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
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Preliminary Defense Kayla Redmond “Observational Signatures of Kination” Our ignorance of the period between the end of inflation and the beginning of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis limits our understanding of the origins and evolution of dark matter. … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony & Reception See Jhon Cimmino, PH 280, for tickets.
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Preliminary Defense Alex Burant “Characterizing Hyperpolarized 129Xe Depolarization Mechanisms During Continuous-flow SEOP and as a Source of Image Contrast.” Xenon-129 has become the isotope of choice for applications of hyperpolarized (HP) noble gases in magnetic resonance … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Mark Moog “Poly(3-methylthiophene) Brushes: Structure, Morphology, and Electronic Transport” Low charge carrier mobility is a major obstacle that limits the performance of organic electronic devices. For conjugated polymers, increasing the contribution from intramolecular charge … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Jack Dermigny "The Bizarre Chemical Inventory of NGC-2419: An Investigation of the 30Si(p,g)31P Reaction" Abundance anomalies in globular clusters provide strong evidence for multiple stellar populations within each cluster. These populations are usually interpreted … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Zimeng Li "Crack the Code: Triplet Repeat Expansion, DNA Mismatch Repair, and Next-gen AFM Software" DNA Mismatch Repair protein MutSβ is involved in repairing insertion/deletion loop (IDL) errors. But studies have found that MutSβ … Read more