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DTSTAMP:20250415T142025
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Winter 2025 Birthday Celebrations
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130397
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:International House Ann Arbor (921 Church Street)
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DTSTAMP:20250402T075511
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Recent advances in optical nanoscopy with quantum materials
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will introduce two emerging optical nanoscopy techniques and the new science they enable. These techniques\, namely magneto-scanning near-field optical microscopy (m-SNOM) and BOlometric Superconducting Optical Nanoscopy (BOSON)\, can dramatically expand our ability to probe quantum materials at the nanoscale. Using m-SNOM\, we demonstrate Landau-level nanoscopy that directly visualizes Landau quantization and magneto-polariton formation. A waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) framework reveals spatially resolved hybridization between magnetic excitations and phonon polaritons\, yielding universal scaling behaviors and design principles for cavity metastructures with tunable light–matter coupling. With BOSON\, we integrate superconducting transition-edge sensors with near-field optics to achieve ultra-sensitive detection of nano-light at nanowatt power levels. This platform enables nanoscale imaging of Cooper pair dynamics and confined bosonic modes in low-dimensional systems\, offering a new pathway toward quantum-limited spectroscopy and single-polariton detection. I will conclude by discussing future directions\, including the integration of these techniques for exploring THz quantum optics\, polaritonic circuitry\, and strongly correlated quantum phases in complex materials. \n\nMengkun Liu (Ph.D. 2012 Boston University) is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Stony Brook University (since Jan. 2015). His postdoc research was at UC San Diego from 2012-2014. His research interests include the physics of correlated electron systems\, low-dimensional materials\, infrared and terahertz nano-optics\, and ultrafast time-domain spectroscopy.  Prizes include the Moore EPI award (2023)\, SBU Discovery award finalist (2024)\, NSF career award (2021)\, and Seaborg Institute Research Fellowships at Los Alamos National Lab (2009\, 2010).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130097
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Physics
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20250312T151441
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHAP Lecture Series: Lab Mice in Naturalistic Environments: A New Model for Understanding Causal Social Impacts on Individuality\, Physiology\, and Fitness
DESCRIPTION:Social factors have long been associated with individual variation in behavior\, physiology\, health\, and survival in non-human animals and humans. Yet\, establishing the causality of these social influences and the mechanisms by which they act has been challenging. Among wild animals\, uncontrollable genetic and environmental variation frustrates causal conclusions. And lab environments are unable to replicate the dynamic\, complex social behaviors of natural populations. In this talk\, I describe a solution to this problem: studying genetically identical laboratory mice in controlled\, naturalistic outdoor enclosures. In such environments\, mice navigate complex\, dynamic physical and social environments that better match those that they evolved to exploit. I will describe work in which I have established the impact of social competition and luck on the development of individuality\, causal links between social status and behavior and fitness outcomes in males\, and the causal impact of social status on molecular physiology. The combination of behavioral ecological methods and theory with the scientific power of the lab mouse has opened up exciting new doors to answer questions that have been previously unanswerable either in the lab or in wild populations.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133778
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Psychology Departmental,Psychology,Ecology,Biology
LOCATION:East Hall - 4448
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DTSTAMP:20250320T143910
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From Helicases to CRISPR: How RNA Stability and Specificity Shape Biology
DESCRIPTION:The fundamental properties of the RNA double helix—high structural stability and strict base-pairing specificity—have profoundly influenced biological systems throughout evolutionary history and up to today. While the stability allows helices to serve as rigid scaffolds within structured RNAs\, it also creates significant energetic barriers to rearrangement\, necessitating RNA helicases as chaperones in RNA folding and remodeling. At the same time\, the high specificity of Watson-Crick base pairing enables RNA-guided mechanisms\, exemplified by CRISPR-Cas enzymes that leverage this specificity for DNA targeting. This talk will explore how these core biophysical properties have shaped RNA’s biological roles\, driven evolution of protein families\, and enabled modern genome-editing tools.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125102
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemical Biology,Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20250121T100030
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:German Convo on the Go
DESCRIPTION:Members of the U-M community can walk and talk in German with Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu)\, German language instructor. Meet at Burton Tower\,  'rain or shine'\, for a 1-hour walk. If the temperature is dangerously low\, this event will meet in room 3110 Modern Languages Building. Please contact Mary if you have questions. Note that the group leaves at 4pm sharp.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131291
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,German Studies,German
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower
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DTSTAMP:20241211T161203
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Newnan Info Session for LSA + School of Information Multiple Dependent Degree Program (MDDP)
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn more about earning a dual undergraduate degree between LSA and the School of Information (SI)? This session is for you\, whether you are currently an SI student or a Newnan-advised LSA student.\n\nStudents interested in exploring or declaring a dual degree between LSA and SI should attend one of these group info sessions to get started. This session will also cover instructions on how to schedule an advising appointment for more individualized support.\n\nPlease note: students arriving more than 5 minutes after the session start time will not be admitted.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/98429
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Advising,Newnan
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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