EVENTS

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern "The Brave Nu World" Nonzero neutrino masses are the most concrete evidence of physics beyond the standard model to date. I will provide an overview of the current status of neutrino … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Fred Adams, University of Michigan “STARS IN OTHER UNIVERSES: HOW MUCH FINE-TUNING IS NECESSARY” Motivated by the possible existence of other universes, with different values for the fundamental constants, this talk considers stars and stellar … Read more

Dr John Lattanzio, from the Centre for Astrophysics School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University in Clayton, Australia, will give a talk entitled “Has Kepler Found Aliens?” The Kepler spacecraft has revolutionized the search for exo-planets, and provided aster … Read more

UNC / Duke Joint String seminar Ira Rothstein, CMU "Field Theoretic Pathways to Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior"

UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Michael Hudson, University of Waterloo “Seeing Dark Matter Through A Gravitational Lens” For the four decades following Zwicky's 1937 prediction of gravitational lensing by galaxies, all probes of dark matter were dynamical in nature. Since … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State "Probing New Physics with Lattice QCD" There is a worldwide race to find new-physics signatures both on the high-energy frontier, such as at the LHC, and on the intensity frontier, at … Read more

UNC / Duke Joint String seminar Matt Baumgart, Rutgers "De Sitter Wavefunctionals and the Resummation of Time" The holographic RG of Anti-De Sitter gives a powerful clue about the underlying AdS/CFT correspondence. The question is whether similar hints can be … Read more

UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY PhD DEFENSE Jack A. Silano, UNC-CH "Sub-barrier Photofission Measurements in 238U and 232Th" A study of photofission of 232Th and 238U was performed using quasi-monoenergetic, linearly-polarized γ-ray beams from the High Intensity γ-ray source at TUNL. … Read more

UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh “Improving Student Understanding of Quantum Mechanics” Learning quantum mechanics is challenging, in part due to the non-intuitive nature of the subject matter. Our research shows that the patterns of reasoning … Read more