HET Seminar | Quantum effects, neutrino masses and new oscillation phenomena
Pedro Machado (Fermilab)
In this seminar I will discuss how quantum effects sourced by the neutrino mass mechanism can leave imprints on neutrino oscillations. More...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Physics of Music
Christine A. Aidala, Professor (U-M Physics)
Music is a universal language that has the power to influence our moods and inspire. All music is ultimately due to the physics of different...
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Search for New Physics With Rare Kaon Decays at the CERN SPS
Matthew Moulson (INFN Frascati)
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HET Seminar | Perspectives and Questions
Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
Meditations on the future of particle physics.
Department Colloquium | A Century of Noether's Theorem
Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
In the summer of 1918, Emmy Noether published the theorem that now bears her name, establishing a profound two-way connection between...
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar | Discrete Descriptions of Mechanical Metamaterials: from Spin Glass to Spin Ice
Yair Shokef (Tel Aviv University)
Metamaterials are artificial structures made of arrays of multiple building blocks of mesoscopic length scales. For many mechanical...
Special Physics Presentation | Journey into the World of Particle Physics and the Cosmos — and a Call for a More Just Practice of Science
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
This presentation will live stream on the U-M Poverty Solutions Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaca6llnjhs...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and a core faculty member for women’s studies at the University of New...
Department Colloquium | Higgs Physics
Sally Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Department Colloquium
MCAIM Colloquium - Uncovering the Rules of Crumpling with a Data-Driven Approach
Chris Rycroft, Harvard University
When a sheet of paper is crumpled, it spontaneously develops a network of creases. Despite the apparent disorder of this process,...
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar
Mike Zalatel (University of California, Berkeley)
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar
Professor Jianming Qian, The David M. Dennison Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Inaugural Lecture
Quests and Discoveries at the Energy Frontier
The Standard Model of particle physics has been remarkably successful in describing phenomena at the smallest distances that are explorable...
HET Seminar | Continuum Dark Matter
Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)
The microscopic nature of dark matter remains a major outstanding question in particle physics and cosmology, and many simple models are now...
Saturday Morning Physics | On Deciding the Next Big Science Experiments
James Wells, Professor (U-M Physics, Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (LCTP))
The advancement of science requires decommissioning old experiments and pursuing new experiments. But which new experiments? How should we...
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar
Olga Goulko (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar
HET Seminar | Confining or Not?
Igor Klebanov (Princeton)
The problem of Color Confinement in Yang-Mills theory is one of the deepest problems in theoretical physics. There is convincing numerical...
Saturday Morning Physics | Physics of “The Bends” – The Mechanics Behind Decompression Sickness
Jens-Christian Meiners, Professor (U-M Physics and Biophysics)
Decompression sickness is a disease that affects scuba divers when they ascend too rapidly from depth. It is caused by gas bubbles that form...
Saturday Morning Physics | How Ultrasound May Be Ultra Useful for You!
Oliver Kripfgans, Professor (U-M Applied Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology)
Ultrasound is a mechanical wave. In medical imaging sophisticated implementations of this physical phenomenon allow us to look inside the...
2022 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero from MIT will be the 2022 Ford Distinguished Lecture speaker. Professor Jarillo-Herrero studies novel...
