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Saturday Morning Physics | Fine Tuning the Universe
Evan Grohs, Research Fellow (U-M Physics)
The chemical evolution of the universe begins a second after the Big Bang and continues to the present day. The fusion of small nuclei into...
Saturday Morning Physics | We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Daniel Whiteson, Professor of Physics & Astronomy (UC Irvine) and Jorge Cham, Ph.D., Creator of ‘PhD Comics’
James Robert Walker Memorial Lecture...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Machinery of Big Data Science
Shawn McKee, Research Scientist (U-M Physics)
Science domains are generating ever-increasing amounts of data in fields from high-energy physics to earth science to medicine. This...
Saturday Morning Physics | Gravitational Wave Memory
David Garfinkle, Professor of Physics (Oakland University)
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze space as they pass by; but even after the wave has completely passed, space does not return to its...
Saturday Morning Physics | In Awe of the Northern Lights
José Francisco Salgado, Ph.D. (Executive Director, KV 265 - Communicating Science through Art)
Since 2012 astronomer and U-M alumnus José Francisco Salgado has been photographing the Northern Lights from Canada, Alaska, and Iceland,...
Saturday Morning Physics | Atomic Sensors: An Emerging Quantum Technology
David A. Anderson, Ph.D. (Rydberg Technologies LLC/U-M Physics)
Advances in our ability to study and exploit the properties of atoms for measurements of physical quantities has ushered in a new age of...
