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
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
“Resolving the discrepancy between theoretically predicted and experimentally measured 129Xe nuclear spin polarization” By bringing spins out of thermal equilibrium, nuclear spin hyperpolarization techniques can enhance the nuclear magnetic resonance signal by several orders of magnitude, creating a bulk … Read more
The Quantum Thermodynamics Computational Engine - Kaitlyn Morrell Though studied for decades, the quantum many-body problem remains at the forefront of theoretical research, where the goal of understanding systems of numerous quantum particles is common to astro-, atomic, nuclear, … Read more
“Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon” Rocky Kolb The University of Chicago The big bang is a laboratory to explore the properties of particles that cannot be created in terrestrial laboratories. In addition to thermal processes, there is another source of cosmological particle production. In 1939 … Read more
“The Quantum and the Cosmos” Rocky Kolb The University of Chicago The laws of the quantum rule the submicroscopic world. But the action of quantum mechanics in the big bang world also produced the largest structures in the cosmos. … Read more
Ben Kaiser Title: Lithium Pollution of White Dwarfs and Other Secrets of MORDOR Running diagonally down the middle of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (H-R Diagram) between the white dwarf cooling track and the lower main sequence lies a less frequently studied region … Read more
STEM + All Majors Career and Networking In-Person Fair To attend this fair and meet representatives from employers, register via Handshake on the University Career Services website. 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. Great Hall in the Student Union