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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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