UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Gökce Basar, University of Illinois, Chicago "Non-Perturbative approaches to strongly interacting systems" I will provide an overview of the outstanding problems, from my perspective, of the physics of strongly interacting systems, with an emphasis … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Walter Pettus, University of Washington "Backwards is Better: Next-Generation Detectors for Nuclear Physics" The neutrino continues to conceal many of its fundamental properties, rebuffing the advances of modern physics. When our best isn’t good … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University "Development of low-background detectors for future rare-event searches" Physics beyond the Standard Model may be accessible to novel, ultra low-background detectors that push the frontiers of experimental sensitivity. Two such … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Danielle Speller, Yale University "Advancing the Search for New Physics through Low Temperature Quantum Metrologies" Understanding the nature and origin of matter is a critical component of the continuing search for new physics. In … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Matteo Agostini, Technical University Munich "Towards the Discovery of Neutrinoless Double-β Decay" The neutrinoless double-β decay is a hypothetical nuclear transition predicted by most of the theories that explain the origin of neutrino masses … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Julieta Gruszko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Harnessing Detector Physics for Limitless Experiments" As we move to more and more sensitive experiments, having a complete understanding of the physics processes occurring in our detectors becomes … Read more