UNC Physics Colloquium Andrew Vanderburg, MIT "A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death" Abstract: In the past 30 years, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. Most of … Read more
WORKSHOP #4 Getting the job: Interviewing This workshop will cover how you should prepare for and participate in a job interview, both to present yourself in the best light and to gather information that will help you to decide whether … Read more
UNC Physics Colloquium Andy Rundquist, Hamline University Changes in the physics higher ed landscape Abstract As the provost for a small, private, liberal arts school in the midwest, where I've been on the physics faculty for 20 years, I am … Read more
UNC PHYSICS VIP UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM Visibility in Physics is pleased to be hosting our annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, a poster-presentation style showcase for undergraduates to share about their research with peers and faculty. We encourage everyone to come support … Read more
UNC Physics Colloquium Charles Henderson Departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: How did they get there? Abstract Abstract: There is now a convincing body of research showing that a wide variety of active learning instructional strategies … Read more
UNC Physics Special Colloquium This special colloquium, “The Missing Physicists,” will feature a panel discussion of the March 2022 “Missing Physicists” series in Science about the barriers Black physicists face and potential models for change. Panelists include: Mohammad Ahmed , NC Central … Read more
UNC Physics Colloquium Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago Increasing Accuracy in Measurements of the Hubble Constant: Is There Evidence for New Physics? Abstract An important and unresolved question in cosmology today is whether there is new physics that is missing … Read more
UNC Physics Colloquium Ulf Danielson, Uppsala University Sweden The dark side of string theory Abstract Cosmological horizons, as well as black hole horizons, pose great challenges to fundamental physics. This is true also in string theory, where the black hole … Read more
KINETIC DECOUPLING OF DARK MATTER IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE AND GEODESIC DEVIATION IN CURVED SPACETIME
Title: Prototyping the Argus Optical Array: A Novel Design for Next-Gen, All-Sky, Array Telescopes In the past century, time-domain surveys have searched for events with timescales of days to minutes; however, surveys that investigate sub-second optical detections from millisecond- duration … Read more