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
A lecture by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, on the newly published book of the same title.
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Thomas Schaefer, North Carolina State University "The QCD Critical Point" I summarize arguments that suggest that the phase diagram of QCD (the theory of quarks and gluons) has a critical endpoint which is analogous to … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania "The Maps Inside Your Head" Abstract: How do our brains make sense of a complex and unpredictable world? In this talk, I will discuss a physicist's approach to the neural … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Rachel Kuzio de Naray, Georgia State University "What is the MUSCEL behind Low Surface Brightness Galaxies?" Low surface brightness galaxies are disk galaxies that are characterized by their gas richness, low gas surface densities, low … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium David Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University "Perforations, Curvature and Thermal Fluctuations in Free-Standing Graphene" Understanding deformations of macroscopic thin plates and shells has a long and rich history, culminating with the Foeppl-von Karman … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Paulo Bedaque, University of Maryland "Path integrals, complexified fields and machine learning" The Feynman path integral is a tool applicable to all fields of physics. Recently, the possibility of changing the "path" of integration to … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Raphael Bousso, University of California, Berkeley "Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Unification" The study of black holes has revealed a deep connection between quantum information and spacetime geometry. Its origin must lie in a quantum … Read more
Thursday, November 2, 2017 Phillips 247 1:00 - 1:50 PM "A Physicist's Start in Quantitative Finance" Erik Forseth Erik Forseth (PhD, ‘16) is a Quantitative Research Analyst at Graham Capital Management (GCM), a hedge fund located in Rowayton, CT. His … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "First Results from CUORE: Majorana Neutrinos and the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay" The neutrino is unique among the Standard Model particles. It is the only fundamental fermion that … Read more