This Friday the Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar is hosting Professor Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli from Vanderbilt University. Professor Kunnawalkam Elayavalli is an experimental high energy nuclear physicist who studies one of the most fundamental states of matter, the quark-gluon plasma. In her talk Back to fundamental QCD – a tale of quarks and gluons!, Professor Kunnawalkam Elayavalli will describe how such an exotic state of matter can be created and studied, and what we can learn from it. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210, with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!