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
Astronomy on Tap Triangle Amber Lauer, TUNL “From Quarks to Cosmos, We Are All Made of Stars” Charles Stapleford, NCSU “Ghostly Origins of Supernova Explosions” Come check out Astronomy on Tap Triangle, our North Carolina chapter of short and engaging … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Virginia Kilborn, Swinburne University “Tracing the gaseous surrounds of galaxies” Observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) component of galaxies is a powerful mechanism to probe the physical properties of galaxies in the nearby Universe. … Read more
Polanyi Lecture David Albert, Columbia University “The Problem of the Direction of Time” Our everyday experience of being in the world is swarming with vivid and obvious and innumerable distinctions between the past and the future. Paper burns but never … Read more
CoSMS Colloquium Virginia Kilborn, Swinburne University “Unveiling the unseen Universe” Atomic hydrogen gas is one of the main components in a galaxy like our own Milky Way – but we can’t see it when we gaze into the night sky. … Read more