Saturday Morning Physics | 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...
Department Colloquium | High Energy Physics Under The Higgs Lamppost
Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)
For the past half a century, high energy physics has achieved uninterrupted successes. With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at...
Henry Russel Lecture 2020 | Carbon vs. Carbon Diaoxide: Using Carbon-Based (Organic) Electronics for a More Sustainable Planet
Stephen R. Forrest (Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics)
Professor Forrest is also the...
Saturday Morning Physics | 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...
Saturday Morning Physics | 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...
Saturday Morning Physics | 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...
Department Colloquium
Idse Heemskerk (U-M Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology)
Department Colloquium
Saturday Morning Physics | 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...
Saturday Morning Physics | 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...
