Speaker: Professor Amy Oldenburg, UNC-Chapel Hill Title: Understanding the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry 2023: generating new types of light to enable unprecedented scientific studies and novel technologies This talk will review the research trajectories and science underlying the … Read more
Dave Phillips Truist Bank
Astronomy on Tap Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, NC 7-9pm
Lina Necib, MIT Title: (Machine) Learning of Dark Matter In this talk, I explore the impact of stellar kinematics on understanding the particle nature of Dark Matter, overviewing the correlations between stellar and Dark Matter phase space distributions … Read more
NC Master's & Doctoral Career Fair, virtual via Handshake platform. For more information see https://sites.google.com/view/nc-masters-doctoral-fair/home This is an opportunity for organizations who are recruiting master’s and doctoral level applicants for jobs/internships/fellowships to network with them virtually. There will be … Read more
A Study of Majorana Demonstrator Backgrounds with Bayesian Statistical Modeling The Majorana Demonstrator was a neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) experiment consisting of around 30 kg of germanium detectors enriched to 88% in 76Ge and around 14 kg of natural germanium … Read more
The Gallium Anomaly and the BEST Experiment Steve Elliott Los Alamos National Laboratory At the end of the last century, large volumes of gallium metal were used as targets to detect electron neutrinos (ne) from the Sun. A small … Read more
An Improved Background Model and Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay Measurement for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) is a hypothesized nuclear process that would provide direct evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model in the form of lepton number … 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. Tuesday nights from 6-8pm at Lanza's Cafe in Carrboro
November 15th 2023, 2 – 4 p.m.: American Physical Society (APS) Chapters Career Counseling and Networking Fair with physicists from industry and national labs (virtual). Registration (which requires APS membership, the first year is free for students and there are … Read more