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CM-AMO Seminar | Developing a Formalism for the Beta Decay of Helium-6
Aaron Bondy (University of Windsor)
Investigating the beta decay of helium-6 has yielded significant physical insights. It helped clarify the V-A character of the weak...
Applied Physics Seminar | Material Design in Perovskite Optoelectronics
Xiwen Gong, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
Abstract:...
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Dynamical equilibration of dark matter and baryon energy densities
Dawid Brzeminski (U Maryland)
The near equality of the dark matter and baryon energy densities is a remarkable coincidence, especially when one realizes that the baryon...
Department Colloquium | Searching for a Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Pulsar timing arrays use observations of millisecond pulsars to detect nanohertz gravitational waves. The North American Nanohertz...
Astronomy Career Panel
What can I do with a major in astronomy?
UM undergrads who are thinking about majoring in astronomy are invited. Students of all academic levels are welcome to attend....
Quantum Research Institute Seminar | Demonstration of algorithmic quantum speedup
Daniel Lidar, USC
Daniel Lidar, Viterbi Professor of Engineering at USC, will be presenting "Demonstration of algorithmic quantum speedup" as part...
Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Mathilde Mâlin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute
"Unveiling directly imaged systems with the James Webb Space Telescope"...
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar | Instantaneous Response and Quantum Geometry of Insulators
Raquel Queiroz (Columbia University)
We present the time-dependent Quantum Geometric Tensor (tQGT) as a comprehensive tool for capturing the geometric character of insulators...
Super-resolution imaging of intracellular transport along the microtubule cytoskeleton
Melike Lakadamyali (University of Pennsylvania)
Microtubules play important roles as highways for intracellular transport. I will highlight how super-resolution microscopy and single...
LAGS Seminar | Working at the nexus of science and public policy
Laura Grego (Union of Concerned Scientists)
How does the training of a physics PhD equip you to weigh in on consequential public policy issues?...
HET Seminar | Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse
Thomas Baumgarte (Bowdoin)
Critical Phenomena, including the appearance of universal scaling laws and critical exponents in the vicinity of phase transitions, appear...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Future Oppenheimer Feared: What We Can Do to Reduce the Nuclear Threat
Laura Grego, Senior Scientist & Research Director (Global Security Program at Union of Concerned Scientists)
Join us in person or via live stream: https://youtu.be/3iikU3xf-UA...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Designing and Building Cosmic Explorer, the Next-Generation of US Gravitational-Wave Observatories
Stefan Ballmer (Syracuse University)
Having achieved their original design sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave detectors are now observing multiple transients from...
CSCS Seminar | Beyond Nodes and Edges: Integrating Spatial Contexts into Urban Network Science
Xiaofan Liang, Urban and Regional Planning, Taubman College, University of Michigan
The talk will be recorded for later viewing. Coffee and snacks will be served....
Special HEP-Astro Seminar | Constraining the microphysics of high-density QCD
Tyler Gorda (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
What is the behavior of high-density, low-temperature QCD? At the high densities reached in the cores of neutron stars, this question...
Department Colloquium | Black holes: the most mysterious objects in the universe
Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)
In the last decade black holes have come to center stage in both theoretical and observational science. Theoretically, they were shown a...
Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Mia de los Reyes, Assistant Professor, Amherst College
"The Loneliest Galaxies: Early Results from the Dwarfs In Void Environments (DIVE) Survey"...
Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 DEI Series Presents:
Dr. Mia de los Reyes, Assistant Professor, Amherst College
"Renaming the Magellanic Clouds"...
HET Seminar | What's Done Cannot Be Undone: Non-Invertible Symmetries
Shu-Heng Shao (Stony Brook)
In massless QED, we find that the classical U(1) chiral symmetry is not completely broken by the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. Rather, it is...
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Path to an Energy Frontier Muon Collider
Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Lab)
Muon colliders offer a unique path to multi-TeV, high luminosity lepton collisions. Muon collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV...
CSCS Seminar | Controlling active matter - from drops to defects
Suraj Shankar, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
The talk will be recorded for later viewing. Coffee and snacks will be available....
Department Colloquium | Quantum Entanglement in Nature
Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
Entanglement is the strangest feature of quantum theory, which Einstein dubbed "spooky action at a distance". Quantum entanglement...
Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands
"Protostars and protoplanetary disks with JWST: probing the material that builds planets"...
HET Seminar | Recent developments in N=4 Yang-Mills Amplitudes
Anastasia Volovich (Brown)
The most important experimental probes of fundamental physics involve...
Saturday Morning Physics | Bioinspired Microrobotics: Lessons from Nature (Family-Friendly Event)
Abdon Pena-Francesch, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering (U-M)
Join us in person or via live stream: https://youtu.be/lbsL6DXRfHE...
Department Colloquium | Neutrino Astronomy, From Dream to Reality
Naoko Kurahashi Neilson (Drexel University)
The Universe has been studied using light since the dawn of astronomy, when starlight captured the human eye. The IceCube Neutrino...
Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture | Are we alone in the universe?
Paul Davies (Arizona State University)
After decades of searching, scientists have still found no evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, or indeed of any life beyond Earth....
Structural mechanisms of DNA priming by polymerase α–primase
Brandt Eichman (Vanderbilt)
The mechanism by which polymerase α–primase (polα–primase) synthesizes chimeric RNA-DNA primers of defined length and composition,...
HEP-Astro Seminar | Astrophysics and Cosmology with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s Black Holes
Maya Fishbach (University of Toronto)
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has observed over 70 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron...
Saturday Morning Physics | Van Loo Family Endowment Student Presentations
Tayari Coleman, Ph.D. Candidate (U-M Applied Physics) and Max Jerdee, Ph.D. Candidate (U-M Complex Systems)
Join us in person or via live stream: https://youtu.be/mxa5Q9Kdq5U...