Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Gleyzer
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer Title: Opportunities for New Physics with Modern Deep Learning Methods for the CMS Experiment Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has achieved unprecedented levels of sensitivity to new particles at the TeV scale with on-going searches for new physics, including dark matter. This sensitivity trend is expected to continue during the next
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Narayan
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Gautham Narayan Title: From Tens to Tens of Thousands: Supernovae Science in the Big-Data Era Abstract: Despite observations of thousands of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we still do not have a clear understanding of the progenitor systems of these explosions. Our limited understanding of these events restricts our understanding of the nature of
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Visbal
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Eli Visbal Title: Revealing the First Billion Years of the Universe Abstract: How the first stars and galaxies formed is an exciting open question in astrophysics and cosmology. Answering this question will shed light on the earliest stages of galaxy evolution and test models of dark matter particle physics. In this talk, I shall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Brinkerhoff
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Andrew Brinkerhoff Title: Higgs couplings: GREAT and small Abstract: Just 5 years after the Higgs boson was discovered, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN have precisely measured most of its properties. The observed Higgs lifetime, spin, and parity, and its interactions with weak bosons, bottom quarks, and tau leptons all agree with the
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Mohammadi
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State) Title: LHC and the quest of understanding the Universe Abstract: Almost a decade has passed since the first proton-proton beam collisions took place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson in 2012 represented a thrilling triumph for the particle physics community
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Barsukov
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesProf. Dr. Barsukov will give a colloquium talk about magnon condensation and exchange-mediated spin flows in magnetic heterostructures.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Duric
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Senka Duric Title: Electroweak and Higgs physics at the LHC: The present and the future Abstract: Contrary to all expectations, experiments at the LHC did not discover any fundamentally new particles other than the Higgs boson. However, a lot can be learned from precision measurements of Higgs boson properties and the production of vector
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Fleischauer
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Fleischhauer (Univ. of Kaiserslautern) Title: Non-local nonlinear optics using Rydberg atoms Abstract: Photons do not easily interact with each other and nonlinear processes on the few-photon level can usually be realized only under very special conditions. Coupling of weak light fields to atoms involving Rydberg states may change this picture. Under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Rorie
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Jamal Rorie (Rice) Title: Dark Matter, CMS, and the Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Abstract: There is compelling observational evidence for the existence of dark matter, but it is not currently included in the Standard Model of elementary particle and their interactions. The recently observed Higgs boson may interact with dark matter
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Lee
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Duane Lee (MIT) Title: Abstract: A key focus of galactic astronomy is to determine and understand the formation and evolution of all nearby galaxies (including our own Milky Way)—those galaxies where we can obtain information on their individual stars. The best source of data on individual stars in galaxies is their spectra as they