UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Exploring Beyond the Standard Model with Lattice QCD" While the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been enormously successful in describing the world around us, there … Read more

UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Christoph Schmidt, Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biology, Duke University "Active Biological Matter and Mechanosensing" Thermodynamic non-equilibrium is a defining feature of living systems on all levels of organization. … Read more

UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Nicholas Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "A night at high speed: exploring the minute-cadence sky with the Evryscopes" The Evryscopes are array telescopes which cover the entire visible sky in each and every … Read more

UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Carl J. Williams, Deputy Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology "Quantum Information Science Landscape and NIST" In the early 1900's, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and others laid the foundations of quantum mechanics … Read more

UNC Physics Colloquium Jon Engel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Why Quantum Computing?" I provide a basic introduction to the theory of quantum computing and its application in physics. After presenting a toy problem to illustrate general-purpose quantum … Read more

UNC Physics Colloquium Quentin Brosseau, University of Pennsylvania "A Flow and Aerosol Guide to the Orchestra" In the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic, live musical activities have come to a standstill to protect both musicians and the public. Among … Read more

UNC Physics Special Colloquium Kris Pardo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology “Cosmology with Gravitational Waves and Gravitational Waves with Cosmology Data” Gravitational waves offer us a whole new way of looking at our Universe. LIGO's observations within the … Read more

UNC Physics Colloquium Gökçe Başar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The search for the QCD critical point" The strong force binds the building blocks of protons and neutrons, quarks and gluons, together and creates most of the observed … Read more

UNC Physics Colloquium Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The ties that bind: understanding nuclear forces from lattice QCD" There are many open questions in nuclear physics which only lattice QCD may be able to answer. One … Read more

UNC Physics Colloquium Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University "Galactic Archaeology and the Search for Dark Matter" The Gaia mission is in the process of mapping nearly 1% of the Milky Way’s stars, nearly a billion in total. This data set is … Read more