Grads kick off the new 2021-2 year with a hike to Wolf Rock in StorrsAwardees at Physics Department annual
research poster exhibit, April 24, 2019.
Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
Discovery of Binary Pulsars
23rd Annual Katzenstein Lecture
University of Connecticut
November 8, 2019
- Prof. Bell Burnell with UConn Women in Physics, November 2019
- Annual awards event honoring outstanding teaching assistants
- Introductory Physics applies hands-on approach to learning
Professor Puckett’s Group Prepares New Measurements of “femtoscopic” Neutron Structure at Jefferson Lab
Professor Andrew Puckett’s research group is currently leading, as part of a collaboration of approximately 100 scientists from approximately 30 US and international institutions, the installation in Jefferson Lab’s Experimental Hall A of the first of a series of planned experiments known as the Super BigBite Spectrometer (SBS) Program, with beam to Hall A tentatively […]
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Undergraduate Researcher Nicole Khusid featured in UConn Today
Physics major Nicole Khusid, a rising senior at UConn, was featured in a UConn Today article about her research. Nicole has been working on gravitional lensing of distant sources of gravitational waves, seeking to understand their multimessenger signals and detectability by future astrophysics facilities. Nicole was awarded a SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fund) award to […]
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Standard model challenged by new measurement
It seems that the muon, a heavier partner of the electron, may be breaking what have been understood as the laws of physics. The findings announced on April 7th were met with excitement and speculation at what this might mean. UConn physics researchers Professor Thomas Blum and Assistant Professor Luchang Jin helped pioneer the theoretical physics behind the findings.
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Prof. Battersby’s research featured in UConn Today article
Professor Cara Bettersby’s research is featured in the article “The Study of Big Data: How CLAS Researchers Use Data Science” published by UConn Today. Prof. Battersby’s work focuses on describing and studying the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which she calls an “experimental playground” for the distant cosmos. Her work described the spectroscopy of […]
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Dr. Yasaman Homayouni featured in CLAS story on 2021 graduates
New Physics PhD graduate Yasaman Homayouni is featured in a story on the class of 2021 from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS). For the full story of what inspired Yasaman and other students during their time at UConn, see the article in UConn Today.
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Sep
22
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar2:30pm
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Other Online
Dr. Darius Torchinsky, Temple University
The Nonlinear Electrodynamics of Weyl Semimetals
At the heart of the Weyl semimetal are massless, chiral quasiparticles that derive from electronic band-crossings split by either spatial inversion or time-reversal symmetry breaking. The resulting nodal points in the bulk band structure serve as sources and sinks of “topological charge” that are responsible for the phenomenology usually associated with these materials, including open Fermi arc surface states and the chiral anomaly. However, Weyl semimetals with acentric crystal structures can also support second order nonlinear optical responses that reveal characteristics of their band structure in surprising ways. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work using laser-driven currents in an attempt to try to study this topological charge directly, as well as our experiments on the Fermi arc surface states that uncover an unexpected emergent symmetry in the material response.
Meeting URL: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=mf566f1905d1eed47b29176e8e7be1ea1Contact Information: Prof. I. Sochnikov
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Sep
24
Graduate Student Seminar12:15pm
Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, September 24th, 2021
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Storrs Campus GS-119
Prof. Philip Mannheim, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Is Dark Matter Fact or Fantasy - Clues from the Data
We discuss arguments both in favor of and against dark matter. With the repeated failure of experiment to date to detect dark matter we discuss what could be done instead, and to this end look for clues in the data themselves. We identify various regularities in galactic rotation curve data that correlate the total gravitational potential with luminous matter rather than dark matter. We identify a contribution to galactic rotation curves coming from the rest of the visible universe, and suggest that dark matter is just an attempt to describe this global effect in terms of standard local Newtonian gravity within galaxies. Thus the missing mass is not missing at all — it has been hiding in plain sight all along as the rest of the visible mass in the universe.Contact Information: Prof. V. Kharchenko
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Sep
24
Pollack Distinguished Lecture (Professor Michael Tarbutt)3:30pm
Pollack Distinguished Lecture (Professor Michael Tarbutt)
Friday, September 24th, 2021
03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Other WebEx
The 2021 Edward Pollack Distinguished Lecture
Professor Michael Tarbutt
Imperial College London
Ultracold molecules are useful for a wide variety of applications. They can be used to probe physics beyond the Standard Model by measuring fundamental electric dipole moments or searching for varying fundamental constants. They can be used to study the behaviour of many-body quantum systems and to process quantum information. They can also be used to explore chemical reactions with every degree of freedom under control. Over the last few years there has been great progress in producing ultracold molecules by direct laser cooling. I will explain how laser cooling works for molecules, illustrate the recent progress that has been made, and describe our efforts to produce arrays of molecules in optical tweezer traps and use ultracold molecules to measure the electron’s electric dipole moment.
Friday, September 24, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Virtual meeting: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m5dd06e9fc802af44ae45e6a66cd8edb9
Meeting number: 120 534 8543
Password: PQwQJfjb262Contact Information: Dan McCarron
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Oct
8
UConn Physics Colloquium3:30pm
UConn Physics Colloquium
Friday, October 8th, 2021
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Gant North 20 (formerly IMS-20)
Prof. Daniel Milisavljevic, Purdue University
Title and abstract: TBAContact Information: Prof. Cara Battersby
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Oct
15
Dr. Steve Mirmina, NASA (UConn Physics Colloquium)3:30pm
Dr. Steve Mirmina, NASA (UConn Physics Colloquium)
Friday, October 15th, 2021
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus TBD
Dr. Steve Mirmina, NASA (UConn Physics Colloquium)
Title and abstract: TBDContact Information: Prof. Cara Battersby
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