CoSMS Institute Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California "Black Holes, Time & Space" Join us under the Dome at Morehead Planetarium & Science Center for the 2018 Douglass Hunt Lecture. Dr. Clifford Johnson, professor of physics & astronomy at the … Read more
Women earn only 20% of Physics Bachelor’s degree and hold only 10% of full professorships in Physics (AIP, 2015). This photo project is meant to celebrate some of the incredible women in physics we have at UNC. If this is … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy CoSMS Colloquium Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California "Holographic Heat Engines for Fun and Profit" New work has shown how to complete the correspondence between the physics of black holes and the laws of thermodynamics by … Read more
Physics and Astronomy Masters Talk Charles Bonfield “Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Galaxy Group Velocity Dispersions for the Complete, Volume-Limited ECO Catalog” We present a new approach for probing the mass function of dark matter halos using galaxy group observables. Traditionally, … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University "Setting Stellar Chronometers: The PTF(+) Open Cluster Survey" While we have known for 40 years of the existence of a relation between a solar-mass star's age, rotation, and magnetic activity, observational … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Seminar Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University "Columbia's Bridge to the Ph.D. Program: A Research-Intensive Path to Graduate School for Underrepresented Minorities" The Bridge to the Ph.D. Program in the Natural Sciences, now in its tenth year, is … Read more
UNC-CH Astronomy Journal Club Jing Luan, UC Berkeley “DAVs: Red Edge & Outbursts” As established by ground based surveys, white dwarfs with hydrogen atmospheres pulsate as they cool across the temperature range, 12,500 K < Teff < 10,800 K. Known … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Preliminary Defense Patrick Doyle “Dielectric Properties in Dense Heterogeneous Systems in an Aqueous Environment” Relaxation dynamics associated with interfacial polarization of heterogeneous systems immersed in aqueous electrolytes are important to a variety of fields and disciplines. … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Preliminary Defense Zachary Nasipak “Extreme-mass-ratio black hole binaries: A scalar self-force model on Kerr” The era of gravitational wave astronomy has dawned. As more gravitational wave detectors come online, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Masters Defense Kayla Redmond “Thermal Production of Dark Matter During an Era of Kination” Our ignorance of the period between the end of inflation and the beginning of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis limits our understanding of the … Read more