The UA Women in Physics & Astronomy (WiPA) group and the UA Association for Women in Science (AWIS) group will be holding an ice cream social on Wednesday September 4th from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. in GL227. This will be an ideal opportunity to meet and network with women graduate and undergraduate students in Physics,
Speaker: Alain Plattner(University of Alabama) Title: Planet Mercury's Weird Magnetic Field Abstract: It had been known since the Mariner 10 flybys in the 70s, that Mercury is the only other terrestrial planet with an active core magnetic field. Until NASA's MESSENGER satellite mission (in orbit 2011 - 2015), little was known about the morphology of
Speaker: Sugumi Kanno (Osaka University) Title: Detecting nonclassical primordial gravitational waves with Hanbury Brown - Twiss interferometry Abstract: We consider possible detection of nonclassicality of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) by applying Hanbury Brown - Twiss (HBT) interferometry to cosmology. We characterize the nonclassicality of PGWs in terms of sub-Poissonian statistics that can be measured by
Speaker: Claudia Mewes (University of Alabama) Title: Computational Challenges in Spintronics: From First Principles to Magnetization Dynamics Abstract: In this presentation I will give insights in different computational methods used in magnetic materials research. Focusing on three important interconnected material properties, the magnetocrystalline anisotropy, the magnetization relaxation rate, and the symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interaction,