UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Dark Matter, Quantum Computers, and all that." The international effort to directly detect and determine the nature of cosmic dark matter is experiencing a transition. Weakly … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Drew McCallister, UNC Chapel Hill "The Effect of Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities on Fat Fraction MR Quantification and Optimization of a Continuous Flow Xenon-129 Polarizer for Biomedical Imaging Applications" Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is … Read more
Carolina Women's Center Carolina Seminar Moderator: Sheila Kannappan, Physics and Astronomy Panelists: Leah Bowers, Chemistry Yaiza Canzani, Mathematics Susan Girdler, Psychiatry and Psychology Jasleen Kaur, Computer Science Esther Kwon, Senior Biology Major Laurie McNeil, Physics and Astronomy "Gender & STEM" Join … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Sten Delos, UNC Chapel Hill "Probing the early universe using dark matter minihalos" Small-scale fluctuations in the density of visible matter were washed out by photon diffusion while the Universe was still opaque, … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Kevork Abazajian, University of California, Irvine "Cosmological Neutrinos" Cosmology has entered a precision era, allowing to make inferences of the constituency of the Universe to the sub-percent level on quantities like the density of matter. … Read more
PHYS/MUSC 051 The Interplay of Music and Physics Students from the First Year Seminar PHYS 51/MUSC 51 "The Interplay of Music and Physics" will perform their own musical compositions on stringed and wind instruments that they created from found objects.
Astronomy on Tap Triangle #11 Brad Barlow, High Point University JJ Hermes, UNC Chapel Hill "Slingshotting Stars Out of the Galaxy" Join us for another Astronomy on Tap Triangle, our North Carolina chapter of short, engaging talks about astronomy over … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Sean Hunt "Helium Burning of 22Ne: Targets, Detectors, and Initial Measurements" Half of all heavy elements are produced in stellar environments through the nucleosynthetic s-process. The s-process takes place in asymptotic giant branch stars … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Andrew L. Cooper "A Low-Energy Study of the 20Ne(proton,gamma)21Na Reaction with High-Current Proton Beams at LENA" The neon-sodium (NeNa) cycle is believed to play a pivotal role in explaining the oxygen-sodium abundance anticorrelation exhibited … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Gökce Basar, University of Illinois, Chicago "Going with the flow: making the path integral more complex" The theory of strong interactions (Quantum Chromo Dynamics, or QCD), which describes how the constituents of protons and neutrons … Read more