UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Dissertation Defense Rohan Isaac “Electron-phonon coupling and excited-state absorption studies of binary charge-transfer complexes containing pyromellitic dianhydride” Organic semiconductors are a class of materials that have considerable potential in the development of cheap and efficient solar … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Chad Hobson “Cell Nuclear Mechanics as Studied Through Custom Microscopy and Methodologies” Cell nuclei not only serve to encapsulate the genome, but additionally provide mechanical rigidity to the cell as the stiffest sub-cellular … Read more
UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Steffen Bass, Duke University "Quantifying the Shear Viscosity of Nature’s Most Ideal Liquid" Collisions of heavy nuclei at ultrarelativistic velocities are currently utilized at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Master's Presentation Amy Glazier "Evryscope and K2 Constraints on TRAPPIST-1 Superflare Occurrence and Planetary Habitability" The Evryscopes are the first gigapixel-scale all-sky survey telescopes, designed, constructed, and operated through UNC Chapel Hill. From their locations in … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Prelim Presentation Ward Howard "Investigating exoplanet habitability and the stellar magnetism of cool stars across half the Southern sky via superflares, starspots, and stellar rotation." Stellar flares are stochastic events that occur when a star's magnetic … Read more
UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Gökçe Basar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Search for the QCD Critical Point" The strong force binds the building blocks of protons and neutrons, quarks and gluons, together and creates most of the … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Master's Presentation David Alberto Hervas "An Assay-based Background Model for the MAJORANA DEMOSTRATOR" The MAJORANA collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) in 76Ge using modular arrays of enriched, high-purity Ge detectors. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR … Read more
UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Sara Haravifard, Duke University "Experiments with Quantum Materials" Just as the discovery of semiconductors revolutionized the electronics industry in the twentieth century, the development of Quantum Materials holds the key to new advances in technology. There … Read more
UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Robert Jaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Physics and Energy" Energy is a central concept in physics. Because energy is conserved, it is possible to understand the behavior of complex systems by tracing the flow of energy … Read more
UNC-Duke Joint Physics Colloquium Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Exploring Beyond the Standard Model with Lattice QCD" While the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been enormously successful in describing the world around us, there … Read more