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

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Matteo Agostini, Technical University Munich "Neutrinos: a Unique Probe to Uncover the Secrets of Nature" Neutrinos play a key role in our life. They are deeply involved in many particle and nuclear physics processes, from … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Jonathan Ouellet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero" Why is there something in the universe instead of nothing? What is the nature of the so-called Dark Matter … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Julieta Gruszko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter: The Search for Majorana Neutrinos" Why is the universe dominated by matter, and not antimatter? Neutrinos, with their changing flavors and … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Jeremy Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Measuring and modeling scattered light for quantitative contrast of nanoscale tissue structure" Diffuse light scattering in tissue is often considered problematic for imaging because it limits depth and contrast in … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium João Alves, Universität Wien "The rise of the Milky Way" Most of what we know about star and planet formation has been obtained from spatial 2D observations of the local Galactic neighborhood (d < 1 … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Michael Wittmann, The University of Maine "Using a knowledge-in-pieces resources framework to organize our knowledge of learning in physics" As a physicist who leaned toward theory, I can’t help but be interested in the theories … Read more