Physics and Astronomy Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony & Reception
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony & Reception See Jhon Cimmino, PH 280, for tickets.
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony & Reception See Jhon Cimmino, PH 280, for tickets.
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Preliminary Defense Alex Burant “Characterizing Hyperpolarized 129Xe Depolarization Mechanisms During Continuous-flow SEOP and as a Source of Image Contrast.” Xenon-129 has become the isotope of choice for applications of hyperpolarized (HP) noble gases in magnetic resonance … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Mark Moog “Poly(3-methylthiophene) Brushes: Structure, Morphology, and Electronic Transport” Low charge carrier mobility is a major obstacle that limits the performance of organic electronic devices. For conjugated polymers, increasing the contribution from intramolecular charge … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Jack Dermigny "The Bizarre Chemical Inventory of NGC-2419: An Investigation of the 30Si(p,g)31P Reaction" Abundance anomalies in globular clusters provide strong evidence for multiple stellar populations within each cluster. These populations are usually interpreted … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Zimeng Li "Crack the Code: Triplet Repeat Expansion, DNA Mismatch Repair, and Next-gen AFM Software" DNA Mismatch Repair protein MutSβ is involved in repairing insertion/deletion loop (IDL) errors. But studies have found that MutSβ … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Richard Scalettar, UC Davis "The Hubbard Model: From solids to cold atoms and back again" Over the last half-century, the Hubbard Hamiltonian has been extensively studied and applied to some of the most fundamental problems … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Adam Kelleher, Columbia University, Buzzfeed (recently) "Physics, Data Science, and Causal Inference" I'll describe my career path into data science from the Physics PhD program at UNC. I'll discuss a few projects from throughout my … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Raul Briceño, Old Dominion University "Sketches from the exotic world of quarks and gluons" At the core of everyday matter is a complex inner world of subatomic particles. In particular, the nuclei of atoms are … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Amy Oldenburg, Diversity Liaison "Silent Sam Conversation" An informal meeting for any Physics & Astronomy affiliated students, staff, and faculty to discuss ongoing issues surrounding Silent Sam. The purpose of the meeting is to share information, … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Seminar Chia Cheng Chang, RIKEN/LBL "Precision nucleon structure calculations from lattice QCD" The maturation of lattice quantum chromodynamics over the past decades has lead us to the point where percent-level precision for nucleon structure can be … Read more