UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Ana Maria Rey, JILA, NIST, & University of Colorado Boulder “Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers” Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Virginia Kilborn, Swinburne University “Tracing the gaseous surrounds of galaxies” Observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) component of galaxies is a powerful mechanism to probe the physical properties of galaxies in the nearby Universe. … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium David Albert, Columbia University “How to teach Quantum Mechanics - Part II” I distinguish between two conceptually different kinds of physical space: a space of ordinary material bodies, which is the space of points at … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Aaron Titus, High Point University “Iterative Thinking” Numerical techniques for integration are hardly taught in a typical calculus course and are hardly used in a typical physics course. Yet, numerical integration is an essential tool … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Carl Bender, Washington University in St Louis “PT Symmetry” By using complex-variable methods one can extend conventional Hermitian quantum theories into the complex domain. The result is a huge and exciting new class of parity-time-symmetric … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Piers Coleman, Rutgers University “Dark Matter Challenges of the Solid State” At the turn of the 20th century, physicists faced an uncanny range of unsolved problems: simple questions, such as why hot objects change color, … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Gerald Cecil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “When the Monster Awoke: Dating the Most Recent Major Flare of Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole” The historical power output of mass accreted onto the 4 … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Dmitri Khveshchenko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “The Holographic Mystique” In the recent years, there has been a remarkable proliferation of the holographic techniques originating from 'bona fide' string theory into a number … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Amy Oldenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “How the Physics of Nanoparticle Motion in Biological Tissue Can Tell Us Useful Things: A Tale of Ultrasound and Optical Contrast Methods” There are many parallels … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Alexandra Gade, Michigan State University “The science of FRIB: From the nuclear many-body challenge to applications of rare isotopes” There are approximately 300 stable and 3,000 known unstable (rare) isotopes. Estimates are that over 7,000 … Read more