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
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Piers Coleman, Rutgers University “Dark Matter Challenges of the Solid State” At the turn of the 20th century, physicists faced an uncanny range of unsolved problems: simple questions, such as why hot objects change color, … Read more
Astronomy on Tap Triangle Gerald Cecil, UNC Chapel Hill “When the Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Awoke” Rongmon Bordoloi “The Milky Way's Missing Baryons” Come check out Astronomy on Tap Triangle, our North Carolina chapter of short and engaging talks … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Masters Talk Nikos Dokmetzoglou “Conformal Group Transformations in 6? Massless ? ?^3 Scalar Theory and 4? Yang-Mills Gauge Theory” Abstract TBA
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Michael Shull, University of Colorado “Where Do Galaxies End?” I review recent observations and theoretical estimates of the spatial extent of galaxies. Galaxies are defined as systems of stars and gas embedded in extended halos … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Nikos Dokmetzoglou “Yangian Symmetry in the Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) Scattering Equations Formalism” Abstract TBA
COSMS Institute & Morehead Planetarium Science Center Presented by UNC Faculty: Laura Mersini-Houghton, Adrienne Erickcek, Nick Law “Celebrating the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize: Cosmology and Exoplanets” The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Gerald Cecil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “When the Monster Awoke: Dating the Most Recent Major Flare of Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole” The historical power output of mass accreted onto the 4 … Read more