Aaron Chan, "Extreme Magnetic Fields: How and Why"
Laboratory experimental apparatus can produce magnetic fields up to 100T—about 30 times stronger than hospital MRI machines and 10,000 times larger than a regular fridge magnet. In this talk, I will discuss the cutting-edge technology used by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to produce such powerful magnetic fields and the interesting physical phenomena probed in such extreme environments.

Justin Berman, "Bootstrapping High-Energy Theories from Low-Energy Clues"
A key goal of particle physics theories is to predict how particles scatter off one another. However, experimentally probing these interactions at very high energies is extremely difficult. In this talk, I explain how fundamental principles of physics let us “bootstrap” low-energy data into predictions about high-energy particles, independent of the underlying theory. By using this bootstrap technique, I show that we can find upper and lower limits on the masses of particles in an approximation of the real world, which predict the existence and properties of a massive particle that has not yet been observed.

We celebrate the Van Loo Family Student Presentations this Saturday!

Lecture and Q&A, live-streamed on: https://myumi.ch/5kVRx