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
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium David Albert, Columbia University “How to teach Quantum Mechanics - Part II” I distinguish between two conceptually different kinds of physical space: a space of ordinary material bodies, which is the space of points at … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Aaron Titus, High Point University “Iterative Thinking” Numerical techniques for integration are hardly taught in a typical calculus course and are hardly used in a typical physics course. Yet, numerical integration is an essential tool … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Carl Bender, Washington University in St Louis “PT Symmetry” By using complex-variable methods one can extend conventional Hermitian quantum theories into the complex domain. The result is a huge and exciting new class of parity-time-symmetric … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Patrick Doyle “Impedance Study of Wet Granular Systems” Granular systems are collections of macroscopic particulate material. A pile of sand at the beach, an hourglass, or Saturn’s rings are common examples that demonstrate the … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Chad Hobson “VIEW-MOD: a versatile illumination engine with a modular optical design for fluorescence microscopy” We developed VIEW-MOD (Versatile Illumination Engine with a Modular Optical Design): a compact, multi-modality microscope, which accommodates multiple illumination … Read more