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10 Years of Southern Stargazing: How Star Trek Changed Everything
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-06)This public lecture by Glenn Burns, chief meteorologist of WSB-TV, is one of three events to celebrate 10 Years of Southern Stargazing at the Georgia Tech Observatory. The destination for the 1960s Apollo missions was ... -
100 years of Einstein's Gravity
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-02)Curved spacetime, relativistic time, black holes and gravitational waves are just a few topics in Einstein’s theory of gravity called Special and General Relativity. Professors Cadonati and Shoemaker will take you on a ... -
2021 Physics State of the School Address
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A Compact, Reconfigurable Penning Trap for Quantum Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-29)Penning ion traps are versatile tools for studying atomic and molecular physics. They use static electric and magnetic fields to confine charged particles in 3-dimensional space. Most Penning traps employ a magnetic field ... -
A mathematical study of periodic structures inspired by soft matter systems: The QTZ-QZD family of triply-periodic minimal surfaces and doubly-periodic Weft-Knitted textiles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-22)In this thesis, we study mathematical objects that are periodic and arise as ordered states in soft matter systems. Motifs resembling triply-periodic minimal surfaces and their constant mean curvature variants are found ... -
A Multimessenger Approach to Neutrino Astronomy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-27)The discovery of a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux by Icecube Neutrino Observatory marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. Since then, great efforts have been poured into the search for the sources of these cosmic ... -
A numerical study of cardiac arrhythmia and defibrillation validated by experiments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-27)Defibrillation is termination of arrhythmias by altering the transmembrane voltage through the delivery of electric shocks. Debates on the mechanisms behind defibrillations, however, have never ceased. More recent studies ... -
A point contact spectroscopy study of topological superconductivity
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-01)The study of topological superconductivity has been at the forefront of condensed matter physics for the past few years. Topological superconductors are predicted to have odd parity pairing and host so called Majorana ... -
A robophysics approach to bipedal walking in granular media
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-19)Humanoid robots will need capabilities to traverse environments ranging from factory floors to disaster areas. However, most of today's devices fail when faced with more complex ground conditions such as loose sand. To ... -
A search for very high-energy gamma-ray emission from pulsars with VERITAS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-13)Pulsars are powerful cosmic particle accelerators known to emit radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Their gamma-ray emission has been intensely studied at energies up to ~10 GeV, above which the predicted ... -
A Study on Porous Silicon Gas Sensors: Metal Oxide Depositions to Organic Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-18)This paper has two main topics. The first topics covers the detection of volatile organic compounds with porous silicon (PSi) sensors. The second part explores the possibility of using conducting polymers as coatings for ... -
Absence of inelastic collapse in a realistic three ball model
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Physical Society, 1998-04)Inelastic collapse, the process in which a number of partially inelastic balls dissipate their energy through an infinite number of collisions in a finite amount of time, is studied for three balls on an infinite line and ... -
Absolute total apparent ionization, electron stripping, electron capture, and partial ionization cross sections in the energy range 015-100 MeV
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The absorption and refraction of centimeter microwaves by water
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Absorption of sulfur dioxide by charged aqueous droplets
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Accretion and feedback from supermassive black holes in galaxy clusters
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06-20)A significant fraction of galaxy clusters, namely the cool-core clusters (CCCs), exhibit a dip in their central temperature profiles, with radiative cooling times much shorter than the Hubble time. Unchecked, radiative ... -
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Advanced scanning probe lithography and its parallelization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-20)Nanofabrication is the process of making functional structures with arbitrary patterns having nanoscale dimensions. Nanofabrication has been widely implemented in industry for improving microelectronic devices and data ... -
Aeons Before the Big Bang?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03-24)There is much impressive observational evidence, mainly from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), for an enormously hot and dense early stage of the universe referred to as the Big Bang. Observations of the CMB are now ... -
Aggregation in the Schelling model and inverted biomass pyramids in ecosystems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-06-25)Thomas Schelling proposed a simple spatial model to illustrate how, even with relatively mild assumptions on each individual's nearest neighbor preferences, an integrated city would likely unravel to a segregated city, ...