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Kimberly Boddy, University of Texas at Austin Opportunities for Dark Matter Searches in Cosmology Understanding the fundamental nature of dark matter is one of the major challenges facing the physics community today. There are dedicated experimental efforts to search for dark matter interactions with the Standard Model of particle physics,… Read More

Jorge Noronha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers Heavy-ion collision experiments have provided overwhelming evidence that quarks and gluons, the elementary particles within protons and neutrons, can flow as a nearly frictionless, strongly interacting relativistic liquid over distance scales not much larger than the size of… Read More

Sam Gralla, University of Arizona Alice’s adventures with bombs, Bobs, and black holes The harmonization of gravity and quantum mechanics is a major open question in physics, and the obstacles involve conceptual difficulties surrounding observables and measurement. I will give a pedagogical presentation, at the advanced undergraduate level, of three… Read More

Veronica Dexheimer, Kent State University Exotic matter in neutron stars The high densities achieved in neutron stars and the high densities and temperatures achieved in neutron-star mergers create ideal testing grounds in which to learn about exotic matter, namely hyperons and deconfined quarks. The presence of exotic matter can strongly… Read More