UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Master's Defense Dylan Dutton "Skynet’s New Observing Mode: The Campaign Manager" Gravitational-wave events detected by LIGO, Virgo, and soon KAGRA, have several possible progenitors. Of particular interest to our group are such events that are accompanied … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Master's Presentation Joe Marincel "Lattice QCD at finite density and the Lefschetz Thimble Method" To understand nuclear matter from first principles one needs to study QCD at nonzero density. Despite the success of lattice QCD at … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy "Department Career Panel" The defense will take place remotely via Zoom.
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Morgan Clark “Characterization, Commissioning, and First Measurements of LEGEND-200 Detectors” The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double-beta Decay (LEGEND) is a next-generation experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. The first … Read more
Visibility in Physics "Undergraduate Research Symposium" Zoom: https://unc.zoom.us/j/94643062223?pwd=d3VzZGwxRjhadTVkSHI4K3BaN3BWdz09
Dr. Greg Sloan, Space Telescope Science “Introducing the James Webb Space Telescope” Join us on Tuesday, May 4 at 7pm for our last AoT Triangle of spring 2021! This time we'll hear from Dr. Greg Sloan, support scientist at the … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Defense 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-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Kaitlyn Morrell "Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo Approaches to Finite-Temperature Quantum Matter" Accurate thermodynamic predictions for nuclear matter, which in some regimes is well modeled by the unitary Fermi gas, are in high demand. … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Brady Bos “Enhanced Detector Geometries for a Next Generation Tonne-scale Ge-76 Based 0vbb Experiment” The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double-beta Decay (LEGEND) is a next-generation experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Defense Christopher Moakler “The Hydra String Method and its Application to High Dimensional Potential Energy Surfaces Arising from Granular Systems” Granular materials are a ubiquitous yet ill-understood class of media. Different approaches and techniques have … Read more