UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Steven Christensen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Schwinger-DeWitt Proper Time Algorithm: A History" Much of my career in physics has been, in one way or another, concerned with the use of the … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robert Botto, Innovation Department of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency "Bioengineering & Nanotechnology Solutions for Chemical and Biological Defense" The Joint Science & Technology Office (JSTO) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the research … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Curtis McCully, Las Cumbres Observatory "Transients in Time Domain Astronomy: Supernovae, Kilonovae, and Gravitational Lensing" New technology in time-domain astronomy is transforming our understanding of the universe. High-cadence, wide-field time-domain surveys are discovering both rare … Read more
UNC-CH "Chalk Talk" Astronomy Seminar Curtis McCully, Les Cumbres Observatory "Transients in Time Domain Astronomy: Supernovae, Kilonovae, and Gravitational Lensing" The future is bright for transient science as we continue into the era of time-domain astronomy. The LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detectors … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Brooke Simmons, University of California, San Diego "Illuminating the Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes" Galaxy growth and evolution may be broadly categorized as either driven by galaxy-galaxy collisions/mergers, or merger-free. Merger-free processes are … Read more
UNC-CH "Chalk Talk" Astronomy Seminar Brooke Simmons, University of California, San Diego "Galaxies, Black Holes, and Citizen Science: The Next Decade" The coming years will see important advances in our understanding of galaxy evolution and black hole-galaxy co-evolution, powered by both … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Daniel Scolnic, University of Chicago "Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae and Kilonovae" The next decade will be the golden age of cosmology with transients. In this talk, I will present new analyses of Type Ia … Read more
UNC-CH "Chalk Talk" Astronomy Seminar Daniel Scolnic, University of Chicago "Preparing For The UNCLE Survey" Here I will go over the amazing dilemma of having millions of transients being found by LSST. I will discuss how the philosophy of spectroscopic follow-up … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Matt Bayliss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Gravitational Lensing In the Era of Survey Science" Since the advent of large-area, high-quality astronomical surveys strong gravitational lensing has transitioned from a small-N to a large-N discipline. Galaxy … Read more
UNC-CH "Chalk Talk" Astronomy Seminar Matt Bayliss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Galaxy Clusters and Lensing with LSST, SPT-3G, and JWST: My Vision for Lensing Science at UNC" New large samples of strong lenses feed a wide range of science programs using … Read more