Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. HET Seminars | Dark Matter Beyond Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (February 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50190 50190-11656403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter (DM) comprises approximately 27% of the energy in the observable universe. Its properties, such as its mass and interactions, remain largely unknown. Unveiling the properties of DM is one of the most important tasks in high energy physics. For the past few years, motivated by possible new physics at the electroweak scale, many DM experiments have looked for DM with mass at O(100) GeV. This is not the only possibility, however. Large chunks of parameter space supported by other well-motivated models remain to be carefully studied. Exploring these regimes requires creative ideas and advanced technologies. I will first talk about the novel proposal on using superconductor as the target material for DM direct detection. This setup has the potential to lower the direct detection mass threshold from few GeV to keV, consequently probing the warm dark matter scenario. Then I will present a recent proposal utilizing the Gravitational Wave (GW) experiments, i.e. LIGO and LISA, to search for ultra-light dark photon dark matter. We show these GW experiments can go well beyond existing constraints and probe large regions of unexplored parameter space. Both proposals are under serious investigation by experimental groups and likely to be carried out in the near future.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:08:04 -0500 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (February 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (February 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-02-27T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Spring Break - No Seminar (February 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42203 42203-9584891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

CM-AMO Seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:16:11 -0400 2018-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (February 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-02-28T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Hunting Dark Matter Axions and other Exotic Creatures (March 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49856 49856-11555016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The nature of dark matter is one of the great mysteries of modern physics today and could be from new particles beyond the standard model. The Axion, originally conceived as a solution to the strong-CP problem in nuclear physics, is one well-motivated candidate. The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX), a DOE Gen 2 project, uses a large microwave cavity immersed in a strong static magnetic field to resonantly convert dark matter axions to detectable photons. Recently ADMX has completed its first data run with unprecedented sensitivity in the classical QCD-axion mass range of several µeV. In addition, several new detection techniques have been proposed to cover a large span of potential axion masses beyond that of the classical window. In this talk I will describe the history of axion dark matter searches, describe the recent ADMX results and give a survey of the R&D efforts currently underway to explore the entire axion dark matter mass window.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:16:17 -0500 2018-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
CM-AMO Seminar | Mesoscopic Optics (March 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42204 42204-9584892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Random scattering of light, e.g., in paint, cloud and biological tissue, is a common process of both fundamental interest and practical relevance. The interference of multiply scattered waves leads to remarkable phenomena in mesoscopic physics such as Anderson localization and universal conductance fluctuations. In applications, optical scattering is the main obstacle to imaging or sending information through turbid media. Recent developments of adaptive wavefront shaping in optics enabled imaging and focusing of light through opaque samples. By selective coupling to high or low transmission eigenchannels, we varied the transmission of a laser beam through a highly scattering system by two orders of magnitude, and drastically changed the energy density distribution inside the system. Furthermore, we utilized the multiple scattering of light in a random structure to realize a chip-scale spectrometer. The speckle pattern is used as a fingerprint to recover an arbitrary spectrum. Such a spectrometer has good spectral resolution and wide frequency range of operation.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:16:19 -0500 2018-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Holographic Mellin Amplitudes (March 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49954 49954-11608292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Holographic four-point functions are known for their notorious computational difficulties. In the past two decades, only a handful of them have been explicitly calculated using the standard algorithm. In this talk I will introduce modern methods to compute holographic correlators efficiently, which are inspired by the bootstrap philosophy and the on-shell methods of scattering amplitudes in flat space. I will show that by translating the problem into Mellin space many difficulties encountered when applying the traditional method are avoided. I will argue that imposing symmetry constraints and general consistency conditions -- avoiding all details of the complicated effective Lagrangian -- leads to many novel results for holographic four-point functions in AdS5×S5, AdS7×S4 and AdS4×S7. I will conclude by outlining some interesting future directions of this program.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:42:47 -0500 2018-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Department Colloquium | Interfacing Spins with Photons for Quantum Simulation and Quantum Control (March 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50236 50236-11690313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The hallmark of quantum information is its capacity to be non-local, woven into correlations among two, three, or many entangled particles. By contrast, the interactions between particles are necessarily local, restricting the types of quantum states that appear in nature. Nevertheless, non-local interactions feature in a wide range of conceptual models, from spin models encoding hard optimization problems to toy models of quantum gravity and information scrambling in black holes. Motivated by prospects for exploring these concepts in the laboratory, I will present recent progress in engineering and probing effectively non-local interactions in experiments with cold atoms, with photons serving as messengers conveying information between them.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:16:19 -0500 2018-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Life After Graduate School Seminar | Medical Physics: Using Physics to Save and Extend Lives (March 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50458 50458-11771163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics


Looking for a practical and rewarding career where you can put your Physics PhD to good use? Medical Physics might be for you. Medical Physicists use both their theoretical knowledge and experimental hands-on skills to work with teams of Radiation Oncology professionals to treat cancer patients and to improve treatment technologies. We’ll discuss the role that Medical Physicists play in the clinic, research and industrial settings of Radiation Oncology, as well as the path to becoming a Medical Physicist.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:16:16 -0500 2018-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Flavor-Specific Scalar Mediators (March 9, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50657 50657-11847603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

New singlet scalar bosons have broad phenomenological utility and feature prominently in many extensions of the Standard Model. Such scalars are often taken to have Higgs-like couplings to SM fermions in order to evade stringent flavor bounds, e.g. by assuming Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV), which leads to a rather characteristic phenomenology. Here we describe an alternative approach, based on an effective field theory framework for a new scalar that dominantly couples to one specific SM fermion mass eigenstate. A simple flavor hypothesis, similar in spirit to MFV, ensures adequate suppression of new flavor changing neutral currents. We consider radiatively generated flavor changing neutral currents and scalar potential terms in such theories, demonstrating that they are often suppressed by small Yukawa couplings, and also describe the role of CP symmetry. We further demonstrate that such scalars can have masses that are significantly below the electroweak scale while still being technically natural, provided they are sufficiently weakly coupled to ordinary matter. In comparison to MFV, our framework is rather versatile since a single (or a few) desired scalar couplings may be investigated in isolation. We illustrate this by discussing in detail the examples of an up-specific scalar mediator to dark matter and a muon-specific scalar that may address the muon anomalous magnetic moment discrepancy.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:15:42 -0500 2018-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Spins, Magnetism and Computers (March 10, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48128 48128-11180723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

How do computers work, and what is a hard drive? There has been tremendous progress in making computers faster and smaller, but what comes next? In this talk, Professor Vanessa Sih will describe the role that spin and magnets play in today's computers and in proposed future technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:20:50 -0500 2018-03-10T10:30:00-05:00 2018-03-10T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Lab
Foundations of Modern Physics interdisciplinary reading group (FOMP) | Particle Physics after the Discovery of the Higgs Boson (March 11, 2018 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49616 49616-11484722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:40am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Physics

Registration link: https://goo.gl/forms/kqitVpWhC2WI5JWr1

List of speakers:
Prof. Bing Zhou (UMich, Physics)
Dr. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
Prof. Porter Williams (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science)
Prof. Tian Cao (Boston University, Philosophy): Ontological foundations of the Higgs mechanism

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:40:22 -0500 2018-03-11T09:40:00-04:00 2018-03-11T17:45:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Foundations of Particle Physics Workshop
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey (March 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50607 50607-11816521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Constraining LambdaCDM cosmology with galaxy cluster abundance is one of the fundamental goals of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Many thousands of clusters out to redshift 0.65 have been identified in DES data. Weak lensing and multi-wavelength studies with X-ray and cosmic microwave background observations are performed to provide inputs to the cosmology analysis. A cosmology pipeline that considers various systematic effects such as cluster projections and mis-centering is used to derive constraints on LambdaCDM cosmology parameters. In this talk, I will present current progress on DES galaxy cluster cosmology analyses as well as discuss future improvements.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:16:12 -0400 2018-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Bose Fireworks: Coherent Emission of Matter-wave Jets (March 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42205 42205-9584893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Experiments frequently come with surprises. In a driven Bose-Einstein condensate, we observe unexpectedly generation of many matter-wave jets leaving the condensate with quantized momenta as a result of bosonic stimulation. Based on a pattern recognition scheme, we identify a universal pattern of correlations which offers essential clues to unveiling the underlying microscopic processes.

Finally, connection of the matterwave jets to the dijet structure in heave ion collider will be discussed.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:16:41 -0400 2018-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Series | Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Velocity Distribution (March 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50189 50189-11656314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Using the hydrodynamic simulation Eris, as well as various realizations of the Milky Way from the FIRE simulation, we found that the kinematics of dark matter follows closely the kinematics of old metal poor stars. We use this correspondence to obtain the first empirical measurement of the local velocity distribution of dark matter, by first analyzing the Gaia data release coupled with RAVE as well as the ninth release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and computing the velocity distribution of metal poor stars. We find that this velocity distribution is peaked at lower velocities than the generally assumed Maxwell Boltzmann distribution, leading to a weakening of direct detection limits at dark matter masses less than 10 GeV by a factor of a few. We also found a few kinematic outliers in the stellar data that might be hints of dark matter substructure.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:05:30 -0500 2018-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
2018 Helmut W. Baer Lecture in Physics | Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino (March 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40987 40987-8875735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Neutrinos are “ghostly” particles, interacting only rarely with matter. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was first predicted in 1973; it’s a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus. By neutrino standards, CEvNS occurs frequently, but it is tremendously challenging to see. The only way to observe it is to detect the minuscule thump of the nuclear recoil. CEvNS was measured for the first time by the COHERENT collaboration using the unique, high-quality source of neutrinos from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This talk will describe COHERENT's recent measurement of CEvNS, the status and plans of COHERENT's suite of detectors at the SNS, and the physics we will learn from the measurements.

The Helmut W. Baer Lecture is a special colloquium supported by family and friends in honor of Dr. Helmut Baer. Dr. Baer's career in physics began with his work at the University of Michigan where he was awarded a doctorate in nuclear physics in 1967. He published over 100 articles that cover a range of physics topics including nuclear physics and pion interactions. Dr. Baer was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in March of 1989, and to his delight enjoyed countless opportunities over the years to talk about physics at universities and conferences internationally. Dr. Baer set the highest personal standards for himself and his research. This lecture is held approximately every two years.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:12:31 -0400 2018-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion West Hall
2017 Ralph B. Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science Lecture (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50974 50974-11930607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

he Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering cordially welcomes all to the 2017 Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science Lecture on Friday, March 16 in the SRB Auditorium, room 2246, Space Research Building. Our guest lecturer will be 2018 Ralph Baldwin Prize recipient and Climate & Space alumna, Dr. Lois Keller Sarno-Smith.

3-4 p.m. - Student Q & A
4-5 p.m. - Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science Lecture
5-6:30 p.m. - Reception in SRB second floor lounge.
Please join us!

The Ralph B. Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Sciences is an award sponsored by a generous gift to the University of Michigan by Dr. Ralph B. Baldwin. Applicants must show original and significant contributions to their field as measured in their scholarly publications.

The prize is awarded annually to a student who has received a University of Michigan Ph.D. during the previous year. A faculty committee comprised of representatives from the appropriate departments judges the packages submitted on the basis of the excellence of their research activities revealed in the student's thesis and publications during their career.

Lecture Title: "From Low Energy Plasma to Super Bowl Ads and Outlook Email - A Non-Linear Path"

Abstract: It's rare that we follow an intended path, but it doesn't mean the lessons learned and skills developed won't apply to the next step. This talk will cover what I'm legally allowed to talk about the research projects I've completed since my defense in September 2016. These projects range from predicting ad success on prime time shows using machine learning to how I'm currently part of a team that is changing how Microsoft Outlook develops new features in their email. While it's hardly rocket science, life in data science is changing, dynamic, and quite a bit of fun right now.

Biography: Lois Keller Sarno-Smith received her PhD from the University of Michigan CLaSP department in 2016 under Professor Mike Liemohn's guidance. She now works at Microsoft as part of a Data Engineer/Science team in Outlook Universal Email. She's doesn't have kids or any of the other things people usually put here, but she does ride her bike(s) quite a bit, wears hair bows, and sings in the shower.

Reception to follow in SRB second floor lounge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:49:42 -0400 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion
HET Seminars | Constraints on Interacting Massive High Spins (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49951 49951-11608290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

There seem to be no good examples of UV complete theories that have low-lying massive higher spin states isolated by a large gap, despite the relative ease of constructing effective field theories describing such states. We discuss constraints from analytic dispersion relations and subluminality of eikonal scattering that may help to explain this and provide insight into the possible interactions of massive higher spins.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:38:08 -0500 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Using Physics to Fish for Cells (March 17, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48129 48129-11180724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The separation and detection of cells, DNA, and proteins from blood samples is essential for testing diseases, drug development, and biological research. This talk will discuss how physics is being used to separate cells and will include emerging approaches that range from magnetics to microbubbles. Dr. McNaughton will also include several demos of these technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:20:17 -0500 2018-03-17T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-17T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Cells
The Higgs Boson and Beyond (March 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48108 48108-11180654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In 2012, physicists at the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, announced to great fanfare the discovery of a fundamental particle in physics called the Higgs boson, culminating a decades long search and putting to rest what was called “the central problem in particle physics.” What exactly is the Higgs boson and why was its discovery so important? In this course we will view and discuss a Teaching Company series of lectures of the same title by Cal Tech physics professor and author Sean Carroll, who describes for a lay audience what particle physics is all about and how the Higgs gives mass to everything in the universe,
making life possible. There will be two lectures per session with 20 minutes of discussion following each. Craig Stephan is a physicist who worked for 30+ years at Ford Research and Argonne National Laboratories. He has led several OLLI discussion groups, including ones on cosmology and climate change.
This Study Group is for those over 50, and will meet Mondays March 19-April 23.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:38:04 -0500 2018-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions (March 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51013 51013-11941995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

This talk will present the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has been used to isolate and study 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest. The muon kinematics and total cross section have been extracted from this data. Notably, this result is the first known-energy, weak-interaction-only probe of the nucleus to yield a measurement of omega (energy transferred to the nucleus) using neutrinos, a quantity thus far only accessible through electron scattering. I will discuss the significance of this measurement, and these monoenergetic neutrinos in general, for elucidating both the neutrino-nucleus interaction and oscillations.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:16:01 -0400 2018-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | New Phase Transitions in Atomically Thin Quantum Materials (March 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42206 42206-9584894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

We have recently demonstrated an experimental platform to isolate 2D quantum materials that are unstable in the ambient environment. I will discuss our studies of the Weyl semimetal candidate, 1T’-MoTe2, and layered magnetic insulator, CrI3, in the atomically thin limit, made possible using this technique. In MoTe2, lowering dimensionality suppresses the inversion symmetric monoclinic phase, driving the Weyl ground state up to and beyond room temperature. The different electronic structure of thin samples is studied by magnetotransport measurements at low temperature. In CrI3, we observe a very large negative magnetoresistance effect comparable to colossal magnetoresistance in the manganites. I will explain the origin of this effect and discuss some new opportunities in spintronics incorporating 2D magnets.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:16:03 -0400 2018-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Series | Conformal truncation: A new method for studying strong-coupled QFTs (March 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51154 51154-12007285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I will present a new numerical method for studying strongly-coupled QFTs. The method is formulated for continuum spacetime of any dimension, in real time and infinite volume, and is thus complementary to other numerical methods, such as the lattice. The method harnesses conformal symmetry, but in a manner applicable to general, non-conformal QFTs. Specifically, the input is information about the UV CFT from which the QFT originates. The output is the physical IR QFT spectrum, along with real-time, infinite-volume correlation functions. I will discuss applications to 2D phi^4 theory, where we have performed novel computations of correlation functions at any coupling, such as the Zamolodchikov c-function along the full RG-flow. The 2D Ising model provides a highly-nontrivial cross-check of our numerics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:22:22 -0400 2018-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | An M.S.-to-Ph.D. Physics Bridge Program and Other Diversity and Student Support Enhancing Activities in the OSU Physics Graduate Program (March 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50367 50367-11724549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Lack of diversity in physics and other STEM PhD programs is a chronic issue. In recent years, less than 7% of domestic physics PhDs awarded nationwide have gone to students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups, even though they make up 35% of the college age population. Increasing diversity in a physics PhD program can be difficult, especially if the program receives a low number of “traditionally qualified” URM applicants. Inspired by successful STEM Bridge programs at San Francisco State, Fisk-Vanderbilt, and Michigan, the Ohio State University MS-to-PhD Physics Bridge Program (OSU-BP) was established in late 2012 with unanimous faculty support to increase the pool of qualified applicants from underrepresented groups, and accepted its first cohort of four Bridge students in August 2013. I will discuss activities and events that preceded and followed the creation of the OSU-BP, which have coincided with an increase in the representation of URM students in the OSU Physics PhD program from less than 5% of domestic students in 2012 to almost 20% in autumn 2017. These include building a core group of committed faculty colleagues, partnering with the American Physical Society Bridge Program for nationwide recruiting and other support, working with colleagues in Physics Education Research (PER) to develop new graduate physics academic support programs, and expanding holistic PhD admissions practices. I will also discuss on-going and future efforts, opportunities, and obstacles for increasing diversity in graduate programs at OSU and elsewhere. I would like to acknowledge the essential contributions of OSU Bridge Program Co-Director Jay Gupta, PER colleagues Andrew Heckler and Chris Porter, and many other colleagues who worked so hard to help these efforts succeed.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:16:06 -0400 2018-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The 2018 MICDE Annual Symposium (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48890 48890-11320067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The symposium will highlight how computational science is advancing research from the molecular to the atmospheric scale.
We welcome back Cleve Moler, original author of Matlab ®, and co-founder of MathWorks, as a keynote speaker.
He will be joined by: Gurudurth Banavar — co-founder and CTO, Viome; Cyhthia Chestek — Biomedical Engineering & EECS, U-M; Alison Marsden — Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University; Raju Namburu — Chief Scientist, Army Research Lab; Stephen Smith — Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U-M; Beth Wingate — Professor of Mathematics, University of Exeter.

As always, the symposium will also feature a poster competition highlighting notable computational work from U-M postdocs and students. The posters have proved highly popular in previous years, and we look forward to this year’s submissions.

Please RSVP at micde.umich.edu/symposium18

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:28:06 -0400 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Conference / Symposium Symposium Image
Effects of invasions on the structure, stability and evolution of complex food webs (March 22, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49830 49830-11543792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract: A critically important challenge in theoretical ecology is to better predict responses of ecological networks to global change, especially responses to increasing rates of species invasions. Invaders have been widely observed to trigger changes in species’ interactions and abundances and even cause catastrophic extinction cascades of native species. Classical food web models have focused on explaining and predicting such ecological responses on relatively short time scales. However, these models typically neglect changes in selection pressure on native species caused by the invaders and their subsequent effects on the structure and stability of food webs on longer time scales. I address these issues using an eco-evolutionary model containing both invasion and mutation events. It integrates classical assembly models, which describe the emergence of a food web via sequential invasions, with so-called evolutionary food web models or large community evolution models, which describe food web emergence via speciation due to small mutation steps. The model uses body masses and diets as the key traits that determine metabolic rates and species interactions. I vary the frequency of invasion events in relation to speciation events and the relatedness between native species and invaders. I then analyze the size of the emerging network (in terms of total biomass and number of morphs or ‘species’), its ecological and evolutionary stability, and its species turnover pattern. The results show that food webs evolve most diverse and accumulate the most biomass when being exposed to frequent invasions of species similar to native species. The system is also most stable in such invasion context, both evolutionary (i.e., lower variability in the number of morphs/species over time) and ecologically (i.e., lower variability in total biomass over time)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:32:10 -0400 2018-03-22T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar korinna graphic headshot
Saturday Morning Physics | Sound, Shapes and Photosynthesis: Physics is Everywhere (March 24, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48130 48130-11180725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

We also celebrate the Van Loo Saturday Morning Physics Lecture on this date.
(Three talks in one)
Entropy, Shape, and Phase Transition - Chrisy Xiyu Du (U-M Physics)
Using Femtosecond Spectroscopy to Illuminate Photosynthesis - Veronica Policht (U-M Physics)
Photosynthesis powers life on Earth. Following the initial absorption of light, the primary energy conversion steps in photosynthesis occur incredibly rapidly (10^-12 s), making it particularly challenging to study. We'll discuss how carefully timed sequences of ultrafast laser pulses enable us to take real-time snapshots that improve our understanding of this critical process.
The Sound Heard 'Round the World' - Brian Worthmann (U-M Applied Physics)
In everyday life, we as humans are used to sounds traveling anywhere from a few feet for a quiet conversation, up to a few miles for some of the loudest sounds. But in the ocean, a fascinating combination of physics allows sound to travel significantly much, much further. We'll talk about how sound travels in air, why it's different in the ocean, and why this fact was a closely guarded secret during the Cold War.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:12:44 -0400 2018-03-24T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Plants
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Characterizing Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter Using Temperature Fluctuation (March 26, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51119 51119-11976184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Power law formulae have routinely been used to describe the transverse momentum spectra of the hadrons at high energies. The Tsallis distribution is one among them which has been very successful in explaining the experimental transverse momentum distribution, longitudinal momentum fraction distribution as well as the rapidity distribution of the hadrons in electron-positron and proton-proton collisions. The Tsallis distribution is a two parameter power-law distribution, described by the Tsallis parameter q (which can be related to the relative variance in temperature) and the Tsallis temperature T, which reduces to the Boltzmann (exponential) distribution when q goes to 1. The Tsallis distribution has been used in many fields of the physical as well as the social sciences (like Statistical Mechanics, Geology, Anatomy, Economics, Finance and many more). In the realm of the physical sciences it arises when there are systems with non-ideal effects like long range correlation, memory effect etc. Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), the hot and dense medium created during the high energy collision phenomena, is one such example. This medium has been under intensive study for the past few decades and we will discuss how the Tsallis distribution can be used for characterization of QGP.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:15:55 -0400 2018-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Controlled Transfer of Electronic Wavepacket Motion Between Distant Atoms (March 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42207 42207-9584895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The establishment, observation, and potential control of correlated multi-electron dynamics is a complex problem of interest across disciplines with numerous applications in a variety of contexts, from femtosecond interatomic Coulomb decay and attosecond charge migration within small molecules, to energy transfer in photosynthetic systems, to quantum control of few- and many-body systems, and quantum information processing. The extreme sensitivity of Rydberg atoms to electric fields, including those produced by neighboring atoms, makes them superb candidates for studying such phenomena. In a quantum analogy to classical far-field radio transmission from a source to receiver antenna, we have transferred electronic wavepacket motion established within Rydberg atoms in a dilute nearly-frozen gas to neighboring Rydberg atoms. The transfer is enabled by electron correlations resulting from electric field-controlled, atom-atom couplings and relies on the use of both cold atom and ultrafast techniques.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:15:53 -0400 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Series | A Natural Generalization of the Standard Randall-Sundrum Framework and its Phenomenological Implications (March 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51355 51355-12086777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In the first part of the talk, I will introduce a very natural extension of well-motivated extra-dimensional framework of Randall-Sundrum type. Such a generalization is motivated by (null) results from both high energy (LHC) and low energy (flavor, CP, and electroweak precision) experiments. In particular, null results from the LHC led us to consider the possibility that little hierarchy may exist. In addition to the consistency with low energy bounds, our generalization can address the question of the form of TeV scale new physics we can expect. I will argue that such new physics appearing at the TeV scale is in the form of vector-like confinement with new states interacting with SM through mostly flavor universal couplings. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss several exciting signals probable at the LHC and in future colliders.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:22:19 -0400 2018-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (March 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
2018 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | From Bits to Qubits: A Quantum Leap for Computers (March 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40839 40839-8799223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The steady increase in computational power of information processors over the past half-century has led to smart phones and the internet, changing commerce and our social lives. Up to now, the primary way that computational power has increased is that the electronic components have been made smaller and smaller, but within the next decade it is expected to reach the fundamental limits imposed by the size of atoms. However, it is possible that further huge increases in computational power could be achieved by building quantum computers, which exploit in new ways of the laws of quantum mechanics that govern the physical world. This talk will discuss the challenges involved in building a large-scale quantum computer as well as progress that we have made in developing a quantum computer using silicon quantum dots.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:20:15 -0400 2018-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Photo of Susan Coppersmith
Third Annual RNA Symposium "Advancing Basic RNA Biosciences into Therapeutics” (March 30, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49703 49703-11498722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 8:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

MORNING WELCOME & INTRODUCTION:
Martin Philbert, PhD
Dean, School of Public Health, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Toxicology

• Jonathan Weissman, PhD
HHMI Investigator
Professor • Cellular and Molecular Medicine • University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

• Eric Fearon, MD, PhD
Emanuel N. Maisel Professor of Oncology
Director • University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor • Departments of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Pathology • University of Michigan

• Melissa Moore, PhD
Eleanor Eustis Farrington Chair in Cancer Research
Professor • RNA Therapeutics Institute and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology • University of Massachusetts Medical School
Chief Scientific Officer • Moderna mRNA Research Platform

AFTERNOON WELCOME &INTRODUCTION :
Bishr Omary, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer of Michigan Medicine, Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, H Marvin Pollard Professor of Gastroenterology Professor, Internal Medicine

• Roy Parker, PhD
Cech-Leinwand Endowed Chair of Biochemistry
Professor • University of Colorado Boulder

• Anastasia Khvorova, PhD
Professor • RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine • University of Massachusetts Medical School

PANEL DISCUSSION moderated by:
Bradley Martin, PhD, Fast Forward Medical Innovation

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:50:31 -0400 2018-03-30T08:30:00-04:00 2018-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Conference / Symposium Flyer
Life After Graduate School Seminar | From Research to Research Publishing (March 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51101 51101-11964840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

I shall briefly describe my education and the first part of my career, as a research scientist in computational high energy physics. Mid career, I switched to research publishing, working as an editor for Physical Review D. For the reminder of the talk I will give you an impression of the duties of an editor for one of the Physical Review journals. Our main activity is guiding the peer review process of submitted papers.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:15:58 -0400 2018-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Gravitational Probes of Dark Matter Physics (March 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51356 51356-12086778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter orchestrates the expansion of the universe and the development of the cosmic web of structure, yet its identity is unknown. We know that dark matter molds luminous matter into galaxies, yet the microphysical processes that govern its own creation and evolution remain a mystery. Despite its cosmic importance, the nature of dark matter remains one of the biggest unsolved problems in fundamental physics. However, it is one that may be solved with the tools of astronomy. In this talk, I will show how astronomical observations have shaped our understanding of the microphysical properties of dark matter. I will discuss the exciting prospects for a new generation of astronomical facilities to enable measurements of dark matter physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:24:17 -0400 2018-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
KOTO: The Search for the Elusive KL → πνν (April 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51418 51418-12101062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

The KOTO experiment was designed to observe and study the KL → πνν decay. The Standard Model (SM) prediction for the mode is 2.4 x 10-11 with a small theoretical uncertainty. An experimental upper limit of 2.6 x 10-8 was set by the KEK E391a collaboration. The rare “golden” decay is ideal for probing for physics beyond the standard model. A comparison of experimentally obtained results with SM calculations permits a test of the quark flavor region and provides a means to search for new physics.

The signature of the decay is a pair of photons from the π0 decay and no other detected particles. For the measurement of the energies and positions of the photons, KOTO uses a Cesium Iodide (CSI) electromagnetic calorimeter as the main detector, and hermetic veto counters to guarantee that there are no other detected particles. KOTO’s initial data was collected in 2013 and achieved a similar sensitivity as E391a result. Since then, we completed significant hardware upgrades and had additional physics runs in 2015 at beam powers of roughly 24--40 kW. This presentation will recap the efforts of KOTO and its sustained pursuit of detecting KL → πνν.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:30:04 -0400 2018-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The Silver Lining- Addressing Challenges faced by Women in STEM (April 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51191 51191-12015774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Michigan Earth Science Women's Network

Michigan Earth Science Women's Network (M-ESWN) brings to you its much awaited capstone event of Winter 2018- 'The Silver Lining - Addressing Challenges faced by Women in STEM'. The event will feature talks from three speakers followed by a Networking Dinner.

For more information and RSVP - https://meswnsilverlining.eventbrite.com

Talks and Discussion : 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Networking Dinner by MDining : 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

1. Addressing sexual harassment in STEM by Dr. Blair Schneider - She is a Postdoctoral Fellow, TRESTLE Program Manager at University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence. She is a Co-PI on NSF-AGU grant to address gender issues in geosciences. She has also led the convening of the special task force to rewrite the AGU code of ethics.

2. How to foster a healthy Work-Life Balance by Barbara Mulay - Barb Mulay, Manager of the Work-Life Resource Center, provides information to University of Michigan Faculty, Staff, and Students in the area of Work-Life integration. She administers and markets the back-up child care program, Kids Kare at Home, and oversees the Family Helpers on-line job posting site that connects University of Michigan Students and retirees with Faculty and Staff needing short term family care and/or assistance. Barb also provides information on locating resources for aging or dependent relatives, flexible scheduling options, and coordinates the annual "Connecting the Dots" conference on work-life topics.

3. Mastering Goal Achievement: Three Power Steps by Glenda Haskell - She is a Career and a Retirement Coach. She leads the 'Full Spectrum Career Success LLC' and has changed many lives. She is also certified as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation (ICF). At the University of Michigan, Glenda has been an Assistant Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (2002-2011). She was also an Assistant to the Dean, Rackham Graduate School (1996-2002).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 01:41:33 -0400 2018-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Michigan Earth Science Women's Network Lecture / Discussion Job statistics and Women in Stem image
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | 2D Materials: Superconductivity and Magnetism (April 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42208 42208-9584896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The discovery of graphene has stimulated not only the field of carbon nanoelectronics, but also studies of novel electronic phenomena in a wide range of 2D van der Waals’ materials. In this talk, I will discuss our recent studies on two seemingly unrelated 2D materials: non-centrosymmetric superconducting NbSe_2 and magnetic CrI_3. As a result of the crystal symmetry and spin-orbit interactions, the electron spins in both of these materials become Ising-like (i.e. spins locked to the out-of-plane direction), giving rise to unique magnetic properties. First I will discuss how the Ising spins in 2D NbSe_2 protect superconductivity under very high magnetic fields and experimental signatures of spin-triplet pairing correlations through tunneling measurements. I will then discuss our recent efforts in studying 2D magnetism in CrI_3 by electric fields. If time allows, I will briefly discuss interesting future directions by combining these two materials to form heterostructures.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:15:49 -0400 2018-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Series | Supertranslations and Superrotations at the Black Hole Horizon (April 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51560 51560-12167536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In this talk, we study the asymptotic symmetries in the near-horizon region of extremal and non-extremal black holes. By prescribing a physically sensible set of boundary conditions at the horizon, we derive the algebra of asymptotic Killing vectors, which is shown to be infinite-dimensional; it includes two sets of supertranslations and two mutually commuting copies of the Virasoro algebra. We define the surface charges associated to these large diffeomorphisms and evaluate them for different stationary black hole solutions. We finally discuss the relationship between these horizon charges and the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) ones by computing the memory effect produced at the black hole horizon by a gravitational shock wave sent from null infinity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:20:37 -0400 2018-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-04T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Meeting Dirac’s Challenge: Progress Towards a Theory of Correlated Electrons in Materials and Molecules (April 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51267 51267-12032763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

This talk will present an overview of recent progress towards the solution of one of the grand-challenges of modern science: computing the properties of interacting electrons in molecules and solids. I will argue that the theoretical methodology has reached the point where we can say with confidence that the two dimensional Hubbard model captures key aspects of the high transition temperature superconductivity observed in layered copper-oxide compounds and can delineate which phenomena are not accounted for by this model. I will further summarize the current status of our extension of the methods to fully physically realistic systems, emphasizing the areas of theoretical uncertainty and the prospects for resolution.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:15:52 -0400 2018-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Black Holes & Number Theory: How to Bootstrap a Black Hole via Modular Forms (April 5, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51561 51561-12167537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

In the language of statistical physics, an extremal black hole is a zero temperature system with a huge amount of residual entropy. Understanding which class of counting formulas can account for a large degeneracy will undoubtedly unveil interesting properties of quantum gravity. In this talk I will discuss the application of Siegel modular forms to black hole entropy counting. The role of the Igusa cusp form in the D1D5P system is well-known in string theory, and its transformation properties are what allow precision microstate counting in this case. We implement this counting for other Siegel modular and paramodular forms, and we show that they could serve as candidates for other gravitational systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:24:42 -0400 2018-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-05T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
CGIS Open Advising (April 5, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47710 47710-11002084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join us for an open advising event that will be held at CGIS, where advisors will be accepting walk-ins. Come in and speak to advisors about CGIS programs with a September 15th deadline, the application process, scholarship and financial aid, and more! Popcorn & punch will be provided and make sure to check in at the front desk when you arrive.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:39:40 -0400 2018-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Rally / Mass Meeting Cristina
Life After Graduate School Seminar | A Career in Science Philanthropy (April 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51528 51528-12135383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

I will discuss qualifications for and the role of program directors at private nonprofit foundations that fund science research and STEM education initiatives. I’ll focus on how to design effective funding programs to support advances in the physical sciences, how to evaluate grant proposals and ipso facto how to write an effective proposal.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:16:06 -0400 2018-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Revisiting Goldstone's Theorem (April 6, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51563 51563-12167539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

In recent times we have learned that if in QFT, the constraint of locality and/or Lorentz invariance are lifted, the patterns of symmetry breaking are far richer than in local relativistic field theories. Recently we have studied some (conformal) field theories with global symmetries in the sector where the value of the global charge Q is large. We find that the low energy excitations in this sector are described by a particular form of the non-relativistic Goldstone theorem. We also provide heuristic arguments that the effective theory describing such sector contains an effective coupling constant suppressed by powers of the large charge. The comparison of our heuristic arguments with "exact" results (lattice MonteCarlo) are remarkably good.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:26:37 -0400 2018-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Saturday Morning Physics Lite: Now with 40% Less Facts (April 7, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48131 48131-11180742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Do you ever wonder if what you observe in the world around you is real or just a trick of the mind? Let the professionals guide you through a maze of physical demonstrations that will test your confidence in your understanding as we try to trick your mind to see if you can spot the not!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:18:17 -0500 2018-04-07T10:30:00-04:00 2018-04-07T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Physics
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Multiple Gamma Mechanisms Co-exist in an Excitatory/Inhibitory Network (April 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49772 49772-11532461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Gamma oscillations have been implicated in many cognitive functions. Fast spiking interneurons are thought to play an important role in gamma synchrony. Recently, fast spiking interneurons in the entorhinal cortex have been shown to exhibit type 2 excitability and postinhibitory rebound (PIR). Theoretical work has shown that these properties make interneuronal network gamma (ING) more robust than in networks of type 1 interneurons. Here we show that this robust ING persists in a sparsely connected excitatory network. We also show that phase response curve (PRC) theory can predict under what circumstances the interneurons will sparsely synchronize in two clusters, and how increasing the delay and/or the conductance destabilizes two clusters in favor of a single cluster.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:15:38 -0400 2018-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Addressing Challenges for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) (April 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51645 51645-12182149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the universe using the baryon acoustic oscillations technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars over 14,000 square degrees will be measured during a 5-year survey. A new prime focus corrector for the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory will deliver light to 5,000 individually targeted fiber-fed robotic positioners. The fibers in turn feed ten broadband multi-object spectrographs. This talk will give an overview of the DESI project and then describe several unique instrument and survey challenges. I will highlight the ProtoDESI experiment, an on-sky technology demonstration with the goal to reduce technical risks associated with aligning optical fibers with targets using robotic fiber positioners and maintaining the stability required to operate DESI. The ProtoDESI prime focus instrument, which was installed and commissioned on the 4-m Mayall telescope from Aug. 14 to Sep. 30, 2016, consisted of three fiber positioners, illuminated fiducials, and a guide camera. ProtoDESI was successful in acquiring targets with the robotically positioned fibers and demonstrated that the DESI guiding requirements can be met. Additionally, I will report progress on a predictive sky background model for DESI, built on the spectra from the 4-year Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This dataset consists of ~1 million unique sky spectra covering 360 - 1040 nm collected in a variety of observational conditions. This detailed model will be integrated into a dynamic exposure time calculator for DESI, which will ensure data quality uniformity and increase survey efficiency.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:15:38 -0400 2018-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Recent Developments with Few-body Efimov and Rydberg Physics (April 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45674 45674-10254211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Experiment and theory have been making rapid strides in these areas recently. In this seminar I will present some of our recent theoretical progress, both for heavy-heavy-light Efimov physics and for ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules. Some suggestions for promising experimental directions will be described.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:15:39 -0400 2018-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics (April 10, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50378 50378-11724596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 4:10pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Can we make objects invisible? This has been a subject of human fascination for millennia in Greek mythology, movies, science fiction, etc. including the legend of Perseus versus Medusa and the more recent Star Trek and Harry Potter. In the last decade or so there have been several scientific proposals to achieve invisibility. We will introduce some of these in a non-technical fashion concentrating on the so-called "transformation optics" that has received the most attention in the scientific literature.

Reception for the Speaker to Follow in the Upper Atrium of East Hall on Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Sponsored by the Ziwet Lecture Series

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:23:15 -0500 2018-04-10T16:10:00-04:00 2018-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Workshop / Seminar East Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminars | GeV-Mass Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead (April 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51779 51779-12248758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

A leading dark matter candidate is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). The observed dark matter abundance can be naturally obtained through freezeout of the thermal annihilation rate. The defining feature of a thermal WIMP is that its total annihilation cross section is specified through the rate ~ 3 x 10^-26 cm^3/s, inversely proportional to the dark matter density. Searches for dark matter annihilation products have set strong limits in certain cases, requiring that the dark matter mass be greater than around 100 GeV if annihilation proceed solely to b quarks (Fermi), τ leptons (Fermi), or electrons (AMS). We construct the first limits on the total annihilation cross section, showing that allowed combinations of the annihilation-channel branching ratios considerably weaken these limits. We will show that GeV-mass thermal WIMPs have not yet been adequately tested, and outline ways forward.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:28:47 -0400 2018-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Moiré Pattern Physics (April 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51529 51529-12135384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

According to Wikipedia a moiré pattern (/mwɑːrˈeɪ/; French: [mwaˈʁe]) is a large scale interference pattern that is produced when an opaque regular pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern. Moiré pattern appears when two dimensional crystals are overlaid with a small difference in lattice constant or a small difference in orientation, are ubiquitous in van der Waals heterojunctions, and can be controlled by varying relative orientation. I will discuss some examples of new physics that can be realized using moiré patterns formed by graphene on hexagonal boron-nitride, graphene on graphene, and by transition metal dichalcogenides bilayers.


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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:15:38 -0400 2018-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Journey to the Center of the Earth (April 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50379 50379-11724597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

We will consider the inverse problem of determining the sound speed or index of refraction of a medium by measuring the travel times of waves going through the medium. This problem arises in global seismology in an attempt to determine the inner structure of the Earth by measuring travel times of earthquakes. It has also several applications in optics and medical imaging among others.

The problem can be recast as a geometric problem: Can one determine the Riemannian metric of a Riemannian manifold with boundary by measuring the distance function between boundary points? This is the boundary rigidity problem. We will also consider the problem of determining the metric from the scattering relation, the so-called lens rigidity problem. The linearization of these problems involve the integration of a tensor along geodesics, similar to the X-ray transform.

We will also describe some recent results, join with Plamen Stefanov and Andras Vasy, on the partial data case, where you are making measurements on a subset of the boundary. No previous knowledge of Riemannian geometry will be assumed.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:26:00 -0500 2018-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Seeing Through Space and Time (April 12, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50380 50380-11724598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

We consider inverse problems for the Einstein equation with a time-depending metric on a 4-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We formulate the concept of active measurements for relativistic models. We do this by coupling Einstein equations with equations for scalar fields.

The inverse problem we study is the question of whether the observations of the solutions of the coupled system in an open subset of the space-time with the sources supported in this set determines the properties of the metric in a larger domain. To study this problem we define the concept of light observation sets and show that knowledge of these sets determine the conformal class of the metric. This corresponds to passive observations from a distant area of space which is filled by light sources.

We will start by considering inverse problems for scalar non-linear hyperbolic equations to explain our method. No previous knowledge of Lorentzian geometry or general relativity will be assumed. This is joint work with P. Hinz, Y. Kurylev, M. Lasss and Y. Wang.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:28:31 -0500 2018-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Life After Graduate School Seminar | From Physicist to Data Scientist in Silicon Valley (April 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51740 51740-12217120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In this informal talk/Q&A I will talk about my experience going from astrophysicist to a data scientist working at an enormous german company (Bosch) in Silicon Valley. The narrative will be audience driven but should cover a bit about Bosch, my job and how I made the transition.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:15:39 -0400 2018-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Dark Photon Search in Positron Annihilation at Cornell (April 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51832 51832-12262915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Dark matter remains a tantalizing puzzle for particle physics and cosmology, with profound implications for understanding the essential nature and evolution of our universe. Its average mass density in the universe is known with considerable and ever-improving precision, yet extensive searches based on conventional explanations such as weakly interacting massive particles continue to yield null results. Newer alternative theories raise the possibility of low mass dark matter, and in so doing open the possibility for discovery in unexplored parameter space, using low-energy, high-intensity experiments. The so-called “dark photon” is a plausible candidate, capable of being produced in electromagnetic interactions such as electron-positron annihilation.

We have proposed the design and construction of a 6 GeV positron beam for fixed target experiments. It will become the highest intensity source of high energy positrons anywhere in the world, providing a unique tool for research in particle- and nuclear-physics. Beam characteristics are optimized for dark matter search experiments that require positrons with high total beam delivery and limited instantaneous beam current. The facility will build on the capabilities of the existing synchrotron injector at Cornell University, augmenting it with beam instrumentation to enable a slow spill of positrons by a resonant extraction mechanism.

I will describe the dynamics of slow extraction of a high energy positron beam from the Cornell synchrotron, and the experiment to search for a dark photon in electron-positron annihilation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:15:26 -0400 2018-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
2018 UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS COMMENCEMENT AND AWARDS CEREMONY (April 27, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52096 52096-12418704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 27, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Since space is limited; RSVP only.

Watch for details on the physics department's website homepage regarding viewing the "live" ceremony.

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Ceremony / Service Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:57:23 -0400 2018-04-27T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-27T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Ceremony / Service West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (April 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-04-30T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-30T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
NextProf Science Workshop (April 30, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49452 49452-11462126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 30, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

About 50 advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with an interest in diversity will meet to network and get tips on how to take the next step to a faculty position. Hosted by College of LSA Natural Science Division and coordinated by the Advance Program at UM.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:27:09 -0500 2018-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar collage of scientists
NextProf Science Workshop (May 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49452 49452-11462127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

About 50 advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with an interest in diversity will meet to network and get tips on how to take the next step to a faculty position. Hosted by College of LSA Natural Science Division and coordinated by the Advance Program at UM.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:27:09 -0500 2018-05-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar collage of scientists
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-01T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-01T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
NextProf Science Workshop (May 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49452 49452-11462128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

About 50 advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with an interest in diversity will meet to network and get tips on how to take the next step to a faculty position. Hosted by College of LSA Natural Science Division and coordinated by the Advance Program at UM.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:27:09 -0500 2018-05-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-02T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar collage of scientists
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-02T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
NextProf Science Workshop (May 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49452 49452-11462129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

About 50 advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with an interest in diversity will meet to network and get tips on how to take the next step to a faculty position. Hosted by College of LSA Natural Science Division and coordinated by the Advance Program at UM.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:27:09 -0500 2018-05-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-03T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar collage of scientists
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-07T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-07T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-08T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-08T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-09T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-14T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-15T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-15T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Color Centers in Diamond (May 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52310 52310-12631408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Color centers in diamond are a broad class of optically accessible physical systems which, by virtue of being embedded crystal defects in the diamond lattice, are relatively isolated from the macroscopic environment. This makes them promising candidates for a variety of applications from precision metrology to quantum information processing. One key to realizing these applications is a detailed understanding of the electron dynamics that govern the opto-electronic properties of color centers. I will present our recent work studying silicon–vacancy centers with multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, discuss the implications of these results for proposed silicon–vacancy center applications, and mention a few exciting new directions of study in the world of color center spectroscopy.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 May 2018 10:02:49 -0400 2018-05-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-21T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 22, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-22T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Spinor Condensates (May 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52327 52327-12639130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Thermalization of isolated quantum systems is a long-standing fundamental problem where different mechanisms are proposed over time. Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is one of the most well-known of these mechanisms. I will start my talk by introducing the problem of quantum thermalization and ETH as a possible route to thermalization. Then I will switch gears and turn to the topic of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Eventually the aim of the talk is to answer the question of "Could spinor condensates be another test-bench for testing eigenstate thermalization hypothesis besides widely used quantum many-body systems?". I will show the experimental advantages of spinor condensates to observe ETH and the possible limits of this model. Finally, it seems possible to draw a relation between the thermalization and localization properties of the eigenstates via studying spinor condensates.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 May 2018 13:59:34 -0400 2018-05-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-23T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-28T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-28T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 29, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-29T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-29T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Illuminating Photosynthesis with Two Dimensional Spectroscopy (May 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52467 52467-12793960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Photosynthesis is a process vital to life on Earth by which energy from light is converted to chemical energy. Although much is understood about this process, unanswered questions remain that, if answered, could inspire more efficient artificial light harvesting technologies. The technique of two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy has shown promise in addressing some of these questions. In this talk, I will discuss 2D studies of the Bacterial Reaction Center (BRC), a pigment-protein complex that serves as a model system for investigating the initial steps of photosynthesis. By exciting the BRC in the near-IR and detecting the response over a broad portion of the visible spectrum, we are able to uncover previously obscured coupling between BRC pigments and begin to further elucidate the kinetic pathways of energy transfer and charge separation.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 09:53:46 -0400 2018-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Single Cell Response to Multiple Carbon Sources: A Case Study of Combinatorial Signal Integration (May 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52470 52470-12793962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Quantitative Biology Seminars

A major determinant of the fitness of biological systems is their ability to integrate multiple cues from the environment and coordinate their response accordingly. Yet, our understanding of combinatorial integration of multiple inputs and its age dependence is still limited. One of the well-studied examples of such regulation is catabolite repression - a phenomenon where preferred carbon source (e.g., glucose) represses the pathway required for the consumption of alternative carbon sources (e.g., galactose). As a model system, we study how yeast response to hundreds of environments with different carbon sources as a function of time and age. We found that, in contrast to the textbook view, instead of merely inhibiting galactose utilization when glucose is above a threshold concentration, individual cells respond to the ratio of glucose and galactose, and based on this ratio determine whether to induce genes involved in galactose metabolism. We investigate the genetic architectures that can result in a ratio sensing and derive the conditions in which the optimal switching strategy involves preparation and when it is changed from threshold-sensing to ratio-sensing. We characterize the ability of cells to respond to changes in carbon source as a function of age and show that there is a non-trivial relation between mortality rate and failure rate.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 10:15:46 -0400 2018-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Quantitative Biology Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (May 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-05-30T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-04T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-04T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Special Cosmology Seminar | Photo-z’s and Cosmology From Weak Lensing Cross-Correlations in DES (June 5, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52497 52497-12840321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

In this talk I will explain how we can use weak lensing cross-correlations, in particular galaxy-galaxy lensing, to constrain the redshift distributions of the source galaxies. I will present the results obtained using this technique on DES Y1 data. Also, I will describe how using a similar method but now including CMB lensing cross-correlations we can constrain cosmological parameters, using SPT and Planck data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:41:30 -0400 2018-06-05T15:30:00-04:00 2018-06-05T16:30:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Exploring the Origins of Nitrogen in Terrestrial Worlds (June 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52328 52328-12639131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In the study of star and planet formation, one outstanding question is how the materials necessary for life (such as water, carbon, and nitrogen) arrived on rocky worlds like our Earth. In my dissertation, I am studying this topic through observations of young, still-forming solar systems to better understand their chemical compositions. By focusing on nitrogen-bearing organic molecules, and using models of protostellar envelopes, I hope to better understand the origins of the Earth's nitrogen.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:15:35 -0400 2018-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 6, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-06T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
SPECIAL SEMINAR | The Future of Fundamental Particle Physics – Should China Build the Great Collider? (June 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52469 52469-12793961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology are wonderful theories that fully describe our world. But there are some hidden aspects of nature we don’t understand yet, such as dark matter, a quantum theory of gravity, and more. There are some counterintuitive things we know – for example the earth orbits the sun, although it does not seem to. There may be more counterintuitive aspects of nature such as extra space dimensions that arise in string theory. The talk, based on discussions with Stephen Hawking, will describe the Standard Models, the puzzling issues beyond the Standard Models, and how the well-motivated Great Collider will contribute to solving them. The Great Collider will also provide major economic and cultural development.

The talk will begin at 4:00 p.m. sharp!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:46:09 -0400 2018-06-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-11T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-12T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Supermassive Black Holes as the Regulators of Star Formation in Central Galaxies (June 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52623 52623-12908314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Cavities and bubbles in the extended X-ray emission from massive galaxies demonstrate that feedback from supermassive black holes can have a profound effect on the hot gaseous atmospheres that surround these systems. The consequences of these effects result in dramatic changes with respect to how the baryon cycle works and whether new stars are able form within these galaxies. With this concern in mind, we present a relationship between the black hole mass, stellar mass, and star formation rate of a diverse group of 91 local galaxies with dynamically-measured black hole masses. For our sample of galaxies with a variety of morphologies and other galactic properties, we find that the specific star formation rate is a smoothly decreasing function of the ratio between black hole mass and stellar mass. With respect to galaxy formation models, our results present a powerful diagnostic with which to test various prescriptions of black hole feedback and its effects on star formation activity. Using the new IllustrisTNG simulation, we illuminate the physics behind quiescence in this model and compare with our observational results. We also use dozens of other TNG runs with varying physics implementations to show how observable galaxy trends and correlations are affected by changes in the black hole feedback physics, thereby providing a pathway to physically interpret observations.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:01:19 -0400 2018-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-13T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-19T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (June 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52331 52331-12639134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 May 2018 14:08:55 -0400 2018-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-20T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Research Education and Activities for Classroom Teachers (June 22, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51957 51957-12327241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 22, 2018 9:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: American Chemical Society Polymer Division - Student Chapter

REACT is a one-day workshop for Michigan K-12 STEM teachers at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor campus). This event provides K-12 STEM teachers free exposure to the impactful research being done at the University of Michigan through focused student talks, lab tours, and hands-on demonstrations by student organizations.

This year's REACT workshop includes research from Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Human Genetics, and Physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:25:00 -0400 2018-06-22T09:30:00-04:00 2018-06-22T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 American Chemical Society Polymer Division - Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-26T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (June 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-06-27T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-27T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-02T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-03T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-04T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-04T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-09T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-10T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Amplitudes (July 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52332 52332-12639135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 May 2018 14:10:01 -0400 2018-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-11T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-11T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-16T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-17T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | The MUSE Experiment and Proton Radius Puzzle (July 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53033 53033-13209179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In 2010, a novel method of spectroscopic measurements on muonic hydrogen resulted in a 4% smaller proton radius than previously observed, and at an order of magnitude improvement in precision. This measurement, and a second in 2013, established the so-called "Proton Radius Puzzle". Now, the MUSE collaboration will simultaneously measure, for the first time, electron and muon scattering of both polarities from a liquid hydrogen target. In this talk, I will survey the physics of the Proton Radius Puzzle, introduce how the proton radius is measured in scattering and spectroscopic experiments, and discuss how the MUSE experiment will fill an important gap in the proton radius data.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:14:06 -0400 2018-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-18T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-23T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-23T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-24T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Rare Decay of the Kaon with the KOTO Experiment (July 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52333 52333-12639136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:23:25 -0400 2018-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-30T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-30T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (July 31, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-07-31T14:00:00-04:00 2018-07-31T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors (August 1, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52334 52334-12639137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:25:53 -0400 2018-08-01T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-01T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-01T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 6, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-06T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-07T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-07T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | PHENIX Direct Photon Spin Asymmetry (August 8, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52335 52335-12639138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:25:08 -0400 2018-08-08T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-08T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-08T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-08T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-13T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-13T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-14T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-15T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-15T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-21T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | Mind the Gap: Using the Stellar Mass – Halo Mass Relation to understand Galaxy Growth and Cluster Assembly (August 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52336 52336-12639139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

A large variance exists in the amplitude of the galaxy cluster Stellar Mass – Halo Mass (SMHM) relation. We find that the magnitude gap between the brightest central galaxy (BCG) and its fourth brightest neighbor accounts for this variance. At fixed halo mass, clusters with higher magnitude gaps have larger BCG stellar masses. This stratification is also observed in semi-analytic simulations of low-redshift clusters; this suggests that this stratification results from the hierarchical growth of BCGs and may link assembly of the halo with BCG growth. We quantify the impact of the magnitude gap in the SMHM relation using a multiplicative stretch factor, which we measure to be significantly non-zero. Including the magnitude gap also significantly reduces the intrinsic scatter in the BCG stellar mass at fixed halo mass. Additionally, hierarchical growth predicts that at higher redshifts fewer mergers have occurred, indicating that the BCG’s stellar mass and magnitude gap should decrease with increasing lookback time. This suggests that the slope and magnitude gap stretch factor may evolve with redshift. We test this prediction using SDSS-redMaPPer clusters to measure the SMHM relation’s parameters as a function of redshift to z < 0.3. Contrary to expectations from semi-analytic galaxy evolution models, we find no evolution. We will discuss our results in the context of hierarchical growth and prior measurements of BCG growth over the redshift range of our sample.

Talks will be given each Wednesday and will be 30 minutes in length, with time after for questions. Lunch will be served at 11:45 and talks will begin at 12:00. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in 340 West Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:03:36 -0400 2018-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T12:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 22, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-22T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) 2018 (August 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65656 65656-16627866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Organizers:
Aaron Pierce (LCTP), Jianming Qian (ATLAS), James Wells (LCTP),
Bing Zhou (ATLAS),
Junjie Zhu (ATLAS)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:35:47 -0400 2018-08-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T12:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) Workshop (August 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54046 54046-13519655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics in conjunction with the Michigan ATLAS group will host this annual workshop at the U-M Department of Physics.

This three day workshop is an annual event intended to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the physics of multiple vector bosons at the LHC. Topics include diboson and triboson production; vector boson scattering and vector boson fusion; precision calculation and measurement of multiboson production; new physics in multiboson production; anomalous TGC and QGC couplings; effective field theory; Monte Carlo generators; and the latest LHC Run 2 results. Past workshops have been at TU Dresden (2013), BNL (2014), DESY (2015), Wisconsin (2016), and KIT (2017).

If you are interested in these topics, you are all welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:57:17 -0400 2018-08-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar LCTP Conference Program
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-28T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) 2018 (August 29, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65656 65656-16627867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Organizers:
Aaron Pierce (LCTP), Jianming Qian (ATLAS), James Wells (LCTP),
Bing Zhou (ATLAS),
Junjie Zhu (ATLAS)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:35:47 -0400 2018-08-29T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T12:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) Workshop (August 29, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54046 54046-13519657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics in conjunction with the Michigan ATLAS group will host this annual workshop at the U-M Department of Physics.

This three day workshop is an annual event intended to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the physics of multiple vector bosons at the LHC. Topics include diboson and triboson production; vector boson scattering and vector boson fusion; precision calculation and measurement of multiboson production; new physics in multiboson production; anomalous TGC and QGC couplings; effective field theory; Monte Carlo generators; and the latest LHC Run 2 results. Past workshops have been at TU Dresden (2013), BNL (2014), DESY (2015), Wisconsin (2016), and KIT (2017).

If you are interested in these topics, you are all welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:57:17 -0400 2018-08-29T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar LCTP Conference Program
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (August 29, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-08-29T14:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) 2018 (August 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65656 65656-16627868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Organizers:
Aaron Pierce (LCTP), Jianming Qian (ATLAS), James Wells (LCTP),
Bing Zhou (ATLAS),
Junjie Zhu (ATLAS)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:35:47 -0400 2018-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Conference / Symposium West Hall
Multi-Boson Interactions (MBI) Workshop (August 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54046 54046-13519658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

The Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics in conjunction with the Michigan ATLAS group will host this annual workshop at the U-M Department of Physics.

This three day workshop is an annual event intended to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the physics of multiple vector bosons at the LHC. Topics include diboson and triboson production; vector boson scattering and vector boson fusion; precision calculation and measurement of multiboson production; new physics in multiboson production; anomalous TGC and QGC couplings; effective field theory; Monte Carlo generators; and the latest LHC Run 2 results. Past workshops have been at TU Dresden (2013), BNL (2014), DESY (2015), Wisconsin (2016), and KIT (2017).

If you are interested in these topics, you are all welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:57:17 -0400 2018-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar LCTP Conference Program
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-03T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | State of the Department Address (September 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53478 53478-13386088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Brad Orr will open the school year by informing everyone of the new research and happenings in the Physics Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:16:35 -0400 2018-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
"Bimolecular Concert at the Cell Membrane Interface" (September 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53436 53436-13381405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Physicochemical and structural properties of molecules at the cell membrane interface are crucial for cellular and other biological functions, and are implicated in numerous diseases including amyloid diseases and bacterial/viral infection. While it is obvious that such properties must be fully characterized for biotechnological and biomedical purposes, the intrinsic complexity of the lipid bilayer environment poses tremendous challenges to most biophysical techniques and biochemical approaches. The Ramamoorthy group has been developing novel membrane mimetics and biophysical (including NMR) approaches to overcome these challenges, and apply them to investigate dynamic structures of membrane proteins and membrane-assisted amyloid aggregation processes. The Biophysical Concert will focus on the following specific topics to highlight the challenges and recent advances:

*Advantages and limitations of "sushi-like" lipid-nanodiscs (Ravula)
*Probing atomic-resolution "hugs and kisses" that enable enzymatic function (Gentry)
*Capturing the amyloid-ghosts red-handed by nanodiscs (Sahoo)
*Atomic-resolution "weed-and-feed" action of amyloid-inhibitors (Cox)

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:05:49 -0400 2018-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Verticalization of Bacterial Biofilms (September 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54684 54684-13636270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Biofilms are communities of bacteria adhered to surfaces. Recently, biofilms of rod-shaped bacteria were observed at single-cell resolution and shown to develop from a disordered, two-dimensional layer of founder cells into a three-dimensional structure with a vertically-aligned core. Here, we elucidate the physical mechanism underpinning this transition using a combination of agent-based and continuum modeling. We find that verticalization proceeds through a series of localized mechanical instabilities on the cellular scale. For short cells, these instabilities are primarily triggered by cell division, whereas long cells are more likely to be peeled off the surface by nearby vertical cells, creating an "inverse domino effect". The interplay between cell growth and cell verticalization gives rise to an exotic mechanical state in which the effective surface pressure becomes constant throughout the growing core of the biofilm surface layer. This dynamical isobaricity determines the expansion speed of a biofilm cluster and thereby governs how cells access the third dimension. In particular, theory predicts that a longer average cell length yields more rapidly expanding, flatter biofilms. We experimentally show that such changes in biofilm development occur by exploiting chemicals that modulate cell length.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:16:58 -0400 2018-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T01:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Searches for di-Higgs Production and Using Hardware Track Triggers to Search for New Physics (September 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53569 53569-13410061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The particle physics community has been working to study the properties of the Higgs boson since its discovery in 2012. As part of the Higgs physics program, the ATLAS experiment has conducted searches for di-Higgs (hh) production, which will allow us to measure the Higgs self-coupling and compare to Standard Model (SM) predictions. We can also search for enhanced hh production in beyond-the-SM scenarios, such as resonant production via a new heavy scalar, or non-SM couplings to the Higgs boson, either of which would increase the hh cross section. Looking forward, the LHC Run 3 will bring a new set of challenges, including more pp collisions per bunch crossing. Extracting rare physics signatures from this busier environment will be difficult for the ATLAS trigger system. The FastTracKer (FTK), a hardware upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system, will use new technologies to perform full-scan tracking for each event selected at the first level of the trigger. The tracks will then be provided to the software-based High Level Trigger, which makes the final trigger decisions. This will make it possible to efficiently find difficult objects, such as taus and b-tagged jets, at the trigger level. In this talk, I will present ATLAS searches for hh production using a variety of final states, as well as their combination, and discuss the use of FTK in the ATLAS trigger system during LHC Run 3.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:16:58 -0400 2018-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Synchrotron Radiation from an Accelerating Light Pulse (September 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54950 54950-13656389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Synchrotron radiation, namely, electromagnetic radiation produced by charges moving in a curved path, is regularly generated at large-scale facilities where GeV electrons move along kilometer-long circular paths. We use a metasurface to bend light and demonstrate synchrotron radiation produced by a sub-picosecond pulse, which moves along a circular arc of radius 100 µm inside a nonlinear crystal. The emitted radiation, in the THz frequency range, results from the nonlinear polarization induced by the pulse. The generation of synchrotron radiation from a pulse revolving about a circular trajectory holds promise for the development of on-chip THz sources.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:16:52 -0400 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Statistical Mechanics of a Two-Dimensional Black Hole (September 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54936 54936-13654180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The dynamics of a nearly-AdS2 spacetime with boundaries can be reduced to that of two particles in the anti-de Sitter space. We determine the class of physically meaningful wavefunctions, and prescribe the statistical mechanics of a black hole. We demonstrate how wavefunctions for a two-sided black hole and a regularized notion of trace can be used to construct thermal partition functions, and more generally, arbitrary density matrices. We also obtain correlation functions of external operators. The talk is based on work with A. Kitaev in the preprint arXiv:1808.07032.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:22:53 -0400 2018-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Topological Protection in Messy Matter: Edge Modes in Disordered Fiber Networks and Quasicrystals (September 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53479 53479-13386089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Topological states of matter have been intensively studied in crystals, leading to fascinating phenomena such as scattering-free edge current in topological insulators. However, the power of topological protection goes well beyond ordered crystal lattices. In this talk we explore how topology protects mechanical edge modes in messy, noncrystalline, systems. We will use disordered fiber networks and quasicrystals as our examples, to demonstrate how topological edge floppy modes can be induced in these structures by controlling their geometry. Fiber networks are ubiquitous in nature and especially important in bio-related materials. Quasicrystals show unusual orientational order with quasiperiodic translational order. Realizing topological edge floppy modes in these noncrystalline structures may open the door to rich new physics in biological networks as well as novel designs of topological mechanical metamaterials.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:16:54 -0400 2018-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Might the Dark Matter Also Be the Inflaton? (September 14, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54937 54937-13654181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter and inflation represent two of the biggest open question in cosmology. Although they are generally thought of as distinct and unrelated phenomena, here I will ask whether they might be closely connected. In particular, I will describe a class of models in which a stable inflaton is produced as a thermal relic in the early universe and constitutes the dark matter. I will show that the annihilations of these inflatons can efficiently reheat the universe, and I will identify several examples of inflationary potentials within this scenario which can accommodate all cosmic microwave background observables. As a simple example, I will discuss a model in which inflaton annihilations that take place through a Higgs portal interaction, leading to encouraging prospects for future direct detection experiments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:31:46 -0400 2018-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Seminar Title: "Magnetic Resonance Studies of Membrane Proteins" (September 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53437 53437-13381406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Abstract: CW and pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopic techniques coupled with site-directed spin-labeling (SDSL) can provide important structural information on complicated biological systems such as membrane proteins. Strategically placed spin-labels alter relaxation times of NMR active nuclei and yield pertinent structural information. EPR techniques such as Double Electron-Electron Resonance (DEER) and Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation (ESEEM) are powerful structural biology tools. The DEER technique can be used to measure distances between 2 spin labels from 20 to 70 Å. However, the application of DEER spectroscopy to study membrane proteins can be difficult due to short phase memory times (Tm) and weak DEER modulation in more biologically relevant proteoliposomes when compared to water soluble proteins or membrane proteins in detergent micelles. The combination of these factors often leads to broad distance distributions, poor signal to noise, and limitations in the determination of longer distances. The short phase memory times are typically due to uneven distributions of spin-labeled protein within the lipid bilayer, which creates local inhomogeneous pockets of high spin concentrations. Approaches to overcome these limitations and improve the quality of DEER measurements for membrane proteins will be discussed: lipodisq nanoparticles, bi-functional spin labels (BSL), and Q-band pulsed EPR spectroscopy. ESEEM data will be shown to probe the secondary structure of membrane proteins. CW-EPR spectra of spin-labeled membrane proteins will be used to investigate dynamics and the immersion depth in a lipid bilayer.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:29:54 -0400 2018-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Gary Lorigan
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Recent Developments and Applications of Improved Fast Neutron Detectors (September 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55127 55127-13689413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Neutrons are hard to detect and until recently the technique used by Chadwick to identify the neutron in the 1930s has often been used to detect them. This method, based on recoil proton detection, does not provide detailed information on the neutron energy spectra unless one can do a neutron time-of-flight measurement (n-ToF). This is not always possible especially with the new generation of low b.g. underground accelerators designed for nuclear-astrophysics measurements.. Even when n-ToF is feasible, it often is not very efficient as a long flight path must typically be used together with a bunched and pulse-selected beam . Recent developments in deuterated scintillators, both liquids and recently crystalline, can provide efficient detection of neutrons and their energy spectra w/o n-ToF. As will be illustrated, these new detectors are proving to be especially useful for study of many types of rare nuclear reactions, for home-land security applications, for ion-beam dosimetry, and for measurements of important reactions creating problematic neutrons in the large scintillators used for neutrino oscillation measurements and for dark-matter searches.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:17:07 -0400 2018-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality (September 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53339 53339-13347361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The class will cover unifying theories that led to the Standard Model and look at what may be beyond, such as supersymmetry, string theory, and loop quantum gravity using DVD lectures from the Teaching Company by Don Lincoln. We’ll view two 30 minute lectures per class, each followed by 20 minutes for questions and discussion.

Instructor Dick Chase worked 27 years as a research physicist for Ford and taught physics at several levels. At OLLI, he has taught 14 physics-related classes and led 3 book discussion groups.

This study group for those 50 and above will meet on Tuesdays, 1-3, from September 18 through December 11. No class on November 20.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:54:01 -0400 2018-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | An Atomic Receiver for AM and FM Radio Communication (September 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55388 55388-13725241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Radio-frequency field modulation underlies nearly all modern communication, from car radios to wifi. Despite being a mature technology first developed in the late nineteenth century, radio communication has several ongoing challenges including information security, increasing bandwidth by tapping the microwave- and mm-wave regimes, and improving resilience against electromagnetic interference (EMI). An exciting prospect to solving many of these challenges lies in replacing antenna technology with quantum technologies. In this talk, I will describe the recent development at Rydberg Technologies of a fundamentally new atomic receiver technology for AM and FM radio communication [1, 2]. The atomic receiver exploits the properties of Rydberg atoms, highly excited atomic states that are very sensitive to electromagnetic fields, to collect and demodulate AM and FM radio based on atomic spectroscopy in compact room-temperature vapor cells. Features of the atomic receiver include its small size, ability detect carrier-waves spanning several octaves, and a circuit-free detector element. Even in this first demonstration, the bandwidth and dynamic range are sufficient to receive human vocals.

References:

[1] D.A. Anderson, R.E. Saprio, G. Raithel, ‘An Atomic receiver for AM and FM radio communication,” (2018) https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08589

[2] Rydberg Technologies www.RydbergTechnologies.com

In the news:

'Get ready for atomic radio,' MIT Technology Review 2018 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611977/get-ready-for-atomic-radio/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:17:17 -0400 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Raytheon Corporate Information Session (September 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54648 54648-13627526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

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Technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cyber security solutions

*Food will be provided!
Contact: Society of Women Engineers (swe.cis-ind.publicity@umich.edu)

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:30:23 -0400 2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T19:30:00-04:00 Cooley Building Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Cooley Building
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Cosmological Signatures of Sub-MeV Dark Matter Freeze-In (September 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53968 53968-13504400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Dark matter could be a thermal relic of freeze-in, where the dark matter is produced by extremely feeble interactions with Standard Model particles dominantly at low temperatures. The simplest sub-MeV dark matter models with freeze-in include models with a kinetically-mixed dark photon mediator, or equivalently models where dark matter is millicharged under the Standard Model U(1). In this talk I will discuss how such models can impact and be constrained by cosmological observables, including the CMB, the Lyman-alpha forest, and the EDGES observation of the cosmological 21 cm global signal.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:07:21 -0400 2018-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Studying the Higgs Sector and Searching for New Physics with the Higgs Boson (September 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53481 53481-13386091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

I will present recent work at Michigan in measuring properties of the Higgs Boson with the ATLAS experiment, including the production of Higgs in association with top quarks and Higgs pair production. I will also discuss planned upgrades of the ATLAS experiment which will dramatically improve the sensitivity of these measurements and many more.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:17:06 -0400 2018-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Life After Graduate School | Wish I'd Known That Sooner (September 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53525 53525-13394610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

As physicists we place tremendous value on the pursuit of knowledge and scientific discovery, however after graduate school you will eventually recognize that in corporate research many professional interactions aren't aligned with such pursuits. The presenter, an Applied Physics alum, will share insights gained through years of failed (and sometimes successful) professional experiments to help the next-generation of applied physicists recognize the key indicators of stagnant career growth, as well as define strategies to avoid slow starts after earning your first job after graduation.


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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:17:13 -0400 2018-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminars | Supersymmetric Localization: Review and Recent Progress (September 21, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55372 55372-13722857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Supersymmetric localization is a powerful tool that can provide us with some exact non-perturbative results of quantum field theories. In the first half of this talk we will review its basic idea and some important applications. The results of localization can be used to test some conjectured dualities, for instance the Seiberg-like dualities in various dimensions, and also to help set up new dualities. We will demonstrate these aspects with some examples. In the second half of this talk, we will discuss some recent progress on the localization of 4d N=1 gauge theories. We consider 4d N=1 gauge theories on S2*R2 and compute their partition functions. The results are related to the partition functions of 4d N=1 gauge theories on the Omega background with two epsilon parameters, which can be viewed as building blocks of the Nekrasov partition functions of the 4d N=2 theories on the Omega background. As an application, we use the N=1 partition functions to test various dualities such as the 4d Seiberg duality. Further applications to the 4d Argyres-Douglas theories and the generalized AGT relation will also be discussed. This talk is based on a few papers 1309.3266, 1411.4694, 1505.06207, 1705.01896 and some work in progress.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:08:58 -0400 2018-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Opening Up the Solar System and Beyond: The Promise of Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion (September 22, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53966 53966-13504397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Part of the 50th Anniversary Live Presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Co-Presentation with: UMS and the College of Engineering
We survey propulsion technologies that can enable reduced trip times for robotic and human missions alike beyond Mars, opening up the full solar system to in depth exploration and eventual colonization. Enabling these advances is the utilization of the power of the nucleus-nuclear energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:44:48 -0400 2018-09-22T10:30:00-04:00 2018-09-22T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
HEP-Astro Seminar | Anomaly of Dancing Reactor Antineutrinos (September 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53547 53547-13401553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) started data-taking from August, 2011 and has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta13. The experiment has analyzed roughly 2200 days of data to make an accurate measurement of the oscillation amplitude and frequency based on energy and baseline dependent disappearance of reactor antineutrinos. RENO’s precisely measured flux and spectral shape of reactor antineutrinos has shown a deficit in the flux and an excess in the region of 5 MeV relative to the most commonly used model. Furthermore, it has observed fuel-composition dependent variation of reactor antineutrino yield and spectrum. We find that reevaluation of 235U’s antineutrino yield per fission may solve the reactor antineutrino anomaly. We also report a hint of correlation between the 5-MeV excess and the 235U fuel isotope fraction.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:17:22 -0400 2018-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator YbB12 (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55550 55550-13759135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In metals, orbital motions of conduction electrons on the Fermi surface are quantized in magnetic fields, which is manifested by quantum oscillations in electrical resistivity. This Landau quantization is generally absent in insulators. Here, we report a notable exception in an insulator — ytterbium dodecaboride (YbB12). The resistivity of YbB12, which is of a much larger magnitude than the resistivity in metals, exhibits distinct quantum oscillations. These unconventional oscillations arise from the insulating bulk, even though the temperature dependence of the oscillation amplitude follows the conventional Fermi liquid theory of metals with a large effective mass. Quantum oscillations in the magnetic torque are also observed, albeit with a lighter effective mass. Our result reveals a mysterious dual nature of the ground state in YbB12: it is both a charge insulator and a strongly correlated metal.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:17:18 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Soft Gravitons and Hawking Radiation (September 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55886 55886-13802781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

We study the effect of the factorization of infrared dynamics on the process of particle creation near a black hole horizon. We show that the emission of soft particles factors out of the S-matrix in the fixed-background approximation and to leading order in the soft limit. The factorization is implemented by dressing the incoming and outgoing asymptotic states with clouds of soft photons and soft gravitons. We find that while the soft photon cloud has no effect, the soft graviton cloud induces a phase shift in the Bogolyubov coefficients relating the incoming and outgoing modes. However, the flux of outgoing particles, given by the absolute value of the Bogolyubov coefficient, is insensitive to this phase.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:44:29 -0400 2018-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (September 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Department Colloquium | Correlated Topological Materials (September 26, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53482 53482-13386092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In Kondo insulators, strong correlation and band hybridization lead to a diverging resistance at low temperature. The resistance divergence ends at about 3 Kelvin, a behavior due to the surface conductance. Quantum oscillations were observed in magnetization, but not in electrical resistivity. This difference raised many speculations if a charge-neutral Fermi Surface exists in insulators and these fermions interact only with the magnetic field, not with electric fields. We solved the problem by resolving the Landau Level quantization and Fermi Surface topology in the electrical resistivity a Kondo insulator Ytterbium Dodecaboride (YbB12). The temperature dependence of the oscillation amplitude follows the conventional Fermi liquid theory of metals with a large effective mass. The result suggests that the observed Fermi surface originates from the charged particles. Our finding reveals a mysterious dual nature of the ground state in Kondo insulator YbB12: it is both a charge insulator and a strongly correlated topological metal.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:17:21 -0400 2018-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Special HEP-Astro Seminar | Cosmological Results from the Final Data Release of the Planck Satellite (September 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55389 55389-13725242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Planck is an ESA satellite aimed at the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background. This year, the Planck collaboration has released the final data and results from the mission. In this talk, I will describe the main results on cosmology from the mission, highlighting the changes with respect to previous releases, the agreement with other cosmological probes and the unsolved questions opened for the future.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:17:29 -0400 2018-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
CM Theory Seminar | Quantum Donuts and Wedding Cakes: Topology- and Interaction-driven Effects in Graphene Quantum Dots (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53483 53483-13386093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Graphene is a quasi two-dimensional material with low-energy excitations that can be described by the relativistic Dirac equation for massless chiral fermions. This has allowed graphene to act as a host solid state system for measuring analogous relativistic effects on a laboratory table-top. Recently, the ability to generate nanoscale substrate gate potentials in hexagonal boron nitride has opened the door for creating confined quantum dot (QD) states in a contiguous sheet of graphene. Unlike other QD systems, graphene’s exposed electronic surface is uniquely amenable to scanning probe measurements that reveal the detailed spatial structure of the resonant QD states. In this talk I will present scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) measurements that explore the interplay between spatial and magnetic confinement of Dirac fermions in graphene QDs. I will first describe how quasi-bound resonances occur due to relativistic Klein scattering at QD edges. I will then show how the application of a weak magnetic field (B ~ 0.1 T) can act as a topological Berry phase on/off “switch” resulting in the sudden onset of large energy splittings in the graphene QD spectrum. Finally, at higher fields (B > 1T), I describe measurements that directly visualize the intricate evolution of the QD resonant states into highly degenerate Landau levels where electron interactions lead to the subsequent formation of a 'wedding cake'-like structure of compressible incompressible strips and strong Fermi velocity renormalization.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:17:28 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
Life After Graduate School | How Three Recent Opportunities are Changing our Company's Business Outlook (September 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53526 53526-13394611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Dr. Peter Cabauy is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of City Labs, Inc. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Applied Physics. His thesis work was in Quantum Information Physics at Argonne National Laboratories (ANL), and he co-authored a publication with his thesis advisor, Dr. Paul Benioff, a seminal pioneer in the field of Quantum Computing.

In 2003, he founded and directed the Office of Entrepreneurial Science at Florida International University advising in intellectual property matters and laying the groundwork for its technology incubator program. In 2005, Dr. Cabauy co-founded City Labs where his diverse experience in technology entrepreneurship, experimental and theoretical physics has been instrumental in both structuring the company and developing its product line. Under his leadership, the company completed a Series A investment round in 2010, commercialized its signature betavoltaic product line in 2012 and has successfully navigated the complex regulatory landscape achieving the world's first general license for a betavoltaic product. As of 2018 City Labs has achieved a strong patent portfolio under Cabauy's leadership and is introducing a new class of betavoltaics that will expand its commercial reach into medical implants, wireless sensors and space satellite applications.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:17:18 -0400 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HET Seminar | Black Holes, Nuggets, & Blobs. Oh my! (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55888 55888-13802783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

The past few years have seen a growing interest to explore dark matter candidates that are outside of the standard WIMP / axion paradigms. A resurgence of macroscopic dark matter candidates have brought with it a mix of whimsical names — primordial black holes, asymmetric dark matter nuggets, and dark blobs — to name a few. In general the difficulty with macro dark matter is not the observational constraints, which are typically quite sparse and weak, but rather the challenge is finding a well-motivated mechanism for producing gram-sized dark matter objects. In this talk, I will argue that “dark quark nuggets” are a generic prediction of confining, hidden-sector gauge theories. I will discuss the phenomenology of these theories, the cosmological production of dark quark nuggets, and their observational probes.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:49:56 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Dark Matters (September 29, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53967 53967-13504399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:07:21 -0400 2018-09-29T10:30:00-04:00 2018-09-29T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Donuts & Cider in the Duderstadt Connector (October 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56050 56050-13823410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Stop by the Duderstadt Connector for Apple Cider & Washtenaw Dairy Donuts between 10 am and 2pm on Monday, October 1st.

Pick up a 2019 MDP Program Booklet, get tips for how to apply, and prepare for one of the major MDP recruitment events on 10/2 or 10/3.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:10:22 -0400 2018-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Multidisciplinary Design Program Exhibition Cider and Donuts
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2
Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (October 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50185 50185-11656570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Center for Materials Characterization

This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 May 2018 08:08:33 -0400 2018-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Center for Materials Characterization Workshop / Seminar Instruments & Techniques in (MC)2