“Alice In-Between Worlds: The Wonderland of Dusty Plasma”

Evdokiya (Eva) Kostadinova

Baylor University

Monday September 23rd, 2019 at 4:00 PM

120 Engineering (Hammond Auditorium)

Order and stability in the giant world of stars and galaxies is dominated by the force of gravity. In contrast, the tiny world of atomic and subatomic particles is held together by nuclear and quantum forces. As one sizes up from the subatomic to the astronomical scales, a natural question emerges: What fundamental principles govern the world of the “in-between”? In other words, what happens to the laws of nature when the time and spatial scales are neither large nor small? [Read More…]