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UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Patrick Doyle “Impedance Study of Wet Granular Systems” Granular systems are collections of macroscopic particulate material. A pile of sand at the beach, an hourglass, or Saturn’s rings are common examples that demonstrate the … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Chad Hobson “VIEW-MOD: a versatile illumination engine with a modular optical design for fluorescence microscopy” We developed VIEW-MOD (Versatile Illumination Engine with a Modular Optical Design): a compact, multi-modality microscope, which accommodates multiple illumination … Read more

Astronomy on Tap Triangle Gerald Cecil, UNC Chapel Hill “When the Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Awoke” Rongmon Bordoloi “The Milky Way's Missing Baryons” Come check out Astronomy on Tap Triangle, our North Carolina chapter of short and engaging talks … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Masters Talk Nikos Dokmetzoglou “Conformal Group Transformations in 6? Massless ? ?^3 Scalar Theory and 4? Yang-Mills Gauge Theory” Abstract TBA

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Michael Shull, University of Colorado “Where Do Galaxies End?” I review recent observations and theoretical estimates of the spatial extent of galaxies. Galaxies are defined as systems of stars and gas embedded in extended halos … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Nikos Dokmetzoglou “Yangian Symmetry in the Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) Scattering Equations Formalism” Abstract TBA

COSMS Institute & Morehead Planetarium Science Center Presented by UNC Faculty: Laura Mersini-Houghton, Adrienne Erickcek, Nick Law “Celebrating the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize: Cosmology and Exoplanets” The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Nolan Miller “Ab initio calculations of hadronic quantities using lattice quantum chromodynamics” Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the quantum field theory describing hadronic matter, which comprises the majority of the non-dark energy-density of our … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Yao An “Experimental and Simulation Approaches of in-situ NMR for Studying Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Metal-organic Frameworks UiO-66” To gain insight into the role of topology and defects in molecular accessibility, diffusivity, and … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Presentation Lori Downen “The Study of 29Si(p,γ)30P and Its Impact on Classical Nova Nucleosynthesis” Classical novae are stellar explosions occurring in binary systems consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence partner. Thermonuclear … Read more