Prof. Cara Battersby Awarded an NSF CAREER grant
Professor Cara Battersby has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! “The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the […]
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Plates that Helped Map the Universe, Now at UConn
UConn is now home to tools that have played an instrumental role in mapping the universe — 10 large aluminum plates used as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Measuring 32 inches across, one-eighth of an inch thick, and with thousands of tiny holes drilled in them, these plates may not be the […]
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Two Physicists are in Project Daedalus that Focuses on Materials for Aerospace in New $4.7 Million Contract
UConn’s collaboration with the Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is launching a new project. It is titled Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Metamaterials, Functional Ceramics and Photonics. This is a $4.7 M contract with $1M for Physics. The project’s goal is to explore and advance the understanding of electronic, photonic, magnetic, and […]
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Research of UConn Professor Daniel Angles-Alcazar featured in UConn Today
The article The Largest Suite of Cosmic Simulations for AI Training Is Now Free to Download; Already Spurring Discoveries describe research of a team of astrophysicists that includes UConn Professor of Physics Daniel Anglés-Alcázar. “Machine learning is revolutionizing many areas of science, but it requires a huge amount of data to exploit,” says Anglés-Alcázar. “The […]
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Prof. J. Trump interview about the launch of the James Webb telescope
UConn Physics Professor Jonathan Trump is part of a group of scientists who will be the first to conduct research using the James Webb space telescope. The local Fox News TV station conducted an interview with Prof. Trump.
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Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics ", Atomic, Molecular, And Optical Physics Seminar3:30pm
5/9
Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics ", Atomic, Molecular, And Optical Physics Seminar
Monday, May 9th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus GS-117
Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics
Weakly-bound complexes are unique systems to study XUV-mediated decay processes since energy can either be internally converted or exchanged with a neighboring atom or molecule. For larger nanoscale systems, the local environment also plays a critical role in the various interatomic processes. Here, I will discuss how the formation and dynamics of "bubbles" around excited atoms in helium nanodroplets can dramatically enhance interatomic decay. Furthermore, I will discuss how these processes can also be applied to other fluids such as water. -
Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics ", RESCHEDULED to May 9 : Atomic, Molecular, And Optical Physics Seminar3:30pm
5/2
Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics ", RESCHEDULED to May 9 : Atomic, Molecular, And Optical Physics Seminar
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus GS-117
Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics
Weakly-bound complexes are unique systems to study XUV-mediated decay processes since energy can either be internally converted or exchanged with a neighboring atom or molecule. For larger nanoscale systems, the local environment also plays a critical role in the various interatomic processes. Here, I will discuss how the formation and dynamics of "bubbles" around excited atoms in helium nanodroplets can dramatically enhance interatomic decay. Furthermore, I will discuss how these processes can also be applied to other fluids such as water. -
Prof. Jonathan Trump, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "New Eyes on the Universe: the James Webb Space Telescope", UConn Physics Colloquium3:30pm
4/29
Prof. Jonathan Trump, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "New Eyes on the Universe: the James Webb Space Telescope", UConn Physics Colloquium
Friday, April 29th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus GW-001
Prof. Jonathan Trump, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
New Eyes on the Universe: the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most ambitious physics experiments ever conceived by humanity. The $10B space observatory is a collaborative project involving NASA, ESA, CSA, and other international partners and successfully launched on Dec 25, 2021. After a complex unfolding that included over 300 potential (and terrifying) points of failure, the spacecraft is now completing its final deployment steps and is on track to begin science operations in late June of this year. I will describe how my research group will use some of the telescope's first observations to find the very first galaxies and black holes forming in the early Universe. I will also discuss how the telescope's infrared capabilities unveil a new window on the cold Universe, including dust-enshrouded star formation and the atmospheres of (potentially habitable) exoplanets. The James Webb Space Telescope is such an enormous advance for observational astronomy that it is difficult to predict its full impact: much like the (32-yr-old) Hubble Space Telescope, its key science results are likely to include a great many expected discoveries about the physics of the Universe. -
Mathematical Physics Seminar The Geometry Of String DualitiesStefan Mendez-Diez (Bard College)2:30pm
4/27
Mathematical Physics Seminar The Geometry Of String DualitiesStefan Mendez-Diez (Bard College)
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus MONT-313
We will discuss the different supersymmetric string theories and how they are all related to each other. We will further explore how the different physical relationships can be described geometrically. -
Prof. Philip Mannheim, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "My time at UConn - a 43 year Odyssey", UConn Physics Colloquium3:30pm
4/22
Prof. Philip Mannheim, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "My time at UConn - a 43 year Odyssey", UConn Physics Colloquium
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus GW-001
Prof. Philip Mannheim, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
My time at UConn - a 43 year Odyssey
I arrived at UConn on September 1, 1979, and I will retire on July 1, 2022. In this talk I will describe some of the things that I did in between. I will describe some of my departmental and university activities, and will discuss some of the research I have done, research that benefited immeasurably from the supportive environment that my departmental colleagues and students have constantly provided me with.
Talk slides: https://physics.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2234/2022/04/odyssey.pdf
Video recording of the talk: https://kaltura.uconn.edu/media/mannheim-colloquium-20220422/1_f0y4vjfw -
Prof. Carlos Trallero, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Quantum times ", Graduate Student Seminar12:15pm
4/22
Prof. Carlos Trallero, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Quantum times ", Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Storrs Campus GS-119
Prof. Carlos Trallero, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Quantum times
We study quantum dynamics by following light-mater interaction at short time scales from the long wavelength infrared or "heat" wavelength to the soft Xray all using table top sources. In our lab "mater" covers from isolated electrons, to atoms, molecules, nanoparticles, 2D heterostructures and bulk solids. Our time scales range from the pico to the zepto second. I will discuss our new results and proposed experiments on zeptosecond control of light and non-local quantum correlations. -
Mathematical Physics Seminar Virasoro Hamiltonian Spaces Anton Alekseev (University Of Geneva)2:30pm
4/20
Mathematical Physics Seminar Virasoro Hamiltonian Spaces Anton Alekseev (University Of Geneva)
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus Zoom
We develop a theory of Hamiltonian actions of the canonical central extension of the group of diffeomorphisms of the circle. It turns out that Virasoro Hamiltonian spaces (this is another name for such Hamiltonian actions) are in bijective correspondence with group valued Hamiltonian spaces with moment map taking values in (a certain part of) the universal cover of the group SL(2, R). Among other things, this correspondence allows to recover the classical result of Lazutkin-Pankratova, Kirillov, Segal, Witten (and others) on classification of coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro algebra. Interesting examples of Virasoro Hamiltonian spaces arise as moduli spaces of conformally compact hyperbolic metrics on oriented surfaces with boundary.
The talk is based on a joint work in progress with Eckhard Meinrenken. -
Astro Seminar: Virtual Career Panel2:00pm
4/20
Astro Seminar: Virtual Career Panel
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Other https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/drl20003
UConn Astronomy invites all to join a Professional Development Virtual Career Panel featuring four exceptional individuals with a wide breadth of experience. The virtual panel presents an opportunity for students to interact with and discuss career paths outside the scope of university jobs. The virtual panel will be run as an open Q&A session and will be recorded.