UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Commencement Ceremony The Physics and Astronomy Spring 2019 Commencement ceremony is scheduled for May 12th at 1PM in Chapman 211. This ceremony is honoring undergraduates and graduate students completing their degrees in Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Defense Tom Gilliss "Modeling of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Background Data" Observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0nBB) would establish lepton number violation, constrain the absolute neutrino mass scale, and imply the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Germanium-based 0nBB … Read more
On the morning of Tuesday, May 14th, the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hosting the 4th grade classes from four schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district for Science … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Sam Meijer "Precision Modeling of Germanium Detector Waveforms For Rare Event Searches" Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a proposed rare nuclear event. Current generation experiments require high sensitivity designs, with the ability to remove background … Read more
PHYS 281L Final Project Presentations Ben Levy "On Wednesday, June 19, my PHYS 281 (Experimental Techniques in Physics) class will present their final project presentations, and I’m looking for some grad student volunteers to act as judges. Why should you … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Drew McCallister "Optimization of continuous flow Xenon-129 polarizer for biomedical imaging applications and the effect of magnetic field in homogeneities on fat fraction MR quantification" Hyperpolarized 129Xe gas has been used in many different … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Giuliano Scarcelli, University of Maryland “Biophysical contrast mechanisms for biomedical imaging” The interaction between photons and acoustic phonons within materials, first described by Leon Brillouin, has been widely investigated to characterize mechanical and physical properties … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University, University of New South Wales “ZFOURGE & MOSEL : Emergent Galaxies at z~3.5” ZFOURGE and MOSEL are deep observational surveys that track how galaxies assemble over cosmic time. ZFOURGE identifies … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium John Wilkerson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Weighing in on Neutrinos — First Results from the KATRIN Experiment” Over the past generation, a series of challenging experiments have revealed that neutrinos have unexpected … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Ana Maria Rey, JILA, NIST, & University of Colorado Boulder “Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers” Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the … Read more