Event Types
Location
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Maximizing the Interaction Strength
Miguel Correia (McGill)
QCD remains intractable in the high-energy soft regime, where all standard methods break down. This regime governs total hadronic...
Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Strong Terahertz electrodynamics in emergent 2D materials
Jun Xiao (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Terahertz (THz) sensing and imaging are critical in both quantum information technology and biomedical sensing because THz frequencies...
CANCELLED - Department Colloquium | Is there Another Earth?
Michael Meyer (U-M Astronomy)
Most stars in our galaxy have one or more planets orbiting them. Their diversity is astounding, with observed bulk densities ranging over a...
Quantum Research Institute | Towards Quantum Control and Sensing with 227ThO Molecules and Other Radioactive Molecules for Fundamental Symmetry Test
Xing Wu (Michigan State University)
In-Person: West Hall 411...
The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Sebastian Heinz, John and Abigail Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Shooting for the Stars: Jet-Wind Interactions and their Role in Understanding Jet Physics"...
Applied Physics Seminar | Innovations in Scintillator Detector Technologies for Nuclear Material Monitoring and Verification
Dr. Sara A. Pozzi, Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, and Professor of Physics atthe University of Michigan
In this presentation, I will present emerging solutions in radiation detection for improved characterization and safeguarding of nuclear...
Department Colloquium | The Final Fermilab muon g-2 result
Tim Chupp (U-M Physics)
The muon magnetic moment anomaly arises due to quantum interactions of muons and the vacuum, mostly due to quantum electrodynamics (QED),...
The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Andrea Banzatti, Associate Professor, Texas State University
"Listening to a raindrop: 20 years of water spectroscopy of planet-forming disks"...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?
Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)
Observations over the last two and half decades have persuaded cosmologists that (as yet only indirectly detected) dark energy is by far the...
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Bulk Locality and Infrared Entanglement
Gautam Satishchandran (Princeton)
For quantum field theories coupled to any massless fields, one generally encounters “IR divergences” which arise due to the fact that...
Department Colloquium | X-ray vision in the age of free-electron lasers: Making the invisible visible
David A. Reis (Stanford PULSE Institute Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
For well over a century x rays have been a powerful tool for probing atomic-scale structure due to their short wavelength and relatively...
Quantum Research Institute | Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays
Jacob Covey (University of Illinois)
In-Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, 2301 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, PML2000...
The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Juliette Becker, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Companions as Clues: Understanding Hot Jupiter Formation"...
Saturday Morning Physics | Surviving the Death of a Star: Life on Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Juliette Becker, Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
When stars like the Sun die, they leave behind stellar remnants that we call white dwarfs. Usually, when we think about life in planetary...
2026 Ford Motor Company Distinguished Lecture in Physics | Organic Semiconductors – From OLED displays to new applications
Richard Friend, Professor of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Lecture Abstract: Organic molecules with semiconducting properties are now used as the light-emitting diodes, LEDs, in organic LEDdisplays....
Quantum Research Institute | TBD
In-Person: West Hall 411 Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98748463202?jst=2
Saturday Morning Physics | Magnets and Amplitudes: A Glimpse into the Quantum Realm
Aaron Chan and Justin Berman (U-M Physics Graduate Students) Present the Van Loo Student Talks
Aaron Chan, "Extreme Magnetic Fields: How and Why"...
Quantum Research Institute | TBD
Bill Fefferman (University of Chicago)
In-Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, 2301 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, PML2000...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Physics of Active Matter
Suraj Shankar, Assistant Professor (U-M Physics)
Birds flock. Bees swarm. Fish school. These natural collective behaviors emerge in a new kind of matter - active matter - made not of atoms...
Quantum Research Institute | TBD
Hailin Wang (University of Oregon)
In-Person: West Hall 411 Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91761768567?jst=2
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Interested in presenting your research? The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an accessible, multidisciplinary research forum for all...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Science of Physicist Jens Zorn's Art
Multiple U-M Faculty Speakers
Jens Zorn was a Michigan Physics professor, molecular physicist, and renowned teacher and academic administrator. He was also an artist who...
