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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

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Mark Conradi, Washington University "Earth’s Field NMR to Detect Spilled Oil Trapped under Arctic Ice" Oil production from wells in the arctic sea must face the possibility of leakage.  Spilled oil would try to rise … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Kate Scholberg, Duke University "What Stubs and Sparkles In Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars" When a massive star collapses at the end of its life, nearly all of the gravitational … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Doug Edmonds, Penn State Hazleton "Modified Dark Matter: Relating Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Baryonic Matter" Modified dark matter (MDM) is a phenomenological model of dark matter, inspired by gravitational thermodynamics. For an accelerating Universe … Read more

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Hailin Wang, University of Oregon "Toward Quantum Control of Mechanical Motion" Quantum fluctuations or zero-point fluctuations of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator are many orders-of-magnitudes smaller than the size of an atom. The control of mechanical … Read more

Students in the First-Year Seminar PHYS/MUSC 51 "The Interplay of Music and Physics" will present a concert of compositions they have written for instruments they have created using the acoustic principles they learned in class.  All are welcome to attend … Read more