Happening @ Michigan

CM-AMO Seminar | Controlling Superconductivity and Topology through Electronic Correlations, Electron- Lattice Coupling, and Interface Engineering

Subhasish Mandal (West Virginia University)

High-temperature superconductivity and topological quantum matter remain among the central challenges in condensed matter physics. Their...

HET Brown Bag Seminar | What is the simplest holographic matrix model?

Harish Murali (Stanford)

I’ll talk about a Hermitian two matrix model called the Hoppe model, which has an interesting strong coupling limit where the matrices...

Toward a Computational Understanding of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

This symposium brings social scientists and computational scientists together for an afternoon to promote interdisciplinary work on...

HET Seminar | Fundamental Physics from Large-Scale Structure Cosmology

Mikhail Ivanov (MIT)

I will present a program for extracting cosmological information by combining effective field theory techniques with data from galaxy...

Saturday Morning Physics | Spooky, Spectacular Halloween Demo Show (Family-Friendly)

The Warren M. Smith Demonstration Laboratory Team (U-M Physics)

Hybrid Lecture: Join us in Weiser Hall in person (Rooms 170 and 182) or stream live: https://myumi.ch/gkMjG...

Applied Physics | Active and living solids

Suraj Shankar, Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan

From cytoskeletal networks to cells and tissues, numerous biological systems behave as elastically coupled active materials. Yet little is...

CM-AMO Seminar | Measuring Gravity by Dropping Atoms

Xuejian Wu (Rutgers University)

Leveraging the nature of quantum phenomena, quantum technologies are advancing rapidly in computing, communication, and sensing. Quantum...

HET Brown Bag Seminar | Suppressed Quantum Effects of Weakly Coupled Waves

Kevin Zhou (Berkeley)

Searches for axion dark matter and gravitational waves are rapidly expanding, with new experiments deploying quantum sensing techniques to...

Department Colloquium

Prineha Narang (UCLA)

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Quantum Research Institute | Rethinking Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Pankaj Jha (Syracuse University)

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HET Seminar | On the origin of Flavor and CP Violation

Claudio Manzari (IAS)

I will present recent work on several aspects of flavor physics, motivated by suggestive patterns in high-precision data. First, I will...

HET Brown Bag Seminar | Growing large SMBH at early times with dark atoms

Akshay Ghalsasi (Harvard)

Observations by JWST have indicated the presence of large SMBH within the first 500 Myr of the universe. The existence of these black holes...

Department Colloquium | High-Temperature Superconductivity – Insights from Einstein’s Electrons

Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford University)

Complex phenomena in solids remain a central theme of 21st-century physics. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), based on...

HET Seminar | Euclidean Wormholes and Axion Cosmology

Gary Shiu (Wisconsin)

Axions arise ubiquitously in theories of particle physics and quantum gravity and may play important roles in cosmology, from inflation and...

Saturday Morning Physics | The Physics of Art and the Art of Physics

Xiaoming Mao, Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering (U-M Physics and Engineering)

Hybrid Lecture: Join us in Weiser Hall in person (Rooms 170 and 182) or stream live:https://myumi.ch/Z87k9...

HET Brown Bag |

Aritra Saha (Texas A&M)

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Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Topological defects in quantum materials: what the spectrum, the S-matrix and the STM tip know

Eric Akkermans (Technion)

Point defects in chiral or particle–hole-symmetric crystals are topological objects: a vacancy in graphene binds a zero mode fixed by an...

Department Colloquium | Horizon-Scale Modeling of Black Holes

Eliot Quataert (Princeton University)

Recent developments have ushered in a new era in the field of black hole astrophysics, providing our first direct view of the remarkable...

Quantum Research Institute | TBD

Jiangnan Liu (University of Michigan)

Zoom: In the Meeting Invite...

HET Seminar |

Tanner Trickle (Illinois)

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HET Brown Bag Seminar |

Taegyu Lee (Indiana)

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Quantum Research Institute | TBD

John Burke (Beacon Photonics)

Zoom: In the Meeting Invite In-Person: West Hall, Room 411 Abstract: TBD

HET Seminar

Kiril Hristov (Bulgaria/IAS)

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Saturday Morning Physics | So, You've Taken an Image with a Telescope — Now, How Do You Measure the Expansion of the Universe?

Erik Peterson, Professor of Physics (U-M Physics)

Hybrid Lecture: Join us in Weiser Hall in person (Rooms 170 and 182) or stream live: https://myumi.ch/QMmrw...

2027 Helmut W. Baer Lecture

Abhay Deshpande, Associate Lab Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics & EIC Science Director (Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University)

Prof. Abhay Deshpande works in experimental nuclear and high-energy physics. His current research includes various exploratory and precision...