Event Types
Location
HET Seminar | The Full Spectrum of Thermal Dark Matter
Eric Kuflik (Hebrew U/Cornell)
This seminar presents a comprehensive analysis of thermal relic freezeout mechanisms, deriving simple-to-use analytical relationships...
CM-AMO Seminar | Visualization of Tunable Electronic Structure of Van der Waals Heterostructures
Jyoti Katoch (Carnegie Mellon University)
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures offer an unprecedented platform for engineering the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D)...
Brown Bag Seminar | Comments on closed universes
Ying Zhao (MIT)
We study closed universes in simple models of two dimensional gravity, such as Jackiw-Teiteilboim (JT) gravity coupled to matter, and a toy...
Department Colloquium | Probing the Structures of Pyramids using Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography
E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)
The pyramids of ancient Egypt and of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica have fascinated people since the cultures that built them vanished into the...
Quantum Research Institute | Coupling control and quantum dynamics of spin defects in solids: from room temperature quantum sensing to quantum computation
Michael E. Flatté, Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Iowa (UI)
In Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, 2000PML...
The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Jessica Lu, Associate Prof. & Chair, UC Berkeley
"Milky Way Black Holes and the Tech to Find Them"...
“Conversations in Equity and Inclusion” Presents:
Dr. Jessica Lu, Associate Prof. & Chair, UC Berkeley
"Broadening Participation in Astronomical Instrumentation"
HET Seminar | Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Daniel Harlow (MIT)
Recently there have been several arguments given for the seemingly absurd statement that the Hilbert space of quantum gravity in a closed...
Saturday Morning Physics | ZEUS: The Highest Power Laser in the U.S.
Karl Krushelnick, Professor: Nuclear Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Physics. Director, ZEUS laser facility and Gerard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
ZEUS is a new high-power laser facility at the University of Michigan funded by the National Science Foundation. It is capable of producing...
CM-AMO Seminar | Entanglement complexity and precision measurement with cold atom qubits
Grant Biedermann (University of Oklahoma)
The spin and motional degrees of freedom of ultracold atoms along with our ability to manipulate them with electric and magnetic fields form...
Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture| Why we explore
Rob Meyers (Perimeter Institute)
Humanity faces real and present problems. Our resources to address these problems are limited. It’s easy to think, then, that we should...
Saturday Morning Physics | Organic Optical Materials: From Solar Cells to Light-Emitting Diodes
Theodore Goodson III, The Richard Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry (U-M Chemistry)
Versatile organic optical materials are widely used, for example, in OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs. These materials, which convert...
CM-AMO Seminar | Soft condensed matter spectroscopy in the terahertz range
Daniel Mittleman (Brown University)
Terahertz spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful tool for studies of condensed matter systems, complementary to other more widespread...
The Orren C. Mohler Prize Lecture
Volker Springel, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
"Simulated Universes: Origin and Fate of Our Milky Way"...
Saturday Morning Physics | VanLoo Family SMP: Graduate Student Research Presentations
Otávio Aves and Emilie LaVoie-Ingrahm (U-M Physics), Jared Mitchell (U-M Applied Physics)
Graduate student talks about the latest research from:...
