Department Colloquium
Department Colloquium
Physics & Astronomy Special Joint Colloquium | Sexual Harassment in STEM: A View from the National Academies
Dr. Anna Kirkland, Director, Institute for Research on Women & Gender and Professor of Women’s Studies | Dr. Lilia Cortina, Professor of Psychology, Women’s Studies and Management & Organizations
Persistent sexual harassment of women in science has remained a challenge for decades. It jeopardizes progress in closing the gender gap,...
Saturday Morning Physics | What's So Super About Supercomputing?
Sharon Broude Geva – Director, Advanced Research Computing (U-M Office of Research)
Supercomputers have been around for decades, but now they impact every aspect of our lives even if we aren't aware of it....
Saturday Morning Physics | The Astronet: A Human-Centric Network of Free-Flying Space Co-Robots
Dimitra Panagou – Assistant Professor (U-M Aerospace Engineering)
In this talk, Professor Panagou will describe her work for the NASA Early Career Faculty Award on the "Astronet": a human-centric...
Department Colloquium | Gravitational Waves and Neutron Rich Dense Matter
Charles Horowitz (Indiana University)
Department Colloquium
Saturday Morning Physics | The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics
Herbert Winful – Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (U-M EECS)
The birth of the field of nonlinear optics occurred in Randall Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1961 when Franken, Hill, Peters,...
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Dr. Donna Strickland, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018 (University of Waterloo)
With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light...
Saturday Morning Physics | Who Ordered That? The Marvelous, Mysterious Muon
Tim Chupp – Professor (U-M Physics)
The muon is a heavier version of the electron and was first discovered in cosmic rays but is now studied extensively in accelerator...
Saturday Morning Physics | Supermassive Black Holes and You
Megan Donahue – Professor, Astronomy & Physics (MSU) and President of the American Astronomical Society
A supermassive black hole may have played a more important role in your existence than you might have thought. You might want to sit down...
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals?
Elaine Westbrooks – Vice Provost & University Librarian (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Scholars need to communicate their research in order to advance science and to promote the understanding of the human experience. The future...
Department Colloquium
Nadya Mason (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Department Colloquium
Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts, Myths and Mysteries
Elena Gallo – Associate Professor (U-M Astronomy)
This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first...
Saturday Morning Physics | Climate Change Opportunities and Challenges for Michigan
Dr. Jonathan Overpeck – Samuel A. Graham Dean and William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education (U-M SEAS)
Climate change is already impacting the planet in dramatic ways, including in the U.S. and in the Great Lakes region. The impacts in...
