Special AMO Seminar | Quantum Optics with Molecules
Claudiu Genes (Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts)
Recent experimental progress in the collective strong coupling regime of organic molecules with optical cavity or plasmonic modes has shown...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Doping Xenon - Performance Enhanced Dark Matter Detectors
Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)
After a series of null results from the LHC and large direct detection experiments, dark matter remains frustratingly mysterious, and much...
Complex Systems Seminar | Statistical Mechanics of Microbiomes
Robert Marsland, Boston University - Department of Physics
Abstract: Next-generation sequencing, high-throughput metabolomics and other measurement technologies have opened vast new horizons for...
CM-AMO Seminar | From Floquet Real to Imaginary Time Crystal
W. Vincent Liu (University of Pittsburgh)
Quantum time crystal has been an intriguing many-body “time” state that has received much attention and debate since its early...
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Improving Numerical Integration and Event Generation with Normalizing Flows
Claudius Krause (Fermilab)
With the upcoming HL-LHC, the budget for computing will be insufficient to generate a sufficient amount of Monte-Carlo events for both...
Department Colloquium | New Realms in Coherent Light-Matter Interactions
Hui Deng (U-M Physics)
Light-matter interactions are at the heart of quantum electrodynamics and underpin modern photonic technologies. As we develop means to...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Michael Maseda, NOVA Fellow, Leiden Observatory
Spectroscopy of Galaxies in the Early Universe: A JWST Sneak Peek...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Working on a High Energy Experiment in Japan
Myron Campbell, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
During the last twelve years I have been working on a High Energy Experiment (HEP) in Tokai, Japan. In this lecture I will summarize the...
Conversations on Equity and Inclusion
Dr. Annmarie Eldering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
“My, how things have changed! Working in science and engineering since the 1980’s. (And how we can all be part of change in the...
Life In Graduate School | Computational Resources at Michigan
Emanuel Gull
Computational Resources at Michigan
HEP-Astro Seminar | Status of Belle II
David Cinabro (Wayne State University)
Belle II and SuperKEKB are the upgrades to the very successful Belle and KEKB B-factory. The goal of this new effort is to increase the data...
Physics & Astronomy Special Joint Colloquium | Sexual Harassment in STEM: A View from the National Academies
Dr. Anna Kirkland, Director, Institute for Research on Women & Gender and Professor of Women’s Studies | Dr. Lilia Cortina, Professor of Psychology, Women’s Studies and Management & Organizations
Persistent sexual harassment of women in science has remained a challenge for decades. It jeopardizes progress in closing the gender gap,...
Department Colloquium | Towards a Better Understanding of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Mechanism
Junjie Zhu (U-M Physics)
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the massless Goldstone bosons resulting from spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Higgs field...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Charlotte Mason, NASA Hubble and CfA Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
More details to come....
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Sean Johnson, Hubble Fellow and joint Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
More details to come....
Saturday Morning Physics | What's So Super About Supercomputing?
Sharon Broude Geva – Director, Advanced Research Computing (U-M Office of Research)
Supercomputers have been around for decades, but now they impact every aspect of our lives even if we aren't aware of it....
Department Colloquium | Quantum Tricks for Detecting Dark Matter Waves
Aaron Chou (Fermilab)
Low mass dark matter manifests as large amplitude classical bosonic waves which exert subtle forces on sensitive experimental apparatus. In...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Elisabeth Mills, Research Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
More details to come....
HET Seminars | "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...
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...
Department Colloquium | Gravitational Waves and Neutron Rich Dense Matter
Charles Horowitz (Indiana University)
Department Colloquium
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)...
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Rodolfo Montez Jr., Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
More details to come....
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,...
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...
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....
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents
Dr. Henriette Schwarz, Morrison Fellow, University of California Santa Cruz
More details to come....
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...
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
The lack of evidence for SUSY at the LHC motivates new search strategies such as looking for scenarios with small mass differences between...
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....
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...
