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News & Announcements

Neutron Skin Measurement

A new measurement, presented by UVa graduate and postdoctoral scholar Caryn Palatchi at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics annual meeting, reveals that heavier types of ... Read»

Cotton Awarded DOE’s Graduate Student Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Cameron Cotton for winning Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) ... Read»

Buehlmann, Garwood, Mikhailova, and Stepniczka Receive 2021 Deaver Scholarship

The 2021 recipients of the Deaver Scholarship are listed below: Gracemarie Buehlmann (4th Year) ... Read»

Machine Learning Algorithm Predicts How Multiple Alloyed Elements Interact

A new class of materials known as high entropy alloys (HEAs) has generated considerable excitement in the materials ... Read»

Events

Monday, October 18

Dr. Jae-yoon Choi, KAIST South Korea: Single-site and single-atom imaging of Lithium-7 atoms in an optical lattice.
- Host: Peter Schauss
- Series: Atomic
- Where: Online Room via Zoom
- Start time: 9:00 AM
- Title: Single-site and single-atom imaging of Lithium-7 atoms in an optical lattice.
- Abstract:
  "Imaging and addressing individual atoms in optical lattices with single-site resolution constitute a new approach to the study of quantum many-body ..." More >
Felix-Louis Julie, Johns Hopkins University : Gravitational radiation from a binary black hole coalescence in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
- Host: Alexander Saffer
- Series: Gravity
- Where: Online Room via Zoom
- Start time: 1:00 PM
- Title: Gravitational radiation from a binary black hole coalescence in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
- Abstract:
  "I will show how to derive analytic gravitational waveforms associated to the coalescence of a “hairy” black hole binary in ..." More >

Friday, October 22

Professor Leonid Glazman, Yale University: Quantum Many-Body Physics of Superconducting Qubits
- Host: Dima Pesin
- Series: Colloquium
- Where: Physics Building Room 204
- Start time: 3:30 PM
- Title: Quantum Many-Body Physics of Superconducting Qubits
- Abstract:
  "The ongoing development of superconducting qubits has brought some basic questions of many-body physics to the research forefront, and helped ..." More >

Wednesday, October 27

Erika Catano-Mur , William and Mary: Status and Prospects for the NOvA Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
- Host: Craig Group
- Series: High Energy
- Where: Physics Building Room 204
- Start time: 4:00 PM
- Title: Status and Prospects for the NOvA Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
- Abstract:
  "TBA " More >

Thursday, October 28

Maxim Olchanyi , UMass: TBA
- Host: Israel Klich
- Series: Condensed Matter
- Where: via Zoom Room Online
- Start time: 3:30 PM
- Title: TBA
- Abstract:
  "TBA " More >

Friday, October 29

Tim Kovachy, Northweastern U: Exploring Gravitational Wave and Dark Matter Physics with the 100-meter-tall MAGIS-100 Atom Interferometer
- Host: Bob Hirosky
- Series: Colloquium
- Where: Physics Building Room 204
- Start time: 3:30 PM
- Title: Exploring Gravitational Wave and Dark Matter Physics with the 100-meter-tall MAGIS-100 Atom Interferometer
- Abstract:
  "Atom interferometers exploit spatially delocalized quantum states to make a wide variety of highly precise measurements. Recent ..." More >