“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
Stories of Magnetism: Some New Twists Yong P. Chen- Purdue Physics Magnetism, important in many everyday technologies, is a well-studied quantum phenomenon (in fact it is one of the best examples of many-body and correlated quantum phenomenon, which can exist … Read more
Join us to hear from diverse research faculty and graduate students across disciplines and identities, then celebrate the research done by undergraduates who are dedicated to furthering diversity, equity and inclusion efforts right here at UNC. Featuring the Physics Department's … Read more
A Characterized TESS Stellar Rotation Pipeline for Young Stellar Association Membership Analysis Jonathan Bush Studies of planetary evolution using exoplanets rely on precise age dating of the host star to place the planetary systems on an evolutionary timeline. While determining … Read more
Nuclear Reactions & QCD Spectroscopy Andrew Jackura, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab It is widely accepted that all observed nuclear phenomena emerge from the strong interactions between quarks and gluons as governed by Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD). Reactions between hadrons, the bound … Read more
The dark matter experiment XENONnT and first WIMP results Evidence for about 6 times more matter in the universe than normal matter is coming from cosmological observations and analyses on all scales. What this exotic dark matter is remains still … Read more
Title: Brillouin Spectroscopy Studies of Polyacrylamide and Fmoc-FF Hydrogels to Determine the Role of Monomer and Solvent Concentrations on Longitudinal Moduli and Relaxation Processes Britta Gorman Biomimetic hydrogels are polymeric networks that contain a large amount of water. The viscoelastic … Read more
Professor Jeff Andrews- University of Florida Title: It takes Two to Tango: How Binary Stars Evolve into Gravitational Wave Sources Despite the discovery of nearly a hundred merging black holes and neutron stars by gravitational wave observatories in recent years, … Read more
Using the Cosmic Microwave Background to Probe the Universe's First Second The evolution of the early universe is largely unconstrained: there is a vast gulf between the possible energy scales of inflation and the onset of Big Bang nucleosynthesis. … Read more
Stellar associations - groups of coeval, co-moving stars - are fundamental to our understanding of stellar ages and critical for the study of stellar and planetary evolution. All stellar age measurements, with the sole exception of the Sun, are based … 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.
Modern synoptic sky surveys are typically designed to detect supernovae-like transients, using a tiling strategy to identify objects that evolve on day-to-month timescales. Astrophysical phenomena with sub-hour durations, ranging from galactic stellar flares to optical flashes accompanying gamma-ray bursts, have … Read more
Extreme Photonics with Nanogap Cavities: From Ultrafast Single Photon Sources to Biosensors Maiken H. Mikkelsen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, USA Abstract: Nano- and quantum materials with unique optical properties hold the potential for … Read more
The Quantitative Finance Association is having an interest meeting next Tuesday, April 18 at 6:00 p.m., in Phillips 277. Come for free pizza, a a chance to connect with your peers, and to learn more about our new association. ALL … Read more
Altering the Pre-recombination Expansion History with Hidden Sector Decays Many cosmological models introduce a new energy density contribution to the universe before the epoch of recombination in an attempt to alter the expansion history and address the Hubble tension: a 5σ discrepancy … Read more
Julian Munoz, Harvard University Cosmic Dawn: The next frontier in cosmology The last decades have firmly established the existence of a dark sector of our universe. Yet, details of its content have evaded all laboratory probes. In this talk I … Read more
Constraining Dark Matter Candidates in Early Matter Dominated Era Cosmologies An early matter dominated era (EMDE) before the onset of the radiation dominated era (RDE) is a prediction of many early Universe theories. Subhorizon dark matter (DM) density perturbations grow … Read more