Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Jane Rigby, Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
“A Magnified Vision of How Galaxies Evolve”...
Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Presents: “Conversations on Inclusion and Equity”
Dr. Jane Rigby, Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
“How astronomer Frank Kameny got fired, got angry, and changed the world”...
Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Conversations on Inclusion and Equity
Dr. Jane Rigby, Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Time/Location TBD Title/Abstract TBA
Saturday Morning Physics | From Tiny to Huge and Something in Between: Exploring the Universe of Neutrinos, Magnets and Galaxies
Graduate students Lu Chen, Rory Fitzpatrick, and Noah Weaverdyck (U-M Physics)
The Elusive Neutrino...
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Pattern Formation and Self-organization in Biological Flows
Eleni Katifori (University of Pennsylvania)
Complex life above a certain size would not be possible without a circulatory system. Both plants and animals have developed vascular...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Future High Energy Electron Accelerators for Particle Physics
Xinchou Lou (IHEP Beijing)
The discovery of a Higgs boson at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 was a major achievement in particle physics. Experimental...
Confined curved shells and their elaborate conformations
Eleni Katifori, Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Curved shells, when confined, can deform to a broad assortment of large scale shapes and smaller scale wrinkling and folding patterns quite...
CM-AMO Seminar | Gravitational Wave Detection and Dark Matter Searches with Atom Interferometry
Tim Kovachy (Northwestern University)
Atom interferometers exploit the quantum mechanical, wavelike nature of massive particles to make a broad range of highly precise...
2019 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | General Relativity: Creator and Killer of Galaxies
Sandra Faber, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UCSC)
The story of galaxy life cycles is becoming clear. Professor and Astronomer Emerita Sandra Faber will take us through the earliest moments...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger, Director of the Carl Sagan Institute and Associate Professor in Astronomy, Cornell University
“A Critical View on How to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life”...
Saturday Morning Physics | Update on Physics from the LHC
Thomas Schwarz, Professor (U-M Physics)
The quest to understand fundamental particles and forces in our Universe with the world's largest particle accelerator.
Directional Entropic Forces from Lattice Dimers
Andrei A. Klishin, Department of Physics and Center for Studies of Complex Systems, University of Michigan; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Recent investigations show that minimal interactions of particles can give rise to complex emergent structures. In particular, complex...
CM-AMO Seminar | Probing Quantum Statistics and Spatial Correlations in Ultracold Gases with Rydberg Molecules
Tom Killian (Rice University)
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRRMs) provide a sensitive and versatile, in situ probe of quantum statistics and spatial correlations...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Alexey Vikhlinhin, Deputy Associate Director of the High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Title and abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | On the Shore of the Cosmic Ocean
Thomas H. Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA Science
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little...
Quantitative Biology Seminar
Leonid Rubchinsky (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
Quantitative Biology Seminar
Helmut W. Baer Lecture | The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle
Chen-Yu Liu (Indiana University)
Neutrons make up half of all matter but become unstable when freed from the nucleus. The precise value of the neutron lifetime plays an...
Exploring the Computational Universe: Discoveries and Implications
Stephen Wolfram Founder & CEO, Wolfram Research
Abstract: This talk will discuss my current views about the basic science and the practical applications of phenomena in the computational...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Sean Andrews, Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory
Title and abstract to be announced
Saturday Morning Physics | Why Physicists in Search of Dark Matter are Building the Most Sensitive Radios Ever Made
Ben Safdi, Professor (U-M Physics)
Most of the "stuff" in our own Galaxy and the Universe as a whole is known to be in a form of a mysterious substance called dark matter. One...
The 2018-2019 Ralph B. Baldwin Award Reception and Lecture
Dr. Jaehan Bae, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Toward a More Complete Picture of Planet Formation"...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events from the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
William Louis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
The MiniBooNE short-baseline neutrino experiment at Fermilab observes a significant excess of electron-like events. From 2.4E21 protons on...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Maria Drout, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Title and abstract to be announced
