UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Roger Melko, University of Waterloo "Machine Learning the Many-Body Proble" Condensed matter physics is the study of the collective behavior of infinitely-complex assemblies of electrons, magnetic moments, atoms or qubits. This complexity is reminiscent of … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Steven Christensen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Schwinger-DeWitt Proper Time Algorithm: A History" Much of my career in physics has been, in one way or another, concerned with the use of the … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robert Botto, Innovation Department of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency "Bioengineering & Nanotechnology Solutions for Chemical and Biological Defense" The Joint Science & Technology Office (JSTO) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the research … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Curtis McCully, Las Cumbres Observatory "Transients in Time Domain Astronomy: Supernovae, Kilonovae, and Gravitational Lensing" New technology in time-domain astronomy is transforming our understanding of the universe. High-cadence, wide-field time-domain surveys are discovering both rare … Read more