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Saturday Morning Physics | Opening Up the Solar System and Beyond: The Promise of Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion
John Foster, Professor (U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences)
Part of the 50th Anniversary Live Presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Anomaly of Dancing Reactor Antineutrinos
Soo-Bong Kim (Seoul National University)
The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) started data-taking from August, 2011 and has observed the disappearance of reactor...
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator YbB12
Ziji Xiang (U-M Physics)
In metals, orbital motions of conduction electrons on the Fermi surface are quantized in magnetic fields, which is manifested by quantum...
Department Colloquium | Correlated Topological Materials
Lu Li (U-M Physics)
In Kondo insulators, strong correlation and band hybridization lead to a diverging resistance at low temperature. The resistance divergence...
Special HEP-Astro Seminar | Cosmological Results from the Final Data Release of the Planck Satellite
Silvia Galli (IAP Paris)
Planck is an ESA satellite aimed at the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background. This year, the Planck collaboration has released the...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Dan Weisz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
“The Lowest-Mass Galaxies In the Early Universe: Insights from the Local Group”...
CM Theory Seminar | Quantum Donuts and Wedding Cakes: Topology- and Interaction-driven Effects in Graphene Quantum Dots
Christopher Gutierrez (University of British Columbia)
Graphene is a quasi two-dimensional material with low-energy excitations that can be described by the relativistic Dirac equation for...
Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Conversations on Inclusion and Equity Presents
Dr. Dan Weisz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
“Astronomy Department Climate at UC Berkeley”...
Life After Graduate School | How Three Recent Opportunities are Changing our Company's Business Outlook
Peter Cabauy (City Labs, Inc.)
Dr. Peter Cabauy is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of City Labs, Inc. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan...
Saturday Morning Physics | Dark Matters
Aaron Pierce, Professor and Director, Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (U-M Physics)
This talk will give an update on the hunt for dark matter and the quest to understand how most of the matter in our universe came about.
2018 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and a "Second Quantum Revolution"
F. Duncan Haldane, Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate (Princeton University)
While the laws of quantum mechanics have remained unchanged and have passed all tests for the last eighty-five years, new discoveries about...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title and Abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | Gravitational Waves with LIGO: Beyond the Big Chirp
Ansel Neunzert, Ph.D. Candidate (U-M Physics Gravitational Wave Group)
Collecting a zoo of black holes. Hunting for elusive signals from spinning neutron stars. Grappling with terabytes of data. On occasion,...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Why the Higgs is Light, Why It Has Standard Model Couplings to Gauge Bosons and Fermions, and Where There are More Higgses to be Found
Kenneth Lane (Boston University)
HEP - Astro Seminar
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. MacKenzie Warren, Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Associate, Michigan State University
Title and Abstract to be announced
CM Theory Seminar | Mechanics of Allosteric Materials — How Proteins Mediate Long-Range Interaction
Le Yan (KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara)
A crucial regulation for life is enabled at the molecular level through allosteric proteins, whose catalytic activity at the active sites...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Jayne Birkby, Assistant Professor, Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam
Title and Abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | Bringing the Stars Down to Earth with the Most Powerful Particle Accelerator in the World
Artemis Spyrou, Associate Professor (Michigan State University Physics - National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory)
We also celebrate the James Robert Walker Memorial Lecture on this date....
Quantitative Biology Seminar
Padmini Rangamani (UC San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Quantitative Biology Seminar
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Jackie Faherty, Senior Scientist & Senior Education Manager, American Museum of National History
Title and Abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a Resilient Human Society
Ben van der Pluijm, BR Clark Collegiate Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Earth's Future (U-M Earth & Environmental Sciences and Program in the Environment)
Today's Anthropocene time marks humanity's domination of Earth's changing environment. Societal resilience to the impacts of change requires...
HEP-Astro Seminar | A New QCD Facility at the M2 Beam Line of the CERN SPS
Oleg Denisov (INFN-Torino and CERN)
Possibility to use high intensity secondary beams at the SPS M2 beam line in combination with the world’s largest polarized target, liquid...
Social Space Diffusion: Applications of a Latent Space Model to Diffusion with Uncertain Ties
Jacob Fisher, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Social networks represent two different facets of social life: (1) stable paths for diffusion, or the spread of something through a...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Andrew Vanderburg, NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Title and Abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | Particle Physics Buffet
Dante Amidei, Professor (U-M Physics)
Recent news, eternal questions, and current conundrums in particle physics.
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Erika Hamden, Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona
Title and Abstract to be announced
CM Theory Seminar | Hunting for Correlated Topological Matter: from Kondo SmB6 to a Putative Hourglass Fermion
Priscila Rosa (LANL)
CM Theory Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | The Proton Radius Puzzle
Wolfgang Lorenzon, Professor (U-M Physics)
Until recently, we thought we knew exactly how big the proton is. Now we are not so sure anymore. What has happened and how are we going to...
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Durotaxis, Random Walkers, and the Electric Telegraph
Len Sander (U-M Physics and Complex Systems)
Quantitative Biology Seminar
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Decker French, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena
Title and Abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | Wrinkles, Crumples, and Origami: The Physics and Geometry of Thin Elastic Sheets
Ian Tobasco (Assistant Professor and James Van Loo Post-Doctoral Fellow (U-M Mathematics)
On this date we celebrate the Van Loo Family SMP Lecture....
Department Colloquia | Keith Riles Collegiate Professorship Lecture
Entering the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Keith Riles (H. Richard Crane Professor of Physics)
A century ago Albert Einstein realized that his newly created General Theory of Relativity implied that gravity propagates like light. These...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Zhaohuan Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Title and Abstract to be announced
