Departmental Colloquium
Colloquium Speaker: Alvine Kamaha (University at Albany SUNY)
Dr. Alvine Kamaha will give a colloquium on Dark Matter Search with LUX-ZEPLIN
Colloquium Speaker: Junsong Lin (University of California Berkeley)
Dr. Junsong Lin will give a colloquium on Hunting for Dark Matter with Helium and Xenon Detectors
Colloquium Speaker: Ryan Wang (University of Michigan)
Dr. Ryan Wang will give a colloquium on Hunting for the Invisible Deep Underground
Colloquium – Graduate Student Information
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesVice chair of graduate studies Dr. Dean Townsley will be presenting graduate student information.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Mukai
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Koji Mukai (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland) Title: Science with XRISM: Resolving the Nature of the Energetic Cosmos Abstract: The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), an international JAXA/NASA collaboration including participation from ESA, will be an advanced X-ray observatory. Resolve, the primary instrument on XRISM, is a high-resolution, non-dispersive X-ray
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Michela Negro
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Michela Negro (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/UMBC) Title: High Energy Transient Repeaters: The Case of Gamma-ray Bursts From Magnetar Abstract: Started in the ’60s with the detection of the first cosmological gamma-ray burst by the Vela satellites the astrophysics of high-energy transients has fascinated the community for more than half a century. Gamma-ray burst
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Shobita Satyapal
VirtualSpeaker: Shobita Satyapal (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/UMBC) Title: In Search of Elusive AGNs in Low Mass Galaxies and Mergers Abstract: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies, which manifest as active galactic nuclei (AGNs) when accreting, are now known to be a fundamental component of galaxies and play an important role in their evolution. Detecting complete samples of AGNs and
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Arindam Das
VirtualSpeaker: Arindam Das (Hokkaido University) Title: Neutrinos: a Bridge Among the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers Abstract: Neutrino oscillation and flavor mixings have proved the existence of tiny neutrino mass. It strongly suggests scenarios involving the physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). To explain the origin of the tiny neutrino mass a plethora of models have been
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Cruz-Uribe
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: David Cruz-Uribe (OFS, Math Department chair, University of Alabama) Title: Swipe Right for Mathematics: an Overview of Research in the UA Math Department Mathematicians and physicists have had a long and productive relationship, with real world problems being at the foundation of whole fields of mathematics, and with mathematicians providing the tools needed to
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Cui
VirtualSpeaker: Yanou Cui (UC, Riverside) Title: Probing the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves Deep questions remain about our Universe: What is dark matter? What is the origin of matter antimatter asymmetry? What happened during the first second after the Big Bang? In this talk I will discuss the prospect of using the