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Physics
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‘Really Bizarre and Exciting’: U-M Physicist Lu Li and Team Find Quantum Oscillations Coming from Inside
Pushing the limits of physics, the international team has shown that quantum oscillations—once thought confined to a material’s surface—can originate within its core, reshaping how scientists understand conductors, insulators, and everything in between.
The year a-flied physics lit up the MLB
Former U-M physics professor and U-M alum Aaron Leanhardt, now an MLB analyst, is changing the game—literally—with a bat born from science, precision, and a deep understanding of the “sweet spot.”
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Dec
06
Saturday Morning Physics | 30 Years of SMP! (Family-Friendly)
Warren M. Smith Demonstration Laboratory Staff (U-M Physics Department)
10:30 AM
170 & 182
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Nov
17
Applied Physics Seminar | Metal or insulator? That is the question
Lu Li, Ph.D., Interim Chair, Department of Physics and Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
340
West Hall
Nov
17
HEP-Astro Seminar | Paving the Road for the Next-Generation of tSZ Cluster Cosmology
Kayla Kornoelje (University of Chicago)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Nov
18
CM-AMO Seminar | Tests of fundamental physics with thorium nuclear clocks
David Leibrandt (UCLA)
4:00 PM
340
West Hall
Nov
19
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Form factors in the large-N bootstrap
Jan Albert (Princeton)
12:00 PM
3481
Randall Laboratory
Nov
19
Cosmo-Astro Seminar | Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography: Progress and Challenges
Avery Tishue (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2:00 PM
3246
Randall Laboratory
