Polymer Program Students with YoungHee Chudy at Spirit Rock
Dr. Steven Suib makes presentation at the 2018 IMS Industrial Affiliates Program Annual Meeting
2018 Polymer Program/MSE Joint Poster Session
Dr. Paul Nahass kicks off IMS Industrial Affiliates Program 2018 Annual Meeting
IMS Industrial Affiliates Program Short Course: "Unpacking the Black Box"
Dr. Nicholas Eddy instructs "Unpacking the Black Box" Short Course

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Apr 19 Particle, Astrophysics, And Nuclear Physics Seminar2:00pm

Particle, Astrophysics, And Nuclear Physics Seminar

Monday, April 19th, 2021

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
online

Dr. Vladimir Tishchenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory

First result of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab

The Brookhaven muon g-2 experiment E821 measured the muon magnetic anomaly to a
precision of 540 ppb (parts per billion). The difference between the Standard Model theory value and the E821 experimental value ultimately became 3.7 standard deviations.
Is it a sign of new physics or a fluctuation? To answer this, a new experiment has been developed at Fermilab which uses the Brookhaven storage ring with the new muon beam and detectors. The Fermilab experiment has announced its much anticipated first results based on Run-1 data collected in 2018. In my talk, I will give a brief overview of the
g-2 experiment and talk about the Run-1 measurements with highlights in beam and spin dynamics effects.

Webex meeting URL: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/tcb04001/

Contact Information: Prof. T. Blum
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Apr 19 7th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium In Molecular And Cell Biology2:30pm

7th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium In Molecular And Cell Biology

Monday, April 19th, 2021

02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
online

The MCB Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity to showcase the research accomplishments of the department’s undergraduate students. The three best presentations will be invited to participate in the All Biology Symposium on Monday 26th April.

Presenters will be:
2:30 pm Kerry Morgan, MCB and Allied Health Sciences Major
Advisor: Dr. James Li
Title: The Effects of MAPK Signaling on the Development of Cerebellar Granule Cells

2:50 pm Emily Kilian, MCB Major
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Kline and Dr. Sharon Smith
Title: Language Acculturation Traits and BMI in Hispanic-American Children

3:10 pm Julia Horan, Biological Sciences Major
Advisor: Dr. David Knecht
Title: Chemokinesis of soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

3:30 pm Eman Ahmed, Physiology and Neurobiology Major
Advisor: Dr. Leighton Core
Title: Analysis of Timing of Transcriptional Readthrough Events in Mitosis

Symposium Link:

https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=mb04044f14c530234c447c5ffd6adfaa5

Contact Information: ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu
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Apr 20 PhD Dissertation Defense1:30pm

PhD Dissertation Defense

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Video meeting

Graduate Student Candost Akkaya, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

Entanglement Entropy in Gauge Theories

Studying long range correlations in non-abelian gauge theories is important to understand the interaction between charged states in their non-perturbative regime. One can study the entanglement properties of these theories to probe their long range structure. However, calculating entanglement entropy is a complicated endeavor and even in free theories since the calculation raises various technical difficulties. We present a way to study the entanglement properties of field theories in their continuum limit by considering the theory of free photon in 3+1 dimensions with a bipartition of local degrees of freedom by a plane. We calculate the entanglement entropy by integrating over the degrees of freedom in one half space using an approximation that assumes slow variation of the magnetic fields in the longitudinal direction. We discuss the differences in the contribution of longitudinal and transverse modes and conclude that the long range entanglement arises due to the necessity to solve the no-monopole constraint condition for the magnetic field.

Meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99867842922?pwd=Qlg1aDIzUTJ6bWpsRklTYUxpRWdHUT09

Contact Information: Prof. A. Kovner
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Apr 20 MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Dawn Carone (PhD '09)3:30pm

MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Dawn Carone (PhD '09)

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
online

Dr. Dawn Carone (PhD '09),
Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College

Host: Dr. Rachel O'Neill

"Toxic Repeat RNAs in Cancer Cells"

Summary: In this talk, I will highlight our recent work advancing our understanding of functional roles for the accumulation of tandem repeat RNAs in cancer cell nuclei.
View Publication Here:
https://mcb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2341/2021/03/Landers2021_Article_EctopicExpressionOfPericentric.pdf

Dawn Carone completed her Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics at UConn in 2009 in Dr. Rachel O’Neill’s lab. She then conducted her postdoctoral studies at UMass Medical School in the lab of Dr. Jeanne Lawrence. Dawn is now an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Swarthmore College, where she teaches Genetics and runs an NIH-funded, active research lab with undergraduates. Since her time at UConn, Dawn’s research has been focused on uncovering roles for genomic repeat sequences, with an emphasis on pericentric satellite repeats. Her lab is currently studying the misregulation of HSATII expression, a tandemly repetitive pericentric satellite sequence, in human cancer cells.

Visit Dr. Carone's lab website here: http://www.dawncaronelab.org

Seminar Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/webappng/sites/uconnvtc/meeting/download/73b0482edc2d4296b538911b3923d6f4?siteurl=uconnvtc&MTID=mf888e1957a812a5c6b3968a2580b5f42

Contact Information: Ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu
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