Event Types
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Saturday Morning Physics | Opening Up the Solar System and Beyond: The Promise of Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion
John Foster, Professor (U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences)
Part of the 50th Anniversary Live Presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey...
Saturday Morning Physics | Dark Matters
Aaron Pierce, Professor and Director, Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (U-M Physics)
This talk will give an update on the hunt for dark matter and the quest to understand how most of the matter in our universe came about.
Saturday Morning Physics | Gravitational Waves with LIGO: Beyond the Big Chirp
Ansel Neunzert, Ph.D. Candidate (U-M Physics Gravitational Wave Group)
Collecting a zoo of black holes. Hunting for elusive signals from spinning neutron stars. Grappling with terabytes of data. On occasion,...
Saturday Morning Physics | Bringing the Stars Down to Earth with the Most Powerful Particle Accelerator in the World
Artemis Spyrou, Associate Professor (Michigan State University Physics - National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory)
We also celebrate the James Robert Walker Memorial Lecture on this date....
Saturday Morning Physics | Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a Resilient Human Society
Ben van der Pluijm, BR Clark Collegiate Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Earth's Future (U-M Earth & Environmental Sciences and Program in the Environment)
Today's Anthropocene time marks humanity's domination of Earth's changing environment. Societal resilience to the impacts of change requires...
Saturday Morning Physics | Particle Physics Buffet
Dante Amidei, Professor (U-M Physics)
Recent news, eternal questions, and current conundrums in particle physics.
Saturday Morning Physics | The Proton Radius Puzzle
Wolfgang Lorenzon, Professor (U-M Physics)
Until recently, we thought we knew exactly how big the proton is. Now we are not so sure anymore. What has happened and how are we going to...
Saturday Morning Physics | Wrinkles, Crumples, and Origami: The Physics and Geometry of Thin Elastic Sheets
Ian Tobasco (Assistant Professor and James Van Loo Post-Doctoral Fellow (U-M Mathematics)
On this date we celebrate the Van Loo Family SMP Lecture....
