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Norman M. Leff Assistant Professor Na Hyun Jo Selected as 2026 Cottrell Scholar
Dr. Na Hyun Jo has been named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
A ‘new era’ in cosmology: Dark Energy Survey releases new analysis of how the universe expands
Six years worth of data on nearly 670 million galaxies is helping scientists tighten the constraints on the dark energy driving the expansion of the universe
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Feb
28
Saturday Morning Physics | Surviving the Death of a Star: Life on Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Juliette Becker, Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
10:30 AM
170 & 182
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Feb
23
HEP-Astro Seminar | Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?
Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
24
Applied Physics | Watching molecules in action: Using ultrafast X-ray spectroscopies to probe atomic and electronic dynamics.
Dr. Roseanne Sension, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at University Of Michigan
12:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
24
CM-AMO Seminar | Classical mechanics as the high-entropy limit of quantum mechanics
Gabriele Carcassi (U-M Physics)
4:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
25
Department Colloquium | X-ray vision in the age of free-electron lasers: Making the invisible visible
David A. Reis (Stanford PULSE Institute Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
26
Quantum Research Institute | Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays
Jacob Covey (University of Illinois)
11:00 AM
PML2000
Virtual
