Department Colloquium | Spins in Semiconductors
Vanessa Sih (U-M Physics)
Spin is a quantum property that plays an important role in magnetism, and there are proposals to use spin for quantum computing and...
Department Colloquium | Nonlinear Optics at the Frequency Scale of Thermal Fluctuations
Andrea Cavalleri (Max-Planck-Institute for SDM, Germany)
In this lecture, I will discuss how coherent electromagnetic radiation at infrared and TeraHertz frequencies can be used to drive coherently...
Department Colloquia | Keith Riles Collegiate Professorship Lecture
Entering the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Keith Riles (H. Richard Crane Professor of Physics)
A century ago Albert Einstein realized that his newly created General Theory of Relativity implied that gravity propagates like light. These...
Department Colloquium | The Trouble with Quantum Physics, and Why It Matters
Adam Becker (Popular Science)
Quantum physics is arguably the most successful scientific theory ever devised. It explains an enormous variety of natural phenomena to an...
