 1

4:30 PM

Socials & Faculty Talks

4:30 – 7:00 PM • Physics North 1

  • Faculty talks and QnA
  • Physics lab tours
  • Campus tours
7:00 PM

Awards Ceremony

7:00 – 8:00 PM • Physics North 1

Faculty Talks During Socials

Photo TBD

Vicky Xu

Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics

Victoria Xu received her B.S. in Physics from UC Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley. For her thesis, she worked with Professor Holger Müller on trapped cavity atom interferometers for precision measurements and fundamental physics. She then joined the MIT LIGO Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Associate, where she worked on commissioning the frequency-dependent squeezing upgrade for broadband quantum enhancement of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. In January 2025, Victoria returned to Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in Physics.