UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Richard Scalettar, UC Davis "The Hubbard Model: From solids to cold atoms and back again" Over the last half-century, the Hubbard Hamiltonian has been extensively studied and applied to some of the most fundamental problems … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Adam Kelleher, Columbia University, Buzzfeed (recently) "Physics, Data Science, and Causal Inference" I'll describe my career path into data science from the Physics PhD program at UNC. I'll discuss a few projects from throughout my … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Raul Briceño, Old Dominion University "Sketches from the exotic world of quarks and gluons" At the core of everyday matter is a complex inner world of subatomic particles. In particular, the nuclei of atoms are … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Jessica Thomas, American Physical Society "How to Tell a Great Story about your Research" I’m a former condensed matter physicist who left research to work in science publishing and communication. Today, I run Physics (physics.aps.org), … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Kevin Eliceiri, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Multiscale Imaging of Cellular Microenvironments" Over the last thirty years the field of Biophotonics, the study of the interaction between light and biological material, has exploded with the advent of … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Norman Margolus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Counting distinct states in physical dynamics" Since counting distinct states is so fundamental in statistical mechanics, why isn't it a basic quantity in all of physics? It turns out … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium F. William Hersman, University of New Hampshire "Innovations and applications of high-power optical pumping" Optical pumping involves the resonant illumination of a vapor to selectively produce and control a non-thermal distribution of the atomic states. … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Dragan Huterer, University of Michigan "New Views of the Universe" I will discuss how progress in cosmology over the past decade has improved our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the physics of the … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Martin Bucher, Université Paris 7 "Exploring the Primordial Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Beyond" Cosmology endeavors to characterize, and furthermore to explain, the origin of the universe from the putative big-bang, its evolution … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Kirill Larin, University of Houston "Structural and Functional Imaging of Tissues with Optical Coherence Tomography/Elastography" Development of novel methods for structural and functional imaging, monitoring and quantification of different biological processes in tissues and small … Read more