You are invited to our upcoming Physics and Astronomy Colloquium on Tuesday, February 23rd at noon. Dr. Camille Avestruz will be joining us from University of Michigan. Her talk title and abstract are below. Hope to see you there!
Title: Simulations for Cluster-based Cosmology
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel for their work helping us understand and locate black holes.
What is a black hole? How do we know they exist? And what did each of these physicists contribute to our current understanding? And what the heck is a Nobel Prize, anyway?
We will explore these questions and more.
Vera Smolyaninova, Towson University
Invisibility is an ancient dream. Applications of principles of transformation optics and metamaterials help to bring this dream closer to reality. What are metamaterials? What properties they can have? Optical cloaking based on emulation of metamaterials properties will be discussed. Applications of metamaterial engineering to different branches of physics, such as superconductivity and even cosmology will be shown.
How do you measure the smallest components of the universe? The ATLAS Experiment, located on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, measures the known building blocks of nature and searches for new ones. This talk discusses the effort to build the next generation of the ATLAS Experiment's innermost particle detector, designed to withstand more simultaneous proton collisions than ever before!
Photo credit: Joseph Rubino, Brookhaven National Laboratory