UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Master's Talk Jacob Brooks "Actuating Surface Attached Post (ASAP) Arrays: The Next Generation" Biological cilia are slender organelles protruding from the surface of several different kinds of cells. These structures are fairly ubiquitous throughout the body … Read more
Alpha Chi Sigma Presents "Women in STEM Ally Training" Learn how to be a more active ally to women in STEM! Alpha Chi Sigma (the professional chemistry fraternity) is putting on a brief (~1 hour) training about how to be a … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Andrea Shindler, Michigan State University "Flowing the strong interactions" Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the local gauge theory describing strong interactions. It has been successfully adopted for calculations in the high-energy regime using perturbation theory. To … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy TNT Colloquium Andrea Shindler, Michigan State University "Flowing the Electric Dipole Moment" The electric dipole moments (EDM) of the nucleon (neutron or proton) is a very sensitive probe of CP-violation. The current bound on the neutron … Read more
UNC-CH Women in Physics Research Symposium This semester, WiP will be hosting our Second Annual Women in Physics Research Symposium on April 16th from 4-6 PM in Phillips 277. If you are unfamiliar with our symposium, it is an annual … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Jamin Rager "A Search for Bosonic Dark Matter with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR" The motivation for dark matter comes from a range of indirect, observational evidence such as gravitational lensing and galactic rotation curves. As … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Christoph Baranec, University of Hawaii "Advances in Adaptive Optics Technology at the University of Hawai`i" Since the 1990s, adaptive optics systems have opened up high acuity imaging of astronomical objects from the ground. In response … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Defense Evan Nelsen "Atomic Force Microscopy with a Versatile Optics System for Applications in Biophysics" Cells possess the ability to sense their environment through mechanical means. These interactions include forces from and the extracellular matrix (ECM), … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Dissertation Defense Dillon Morse "Semi-Classical Backreaction of Quantum Scalar Fields on an Evolving Spacetime" The formalism required to extend quantum field theory to curved spacetimes has been studied extensively for the last 40 years. In all … Read more