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Special HEP-Astro Seminar | New Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment’s Search for Dark Matter
Scott Haselschwardt (U-M Physics)
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is primarily designed to search for rare interactions between ordinary matter and galactic dark matter...
Applied Physics Seminar | Designing multi-dimensional radiofrequency excitation pulses for spatially-selective magnetic resonance imaging
Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, PhD, Research Associate Professor, UMOR Functional MRI Laboratory, Medical School, Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Associate Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineer
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HET Brown Bag Seminar | Two Exact Results on 2d CFTs
Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)
As I will discuss in my Ta-You Wu Lecture, exact statements about conformal field theories can be used to identify and derive constraints on...
Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Johnson Noise Thermometry Using Ohmic and Hydrodynamic Electrons
Brian Skinner (Ohio State University)
Current through a resistor exhibits temperature-dependent white noise fluctuations called Johnson-Nyquist noise. For a 2D electron system,...
2024 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Constraints on Quantum Gravity
Professor Hirosi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology/University of Tokyo)
Abstract: Superstring theory is currently the best candidate for the ultimate unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics....
Quantum Research Institute Seminar | An optical tweezer array in a cryogenic environment
Cindy Regal, Baur-SPIE Chair in Optics and Photonics and JILA Fellow and Professor of Physics
Scalable Rydberg atom arrays are a fast evolving platform for programmable quantum computation and simulation. We present a new system for...
The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Anatoly Spitkovsky, Professor, Princeton University
"Ab-initio studies of particle acceleration in astrophysical shocks"...
HET Seminar | Cosmic Colliders: High Energy Physics with First Order Phase Transitions
Bibhushan Shakya (DESY)
Vacuum decay through runaway first order phase transitions (FOPTs) presents a unique opportunity for particle physics and cosmology:...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Uncovering Early Galaxy Formation with JWST: A Modeling Perspective
Bingjie Wang (Pennsylvania State University)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is transforming our understanding on galaxy formation and evolution, revealing distant galaxies deep...
CM-AMO Seminar | High-Temperature Elastic Moduli: A Tool for Understanding Chemical Bonding in Thermoelectric Materials
Alexandra Zevalkink (Michigan State University)
Measurements of elastic moduli are of fundamental value for detecting changes in structure and bonding in solids, and, in the context of...
Applied Physics Seminar | New Realms of Light-Matter Interactions
Hui Deng, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
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Brown Bag Seminar | Quasinormal ringdown in the SYK model
Matthew Dodelson (Harvard)
Thermal correlators in large N systems equilibrate at late times, but the precise late-time behavior is unknown away from holographic and...
Department Colloquium | Mechanical Sensors for Dark Matter and Neutrinos
David Moore (Yale University)
The development of optomechanical systems—in which the motion of a massive object is controlled and measured using light—has...
LAGS Seminar | Careers in Quantum Physics Research at UARCs
Michael Viray (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) are federally-funded, non-profit research centers affiliated with a university. These centers...
CM-AMO Seminar | Optical Control over Topological Transport in Quantum Materials
Matthew Day (MPSD, Hamburg)
Driving materials with strong, periodic electromagnetic fields, known as Floquet engineering, is a powerful tool to manipulate the...
HET Brown Bag | Modularity in dimensions greater than two
Sam van Leuven (Witswaterrand)
Modular invariance plays an important role in the study of two-dimensional CFTs. Most famously, it exhibits the universality of CFT spectra...
Applied Physics Seminar | Changing length scales of moisture transport
Adriana Bailey, Assistant Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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HET Seminar | Generalized Global Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and Nested Symmetry Theories
Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn)
Generalized Global Symmetries of D-dimensional Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) can be interpreted in terms of (D+1)-dimensional bulk...
HEP-Astro Seminar | First Measurement of Missing Energy Due to Nuclear Effects in Monoenergetic Neutrino Charged Current Interactions
Eric Marzec (U-M Physics)
The JSNS2 experiment is able to measure mono-energetic (235.5 MeV) kaon decay-at-rest neutrino interactions with unprecedented clarity;...
CM-AMO Seminar | A Hidden Quantum Interference in a Weyl Semimetal System
Darius Torchinsky (Temple University)
Quantum interferences, where two electronic pathways “compete” in a manner akin to the interference of separate propagating waves, are...
Applied Physics Seminar | Metal or insulator? That is the question
Lu Li, Ph.D., Associate Chair, Department of Physics and Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan
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34th Midwest Relativity Meeting
The 34th Midwest Relativity Meeting will be held on November 16 and 17 2024 at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
PIKIMO 17: Michigan
The 17th installation of PIKIMO (Phenomenology in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio), to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on...
Saturday Morning Physics | Galaxy Clusters: Special Fields in the Sky, Special Challenges for Our Science
Camille Avestruz, Assistant Professor (U-M Physics)
Galaxy clusters are made of hundreds to thousands of galaxies. They can tell us about the history and contents of our universe -- but we...
34th Midwest Relativity Meeting
The 34th Midwest Relativity Meeting will be held on November 16 and 17 2024 at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
Quantum Research Institute Seminar | Quantum sensing with superconducting qubits
Kater Murch, Charles M. Hohenberg Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
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Saturday Morning Physics | AI and the Business World
Nigel Melville, Associate Professor of Information Systems (U-M Ross Business School)
Modern AI brings new benefits, costs, and risks to business organizations. This creates challenges as they try to adopt AI to achieve goals...
Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture | The Quantum Cosmos and Our Place Within It
Matt Strassler (Harvard)
When we step outside to contemplate the night sky, we often imagine ourselves isolated and adrift in a vast cavern of empty space—but is...
