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LSA Graduating Seniors 2026: Cracking the Code to a Great Education
David McDermott combined his myriad interests—from Minecraft to cooking—and is graduating with a degree in physics and computing, then heading to a job in Chicago.
Physicist Mark Newman awarded the 2026 John von Neumann Prize!
The John von Neumann Prize is the highest honor and flagship lecture of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
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Apr
18
Saturday Morning Physics | The Science of Physicist Jens Zorn's Art
Multiple U-M Faculty Speakers
10:30 AM
170 & 182
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Apr
06
HEP-Astro Seminar | Shining a light on the Dark Sector: Probing Dark QCD Signatures with the ATLAS Experiment
Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Apr
07
Applied Physics | Decoding how cell signaling controls differentiation
in stem cell models for early human development
Dr.Idse Heemskerk , Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology at Biomedical Engineering (BME)
12:00 PM
340
West Hall
Apr
08
HET Brown Bag Seminar | c=1 strings as a matrix integral
Victor Rodriguez (UCSB)
1:00 PM
3481
Randall Laboratory
Apr
08
Department Colloquium | Theories of neural computation underlying learning, imagination, reasoning and scaling: of mice and machines
Surya Ganguli (Stanford University)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Apr
09
Quantum Research Institute | Quantum Spin-Mechanics with Color Centers in Diamond: A Potential Platform for Quantum Computing
Hailin Wang (University of Oregon)
11:00 AM
411
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