Physics Colloquium: Jay Gallagher
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesStarbursts & Supernovae: Nature’s High Energy Particle Accelerator? Jay Gallagher, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison The Milky Way is permeated by high-energy hadronic and leptonic cosmic rays that connect to interstellar magnetic fields and interact with interstellar gas. Although shocks in […]
Physics Colloquium: Warren R. Brown
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesHypervelocity Stars Dr. Warren R. Brown, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Hypervelocity stars are ejected by the Galaxy's central massive black hole at speeds that exceed Galactic escape velocity. We discovered the first hypervelocity star in 2005, and have since found many […]
Physics Colloquium: Shane Davis
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe study of super-Eddington accretion is essential to our understanding of the growth of super-massive black holes in the early universe, the accretion of tidally disrupted stars, and the nature of ultraluminous X-ray sources.
Physics Colloquium: Keith Vanderlinde
Lapham 162 3209 N. Maryland Ave., MilwaukeeAmong the great surprises of modern cosmology was the discovery of Dark Energy. In this talk, I will introduce the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), an ambitious project to study Dark Energy by tracing out 4 billion years of cosmic history, using a purpose-built radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
Physics Colloquium: Jeffrey Donatelli
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe development of X-ray free-electron lasers has enabled new experiments for studying uncrystallized biomolecules that were previously infeasible with traditional X-ray sources.
Physics Colloquium: George Becker
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesQuasar Absorption Lines: From Reionization to Dark Matter George Becker, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UC-Riverside Absorption patterns in the spectra of distant quasars are one of our most powerful probes of cosmic structure. The rich “forest” of lines produced […]
Physics Colloquium: Zhizhen (Jane) Zhao
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States"2D Class Averaging of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Images" Zhizhen (Jane) Zhao, U of I - Urbana/Champaign Cryo-electron microscopy (EM) single-particle reconstruction is the process by which 3D density maps are obtained from a set of low-dose cryo-EM images of individual macromolecules. […]
Physics Colloquium: Mark A. Rizzo
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesHomotransfer FRET Sensors for Biological Exploration
Physics Colloquium: Edward Snell
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States"All That Glitters is Not Necessarily Gold: the accurate identification of metals in metalloproteins and post X-ray diffraction structural remediation"
Physics Colloquium: Elena Gallo
Lapham 160 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Local Black Hole Occupation Fraction