HET Seminar | "Quantum Superposition of Massive Bodies"
Bob Wald (UChicago)
We analyse a gedankenexperiment previously considered by Mari et al. that involves quantum superpositions of charged and/or massive bodies...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Astronet: A Human-Centric Network of Free-Flying Space Co-Robots
Dimitra Panagou – Assistant Professor (U-M Aerospace Engineering)
In this talk, Professor Panagou will describe her work for the NASA Early Career Faculty Award on the "Astronet": a human-centric...
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Stochastic Turing Patterns in Oceans, Brains and Biofilms
Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC-Physics)
Why are the patterns of plankton in the ocean so patchy? Why do frequently described geometrical hallucinations tend to fall into one of...
Complex Systems - Quant. Bio Seminar | Stochastic Turing patterns in oceans, brains and biofilms
Nigel Goldenfeld, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A special seminar co-hosted by Quantitative Bio. Seminars & CSCS. The first of two talks Professor Goldenfeld will be giving in two...
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Inside Nature Physics
David Abergel (Nature, Physics Associate Editor)
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes at Nature Research journals? We'll discuss what our editors look for in a paper, how we...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Higgs Boson Decay as a Probe to the Unsolved Mysteries in the Universe: dark energy, dark matter and missing antimatter
Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University)
Despite being a remarkably simple theoretical model, the Higgs mechanism is the only known theory that is connected to some of the most...
Complex Systems Seminar | (Soft) Matter of Life and Death: Biophysical Consequences of Death and Reproduction in Bacterial Biofilms
Peter Yunker, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biofilms are surface attached communities formed by bacteria and other microbes. Biofilms that form in nature typically feature different...
Complex Systems & Soft Matter Group Seminar | The life and death of turbulence
Nigel Goldenfeld, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
A special seminar co-hosted by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and the Soft Matter Group - Chemical Engineering to be held at...
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Fine probes of quantum chaos
Mark Mezei (Stonybrook)
Quantum chaotic dynamics manifests itself in transport, thermalization, and the butterfly effect. Hydrodynamics is the universal effective...
Department Colloquium | Gravitational Waves, Very Dense Matter, and Laboratory Experiments
Charles Horowitz (Indiana University)
In 2017 gravitational waves, oscillations of space-time, were detected from the collision of two neutron stars. This historic event...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Kevin Walsh, Research Scientist, Southwest Research Intstitute
Solar System History via Near-Earth Asteroids (...and NASA's OSIRIS-REx Space Mission)...
HET Seminar | Two-loop mixed EW-QCD corrections to Drell-Yan lepton pair production
Andreas von Manteuffel (Michigan State)
Drell-Yan lepton pair production is a key process for precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider. In this talk I will consider the...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics
Herbert Winful – Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (U-M EECS)
The birth of the field of nonlinear optics occurred in Randall Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1961 when Franken, Hill, Peters,...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Lensing and Delensing: Results and Updates from BICEP/Keck and the South Pole Telescope
Kimmy Wu (University of Chicago)
Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information from the low-redshift universe. Therefore, its...
Complex Systems Seminar | Stephanie Forrest 'The Biology of Software: Evolution, Robustness, Diversity'
Stephanie Forrest, Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University
Stephanie Forrest is Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University, where she directs the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation,...
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Looking for Axion Dark Matter: from Dwarf Galaxies to Pulsars
Andrea Caputo (University of Valencia)
Axion and Axion-like particles are fascinating dark matter candidates and a great effort has been devoted to their study, both theoretically...
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Dr. Donna Strickland, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018 (University of Waterloo)
With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Rodolfo Montez Jr., Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
More details to come....
Saturday Morning Physics | Who Ordered That? The Marvelous, Mysterious Muon
Tim Chupp – Professor (U-M Physics)
The muon is a heavier version of the electron and was first discovered in cosmic rays but is now studied extensively in accelerator...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Exoplanet Systems as Laboratories for Planet Formation
Lauren M. Weiss (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa)
With knowledge of thousands of exoplanet systems from the NASA Kepler Mission, we are closer than ever to understanding how planets form....
Complex Systems Seminar | Network reconstruction and community detection from dynamics
Tiago de Paula Peixoto, Department of Network and Data Science - Central European University
The observed functional behavior of a wide variety large-scale systems is often the result of a network of pairwise interactions between...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Henriette Schwarz, Morrison Fellow, University of California Santa Cruz
More details to come....
HEP-Astro Seminar | Searching for Long-lived Particles with Displaced Vertices in ATLAS
Karri DePettrillo (Fermilab)
Most searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider assume that a new particle produced in pp-collisions decays almost immediately,...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Dan Gifford, Distinguished Alumni, Senior Data Scientist, Getty Images
More details to come....
Saturday Morning Physics | Supermassive Black Holes and You
Megan Donahue – Professor, Astronomy & Physics (MSU) and President of the American Astronomical Society
A supermassive black hole may have played a more important role in your existence than you might have thought. You might want to sit down...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Forward Modelling the Universe: Application to Cosmic Shear
Adam Amara
Observational cosmology is going through a golden age. In particular, we are in the midst of an influx of data from on-going experiments,...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Shane Davis, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
More details to come....
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals?
Elaine Westbrooks – Vice Provost & University Librarian (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Scholars need to communicate their research in order to advance science and to promote the understanding of the human experience. The future...
HEP-Astro Seminar | SUSY Searches with ATLAS and Potential Improvements from Track Triggers
Jonathan Long (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
The lack of evidence for SUSY at the LHC motivates new search strategies such as looking for scenarios with small mass differences between...
CM-AMO Seminar | Double Feature
Elizabeth Drueke(U-M Physics) , Ceren Dag(U-M Physics)
CM-AMO Seminar
Department Colloquium
Nadya Mason (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Department Colloquium
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Natasha Batalha, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Cruz
More details to come....
Life After Graduate School Seminar
Ana Quider (Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations, Northern Illinois University)
Life After Grad School Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts, Myths and Mysteries
Elena Gallo – Associate Professor (U-M Astronomy)
This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first...
Saturday Morning Physics | Climate Change Opportunities and Challenges for Michigan
Dr. Jonathan Overpeck – Samuel A. Graham Dean and William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education (U-M SEAS)
Climate change is already impacting the planet in dramatic ways, including in the U.S. and in the Great Lakes region. The impacts in...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Astronomy Department Post-Docs
Please note: Should you require any accommodations to ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Stacy Tiburzi...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Daryl Haggard, Assistant Professor, McGill University
More details to come....
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Irina Zhuravleva, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago
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Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Kate Daniel, Assistant Professor of Physics, Bryn Mawr College
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Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Caitlin Casey, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
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Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Adrian Price-Whelan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, NYC
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Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Laura Lopez, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University
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