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

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Walter Pettus, University of Washington "Weighing a Ghost: The Quest to Measure the Neutrino Mass" The ghostly neutrinos remain the only fundamental fermions whose masses are unknown. Neutrino oscillation measurements definitively demonstrate neutrinos have mass, … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University "Searching for dark matter with liquid argon" The DarkSide collaboration has undertaken a staged program using argon time projection chambers (TPCs) to search for dark matter. I will introduce DarkSide-50, a … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Danielle Speller, Yale University "Low Temperature Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model" The standard model of particle physics provides a useful framework for understanding the known particles and their interactions, and heavily informs our … Read more