UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT DEFENSE Josh Fuchs, UNC-CH "Fundamental Properties of White Dwarfs Alone and In Binaries" White Dwarf Properties Mass, log(g), and Teff too, I Measure Better
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Jonathan Baugh, University of Waterloo, CA "Benchmarking quantum control and developing semiconductor-based quantum devices" The development of robust, scalable quantum information processors is both an extraordinary opportunity and an extraordinary challenge. Over the past 20 … Read more
UNC-CH PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY DISCUSSION On Friday Feb. 17 and Friday Apr. 7 at 2:30 in Phillips 277, a task force including faculty, staff, and grad & undergrad students will lead moderated discussions of issues that concern all of us … Read more
CoSMS Institute Colloquium Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recipient of the 2017 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research. “Three Seeds in the Flowering of Quantum Science” A new field of quantum science has sprung into life in the … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Steve Pollock, CU Boulder "A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses" At most universities, upper-division physics courses are taught using a traditional lecture approach that does not make use of many of the instructional … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Mercedes Lopez-Morales, CFA, Harvard "Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres" In the past two decades we have gone from only knowing about the planets in our own Solar System to discovering thousands of planets orbiting around other … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Jonathan Celli, University of Massachusetts, Boston "Modeling tumor-microenvironment interactions for development of biophysics-informed strategies in cancer therapeutics" Cancer progression is regulated not only by the molecular biology and genetics of the disease but also by … Read more
Cells respond to external biochemical and mechanical cues to generate myriad responses including force generation, motility, gene expression and differentiation. The connection between external cue and internal response are the biochemical pathways that control the cell. Understanding these responses is … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Yosuke Kanai, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Electronic Stopping in Condensed Matter: Ab Initio Understanding of Electronic Excitation Dynamics under Proton Irradiation" Transfer of the kinetic energy from a highly-energetic ion to electrons in … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Grant Matthews, Notre Dame University "The Cosmological Quest for Evidence of the Birth of the Universe out of the Multiverse Landscape" One expects that the universe was born out of a complicated string-theory landscape near … Read more