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

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium James De Yoreo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory "They Call it Free Energy, so, Hey, Why Pay?" Nucleation is the seminal process in the formation of ordered structures ranging from simple inorganic crystals to macromolecular films. … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Dark Matter, Quantum Computers, and all that." The international effort to directly detect and determine the nature of cosmic dark matter is experiencing a transition. Weakly … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Kevork Abazajian, University of California, Irvine "Cosmological Neutrinos" Cosmology has entered a precision era, allowing to make inferences of the constituency of the Universe to the sub-percent level on quantities like the density of matter. … Read more