Title: Ex Luna, Scientia: The Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX) Abstract: The Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX) is a next-generation mission concept currently under consideration within NASA’s MIDEX program. LOX will provide new capabilities for time-domain astronomy and establish the Moon as a platform for nuclear astrophysics. Performance requirements are driven by our focused science goal: resolving … Continue reading "CRA seminar (Prof. Richard Miller)"
Title: Monopole-antimonopole creation and other numerical studies. Abstract: I will describe magnetic monopoles, their properties, and recent numerical work on their creation from particles.
Abstract: Black holes(BHs) as massive as 10^9 solar masses has been discovered at redshift z >6, that is within one billion years after the big bang. It is believed that some seed black hole with large initial masses formed at very early times, which then grow to the supermassive black holes we observe at z … Continue reading "PhD. Thesis Defense — Chao Shi — The Dynamics of Black Holes in First Galaxies"
Revealing the Neutrino through Double-Beta Decay Characterization of the elusive neutrino has been the goal of many experiments over recent years, yet many fundamental properties of this elementary particle remain unknown. As the only neutral Standard Model fermion, it is possible that the neutrino is a Majorana particle, i.e. it's own anti-particle. This intriguing … Continue reading "CRA special seminar (Jacob Daughhetee)"
Dear Georgia Tech Faculty and Staff, The great American eclipse will sweep across the U.S. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, the first day of the Fall 2017 semester. Over Atlanta, the eclipse will start shortly after 1 PM, maximum overlap will occur at 2:37 PM, and the sun and moon will part ways completely at … Continue reading "ECLIPSE 2017 @ GT"
