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
UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Roger Melko, University of Waterloo "Machine Learning the Many-Body Proble" Condensed matter physics is the study of the collective behavior of infinitely-complex assemblies of electrons, magnetic moments, atoms or qubits. This complexity is reminiscent of … Read more
UNC-CH PhD Defense Yuan Chong, UNC-CH "NMR Studies of Protein Hydration and Protein-Ligand Interactions" Hydration water plays a crucial role in a variety of biological processes such as protein folding and drug binding, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. I … Read more
UNC-CH NUCLEAR COLLOQUIUM “NUCLEAR PHYSICS FOR BEYOND-THE-STANDARD-MODEL SEARCHES” Martin Hoferichter, University of Washington Precision measurements of low-energy observables can provide constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model that are complementary to direct searches at the energy frontier, often extending the … Read more
UNC-CH NUCLEAR CHALK TALK Martin Hoferichter, University of Washington “Analysis Strategies for General Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleus Scattering” Searches for dark matter via direct detection have reached impressive sensitivities in the last years, and further advances are expected with the advent of … Read more