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Physics
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To get lifelike movement from synthetic materials, physics researchers can embrace chaos
Chemical reactions that are sensitive to force could help power engineered materials that beat, twitch and shiver like living tissue for new applications in robotics and other technologies
MicroBooNE experiment finds no evidence for the long-sought ‘sterile neutrino’
Physicist Joshua Spitz, doctoral student Benjamin Bogart, and the MicroBooNE team conclude there is less than a 5% chance that anomalies in earlier neutrino experiments can be explained by the existence of a single new particle.
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Mar
11
2026 Ford Motor Company Distinguished Lecture in Physics
Richard Friend (Professor)
4:00 PM
Amphitheater, 4th Floor, Rackham Building
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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Jan
13
Applied Physics Seminar | What do mergers do to galaxies?
Eric Bell, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of Astronomy and Professor of Astronomy, Associate Chair of Astronomy; Graduate Program Chair, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
340
Virtual
Jan
13
CM-AMO | Engineering topological bands in materials with chiral cavities
Ceren B. Dag (Indiana University Bloomington)
4:00 PM
340
West Hall
Jan
14
Department Colloquium | Nanoscale Soft Matter Under Electron Microscopy
Qian Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Jan
15
Quantum Research Institute | Modeling Biology on a Quantum Computer: Deciphering the Mechanism of ATP Hydrolysis Using Quantum Hardware
Brenda Rubenstein (Brown University)
11:00 AM
411
Virtual
Jan
16
HET Seminar | High Frequency Gravitational Waves & Strings
Anshuman Mahanara (UM)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
