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Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After
Dragan Huterer – Professor (U-M Physics)
In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery,...
Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science
Brian Arbic – Professor (U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
In this talk, Professor Arbic will describe how ocean circulation models work and how they predict physical motions in the ocean, including...
The Truth About Entropy
Sharon C. Glotzer – J.W. Cahn Distinguished University Professor (U-M Engineering and U-M Physics)
Crystalline forms of matter, from ice to diamond, are highly ordered with atoms lined up neatly in rows. Do these crystals have low or high...
The Light Fantastic
Alec Thomas – Associate Professor (U-M NERS and U-M Physics)
Since the invention of Chirped Pulse Amplification (Strickland and Mourou, Physics Nobel 2018), lasers have become increasingly powerful by...
Exploring Titan with Dragonfly!
Ann Parsons – Astrophysicist (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
NASA has recently selected the Dragonfly Mission to study the surface chemistry of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan! Dragonfly will land on...
Climate Change in the Arctic: The Situation on the Northern Front
Henry Pollack – Professor Emeritus (U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
The warming in the Arctic is 2x-3x the global average, leading to significant mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet, diminishing summer...
Falling, Spinning, and Shining: Demystifying the World of Physics
Elizabeth Drueke, Callum Jones – Graduate Students (U-M Physics) Joseph Iafrate – Graduate Student (U-M Applied Physics)
In this special Saturday Morning Physics, three of U-M's own graduate students take the microphone to walk you through their respective...
Smart Marine Vessels, Energy Harvesting and Energy Saving Devices
Julie Young – Professor (U-M Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)
Some of the topics covered in this talk include, how can we design smart marine vessels, especially with energy harvesting and energy saving...
