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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....
CM-AMO Seminar | Giant nonlinearities and structured nonlinear optics in van der Waals crystals
Prashant Padmanabhan (LANL)
In recent years, explorations of the nonlinear optical (NLO) responses of van der Waals (vdW) crystals have proven to be integral to the...
Applied Physics Seminar | Insights from Heavy Ion Composition in the Heliosphere
Susan Lepri, PhD, Director, XTRM Labs/Space Physics Research Laboratory, Professor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, The University of Michigan
Abstract:...
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Cryptographic Censorship
Evita Verheijden (Harvard)
The classical formulation of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) – the statement that singularities resulting from gravitational...
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...
Quantum Research Institute Seminar | Engineering of atomic and solid-state quantum emitters for sensing
Jennifer Choy, UW–Madison
Jennifer Choy, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW–Madison, will be presenting...
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"...
Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Bridging Hubbard and quantum Hall physics in twisted bilayer graphene
Eslam Khalaf (Harvard University)
Early on it was noticed that twisted bilayer graphene has elements in common with two paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated physics:...
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...
Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Emergent phases in quantum magnets: fractionalization, fragmentation and new particles
Onur Erten (Arizona State University)
Moire superlattices of van der Waals materials have surfaced as new tunable quantum platforms for the realization of emergent phases. While...
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,...
LAGS Seminar | Lessons Learned in a National Laboratory Career
Bill Priedhorsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
By sharing my personal journey through a successful career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I would like to convey the lessons learned...
HET Seminar | On Causality Conditions in de Sitter Spacetime
Rachel Rosen (Carnegie Mellon)
Causality conditions provide powerful constraints on low energy theories. In this talk, I will discuss how standard causality conditions of...
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...
Department Colloquium | Reciprocal activity as constraints on the biological production of work
Michael Murrell (Yale University)
On small length-scales, the mechanics of soft materials may be dominated by their interfacial properties as opposed to their bulk...
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...
Biophysics Symposium 2024
Rengasayee Veeraraghavan (Ohio State University)
Faculty Talks: Shyamal Mosalaganti (LSI) Dawen Cai (CDB) Somin Eunice Lee (EECS) More info TBD