Chalk Talk
Phillips 277Ryan Tapping- Candidate to teaching faculty chalk talk.
Ryan Tapping- Candidate to teaching faculty chalk talk.
Katherine Freese, UT Austin Title: Dark Matter in the Universe The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding problems in all of modern physics. The ordinary atoms that make up the … Read more
Reginald Bain- Candidate to teaching faculty chalk talk.
Astronomy on Tap Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, NC A collapsing star produces a brilliant supernova, as bright as a galaxy for a short time, and also a huge blast of neutrinos. Neutrinos are “ghostly” particles that most of the … Read more
We’ll be going over the results from the survey and facilitating discussion of various topics.
Igor Andreoni, University of Maryland / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Title: Seize the night in the era of wide-field optical surveys We are living in a golden era for optical time-domain astronomy. Wide-field surveys such as the Zwicky Transient … Read more
Physics From the Ground Up - our monthly talk series hosted at Lanza's Cafe aimed at presenting exciting physics research to the general public.
Masters and PhD Students and alumni will have the opportunity to meet recruiters from employers representing a range of career fields live online to discuss full-time jobs and internships. All of the employers are seeking candidates with advanced degrees (including … Read more
Jorge Piekarewicz, Florida State University Title: Heaven and Earth: Nuclear astrophysics in the multimessenger era The historic detection of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration is providing fundamental new insights into the astrophysical … Read more
Title: Constraining Dark Matter Annihilation in Early Matter Dominated Era Cosmologies Using the Global 21 cm Absorption Signal Although standard cosmology assumes that relativistic particles dominate the energy density of the Universe quickly after inflation, a variety of well-motivated … Read more