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Physics Grad Kate Miller Featured in Physics in Your Future APS Brochure
Gravitational waves: U-M physicists involved in second detection
The Hunt for Dark Matter Continues: PandaX Reaches World’s Best Sensitivity
Stars Burning Strangely Make Life in the Multiverse More Likely
Physics Professor Gordon Kane Awarded 2017 APS J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
U-M Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Explains the Search for the Universe’s ‘Dark Stars’
New Dwarf Planet Solar System’s 2nd Most Distant
Physicist David Gerdes and Team Find New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System
Professor Keith Riles – Member of LIGO Team
Researchers Invent New Material that can Switch Between Being Hard and Soft
The 2017 Physics Commencement Live Event
Physics Professors Receive MURI Grant
Alec Josaitis Recently Awarded International Institute and Rackham Graduate School Individual Research Fellowship
Dr. Priyashree Roy Earns 2016 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize
LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time
U-M Physics Alum Alex Nitz Helps Detect Colliding Black Holes in Space
Professor Henriette Elvang Selected for a College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award
Professor Gordon Kane Quoted in "Yearning for New Physics at CERN, in a Post-Higgs Way"
Professor Rachel Goldman and Team Develop Technique which Could Boost Efficiency of LED Lighting by 50 Percent and May Pave the Way for Invisibility Cloaking Devices
Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe
Professor David Gerdes Featured in USA Today Solar Eclipse Article
U-M Physics Research Fellow Bachana Lomsadze and Professor Steven Cundiff Develop Novel Spectroscopy Technique that Could Revolutionize Chemical Detection
Kip S. Thorne, Winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Has U-M Physics Connections
LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced By Colliding Neutron Stars
Leinweber Foundation Gives $8M for Physics Center in U-M Department of Physics
Four U-M Physics Faculty Named Fellows
Michigan Fireball Meteor Registers As Quake: Astrophysicist David Gerdes Quoted
Professor Fred Adams Quoted in Science News Article
A Modern Rutherford Experiment: Scientists Use Known Energy Neutrinos to Study Nucleus
It's Givin' Me Excitations: U-M Study Uncovers First Steps of Photosynthesis
UM Astrophysicist David Gerdes and Team in the Hunt for Planet 9
U-M Physics Professor Franco Nori Makes 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
U-M Society of Physics Students Talk STEM and More
The 2018 Physics Commencement Live Event
Professor Timothy McKay Reveals His Science Journey in Recent Podcast
Physics Students Tali Khain and Noah McNeal Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
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The Higgs Boson Reveals Its Love for the Top Quark
Physics Rev E Celebrates 'Milestone Articles' of Physics Faculty
Physics Graduate Benjamin Isaacoff Awarded Optical Society of America's Guenther Congressional Fellowship
Professor Katherine Freese and Team's Hunt for Dark Matter Turns to Ancient Minerals
Professor Benjamin Safdi Awarded DOE’s Early Career Award
Professor Christine Aidala Serves on National Academy Committee Endorsing Science Case for Electron-Ion Collider
U-M Physicist Lu Li Cracks Code on Material that Works as Both Conductor, Insulator
U-M Physicist Wins Nobel Prize
New Physics Faculty Member Dominika Zgid
Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Quoted in Astronomy Magazine
Physicist Jennifer Ogilvie and Team Are Shedding New Light on Photosynthesis
Professors Hui Deng and Mack Kira Named 2019 Fellows of the Optical Society
Four Physics Faculty Named 2018 Fellows of the American Physical Society
Four Physics Faculty Awarded American Physical Society Honors
Gas-Detecting Laser Device Gets an Upgrade
U-M Physicists Roberto Merlin, Meredith Henstridge and Team Develop Small Device that Bends Light to Generate New Radiation
Physicist Steven Cundiff Elected as Fellow of AAAS
Observing the Dance of Ten Million Quantum Dots
Physicist Mark Newman's Scientific Cartogram Maps Featured in Washington Post
U-M Physics Professor Tim McKay Developed Coaching Software to Help Students
Physicist Lu Li and Team First to Uncover Rotational Symmetry Breaking in Magnetic Property of Unconventional Superconductor
11 Surprising Predictions for 2017 From Some of The Biggest Names In Science
New Metamaterial Can Switch from Hard to Soft—And Back Again
Physicist Michal Zochowski Collaborates with LSA Professor Sara Aton for ‘The Science of Sleep’
Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
Physicist Roberto Merlin Selected as 2017 OSA Lippincott Award Recipient
Michigan at the March for Science
Physics Alum Larry Curtiss and Faculty Advisors Devised Contraption That Lead to Fiber Optics
Michigan Physics Welcomes LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow Camille Avestruz
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Physicist Timothy Chupp Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
U-M Physics Senior Noah McNeal Awarded Marshall Scholarship
Astrophysicist Katherine Freese and Colleague’s Latest Theory About Dark Stars Made Astronomy Magazine's Cover Story
First Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics
Physics Graduate Student Awarded 2018-2019 Rackham International Student Fellowship
Professor David Gerdes Named Next Physics Department Chair
Three U-M Physicists Make Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List
State of Michigan Governor Declares February 28, 2019: Chirped Pulse Amplification Day
Physicist Dragan Huterer Receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Physicist Sharon Glotzer Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Professor Rachel Goldman Elected Vice Chair of Division of Materials Physics
Physicist Liuyan Zhao Awarded NSF CAREER Award
Physicist Henriette Elvang Awarded Thurnau Professorship
Physics Senior Sophie Barterian Earns Prestigious Luce Scholarship
Electric Dipole Moments and the Search for the Origin of Matter
Three Physics Graduate Students Named Recipients of 2019-2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Professor Christine Aidala receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Italy
Professor August Evrard's Problem Roulette Tool Recently Awarded Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize
Five U-M Physics Faculty Recently Promoted
Professor Steven Cundiff Discusses Quantum Information Science at the White House
Professor Stephen Forrest named Henry Russel Lecturer for 2020
Physicist Roy Clarke and International Team Devise Way to Show How Common Elements Can Make a More Energy-Secure Future
Professor Jens-Christian Meiners Receives Grant to Tackle the Bends
Graduate Student Summer Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics
Professor Christine Aidala Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
U-M Physics Professor Wins Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
2019 U-M Physics Graduate Wins American Physical Society LeRoy Apker Award
Pushing boundaries: Nobel prize winner on science literacy and lasers
DESI opens its 5,000 eyes to capture the colors of the cosmos
Team at U-M Sheds Light on New Electromagnetic Ordering
LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Moved Nearly a Mile Underground
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Six U-M Physics Students Awarded Competitive National Fellowships
Professor Liuyan Zhao Wins Prestigious Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award
Two Graduate Students Awarded Prestigious Department of Energy Fellowships
Electron-Ion Collider, a New Nuclear Physics Facility, to Be Built at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physicist David Gerdes Quoted in Michigan News Article Regarding How COVID-19 Disrupts Research Projects
Physicist Ben Safdi and Research Team Provide Another Twist in the Dark Matter Story
U-M Physics Faculty Member Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professor Xiaoming Mao Awarded $7.5M Grant to Bring Metamaterial to Life
Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy
Celebrating Our Undergraduate Awardees
Celebrating Our Graduate Awardees
U-M Senior’s COVID-19 Data Model Reaches CDC
Physics Grad Student Rory Fitzpatrick and Professor Josh Spitz Shed Light on Electron Neutrino Interactions
Professors Bjoern Penning and Marcelle Soares-Santos Highlighted in Physics Today Article
U-M Physics Awarded $7.1 Million on Project to Upgrade the ATLAS Experiment
When Dancers and Aliens Overlap
Physicist David Lubensky and Team Determine Stress Fibers Help Cells Keep Their Shape—and May Also Regulate Size, During Development
"Physics: A Resounding Legacy" - A Tribute to Patron Norman E. Barnett
Physics Professor Joshua Spitz, Graduate Student Johnathon Jordan, and Research Team Propose Using Ancient Minerals from Deep within Earth’s Crust to Measure Cosmic Radiation
U-M Physics Professors Byron Roe and Joshua Spitz Part of Collaboration to Search for New Physics
Physics Grad Student Christopher Dessert Part of Team Researching X-Rays from Neutron Stars Which Could Lead to Discovery of New Particle
Assistant Professor Liuyan Zhao Awarded a Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
Assistant Professor Marcelle Soares-Santos Named 2021 Cottrell Scholar
U-M Physicists Part of Study that Finds Unexpected Antimatter Asymmetry in the Proton
Physics Graduate Student Kevin Napier is Lead Author on New Paper Casting Doubt on ‘Planet Nine’
Physics Undergraduate Jiani Fei Proposes Solution to Quantum Field Theory Problem
Physicists Hui Deng, Steve Forrest, and Research Team Discover “Egg Carton” Quantum Dot Array Could Lead to Ultralow Power Devices
U-M Physics Group Led by Professor Tim Chupp Joins in Announcement of Stronger Evidence of New Physics Revealed by Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment
U-M Physics Professors Roberto Merlin, Gregory Tarlé, and Graduate Student Noah Green Help Create Novel Optical Physics Method to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
Physicist Christine Aidala Featured in LSA Magazine’s Spring 2021 Edition
Dr. Melissa Hutcheson, Professor Myron Campbell and Research Team Find Possible Deviation from the Standard Model of Physics
U-M Physics Professor Lu Li, Dr. Kuan-Wen Chen, Dr. Ziji Xiang and Research Teams Reveal a New State of Matter in Kondo Insulator
Physicist Jennifer Ogilvie, Assistant Research Scientist Yin Song, and Researchers Trace Path of Light in Photosynthesis
Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, Its ‘Eyes’ Designed by U-M Physicist Gregory Tarlé and Research Team
Celebrating our 2021 Undergraduate Awardees
Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at Universe's Evolution
Celebrating our 2021 Graduate Awardees!
Physics Collegiate Fellow Eric Spanton Talks ‘Weird Science’
An Inconstant Hubble Constant? U-M Research Suggests Fix to Cosmological Cornerstone
ATLAS Provided the First Observation of the Triboson WWW Process
1985 Nobel laureate Klaus von Klitzing gives 29th annual Ta-You Wu lecture
The Wow Moment, Remote
MicroBooNE Experiment’s First Results Show No Hint of a Sterile Neutrino
Magnets with a Twist: U-M Physics Researchers Liuyan Zhao and Her Team Engineer Magnetic Complexity into Atomically Thin Magnets
Dr. Melissa Hutcheson Wins APS Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
UM Physicists Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé and Team Part of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Which Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
Michigan Physics graduate Students Make Key Contributions to Experimental Results
U-M Physics Researcher Co-Chairs Ballistic Missile Defense Report
Congratulations to Physicist David Lubensky Awarded a 2022 Simons Fellowship
Please Donate Today (March 17) to the Undergraduate Support Fund for Giving Blueday!
What’s Inside a Black Hole? U-M Physicist Enrico Rinaldi Uses Quantum Computing, Machine Learning to Find Out
Dr. Sangmin Choi Recipient of Honorable Mention in Rackham’s 2021 ProQuest Dissertation Awards
U-M Physics Alum Lia Merminga Appointed Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Physics and Astronomy Senior Anna Simpson One of Five Students to Win Prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarship!
Congratulations to Mark Newman on His Election to the Royal Society
U-M Renames Randall Laboratory Addition After Pioneering Physicist Homer A. Neal
Congratulations to Anna Simpson, U-M's 2022 Astronaut Scholar!
Michigan Physics Welcomes Jalen Rose Leadership Academy Scholars to Ann Arbor Campus
Successful Startup of Particle Detector Aims to Pin Down Dark Matter
U-M Researchers Untangle the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductors
Live From the International Space Station, It’s Saturday Morning Physics
A team of researchers—Robert McGehee and Aaron Pierce of U-M Physics and Gilly Elor of Johannes Gutenberg University—proposed a new candidate for dark matter: HYPER, or “HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics.”
A Special Thank You to Navy Captain Josh Cassada and to NASA!
Physicist Gregory Tarlé and Team, Find First Observational Evidence Linking Black Holes to Dark Energy
Support Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday!
$18M to advance materials research for quantum computing, sustainable plastics and more
Michigan Physicists and Collaborators New Muon Result Explores Uncharted Territory in Search for New Physics
U-M Physicist Joshua Spitz Receives 2023 Experimental Physics Investigator Award
The Universe Caught Suppressing Cosmic Structure Growth
U-M Collaboration to Receive DOE Grant to Diversify Physics
Five Physics Researchers From U-M Named American Physical Society Fellows
Thank You for Your Help Supporting Women in Physics!
It Happened at Michigan — ‘You’ve got to be excellent’
Physics Student Sanil Mittal awarded STEM Research Career Award!
U-M Astronomer: Get to the path of April's total solar eclipse
Thank You for Supporting Michigan Physics on Giving Blueday!
U-M Physics Department Franco Nori Named 2024 Charles Hard Townes Medal Recipient
U-M Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics Mark Newman Named 2024 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize Recipient
A New Measurement of the Expansion History of the Universe
Physics Ph.D. Candidate and Professor Honored with Willie Hobbs Moore Awards
U-M study: Using ‘tweezers’ to control active fluids
Muscle machine: How water controls the speed of muscle contraction
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter
Mining for Neutrinos, and for Cosmic Answers - Featuring U-M Alumni Bryan Ramson
U-M Researcher Greg Tarlé and Colleagues Find Mounting Evidence for Dark Energy from Black Holes
Physics Chair David Gerdes Named Dean of CWRU's College of Arts and Sciences
New DESI results weigh in on gravity
“Giving Tuesday” Fundraiser
Applied Physics Graduate Student, Christopher Ayala, Named Winner of NSBP-NSHP 2024 Conference Oral Presentation Award
Not So Simple Machines: Cracking the Code for Materials That Can Learn
Physics Professor Liuyan Zhao Receives PECASE Award
Physics Professor Dragan Huterer Recieves Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
Getting the Most Out of Cosmic Maps - U-M research findings featuring researcher Minh Nguyen
Physics Professor Gus Evrard named AAS Fellow for 2025
Physics Assistant Professor Camille Avestruz selected as 2025 Cottrell Scholar
Giving Blueday 2025
Physics Professor Christine Aidala Honored with 2025 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
Revealing a Natural Strategy for Making 'Superior' Materials - U-M Research Findings Featuring Physicist Xiaoming Mao and Team
U-M Physics Alum and Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting Honored with 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award
U-M Physicists Among Winners of Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
How Origami Could Unlock a New Class of Materials
How Origami Could Unlock a New Class of Materials
Scientists achieve record precision probing a particle where the universe may be hiding its secrets
‘A more versatile and powerful foundation for future photonic technologies’
Researchers Capture Nanoparticle Organizations to Forge New Materials
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2013
December 2013
November 2013
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM | The Era of Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR | From Physics to Finance: What Does a Quant Say?
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM | Star Clusters and High Mass X-Ray Binaries in Nearby Spirals, Mergers, and Starburst Galaxies
LSA HOSTS SPECIAL LECTURES
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM | Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheric Diversity with Transmission Spectroscopy
October 2013
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>The Milky Way: Simulations and Observations of Galactic Structure in the SDSS Volume
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Heber D. Curtis Collegiate Professorship in Astronomy Inaugural Lecture
HEPiX Fall 2013 Workshop
SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Large-Scale Structure: Big Surveys, Systematics, and Intensity Mapping
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Shocks and Star Formation
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Receptor Clusters Organize Plasma Membrane Components
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Mr. Nam Goes to Washington
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Advances in Galaxy-formation Simulations: Calculating Mock Observables & Using a More-accurate Numerical Technique
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Supernova Inside Out</br>
MCTP WORKSHOP<br>Black Holes in String Theory
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Featuring Biophysics Graduate Students
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Fueling Cosmic Star Formation: The Molecular Interstellar Medium in High-Redshift Starburst Galaxies
SPECIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION SEMINAR<br>From Tradition to Enlightenment: The Evolution of Intro Physics at the University of Illinois
September 2013
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Protein Kinase C: Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Regulatory Domains
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Using Your Physics Degree at Internet & Tech Companies: Data Science and Predictive Modeling
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Building the Strongest Gravitational Lenses in the Universe
MCTP WORKSHOP<br>Cosmology After Planck
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Stochastic Simulations of Cellular Processes: From Single Cells to Colonies
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Joint Thermal and Dynamical Evolution of the Interstellar Gas
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Featuring Biophysics Graduate Students
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Atmospheric Circulation Models of Hot Jupiters: Exploring Exotic Regimes and Predicting Observable Properties
STATE OF DEPARTMENT ADDRESS
August 2013
<b>SPECIAL PHYSICS LECTURE</b><br><i>Energy and Electron Transfer in the Photosystem II Reaction Center: Modeling of the Exciton and Radical Pair Dynamics</i>
June 2013
May 2013
<b>Physics Olympiad at U-M</b>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>High Resolution Structures of Microcrystals, Membrane Proteins and Fibrils by Solid State NMR
Physics Graduation & Awards Ceremony
April 2013
2013 Kaon Physics International Conference
MCTP WORKSHOP<br>Light Dark Matter: Asymmetric, Thermal and Non-Thermal Dark Matter and its Detection</br>
Light Dark Matter: Asymmetric, Thermal and Non-Thermal Dark Matter and its Detection Workshop
Physics Palooza
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Keynote Lecture of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Symposium<br>Molecular Biophysics and Applications of an Allosteric Catch Bond</br>
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINARS<br>Fuel Cycles and Fissile Material: A Life After Physics
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Dark Matter Hunter’s Guide to the Universe</i>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>The Krimm Lecture<br>Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging: 3D Nanoscopy and Biomolecular Dynamics</br>
March 2013
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Unraveling Retroviral Genome - One Segment at a Time</br>
Biophysics Research Poster Session
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Investigating Electrostatic Mechanisms of Biomolecular Organization and Function Through Vibrational Spectroscopy</br>
Physics Research Poster Session
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Decoding the Multi-Drug Response in Populations of Bacteria and Human Cancer Cells
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>From Physics to Finance</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Amyloid Toxicity and Ion Channel Formation in Alzheimer's Disease
February 2013
2013 WILLIAM L. WILLIAMS LECTURE<br>Science: The Public, Congress and You
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>The Importance of Being Flexible: Consequences of Structural Fluctuations for Protein Function
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Single-molecule Studies of Replicative DNA Helicases</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Physical & Molecular Mechanisms of the Bacterial Division Machinery
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Signal Integration and Cell Cycle Switches in Drosophila Embryonic Development</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Dynamic Signal Processing by Transcription Factors</br>
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Bringing the Cosmos to the DNA: Navigating Bioinformatics as a Physicist</br>
January 2013
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Regulation of Cell Size in Animal Cells
Computational Modeling in Physics Hands-On Seminar for Undergraduates
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Systems Analysis of Mouse Hematopoietic Stem Cells <i>In Vivo</i> at the Single Cell Level
Computational Modeling in Physics Hands-On Seminar for Undergraduates
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>The Oncley Lecture<br>Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINARS<br><i>From Dark Energy to DARPA: What You Can Get Away with If You Have a Ph.D. in Physics</i>
2012
December 2012
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Percolation, Phase Transitions and Speciation on a Neutral Landscape
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>What's Your Plan B?
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Biomixing: When Organisms Stir Their Environment
November 2012
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Bacterial Growth Laws: Origins and Consequences
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Diseases and Drugs: Complexities in the Control of Contagion
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Network Architecture and Predictive Dynamics of Brain Systems
C-PHOM SEMINAR<br>Metallic Nanoparticles on Waveguide Structures: Effects on Waveguide Mode Properties, and the Promise of Sensing Applications
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Systems Analysis of Clathrin-Coated Pit Dynamics
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>From Nanoparticles to Mortality Tables: Transitioning from Physics Grad School to Actuarial Consulting
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
October 2012
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Applications of Biophysical Methods to Studies of Amyloid Aggregation
LIFE AFTER GRADUATE SCHOOL SEMINAR<BR>Advanced Ultrasound Imaging and Diagnostics: a Physicist in the Life Sciences
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
MCTP WORKSHOP<br>Non-Equilibrium and String Theory
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Allosteric Mechanism to Regulate Association of Syk Tyrosine Kinase with B Cell Receptor
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br> Update of Environmental Nanoparticles
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Changing Careers from Physics to Finance
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br> Turbulence in Two Dimensions
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Targeting Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in Drug Discovery
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
September 2012
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Research Faculty at the University of Michigan
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Cell-Wall Architecture of Staphylococcus Aureus and the Mode of Action of Glycopeptide Antibiotics by Solid-State NMR
RG Flows, Entanglement and Holography MCTP Workshop
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Nanopores with Fluid Walls for Characterizing Single Molecules
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><b>Speaker: Dr. Barry Wissman (k-Space Associates, Inc.)</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>How Does Evolution Build a Complex Brain?<br><b>Speaker: Professor Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis)</b></br>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Structure/Function of Membrane-Associated Viral Fusion Proteins and Structure of Recombinant Proteins in Bacterial Inclusion Bodies<br><b>Speaker: David Weliky (MSU Chemistry)</b>
August 2012
<b>Second ICM Theory and Computation Workshop</b>
<b>U-M REU Symposium 2012</b>
July 2012
<b>PHONONS 2012: The 14th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter</b>
June 2012
<b>2nd Midwest Single Molcule Workshop</b>
<b>Integrated Computational Materials Education Summer School</b>
May 2012
<b>2012 Michigan Quantum Summer School</b>
<b>Special Public Lecture</b><br>How Bacteria in Colonies Can Survive By Killing Siblings and Reversibly Changing Shape<br><b>Speaker: Professor Harry Swinney (University of Texas, Austin)</b><br>
<b>12th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Messages Diffuse Faster Than Messengers: Pitfalls Interpreting Estimates of Effective Diffusion Coefficients Using FRAP and FCS<br><b>Speaker: John E. Pearson (Los Alamos National Lab)</b>
<b>Advances in Percolation and Related Topics MCTP Workshop</b>
April 2012
<b>Second MCTP Spring Symposium on Higgs Boson Physics</b>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Probing Polymorphic, Aggregation-Prone Proteins with Single Molecule Fluorescence: Studies of a-S ynuclein and Tau<br><b>Speaker: Elizabeth Rhoades (Yale University)</b></br>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? Physics Careers and Beyond!<br><b>Speaker: Peter Muhoro (APS)</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>How Do Insects Fly and Turn?<br><b>Speaker: Jane Wang (Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>MD/PhD Programs for Science Students<br><b>Speaker: Ron Koenig (U-M MSTOP)</b>
<b>Special Biophysics Symposium</b><br>Diverse Research at the Forefront<br><b>Speaker: Professor Martin Zanni (University of Wisconsin)</b></br>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br> What Can We Learn From 48,579 Physics Students: Learning Analytics at Michigan<br><b>Speaker: Tim McKay (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, U-M)</br></b>
March 2012
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Exploring Protein Energy Landscapes by NMR Relaxation<br><b>Speaker: Peter Wright (Scripps Research Institute, Molecular Biology)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>Physics Teaching as a Post Doctoral Choice<br><b>Speaker: Jim Lupton (Greenhills School)</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>What Would the First Comprehensive Textbook in Computational Social Science Look Like?<br><b>Speaker: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University)</b>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>J. Lawrence Oncley Lecture<br>The Dynamics of Translation as Seen by Cryo-EM<br><b>Speaker: Joachim Frank (Columbia University)</br></b>
<b>Special OVPR Lecture</b><br>A Scientific Approach To Science and Engineering Education<b><br>Dr. Carl Wieman (Assoc. Director for Science, White House)</b><br>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Cooperation in Static and Dynamic Networks<br><b>Speaker: Siddharth Suri (Yahoo! Research, New York)</b>
Baryogenesis and its Connection to Fundamental Theory and Dark Matter Workshop
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Curiosity, Information Gaps, and the Utility of Knowledge<br><b>Speaker: Russell Golman (Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University)</br></b>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Manipulating the Protein Energy Landscape<br><b>Speaker: Susan Marqusee, Director, Calf. Inst. for Quantitative Biosciences (University of California - Berkeley, Molecular & Cell Biology)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>Dealiasing and Information Recovery From Under-Sampled Video Imagery<br><b>Speaker: John Valenzuela (MTRI)</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Phase-Constancy in Chains of Half-Center Oscillators: The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Coordinated Locomotion<br><b>Speaker: Tim Lewis (University of California - Davis Mathematics)</br></b>
<b>Victor F. Weisskopf Distinguished University Professorship Lecture</b><br>The Bottom of the Iceberg – How Well Do/Can We Understand the Underlying Laws of the Physical Universe?<br><b>Speaker: Physicist Gordon Kane</b>
February 2012
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Functional Protein Dynamics Measured By NMR Spectroscopy and Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy<br><b>Speaker: Yves Bollen (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Evolution in Action: Exploring Evolutionary Dynamics in Both Biological and Computational Domains<br><b>Speaker: Erik Goodman (MSU Electrical and Computer Engineering)</b>
Biophysics Seminar<br>Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR: Uniaxial Alignment, Spectroscopic Assignment, and Structure Calculations<br><b>Speaker: Alexander Nevzorov (NC State University)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>Branching Out: Teaching at a Small Public University<br><b>Speaker: Alan Grafe, Dept. of Computer Science, Engineering and Physics (U-M Flint)</b>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Learning and Cognition in Producers and Scroungers<br><b>Speaker: Marcus Feldman (Biological Sciences, Stanford University)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>Academic Opportunities in China<br><b>Speaker: Bing Zhou (U-M Physics)</b>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Biological Networks: Construction, Structure, and Dynamics<br><b>Speaker: Koon-Kiu Yan (Yale University)</b></br>
January 2012
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><b>Speaker: TBA</br></b>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Establishing Principles of Cell Fate Regulation<br><b>Speaker: Andreas Doncic (Stanford University)</b></br>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Taming Complexity - The Mathematics of Network Control<br><b>Speaker: Yang-Yu Liu (Northeastern University)</b></br>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media<br><b>Speaker: Bill Rand (University of Maryland Smith School of Business)</br></b>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br>Delayed Switch-like Negative Feedback Ensures Orderly Mitotic Progression in Early Embryos<br><b>Speaker: Qiong Yang (Stanford University)</b></br>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br>Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe<br><b>Speaker: Dragan Huterer (UM Physics)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>From Physics to Industry</i><br><b>Speaker: Hao Liu</b>
Special Seminar<br>Orbits and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets<br><b>Speaker: Konstantin Batygin (Caltech)</br></b>
Biophysics Seminar<br>Watching Single Ribosome Translation in Real Time: A Quantitative Study of Ribosome Helicase Activity<br><b>Speaker: Xiaohui Qu (University of California - Berkeley)</br></b>
Biophysics Seminar<br>How Do DNA-Binding Motor Proteins Navigate on Crowded DNA?<br><b>Speaker: Ilya Finkelstein (Columbia University Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)</br></b>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br>Career Opportunities Related to National Security<br><b>Speaker: Fred Becchetti (U-M Physics)</b>
Biophysics Seminar<br>Principles of Co-Translational Folding: From Pathways to Proteome<br><b>Speaker: Edward O'Brien (University of Cambridge)</br></b>
2011
December 2011
Biophysics Seminar<br>Exploring Multiple Apoptosis Signaling Mechanisms and their Role in Cancer Biology using Models as Executable Algorithms<br><b>Speaker: Carlos Lopez (Harvard Medical School)</b></br>
Biophysics Seminar<br>Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Protein Dynamics, and Biological Molecular Recognition<br><b>Speaker: Megan Thielges (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University)</b>
Science on a Trillion Transistors<br><b>Speaker: Divakar Viswanath (UM Mathematics)</br></b>
November 2011
Complex Systems Seminar<br>Orienting Colloidal Objects by Programmed Sedimentation<br><b>Speaker: Tom Witten (University of Chicago)</b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>Information Geometry of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics with Tsallis Entropy (q-exponential family)<br><b>Speaker: Atzumi Ohara (Fukui University)</b>
Predicting the Maelstrom: The Physics of the Ocean<br><b>Speaker: Brian Arbic (UM Earth & Environmental Sciences and AOSS)</br></b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>Query-Based Model Exploration: Parameters and Paradigms<br><b>Speaker: Forrest Stonedahl (Centre College)</br></b>
New Approaches to Energy Harvesting and Storage<br><b>Speaker: Theodore Goodson III, Richard Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry (UM Chemistry)</br></b>
Life After Graduate School Seminar Applying Fundamental Science to Change the World: Careers in Engineering and Entrepreneurship <b>Thomas Zurbuchen (Space Science & Aerospace Engin., Assoc. Dean for Entrepreneurship)</b>
Helmut Baer Colloquium: Precision Muon Physics - Capturing a Moment in a Lifetime | Speaker: Dave Hertzog (University of Washington, Physics)
Special SLAM Seminar<br>What Are Students Learning, From What Activity, and Is That OK?<br><b>Speaker: Dave Pritchard (Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT) </b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>The Complex Geometry of the Lung Airway System: An Optimal but Fragile System?<br><b>Speaker: Marcel Filoche, Director of Research (CNRS)</br></b>
Solar, Wind, Biofuels, and Nuclear Energy: How Much? How Soon? How Effective? At What Cost?<br><b>Speaker: Frank Shu (Shaw Laureate of Astronomy and Professor, UC San Diego)</br></b>
October 2011
Biophysics Seminar<br>The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone: A Ubiquitous Facilitator of Cellular Signaling<br><b>Speaker: Daniel Southworth (U-M Life Sciences & Biological Chemistry)</b>
The Birth of Nonlinear Optics 50th Anniversary Symposium<br><b>Speaker: Nicolaas Bloembergen</br></b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>High-Order Method for Mesoscale Simulation of Liquid Drop Coalescence and Impact<br><b>Speaker: Taehun Lee (City College of New York, Mechanical Engineering)</br></b>
Biophysics Seminar<br>The Apolipoprotein E Family of Proteins and Alzheimer’s Disease<br><b>Speaker: Carl Frieden (Washington University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)</br></b>
Transcientific Models<br><b>University of Michigan Santa Fe Institute Complexity Meeting</br></b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>Content and Causality in Influence Networks<br><b>Speaker: Sinan Aral (New York University Stern School of Business)</br></b>
The 1/f Spectrum: A Not-So-Fundamental Noise Distribution?<br><b>Speaker: Cagliyan Kurdak (UM Physics)</br></b>
A Test for Superstring Theories and Other Predictions From Consistent Cosmologies<br><b>Speaker: Jasper Hasenkamp (Desy/Harvard University)</br></b>
CDF/CMS Exotic Search <br><b>Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers University, CMS Searches)</br></b>
Functional Nanowires for Nanoelectronics and Nanobiotechnology<br><b>Speaker: Chen Yang (Purdue University, Chemistry)</br></b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>Open Source Software As a Complex Network<br><b>Speaker: Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</br></b>
Life is Physical<br><b>Speaker: Timothy McKay, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics (UM Physics)</br></b>
September 2011
Recent Advances in Applied String Theory<br><b>Speaker: Jim Liu (UM Physics)</br></b>
A Dark Force for Baryons<br><b>Speaker: Luca Vecchi (LANL)</br></b>
Modeling the Battery of the Future<br><b>Speaker: Don Siegel (U-M Mechanical Engineering/Applied Physics)</b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>Extinction of Established Populations: A Physicist's View<br><b>Speaker: Baruch Meerson (Hebrew University, Physics)</br></b>
Conformal Symmetry of General Rotating Black Holes<br><b>Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania, Physics)</br></b>
Fundamental Physics from Large-Scale Structure<br><b>Speaker: Dragan Huterer (UM Physics)</br></b>
Jet Substructures at Hadron Colliders<br><b>Speaker: Zhao Li (Michigan State University, Physics)</br></b>
First-Principles Calculations of the Phonon-Assisted Optical Absorption and Non-Radiative Loss in Optoelectronic Materials<br><b>Speaker: Manos Kiopakis (UM MSE)</br></b>
Complex Systems Seminar<br>HOT or NOT? Decentralized Strategic Optimization in Complex Systems<br><b>Speaker: Yevgeniy Vorobeychik</br></b>
DM-Ice: A Direct Detection Experiment for Dark Matter at the South Pole<br><b>Speaker: Reina Maruyama (DM-Ice, University of Wisconsin)</br></b>
Snapshots of Biology with a Femtosecond Camera<br><b>Speaker: Jennifer Ogilvie (UM Physics)</br></b>
Journal Club Talk on the a-theorem (arXiv:1107.3987)<br><b>Speaker: Henriette Elvang (UM Physics)</br></b>
Magnetism of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure Interface<br><b>Speaker: Lu Li (UM Physics)</br></b>
Economic Complexity: The Driver of Economic Growth<br><b>Speaker: Cesar Hidalgo, Asst. Professor (MIT Media Laboratory)</br></b>
Looking for The Origin of Neutrinos Masses: From neV to YeV<br><b>Speaker: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University, Neutrino Physics)</br></b>
Constraints on UED Mass Spectra from Flavor Physics and Electroweak Precision Tests<br><b>Speaker: Thomas Flacke (University of Wuerzburg)</br></b>
Panda-X - A New Detector for Dark Matter Search<br><b>Speaker: Karl Giboni (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)</br></b>
Relatively Heavy Higgs Boson in More Generic Gauge Mediation<br><b>Speaker: Jason Evans (IPMU)</br></b>
June 2011
Trapping the Most Magnetic Gases: Dysprosium for Dipolar Physics
<b>MCTP</b><i> MHD and Star Formation</i>
May 2011
<b>Physics Olympiad at U-M</b>
April 2011
Cholesterol Homeostasis: How Cells Sense and Set Their Cholesterol
The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing
Collider Probes of Dark Matter Genesis
New Phases and Novel Dimensionality of Matter Inside and Outside of Nanotubes
<b>BioComplex Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
March 2011
<b>Ford Motor Company Lecture in Physics</b><br><i>Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe</i>
<b>BioComplex Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Harnessing Actin Dynamics for B Lymphocyte Activation</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Explosive Percolation</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>From Structure to Function of Mechanoenzymes: Lessons Learned From Myosin VI</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>On Two-Dimensional Turbulence and Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies</i>
<b>BioComplex Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Engineering Molecular Imaging Probes for Nanomedicine</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>TBA</i>
February 2011
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Rhythms in Single Bacterial Cells and Early Embryos</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Understanding How Technologies Evolve Can Help Change the World</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>An NMR Approach to Characterize Physiological States of Membrane Transporters: An Application to Mitochondrial Carriers</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>In Cell NMR of the Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Which Mediate Transport Through the Nuclear Pore Complex</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>A Cellular Jig-saw Puzzle: Protein Architecture of the Kinetochore</i>
<B>31st LSA Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture</B><br><i>The Art of Physics</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Rooting Disease Ecology in Genetic Data Using Viral Phylogenies</i>
<B>Special LIGO Collaboration Seminar</B> <br><i>The Antares Neutrino Telescope and Multi-Messenger Astronomy</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Dynamic Regulation at Synapses</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Revealing The Static And Dynamic Electronic Structure in Advanced Materials - Examples from Graphene And Manganites</i>
January 2011
<B>Special LIGO Collaboration Seminar</B><br><i> LIGO and the LOOC UP Project</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Thermometry and Cooling with Ultracold Spin Mixtures in Optical Lattices</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>TBD</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Evolution of Cooperation from Reliable Communication</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Shifting Shapes--How to See A Proteins's Moves</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Regulation of B Lymphocyte Activation at the Membrane-Cytoskeletal Interface</i>
2010
December 2010
<b>Faculty Candidate Seminar</b><br><i>Topological Insulators and Superconductors</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Ten-fold Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors</i>
International Conference on LHC First Data
<b>Fermi Science Workshop</b><br><i>NASA Presentation for the Gamma-Ray Space Telescope</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Homophily, Contagion and Confounding: Pick Any Three</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>2010 Nobel Symposium</i>
November 2010
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>MR Imaging of Neurotransmitters at Ultrahigh Fields</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>NMR Relaxation Based Protein Dynamics to Detect Intermediates in Recoverin</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Reduced Models for Astrophysical Accretion Disks</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
October 2010
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>"The 'Oligomer Cascade Hypothesis' of Alzheimer's Disease: New Hope or New Hype"</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Metallobiochemistry of RNA: Catalysis and Drugs</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>A Physicist in Energy GeoPolitics</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Thiamin Biosynthesis: Still Yielding Fascinating Biological Chemistry</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Biology’s First Law</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>The Path to Academia: Life at a Liberal Arts College</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology</i>
September 2010
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Quantum Turbulence</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Optical Vortex Photons for Angular Diffraction of Ultra-Cold Atoms</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>Research in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy: Careers in Medical Physics</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Connecting Period-Doubling Cascades to Chaos</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Finding the True Speed Limit of Protein Folding</i>
<b>Complex Systems</b><br><i>Reward, Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>Physics on Mars and Careers in NASA</i>
August 2010
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Spoke Instabilities in Hall-Effect Thrusters, or "Race of the Gerbils"</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Atom Lasers and Linear Magnetic Guides</i>
<b>Michigan Quantum Summer School on Quantum Simulation and Metrology</b>
July 2010
<b>Second Annual Samuel Krimm Lecture in Biophysics</b><br><i>The Amazing Ribosome</i>
<b>Physics Student REU Symposium</b><br><i>Second Day of Presentations</i>
<b>Physics Student REU Symposium</b>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Flying Robots: A Physicists Foray into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Neuronal Network Dynamics: Linking Topology to Function</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Quantifying the Physics Inside the Genome One Molecule at a Time</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Dynamics of Shear-Thickening Fluids</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Organic Solar Cells</i>
June 2010
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Assembly Pathways and Propensity for Self-Assembling Anisotropic Building Blocks</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>THIS SYMPOSIUM IS CANCELLED</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Examining Gravitational Collapse With Test Scalar Fields</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Snooping on Inflation: Using Large-Scale Structure to Constrain Primordial Non-Gaussianity</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>Machine Learning – How the Technology Behind the Terminator Can Help Your Research</i>
May 2010
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Cooperativity and Fidelity in RNA Folding</i>
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br><i>What is the Dark Matter?</i>
<b>Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications</b> <i>(SORMA XII)</i>
<b>Special History of Physics Seminar (and UM Physics)</b><br><i>Samuel Goudsmit Looks Back: Leiden and Ann Arbor</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Title TBA</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Moses Gomberg Lecture</i>
April 2010
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>NMR Spectroscopy of Weakly Aligned Proteins: A Route to the Determination of Protein Structural Dynamics</i>
<b>Physics Department Graduation & Awards Reception</b>
<b>Complex Systems/CSAAW Special Seminar</b><br><i>Accelerating the Pace of Discovery By Changing the Peer Review Algorithm</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Inaugural Samuel Krimm Lecture: “Water, Water Everywhere..."Even in Amyloid Fibrils?</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>Is the Auto Industry a Good Deal for a Ph.D. Physicist?</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>CANCELLED</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Molecular Motors: Nature's Soft, Smart Nano-Machines</i>
March 2010
<b>General Department Seminar and Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>A Personal Adventure: From Serial Entrepreneur to Space Traveler</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Michigan Symposium on Biophysics</i>
<b>Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics</b><br><i>The Cosmic Distance Ladder</i>
<b>BioComplex Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Atomic-Resolution Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics By Magic</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>Taking a Break from a Career in Industry to Get a Ph.D. in Physics</i>
February 2010
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>RNA as a Drug Target</i>
<b>Telluride Lecture Series</b><br><i>The Worst Match Between Theory and Observation in Science? Physics, Philosophy, and the Cosmological Constant</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Structural Studies of Leukemia Related Proteins</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Oldest Hominoids: Locomotor & Dietary Variation in Our Ape Ancestors</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>A Universal Principle Governing the Design of Neural Networks</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>There and Back Again: Industry as a Stepping Stone to Academia</i>
January 2010
<b>MCTP Special Workshop</b><br><i>Micro Dark Matter Workshop</i>
<b>BioComplex Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Why Every Flavin-Binding Site is Special: Towards Understanding How Proteins Tune the Reactivity of Bound Flavins via Solid-State NMR</i>
<b>Biophysics Pharmacology Seminar</b><br><i>The Language of Shape: Biological Reactions are Dramatically Affected by the Shape of Lipid Membranes</i>
<b>Complex Systems Symposium</b><br><i>Special Nobel Symposium</i>
2009
December 2009
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Are Radio Telescopes the Future of Dark Energy?</i>
<b>ChemBio Seminar</b><br><i>Translation of Complex mRNAs: Lessons from Study of Retroviruses</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Optical Tomography</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Observation of single top quark production at the Tevatron</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Noise-Optimized Speciation in an Evolutionary Model</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Phenomenological Implications of Deflected Mirage Mediation</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition-How to Stop Yourself Before You Make Another Costly Decision</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>RG Dynamics and Quiver Topology</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Light Localization and Its Applications</i>
November 2009
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>The Emergence and Stabilization of a Biosphere</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Recent Results on Dark Matter Searches with Fermi</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Uplifted supersymmetric Higgs sector</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>Q & A Panel Discussion with Assistant Professors Elvang, Leanhardt, and Sih</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Bose-Einstein Condensation of Polaritons in a Trap</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Search for Supersymmetry at the ATLAS detector</i>
<b>Spin Physics Symposium</b>
<b>Special Spin Physics Seminar</b><br><i>Spin-Orbit Dynamics of QCD and Nucleon Structure</i>
<b>ChemBio Seminar</b><br><i>RNA Folding During 30 S Ribosome Assembly</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<B>Fourth Annual ICAM Emergence Symposium</B><br><i>Emergence in Physical, Biological, and Social Systems IV</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>The Non-Relativistic Limit of AdS/CF</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Patterning Neurogenesis: A Dynamical Model of Ommatidial Crystal Formation</i>
<b>Life After Grad School Seminar</b><br><i>The Challenge and Opportunity of DARPA Programs from a Program Manager's Perspective</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Water in the Desert: SDSS Supernova Survey Initial Cosmology Results and Future Plans</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Studying the Origins of Emergent Behavior in Populations of Bacteria</i>
<b>ChemBio Seminar</b><br><i>Under the Hood: Single-Molecule Studies of multi-Protein Machineries</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Constraining F-theory Model Building</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Focused-Ion Beam Assisted Epitaxy of Hybrid Multifunctional Materials</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Biophysics Undergraduate Program Information Session</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surveys (BOSS and BigBOSS)</i>
October 2009
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Breasts and Brains, Similarities and Differences: Novel Optical and MR Methods for Molecular Imaging</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>How To Get a Superconductor Out of a Black Hole</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Hints of strong coupling in SUSY model building</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Metamaterials and the Landau-Lifshitz Permeability Argument: Large Permittivity Begets High-Frequency Magnetism</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Cryo-electron microscopy and single particle reconstruction method applied to viral and bacterial macromolecular architectures</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Distinct role of Trp• in facilitating electron transfer or as true intermediates [Fe(IV)=O Trp•] in the catalytic reaction of heme enzymes</i>
<b>ChemBio Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Looking Behind the Horizon with D-Brane Probes</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>The Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes</i>
<b>Biophysics Oncley Lecture</b><br><i>Dynamics of Protein Folding</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Dark Matter Annihilation, WMAP and Fermi</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Searches for the Rare Radiative Decays of the Electroweak Bosons</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Rackham MORE Mentoring Workshop</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Microstructure, Dynamics and Yielding of Colloidal Gels</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Black hole ringing, determinants and the de Haas - van Alphen effect </i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Pomeron Physics in Holographic QCD</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Molecular Cinematography: Filming Ultrafast Chemical Reactions with Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab</i>
<B>Biological Physics/Complex Systems Seminar</B><br><i>How Does a Fly Make Itself? Dissecting Morphogenesis with Laser-Microsurgery</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Buried Higgs</i>
<B>Life After Grad School Seminar</B><br><i>Fun for Physicists in Washington D.C., Part II</i>
September 2009
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Holographic Superconductors and Quantum Critical Points in M-Theory</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Measurement and Modeling of Radiation from Laser Wakefield Accelerators</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Development of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S.</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Modular Cell Biology: From Retroactivity to Insulation</i>
<B>Life After Grad School Seminar</B><br><i>A Random Walk Between the "Real World" and Academia</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>The Extremal Black Hole/CFT Correspondence</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>NeuroElectronic Hybrids: Towards a Learning-Neuro-Chip</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Biophysics Welcome Reception</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Recent Results from the MINOS Experiment</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Memory-Encoding Vibrations in a Disconnecting Air Bubble</i>
<b>MCTP Workshop</b><br><i>Shining Light on Black Holes</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Inhibition of Amyloid Formation through Signaling and Self-Association</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Dark Matter and LHC Signatures of SUSY and Hidden Sector Extensions</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>How Social Network Structure Affects Diffusion and Learning</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Nanopositioning Single Quantum Dots</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Structure Formation Up Close and Personal: Probing the Nature of Galaxy Subgroup Mergers with X-rays</i>
<B>Biological Physics/Complex Systems Seminar</B><br><i>Information Flow in Trading Networks</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Warped Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter: Surveying the Landscape</i>
<b>Reception to Honor Professor Myron Campbell</b>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Charm in China: BEPCII/BESIII</i>
August 2009
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>The EBEX Experiment</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Freeze Control by Ice Binding Proteins</i>
July 2009
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Secretory Dynamics Studied by TIRF Microscopy</i>
<B>Physics Demonstration Show!</B><br><i>AAPT & Physics Demo Lab Staff</i>
<b>MCTP & Astronomy Workshop</b><br><i>Extreme Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies Workshop</i>
<b>AAPT Summer Meeting 2009 --</b> <b><i>Discovering the Universe</i></b>
June 2009
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Chandra Observations of Cooling and Non-Cooling HIFLUGCS Galaxy Clusters</i>
May 2009
<b>Complex Systems Conference</b><br><i>CSAAW 2009 Spring Conference</i>
<b>Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Icicles, Washboard Road and Meandering Syrup</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>AGN, Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter Particles</i>
April 2009
<b>Biophysics Seminar Series</b><br><i>Professor Jeff Kelly - Scripps Research Institute</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>TALK IS CANCELLED Complex Systems Seminar</b><br><i>Undoing Evolution With the Genetic Code: Experiments With a Biological Time Machine</i>
<B>High Energy-Astrophysics</B><br><I>TOTEM, a Forward Physics Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider</I>
<B>Thesis Defense</B><br><i>Quantum Teleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>Signals of Gauge Mediation from an Extra Dimension</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>Quantum Aspect of Massive Gravity</i>
<B>High Energy-Astrophysics</B><br><I>Constraining Dark Energy with Clusters of Galaxies</I>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>CANCELLED: NMR Spectroscopy of Weakly Aligned Proteins</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>A New Approach to Flavor?</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Trapped-ion Qubits: a Paradigm For Coherent Control in Infinite-Dimensional Quantum Systems</i>
<B>High Energy-Astrophysics</B><br><I>Equivalence Principle and Cosmic Acceleration</I>
<B>Physicspalooza</B><br><i>Science Extravaganza!</i>
<B>Physicspalooza</B><br><i>Science Extravaganza!</i>
<b>Astronomy of the 21st Century: Distinguished Lecture Series</b><br><i>The Future of Our Universe</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar Series</b><br><i>Group II Intron Structure & Function: The Accidental Architects of Biological Diversity</i>
<b>Great Lakes String Conference</b><i></i>
<b>MCTP Colloquium</b><br><i>Great Lakes Strings Conference</i>
<b>HET Brown Bag Seminar</b><br><i>A Scheme for Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking</i>
March 2009
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Searches For Neutral Higgs Bosons at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>TBA</i>
<b>CM-AMO Seminar</b><br><i>Phase Space Dynamics and Quantum Phase Transitions in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate</i>
<b>Ford Motor Company Distinguished Lecture in Physics</b><br><i>Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Make No Little Plans: Neutrinos at the Intensity Frontier</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Folding Landscape of RNA from Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy</i>
<b>High Energy-Astrophysics</b><br><i>Structure Formation in Modified Gravity</i>
<b>Astronomy of the 21st Century: Distinguished Lecture Series</b><br><i>Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity</i>
<b>HET Seminar</b><br><i>M-flation</i>
<B>Henry Russel Lecture</B><br><i>Awarding Luming Duan, Associate Professor of Physics</i>
February 2009
<b>Astronomy of the 21st Century: Distinguished Lecture Series</b><br><i>Unveiling the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy</i>
<b>Biophysics Seminar Series</b><br><i>Solid State NMR Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics in Heterogeneous Environments</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Polarized Fermi Superfluids</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Probing Quantum Coherence and Ultracold Collisions with an 87 Strontium Optical Lattice Clock</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>The Race to Build a Quantum Computer</i>
<b>LSA Theme Semester</b><br><i>A Revolution in Planetary Science: The Three-Zoned Solar System</i>
<B>Life After Grad School Seminar</B><br><i>Opportunities for a Physicist at Northrop Grumman Corp.</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Topological Defects in a Topological Insulator/Physics Beyond the Laudau's Paradigm in Quantum Magnets</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Nobel Liquids – The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches – Recent Results From Borexino</i>
January 2009
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Mapping New Physics with the South Pole Telescope</i>
<b>Physics Colloquium</b><br><i>Philosophy of Physics? Why Bother?</i>
<b>LSA Theme Semester</b><br><i>Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies: Violence in the Early Universe</i>
<b>ChemBiophysics Seminar</b><br><i>Signaling Conformations of Tall Cytokine Receptors</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Collective Behavior From Top to Bottom: Stable Phases Without Quasiparticles in Quantum Magnets</i>
Testing cloning project location
Testing cloning project location
<b>Biophysics Faculty Search Candidate</b><br><i>Seeing the Unseen with Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy</i>
<b>MCTP - Math Colloquium</b><br><i>Linear and Nonlinear Resonance</i>
<B>Faculty Candidate Seminar</B><br><i>Scattering Amplitudes in Gravity and Gauge Theory</i>
<b>MCTP Colloquium</b><br><i>LHC and Dark Matter Workshop</i>
<b>Chemistry/Biophysics Search Candidate</b><br><i>Dr. Julie Biteen - Stanford University</i>
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<B>Life After Grad School Seminar</B> <br> <i>Opportunities in Science Policy</i>
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December 2002
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Planet Earth: Physics on a Global Scale</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>A Galaxy Timeline in an Accelerating Universe</i>
November 2002
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Making Waves, Slowing Light, and Keeping Time</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Coldest Place in the Universe</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Fingerprints of Quantum Mechanics</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>On Our Way to the Emerald City: The Quantum Computer of the Future</i>
October 2002
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Pied Piper of Hamilton: Making Atoms Dance</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>"Curiouser and Curiouser:" It's a Quantum World!</i>
April 2002
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>A Physicist's View of Turbulence</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Looking at Atoms</i>
March 2002
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Our Place in the Cosmos</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Why Is There Science in Fiction?</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Epidemics, the Internet, and the Six Degrees of Separation: The Physics of Networks</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Physicists and the Bomb: The A-Bomb in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union</i>
2001
December 2001
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>M Stands for Mystery</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>A World Made of Strings</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Quantum Mechanics vs. Einstein</i>
November 2001
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>High Temperature Superconductors</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Superconducting Devices and the Constants of Nature</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Why Superconductivity?</i>
October 2001
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Why Black Holes Make Bad Neighbors</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>How Stars Die</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-ray Vision</i>
April 2001
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Is It Live or Memorex? Music Synthesis in the 21st Century</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Micromachines: The World of the Small Things is Getting Bigger!</i>
March 2001
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Nanotech Approaches to Biomedical Engineering</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Radio, Nostalgia, and the Archeology of Listening</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Where Did All Those Fractals Come From?</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Death of a Universe</i>
2000
December 2000
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-rays: A Century of Discovery</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-rays: A Century of Discovery</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-rays: A Century of Discovery</i>
November 2000
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-ray Astronomy’s Golden Age: Discoveries by Chandra</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-ray Astronomy’s Golden Age: Discoveries by Chandra</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>X-ray Astronomy’s Golden Age: Discoveries by Chandra</i>
October 2000
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Modern Scientific Discovery Methods</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Mme. Curie: A Pioneer in Nuclear Medicine</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Scientific Discoveries since Marie Curie</i>
April 2000
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Physicists and the Bomb: From the Nucleus to the Test Ban Treaty</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Physicists and the Bomb: From the Nucleus to the Test Ban Treaty</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Human Genetics: The Human Genome Project, Evolution and Health; Genetics and Aging</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Human Genetics: The Human Genome Project, Evolution and Health; Genetics and Aging</i>
March 2000
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Nuclear Magnets: From Atomic Clocks to Medical Imaging</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Nuclear Magnets: From Atomic Clocks to Medical Imaging</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Nuclear Magnets: From Atomic Clocks to Medical Imaging</i>
1999
December 1999
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Milky Way</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Milky Way</i>
November 1999
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Milky Way</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Essential Physics: What is Everything Made of?</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Essential Physics: What is Everything Made of?</i>
October 1999
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Essential Physics: What is Everything Made of?</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Explosions in the Heavens: Gamma-Ray Bursts</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Explosions in the Heavens: Gamma-Ray Bursts</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Explosions in the Heavens: Gamma-Ray Bursts</i>
April 1999
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Intense Light and Quantum Sculpting</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Intense Light and Quantum Sculpting</i>
March 1999
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Physics of Making Music</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Physics of Making Music</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>The Physics of Making Music</i>
February 1999
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Collective Motion and Avalanches: From Superconductors to Sand Dunes</i>
<b>Saturday Morning Physics</b><br><i>Collective Motion and Avalanches: From Superconductors to Sand Dunes</i>
HEP Astro
2016 HEP - Astro
SPECIAL HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Planck, BICEP, and the Early Universe
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Indirect Detection Constraints on the Model Space of Dark Matter EFTs
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Neutrinoless Double Deta Decay
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the CMB to Probe Neutrino Properties, Dark Energy, and Primordial Gravitational Waves
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Masses of Black Hole Merger for the Gravitational Waves, GW150914
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Results from the Search for eV-Sterile Neutrinos with IceCube-86
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Direct Cosmic-Ray Measurements: Tickling the Knee
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Condensed Dark Matter: An Axion Story
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Low Energy Probes of High Energy Physics
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Pursuing Early Discovery in 13 TeV Data at CMS
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Seeing Through the Haze: Searching for Dark-Matter Annihilation in the Presence of Astrophysical Point Sources
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Empowering Cluster Cosmology: Models, Simulations, and Reality
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background
2015 HEP - Astro
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Constraining Gravity Through CMB Lensing and Galaxy Velocities
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Developing a Water Cherenkov Optical Time-Projection Chamber for Neutrino Detection
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Magnetic Field Determination to 70 ppb in the New Muon G-2 Experiment at Fermilab
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | A Dynamic Nucleus: A Look at Fast Nucleons, Quarks, and Correlations
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | New Prospects in Fixed Target Searches for Dark Forces
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | The NuPRISM Detector: An Experimental Method to Remove Neutrino Interaction Uncertainties from Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
SPECIAL HEP SEMINAR | Neutralino Dark Matter: Lessons from the LHC for Direct and Indirect Detection Searches
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | New Antineutrino Oscillation Results from the T2K Experiment
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Recent COMPASS Results on the Nucleon Structure
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | High Energy Colliders: Past, Present and Future
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Laying the Groundwork for Precision Map of the Higgs Sector: Measurement of the ttbarW and ttbarZ Cross-Sections
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Macro Dark Matter
SPECIAL HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Neutrino Cross-Section Measurements in Gaseous Targets
SPECIAL HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Photoproduction of Lambda (1115) on a Deuteron Near the Threshold
SPECIAL HEP - ASTRO Event | MCTP Spring Symposium: Higgs Physics in Standard Model and Beyond
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Exploring the Nucleon’s Sea at SeaQuest
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | CMB Experiment
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | SUSY at ATLAS
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Silicon Pixel Detectors in Particle Physics
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | The NoVA Experiment
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Searches for New Physics at ATLAS Using Pair Production of Higgs Bosons
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Using Kaons to Unlock the Secrets of the Neutrino
SPECIAL MICDE HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Note: Location Change | LSST: Ushering in the Era of Petascale Optical Astronomy
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | An Astrophysical Hunt to Uncover the Nature of Dark Matter
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Using Kaons to Unlock the Secrets of the Neutrino
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | First-Principles Simulations of Particle Acceleration at Astrophysical Shocks
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Gravitational and (Possible) Electromagnetic Signals from Compact Binaries
2014 HEP - Astro
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | redMaPPer and redMaGiC: Enabling Precision Cosmology with Photometric Surveys
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | The Next Generation of Crystal Detectors
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Evidence for Electroweak Production of Same-Sign WWjj in pp Collisions at
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Production of High Transverse Momentum Vector Bosons Reconstructed as Single Jets at ATLAS and Its Application to Search for NP at the LHC
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Excess of Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from the Inner Galaxy: Bubbles, Dark Matter, and the Future
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Galaxy Clusters: Laboratories for Extreme Plasma Physics
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | New Ideas for Searches of the Standard Model, Dark Matter, and Beyond in Run-II of the LHC
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | First Results of the PandaX-I Dark Matter Detector
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | DAMIC: A Search for Low Mass Dark Matter with CCD Detectors
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | 21cm Cosmology with CHIME
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | The Phantom Menace of Galaxy Clustering
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Producing High-Power Microwaves with Magnetrons
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Laser-Powered Micro-Accelerators
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | MicroBooNE: Neutrino Physics at the Dawn of the Liquid Argon TPC Era
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | MicroBooNE: Neutrino Physics at the Dawn of the Liquid Argon TPC Era
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Dark Energy From the Megaparsec to the Micron
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR Accelerating Polarized Protons at BNL and Fermilab
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | McLaren Proton Project and Clinical Physics Research
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | The Qweak Experiment: First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Physical Metric and the Nature of Gravity: Black Holes, Supernovae, Cosmic Rays, Cosmic Acceleration, and All That
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Observations of Black Hole Accretion Flows
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | The Proton Radius Puzzle
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry
2013 HEP - Astro
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Fast, Accurate Predictions of the Galaxy Power Spectrum
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | IceCube and the Birth of Neutrino Astronomy
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Search for Elastic Scattering of Dark Matter in the Laboratory with the LUX/LZ Detectors
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Particle-Antiparticle Oscillation and CP Violation in D<sup>0</sup> -> Kp and B<sub>s</sub> -> D<sub>s</sub> pi Decays
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Cosmology with the ACTPol Experiment
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Search for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Galaxy Clusters: Plasma Physics Laboratories and a Grand Challenge for Computational Astrophysics
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | First Light from HAWC: The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Plasma Panel Detectors for Ionizing Particles
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | EBEX: The E and B EXperiment
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | New Paths Toward a Muon Collider
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Precision Measurements in the Beta-Decay of Mirror Transitions
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | First Results from CREST
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | HATs of Various Sort
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | A Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation in Muon-Electron Conversion with a Sensitivity < 10^-16
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Protecting Our Nation from Nuclear Threats
2012 HEP - Astro
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Erez Etizon (Technion)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: John Hobbs (Stony Brook)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | The Current and Future Neutrino Program at Fermilab
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Daya Bay
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | A New Measurement of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon at Fermilab
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | First CMB Constraints on Direction-Dependent Cosmological Birefringence
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | The Impact of a Large Theta_13 on the Long Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Magnetizing the Intracluster Medium with AGN Feedback
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | The Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Observation of a Higgs-Like Particle at ATLAS
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE), Speaker: Dale Fixsen (NASA)
SPECIAL HEP SEMINAR | Using DNA for Directional WIMP Detection, Speaker: Andrzej Drukier (George Mason University)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Towards Moduli Stabilization in Heterotic Orbifolds, Speaker: Saúl Ramos-Sánchez (UNAM)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | From Giant Arcs to Cosmic Shear: Gravitational Lensing in the Era of Surveys, Speaker: Sanghamitra Deb, Ph.D. (Argonne National Laboratory)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Thomas Gadfort (BNL)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Searching for Supersymmetry in the All Hadronic Channel at CMS, Speaker: Sarah Eno (University of Maryland)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Results From the T2K Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment, Speaker: Kendall Mahn (TRIUMF)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Listening with Ears Wide Open for Gravitational Wave Bursts, Speaker: Peter Shawhan (University of Maryland)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Particle Astrophysics: A Century of Adventure and Discovery, Speaker: Stephane Coutu (Penn State University)
HEP- ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Matt Wetstein (University of Chicago)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | From Quarks and Gluons to the World Around Us: Advancing Quantum Chromodynamics by Probing Nucleon Structure, Speaker: Christine Aidala, Ph.D. (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | New Views of the Cosmic Microwave Background, Speaker: Sudeep Das (Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, UC Berkeley)
2011 HEP Astro
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Jadranka Sekaric (U of Kansas)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Detector Technology for Indirect and Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Speaker: Jim Buckley (Washington University, Physics)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Searches for the Higgs Boson at the Tevatron, Speaker: Aurelio Juste (IFAE)
HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Natalia Panikashvili (U-M)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Tanya Rindler-Daller (U of Texas)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Probing Reionization and Large-Scale Structure with the South Pole Telescope, Speaker: Christian Reichardt (UC Berkeley)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Spin Physics - Results from RHIC and Future Research, Speaker: Elke-Cariline Aschenauer (Brookhaven Lab)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go?, Speaker: Mark Devlin (University of Pennsylvania, Physics and Astronomy)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | Imaging Calorimeter for the Future Lepton Collider, Speaker: Lei Xia (Argonne Lab, RPC Development)
HEP-ASTRO SEMINAR | A Year of Searching the Energy Frontier with ATLAS, Speaker: Daniel Whiteson (UC Irvine)
HEP ASTRO SEMINAR | Speaker: Jianming Qian (UM Physics, ATLAS Higgs)
High Energy-Astrophysics | New Physics and New Accelerator Technology at BELLE II and SuperKEKB
High Energy-Astrophysics | Forward-Backward Asymmetry in ttbar Events
High Energy-Astrophysics | First Result from QUIET
High Energy-Astrophysics | The Atacama B-Mode Search: Instrument Design and Science Prospects
High Energy-Astrophysics | TBA
High Energy-Astrophysics | Searching for the Identity of Dark Matter
High Energy-Astrophysics | Searching for the Dark Matter
High Energy-Astrophysics | New Views of the Cosmic Microwave Background
2010 HEP-Astro
High Energy-Astrophysics | Precision Precession: How the History of g-2 Wound its Way to Fermilab
High Energy-Astrophysics | Observational Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers'
High Energy-Astrophysics | Detecting Gravitational Waves (and doing other cool physics) with Millisecond Pulsars
High Energy-Astrophysics | Search for New Sources of CP Violation with DZero Detector
High Energy-Astrophysics | First LHC Results
High Energy-Astrophysics | 21cm Cosmology
High Energy-Astrophysics | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: the Present and the Future
High Energy-Astrophysics | Is Dark Energy Dynamical?
High Energy-Astrophysics | TBA
High Energy-Astrophysics | Searching for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars (and other objects)
High Energy-Astrophysics | Cosmology with the Lyman-Alpha Forest
High Energy-Astrophysics | Holographic Noise in Michelson Interferometers: a Direct Experimental Probe of Unification at the Planck Scale
High Energy-Astrophysics | Using Galaxy Cluster Sizes as a Standard Ruler for Testing Cosmic Isotropy
High Energy-Astrophysics | Is Cosmic Acceleration Telling Us Something About Gravity?
High Energy-Astrophysics | TBA
High Energy-Astrophysics | Mergers and their Impact on Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimates
High Energy-Astrophysics | A Road-map To Better Cluster Cosmology
High Energy-Astrophysics | Galaxy cluster analysis of the SDSS Coadd data
High Energy-Astrophysics | Mass function of young star clusters in our galaxy and Magellanic clouds
High Energy-Astrophysics | Cosmological Probes of Theories of Gravity
High Energy-Astrophysics | Tevatron Higgs Searches
High Energy-Astrophysics| New Revelations on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Domain: MiniBooNE & Beyond
Special High Energy-Astrophysics Seminar | New Neutrino Oscillation and Low Energy Anomaly Results From MiniBooNE
High Energy-Astrophysics | TBA
Astronomy Colloquium
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>Tracing the Cosmic Shutdown of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>The Effects of Magnetic Field Morphology on the Determination of Oxygen and Iron Abundances in the Solar Photosphere
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>Star Formation Across Space
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>Lonely Galaxies: The Baryon Content of Isolated Dwarf Galaxies
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>Choose Your Own Adventure: Multiplicity of Planets Among the Smallest Stars
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>Why the Invisible Reservoir of Gas Around Galaxies Counts in Galaxy Evolution
<b>ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM</b><br>A Galaxy-Scale Fountain of Cold Molecular Gas Pumped by a Black Hole
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Better Living Through Computation: Exploring the First Generations of Galaxies with Large-Scale Simulations
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>The Search for Earth 2.0
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>The Fast and Furious Lives of High Velocity Clouds
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Supernovae as Drivers of Dust Evolution in Galaxies
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>How to Measure the Composition of Planet-Forming Material
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets and the Gemini Planet Imager
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Blowing in the Quasar Wind: Feedback from Black Hole Outflows in Major Galaxy Mergers
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Magellan/MDM Colloquium: Department Members Share Their Current Work Using Magellan/MDM Observatories
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Increasing Diversity at the PhD Level in Physics & Astronomy
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Science, Symphony, and the Northern Lights
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Observing the Formation of Planetary Diversity
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Empirical Constraints on Theories of Planet Formation
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Black People in Astronomy: Why So Few?
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM <br> Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool Stars
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological and Astrophysical Probes
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM <br> Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in The Small Magellanic Cloud
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Where's the Matter? (Tales from the Milky Way's Destructive Past)
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Measuring the Mass-Radius Relation of Neutron Stars
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM <br> Accretion Disk Outbursts: MHD Simulations (Finally) Confront Reality
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM <br> The Observability of Recoiling Black Holes as Offset Quasars
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Black Hole Masses in Active Galaxies
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Using Multiwavelength Variability Studies to Probe the Disk-Jet Connection of Fermi Blazars
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>X-ray Reverberation Mapping in AGN
3rd Annual Astronomy Undergraduate Poster Session
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>High-Energy-Density Astrophysics in the Laboratory
SPECIAL ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Sciences<br>Lonely Massive Stars</br>
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Live Fast Die Young: The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death</br>
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Dwarf Galaxies as Cosmological Probes
SPECIAL ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>The Magellan and MDM Observatories / Michigan Astronomy
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Seeing Worlds in Grains of Sand
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Mohler Prize Lecture<br>Lighting up the Universe: Witnessing Cosmic Dawn</br>
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>The ALFALFA Census of Gas-Bearing Galaxies at z=0</br>
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Accretion Disk Outbursts: MHD Simulations (Finally) Confront Reality
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>3D Spectroscopy of Giant H II Regions in Nearby Spiral Galaxies</br>
ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM<br>Star Clusters and High Mass X-Ray Binaries in Nearby Spirals, Mergers, and Starburst Galaxies
PUBLIC ASTRONOMY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS COLLOQUIUM | Cracking the Cosmic Code
ASTRONOMY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS COLLOQUIUM
Biophysics Seminar
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Electron Microscopy Approaches to Study Lipid-Protein Interactions
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>The Versatile Beta-Barrel Gives Up Secrets of the Membrane
<b>BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM</b><br>An International Symposium on Recent Advances in Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Hijacking Pathogenic Membrane Proteins to Engineer Cellular Entry: A Molecular Biophysics Approach
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Sensing of Small Molecules by Natural and in Vitro Evolved RNA Devices
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Toward Total Synthesis of Chemotaxis, Phagocytosis and Stress Granules
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Active Matter: Applying the Materials Physics Paradigm to Biology
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><Br>Advances and Applications in Modern Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Liquid State Hyperpolarization and Solid State Methods for Amyloid Fibrils
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Having Fun with Unpaired Electrons: Enhancing the Sensitivity of NMR & Radicals Essential for Life
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Structure of the HIV-1 5' Leader
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>The Safety Dance: Biophysics of Membrane Protein Misfolding and Disease
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Tripping Up HCN Channel Regulation Through an Interaction with an Accessory Subunit
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Cooperation, Cheating, and Collapse of Biological Populations
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b>
<b>BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR</b>
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Motion: the Hallmark of Life, from Marsupials to Molecules
Imaging Mast Cell Activation: from Single Molecules to Synapses
<b>BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR</b><br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>³Nanoscale Architecture of the Immunological Synapse²
<b>BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Role of Secretory Granule Heterogeneity in the Regulation of Ca2+-Triggered Exocytosis
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Biophysical Characterization of Recombinant Type II Cannabinoid Receptor, CB2
BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM<br>Flow Sensing in the Vascular System
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Watching Enzymes at Work: NMR for Structural and Functional Studies of Cytochromes P450
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Molecular Mechanisms of General Anesthetics; from Lipids to Channels
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>HIV - 1 Capsid Assembly, Maturation & Host Cell Interactions
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Protein Structure Prediction and Protein Design
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Tapping the Translation Potential of cAMP-Signalling and Amyloid Inhibition using NMR”
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> How Do Proteins Scan DNA?
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Microbial Resistance to Toxic Fluoride: Structural and Functional Features of Fluoride Channels and Transporters
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> Krimm Lecture: Illuminating Biology at the Nanoscale with Super-Resolution Imaging
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Elucidating Roles of Protein Dynamics in Enzyme Function by Molecular Simulation
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Mapping Protein Conformational Ensembles and Folding Pathways with Temperature-Jump Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Entry of Ebola Virus & HIV by Membrane Fusion
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> RNA-Based Gene Expression and Regulation at Single-Molecule
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> The Structural Choreography of Cellular Self-Cannibalism
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> Detection and Manipulation of Single Biomolecular Machines
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Evanescence in Fluorescence Excitation and Emission Microscopy
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> Imaging Biology at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR <br> The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Charges and Their Role in Lipid Phase Separation
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Bistability, Trigger Waves, and the Spatial Coordination of Mitosis
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Modes of Membrane Disruption By Antimicrobial Compounds
BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR<br>Zooming into the Misfolding of the Alzheimer’s Amyloid-ß Peptide
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>The CH--O Hydrogen Bond - Hiding in Plain Sight
Biophysics Graduation Reception
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Insights into Stochastic Growth and Division of Single Bacterial Cells, or A Bug's Life</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Structural Determinants and Functional Consequences of Protein Partitioning to Membrane Domains</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Looking at Proteins Inside Live Cells with Atomic Resolution: Science Fiction or Science Reality?
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Mechanisms of Regulated Protein Degradation During the Bacterial Cell Cycle</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Localization-Based Super-Resolution Imaging: Methods and Biological Applications
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS & COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Universal Mechanisms of Multicellular Computation
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Exoplanets and Astrobiology</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Optical Trapping and Multi-parameter Analysis of Single HIV-1 in Culture Media Reveal the Positive Cooperativity of Envelope Spikes in Mediating Viral Infection
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>Over the Brainbow – Tracing Neural Circuits in the Mouse Brain
SPECIAL ASTRONOMY & BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<BR>Exoplanets and Astrobiology
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS/ASTRONOMY SEMINAR<br>Peering Into the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Worlds</br>
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR | Structural Gymnastics by Proteins Make the Clock Mechanism Go Around
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR | NMR of Large Proteins: Molecular Chaperones
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR | Facile NMR Structure Determination of Human Membrane Proteins
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR | Cytochrome P450 Steroid Oxidations: Answers and More Questions
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR | Control of Substrate Access to the Active Site in Methane Monooxygenase
CM - AMO Seminars
2016 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM - AMO SEMINAR | When Do Crystalline Insulators Exhibit Quantized Hall Effects?
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Cavity QED Lattices: A Platform to Study Many-Body Physics with Photons
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Exciton Delocalization and Magnetic Interactions in Crystalline Organic Thin Films
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Nanophotonics: Controlling Light with a Single Quantum Dot
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Electric Field Cancellation on Quartz by Rb Adsorbate-Induced Negative Electron A?nity
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Metrology Frontiers with Cold Atoms
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Revealing Hidden Orders in Spin-Orbit Coupled Correlated Materials
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Unraveling Intriguing Topological Nature of the Kondo Insulator SmB6
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Hyperbolic Metasurfaces: An Emerging Platform for Tailoring Light-Matter Interaction
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Studying Superfluidity Using Cold-Atom Circuits
2015 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Nonlinear QED and Intense Lasers
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Impact Response of Granular Materials: from the Origin of the Universe to Catastrophic Asteroid Strikes
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Topological Phases in Correlated Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Nanoparticles
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Coherences in Photosynthesis and Vision?
CM THEORY SEMINAR | Shear-Induced Rigidity in Athermal Materials
Creating Long-Lived Optical Waveguides in Air Using Femtosecond Lasers
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Surface Enhanced Quantum Control
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Magic Wavelengths and Their Applications
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Searching for the Genes of Unconventional High Temperature Superconductors
CM - AMO SEMINAR | What Can Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy Tell Us About the Structure and Dynamics of Molecules in Liquid Solution?
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Clusteractive Life of Many-Body Quantum Processes
CM - AMO SEMINAR | The Dawn of X-Ray Nonlinear Optics
SPECIAL CM - AMO SEMINAR | Seeing with the Nano-Eye
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Coulomb Liquid Phases of Bosonic Cluster Mott Insulators on Pyrochlore Lattice
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Graphene Statistical Mechanics
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Spin-Charge Conversion and Spin Current Generation in Electron Liquids
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Symmetry Fractionalization — Classification and Anomaly Detection
CMO - AMO SEMINAR | Artificially Structured Materials for Tailored Optical Properties
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Higgs Bosons and Superconductors in the Lab and throughout the Universe
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Nano-Photonic Phenomena in Van Der Waals Heterostructures
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Attosecond Physics in the Long Wavelength Limit -- Note: Time and Room Change
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater
SPECIAL CM-AMO SEMINAR | Note: Different Day & Time | Elastoresistance Measurements as a Probe of Broken Symmetries in Solids
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Unbiased Continuum Calculations in One Dimension with DMRG
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Exploring Exotic Quantum Phases with Tensor Network States
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Out-Of-Equilibrium Dynamics with Dipoles
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Ferromagnetic Domains and Roton Excitations in a Dilute Bose Superfluid
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Optical Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Engineering Photophenomena in 3D Van der Waals Solids
SPECIAL AMO SEMINAR<br>Production of Extremely High-Lying States as a Byproduct of Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms
2014 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Exciton Interactions in Semiconductors: From Four-Wave Mixing to Patterns in Quantum Fluids
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Many-body Localization: from Power-laws to Translation Invariance
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Ferromagnetic Nanostructures in a Local Circular Field
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Higher-Order Constraints on Precision of Clocks of Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices
CM-AMO SEMINAR | The Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond as a Nanoscale Spin Sensor
CM - AMO SEMINAR | What are Dimers? Four Newly Discovered Magical Properties of Dimer Systems
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Theory of Intertwined Orders in High Temperature Superconductors
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Exact Results for Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multi-Orbital Systems on Square and Cubic Lattices
CM - AMO SEMINAR | The Quantum Measurement Problem: How to Distinguish Measuring Devices from Ordinary Objects
CM - AMO SEMINAR | Spin Transport in Semiconductors far from Equilibrium
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Intrinsic Conduction Through Topological Surface States of Insulating Bi2Te3
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Protected Edge Modes Without Symmetry
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Engineering Photon Statistics in Cavity QED
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Heat Dissipation and Transport at the Nanoscale
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Tensor Product State Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems: From Spin Liquid to Doped-Mott-Insulator
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Fermionic Excitations in a Nonideal One-Dimensional Bose Gas
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Topological Reduction and Inverse Scattering
CM-AMO SEMINAR | From Unitary Dynamics to Statistical Mechanics in Isolated Quantum Systems
CM-AMO SEMINAR | An AC Magnetometer and Gradient Magnetometer Atom Interferometer
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Statistics of Frictional Families in Particle Assemblies
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Bose-Einstein Condensed Polaritons: A Superfluid, a Normal Fluid, or a Bose Glass?
CM-AMO SEMINAR | What Drives Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-based Superconductors
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Engineering Shape: the Novel Geometries of Colloidal Self-Assembly
CM-AMO SEMINAR | The Cell Cytoskeleton as a Composite: Mechanics and Force Transmission
SPECIAL AMO SEMINAR | Hybrid Optomechanical Systems with Atoms
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Experiments with Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices
SPECIAL CM - AMO SEMINAR | An Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) System to Measure Trace Contamination By Kr of XENON Dark Matter Detector
Special AMO Seminar | Role of Dissipation and Decoherence in Neutral Atom Based Quantum Computing
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Optical Spectroscopy of Atomically Thin Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Criticality in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors
CM-AMO SEMINAR<br>Molecular Aggregates: Electronic, Vibrational and Vibronic Excitations, Their Dynamics and Spectroscopy
2013 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Spontaneous Coherence and Spin Current in a Cold Exciton Gas
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Transport Signatures of Floquet Majorana Fermions in Driven Topological Superconductors
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Engineering Complex Oxide Heterostructures
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Observation of Coherence in Oygenic Photosynthesis
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Spin-Orbit Coupling in Correlated Materials: Novel Phases and Phenomena
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Nanoscale Force-Detected Magnetic Resonance
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Assembly And Optical Manipulation Of Nanoparticles In Liquid Crystals
CM-AMO SEMINAR | How to Kill a Topological Insulator
CM-AMO SEMINAR | The Entropy of Dimer or Monomer-Dimer Systems on Lattices
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Is There a Future for Ferromagnetic Semiconductors?
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Algorithmic Quantum Simulation
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Rydberg Atoms in Optical and Magnetic Traps
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Nanoscale Band Structure Imaging of Topological Materials, Sb and SmB6
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Information Science with Superconducting Artificial Atoms
SPECIAL CM-AMO SEMINAR | Topological Phases in Mix Valence Compounds
SPECIAL CM-AMO SEMINAR | Maximally Entangled States (MES)
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Symmetries and Spins in 2D Membranes and Traditional Semiconductors
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Wandering Amongst Feynman Diagrams for Strongly Correlated Fermions
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Optics with Solid-State Quantum Emitters
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Seeing the Dynamics: From Patchy Colloids to Nanoscale Biomolecules
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Emulating Quantum Phenomena with Metamaterials: From Fano Resonances to Topological Insulators
CM-AMO SEMINAR | New Twists in Spintronics: Exploiting the Echoes of Special Relativity in Condensed Matter Physics
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Quantum Computing with Trapped Rydberg Atoms
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Toward Single Molecular-Ion Spectroscopy
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Viscosity and Scale-Invariance in 2D and 3D Fermi Gases
2012 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM-AMO SEMINAR
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Quantum-Engineered Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Lasers
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Discovery of the First True 3D Topological Insulator: Samarium Hexaboride
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Measurement of Braiding Statistics of Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Spins in Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Room Temperature Coherent States in a Complex Environment
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Bilayer Graphenes Superlattices
CM-AMO SEMINAR | Measurement of Braiding Statistics of Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Special CM/AMO Seminar | Induced Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators, Speaker: Duming Zhang (Penn State)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Optical Study of CuxTiSe2, Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 and High Field Torque Magnetometry Study on Several Iron-Based Superconductors, Gang Li (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
CM-AMO Seminar | Cavity Optomechanics: Controlling Mechanical Motion with Light, Hialin Wang (University of Oregon)
CM-AMO Seminar | Light Scattering from the Collective Modes of Electrons, Xiaoqing (Elaine) Li (Univ of Texas at Austin)
CM-AMO Seminar | Hybrid Quantum Devices with Single Spins in Diamond, Gurudev Dutt (University of Pittsburgh)
Special CM/AMO Seminar | Large Cluster Dynamical Mean Field Simulations for Hubbard Models, Emanuel Gull, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
SPECIAL CM-AMO SEMINAR | Carbononics: Electronics, Photonics and Spintronics with Graphene Quantum Dots
SPECIAL CM-AMO SEMINAR | Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Design Principles for Lasers, Optical Switches, and LEDs
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Isostaticity and a Unified View of Soft Elasticity, Xiaoming Mao, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
CM0-AMO Seminar | Quantum Magnetism with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Chandra Raman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Coupled Order Parameters and Quantum Criticality in Iron-Based Superconductors, Speaker: James Analytis (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Topological Insulators, Topological Semimetals, and Quantum Hall Effects Without Landau Levels, Speaker: Kai Sun (University of Maryland)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice, Speaker: Jonathan Simon (Harvard University)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Information Processing Using Spins and Topological Quantum Systems, Speaker: Liang Jiang (California Institute of Technology)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Interfacial Electron Transport in Oxide Films: Fundamentals and Applications to Solar Photovoltaics, Speaker: Rafael Jaramillo (Harvard, School of Engineering & Applied Science)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Frequency Combs and Precision Spectroscopy in the Extreme Ultraviolet, Speaker: Arman Cingöz (JILA, National Institute of Standards & Technology, University of Colorado Physics)
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Many-Body Physics with Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems, Speaker: Alexey V. Gorshkov, Ph.D. (Institute for Quantum Information, CalTech)
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Information and Metrology with Neutral Atoms, Ions, and Photons, Speaker: Alex Kuzmich (Georgia Tech)
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Theory from Quantum Information? (What Would Feynman Say?), Speaker: Christopher Fuchs (Perimeter Institute)
2011 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM-AMO Seminar | Making and Investigating Topologically Nontrivial Compounds, Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Butch (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Condensed Matter and Materials Division)
CM-AMO Seminar | Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) and Polariton Lasing in ZnO Microcrystallines, Speaker: Xiangshun Lu (University of Arkansas)
CM-AMO Seminar | Effect of Strain and Dimensionality on the Properties of Manganites, Speaker: Carolina Adamo (Cornell University, Materials Science & Engineering)
CM-AMO Seminar | Tuning the Properties of Individual Dopants in Semiconductors, Speaker: Jay Gupta (Ohio State University, Physics)
CM-AMO Seminar | Coherent Transport and Proximity Induced Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Bi2Se3 Channels, Speaker: Nitin Samarth (Pennsylvania State University, Physics)
CM-AMO Seminar | Precision Mass Measurement: The Cyclotron Frequency is not qB/m, does E=mc^2?, Speaker: Professor Dave Pritchard (Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT)
CM-AMO Seminar | Bulk Semiconductors for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Spintronics, Speaker: Ferdinand Poudeu (UM MSE)
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Criticality and Strongly Correlated Electrons, Speaker: Qimiao Si (Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University)
CM-AMO Seminar | A New Perspective on the Quantum Theory of Reactions
CM-AMO Seminar | Strong Field Dynamics and Its Applications in Physics and Chemistry
CM-AMO Seminar | Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Radiation Sources
CM-AMO Seminar | Holographic Non-Fermi Liquids and Quantum Phase Transitions: Many-Body Physics Through a Gravitational Lens
CM-AMO Seminar | Strong Field Dynamics and Its Applications in Physics and Chemistry
CM-AMO Seminar | Laser Cooling of a Diatomic Molecule
CM-AMO Seminar | Interchanging the Roles of Light and Matter
CM-AMO Seminar | Optomechanics Approaching the Quantum Regime: Exploiting the Mechanical Properties of Light
CM-AMO Seminar | Electronic Compressibility and Magnetization of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure Interface
CM-AMO Seminar | Structural Soft Spots Control Flow in Disordered Solids
2010 CMO-AMO Seminars
CM-AMO Seminar | On Magneto-Optics, Laser Gain and Coherence-Assisted Absorption in the Layered Polymer
CM-AMO Seminar | Structure and Optical Properties of O-Passivated Si Nano-Particles
CM-AMO Seminar | Visualizing Molecular Dynamics on the Nanoscale with Femtosecond Electron Pulses
CM-AMO Seminar | The Spin-Seebeck Effect Seen From an Experimentalist’s Point of View
CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum-Inspired Classical Interferometry
CM-AMO Seminar | Modeling and Visualization of Electrode Deformation During Li Insertion
CM-AMO Seminar | Field – Detector Entanglement: Quantum Information Storage, Quantized Fields, and Schrödinger Cats
CM-AMO Seminar | Biomedical Imaging and Nanophotonics at the Single-Molecule Level
CM-AMO Seminar | Ultraintense X-Ray Induced Ionization in Atoms and Molecules Using the X-Ray FEL
CM-AMO Seminar | Wide Bandgap Nanostructures for Magneto-Electronics
CM-AMO Seminar | Majorana Fermions: Realization and Detection in Solid State Systems
CM-AMO Seminar | Colloids: Soft Condensed Matter’s Ising Model
CM-AMO Seminar | Polymer Physics at Mesoscopic Scale: A Field-Theoretic Study of Fluctuation Effects in Charged Systems
CM-AMO Seminar | Entanglement and Indistinguishability in Photons from Quantum Dots
CM-AMO Seminar | Hot Phonons and Electrons in Hot GaN Based Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors
CM-AMO Seminar | In-Site Observation of Quantum Phase Transition and Quantum Transports in Optical Lattices
CM-AMO Seminar | Photon Phase Diffusion and Number Squeezed State
CM-AMO Seminar | Purely-Long-Range Krypton Molecules in Singly and Doubly Excited Binding Potentials
CM-AMO Seminar | Antimatter Probe of Nanostructure and Its Evolution in Microporous Coordination Polymers
CM-AMO Seminar | The First-Mover Advantage in Scientific Publication
CM-AMO Seminar | Power laws: pinning the tail on the shoulder
CM-AMO Seminar | Trionic optical potentials for semiconductor charge carriers
CM-AMO Seminar | The Carrier Multiplication Controversy in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
CM-AMO Seminar | Present and Future Trends of Nanoplasmonics
CM-AMO Seminar | Dynamics of Confined Particles
CM Theory Seminars
2016 CM Theory Seminars
<b>CM THEORY SEMINAR</b><br>Emergence Engineering with Digital Alchemy
<b>CM THEORY SEMINAR</b><br>Disorder-Driven Quantum Phase Transition and Transport in Dirac Semimetals and Semiconductors
<b>CM THEORY SEMINAR</b><Br>Topological Effects in Molecular Dynamics Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
2015 CM Theory Seminars
<b>SPECIAL CM THEORY SEMINAR</b><br>Time-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy in Charge-Density-Wave Insulators and Superconductors
<b>SPECIAL CM THEORY SEMINAR</b><br>Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Dense Hydrogen
SPECIAL CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>NOTE: Day and Room Change<br>Monte Carlo Methods and Partial Differential Equations: Algorithms and Implications for High-Performance Computing
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>NOTE: Time and Location Change<br>Can Thermalization Breakdown in Quantum Many-Body Systems?
SPECIAL CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>Electronic Excitation Dynamics in Condensed Matters Under Proton Irradiation: Atomistic Insights from First-Principles Theory
SPECIAL CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>(Note: different day & time)<br>Many Body Localization: A New Frontier for Quantum Statistical Physics
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>Computing Electron Correlation Effects: An Auxiliary-Field Perspective
2014 CM Theory Seminars
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>Accurate Many-Body Methods for Electronic Structure of Large Systems
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>On the Nature of Shape in Biology: From Cerebral Cortex Folding to Cell Crawling
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>Amperean Pairing and the Pseudo-Gap Phase of HiTc Cuprates
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>Insight Through Computation: Understanding and Predicting the Physics of Unconventional Superconductors
CM THEORY SEMINAR<br>Hidden (Hastatic) Order in URu2Si2
2013 CM Theory Seminars
2012 CM Theory Seminars
2011 CM Theory Seminars
Special CM Seminar | High-Field Processes in Solids
2010 CM Theory Seminars
Complex Systems
2016 Complex Systems Seminars
Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Tackle Social Science Problems: Two Case Studies
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Population Inference for Brain Networks
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Regulating Greed Over Time: An Important Lesson For Practical Recommender Systems
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>New Institutions for a New Economic Order
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Synchronized Cycles of Bacterial Lysis for in Vivo Therapies
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Artificial Life, Open-Ended Evolution, and the Origins of Biological Complexity
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Cohesion, Fragmentation, and Power: The Role of Inadvertent Robust Action
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Mathematical Aspects of Embodied Intelligence
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Linking Neural Variability to Behavior
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Modeling Science Across Multiple Scales: From Individuals to Institutions
2015 Complex Systems Seminars
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Dimensionality Reduction for Neural Systems
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Detecting Evolution in Experimental Ecology: Diagnostics for Missing State Variables
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Cascades and Social Influence on Networks
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS</b><br>Computational Discovery in Complex Systems Biology
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Graphs, Dynamics, and Persistent Activity
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Social Networks Under Stress
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Identifiability and Interacting Scales in Modeling Disease Dynamics
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>The Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Understanding Complex Systems Through Not-So-Random Graphs
JOINT COMPLEX SYSTEMS/STATISTICS SEMINAR<br>Snowball Sampling; A Critical Threshold for Design Effects
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Weaving Technology into More Effective Hurricane Evacuations
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Learning via External Sales Networks
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Temporal Networks of Human Interaction
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Network Reporting Methods
COMPLEX SYSTEMS<br>From patterns to principles: Core-Periphery Structure in Mutualistic Species Interaction Networks
2014 Complex Systems Seminars
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Beyond Independence: Emergent Neural Function and the Natural World
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Finding the Right Level of Abstraction in Heterogeneous Collective Systems
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Snapping and Wrapping: How Geometry Controls the Shapes and Dynamics of Thin Sheets
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Complex Collective Dynamics of Oscillator Ensembles
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Scoring Tempo, Balance, and Predictability Across Sports
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br><i>The Basic Statistical Factors of Baseball, Basketball, and Football</i>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Histograms, Graph Limits, and the Asymptotic Behavior of Large Networks</br>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>From Molecules to Development: Revealing Simple Rules of Biological Clocks</br>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Controllability and Dynamics of the 3D Genome</br>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Order, Disorder, Symmetry and Complexity</br>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Material Computation: Architectural Research in Complex Fibrous Structures
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Complex Contagions on Social Networks
COMPLEX SYSTEMS CONFERENCE<br>Signaling across Scales: Life Sciences to Social Systems
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Applications of Networks and Text in Interface Design</br>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM<br>Fathoming Consciousness: Meaning and Measurement</br>
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR<br>Singapore and Complexity
2013 Complex Systems Seminars
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Whither Goest Thou, Gaia? Bioenergetic Approaches to Predicting the Ecological Impacts of Environmental Change
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Unifying Ecology and Evolution: Temporal Complexity in Biological Systems
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | The Origins of Division of Labor and Developmental Complexity: Using Digital Organisms to Understand Major Transitions in Evolution
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Group-Level Traits in Cultural Evolution: Globalization and the Evolution of Power
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Conditional Choice and Voter Turnout
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Universality, Hardness, Engineering, and Messiness
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Forensic Paleoclimatology
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Fast Community Detection in Large Sparse Networks
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Can Science Learn More When Scientists Learn Less?: Modeling Question Difficulty and Epistemic Success across Scientific Networks
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Bio-Polymer Gels: Nonlinear Elasticity, and Cell Motility
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Spatial Forcing in Pattern Forming Thermal Convection
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Oscillatory Double-Diffusive Convection
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Non-Diffusive Spatial Patterns in Evolutionary Games
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Evolution of Cooperation and The Framing of Peace: A Conference in Honor of Robert Axelrod
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | UM-ICAM: The Origin of Life
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | The Emergence of Organizations and Market
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Single-Cell View of Bacterial Populations in Fluctuating Environments
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Metabolic Network Fingerprinting Can Reveal Evolution of Species
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Long-term Relationships and Routes of HIV Transmission
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
COMPLEX SYSTEMS HALF-DAY COLLOQUIUM | UM-ICAM: Science of Sustainability
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | The Interplay Between Ecology and Evolution in Cancerous Tumors and Expanding Populations
COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR | Fast Migration and Emergent Population Dynamics
2012 Complex Systems Seminars
2011 Complex Systems Seminars
2010 Complex Systems Seminars
Department Colloquia
2016 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Jamming: A Tale of Two Rigidities
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Digital Education at Michigan: From Python in 141 to DIG and ART 2.0
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Superfluid Atom Circuits
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Music and the Making of Modern Science
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Coloring, Stitching, and Twisting for Atomically Thin Circuitry
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Dark Matter in the Cosmos-- Are We Close to Discovery?
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Fundamental Bounds in Quantum Transport, From Black Holes to Bad Metals
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Self-Organization and Mechanics of Active Matter
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Escaping from Galaxy Clusters
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | High-Q Optical Resonators, Microcombs and Optical Clocks
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Irreversibility, Information, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale
SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
2015 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Bubble Chamber: The Device that Revolutionized High-Energy Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Large Physics Comedy (LHC) Show
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | UMETRICS @ The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS): Using Administrative Data to Examine Research and Its Uses
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Infectious Diseases, Auto-Immune Diseases, and Cancer: Opportunities for Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Spontaneous Flows in Active Fluids
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | New Tools and Approaches for Intro Physics at Michigan
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Frontiers in Quantum Chromodynamics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Correlated Topological Insulator
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Understanding the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Boson and Beyond
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | UCN-tau - Measuring the Neutron Lifetime with Trapped Ultra Cold Neutrons
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | State of the Department Address
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Electrostatic Control of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Touch the Dark Matter
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Make Diamonds and Break Diamonds to Probe Earth’s Deep Secrets
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Authentic Science Learning: REBUILD News
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Adventures in Urban Informatics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Who Gets the Bomb? The Engineering Physics Behind Contemporary Nuclear Proliferation
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Beyond Independence: Emergent Neural Function and the Natural World
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Primordial Matter: Using the LHC to Recreate the Conditions of the Early Universe at t = 10^-5
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED | Exploring New Interface Between Quantum Optics and Nanoscience
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Universe According to Planck
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Measuring the Neutron’s Electric Dipole Moment
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Lattices Near Mechanical Collapse
2014 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Materials in 2-Dimension and Beyond: 10 Years After Graphene
DEPARMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Life of a Vortex Knot: Linking, Coiling, and Twisting Across Scales
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | How To Mine for a Golden Decay
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Singlet Exciton Fission and Fusion
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Quenched Disorder and Vestigial Nematicity in Correlated Electronic Systems
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | REBUILD in Physics: Experiments and Observations
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Now That We've Found The Higgs, What's Next?
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Energy Critical Elements: More Precious than Gold
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Mapping New Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | J-PARC KOTO Experiment
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Single-, Few-, and Many-body Quantum Systems
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Growth, Form and Feel: Using Geometrical Principles to Manipulate the Shape and Mechanics of Elastic Sheets
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | State of Department Address
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Black Hole Information Paradox, Alive and Kicking</br>
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Achieving 1% Measurements of Cosmological Distances with Cosmic Sound
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Spin Glasses and Computational Complexity
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Spin Glasses: What's the Big Idea? (Is There One?)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | High-Temperature Superconductivity, Energy and Life: Entertaining Aspects of High Magnetic Field Research
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Linear Algebra and the Shape of Bird Beaks
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Topological Kondo Insulator: The History and Recent Progress on the Study of Samarium Hexaboride (SmB<sub>6</sub>)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Tyranny of Asymptotic Freedom
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Inference in Biological Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Validating Quantum Devices
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Decoding the Multi-Drug Response in Populations of Bacteria and Human Cancer Cells
2013 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Hows and Whys of Publishing in PRL?
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Daya Bay Experiment and the Future Neutrino Program in China
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Has (the) Majorana Really Returned?
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Resolving Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Four Impressions from the Gauge/String Duality
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Measuring Spins and Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Physics of Hearing
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Fundamentals of Turbulence: From Particles to Climate
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Intertwined Orders in High Temperature Superconductors
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Quantum Phases of Matter and Gauge-Gravity Duality
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Quantum Memory, Single Photons, and a Nuclear Clock
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Classical Optics in a New Light: Metasurfaces for Flat Optics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Inflation, Infinity, Equilibrium and the Observable Universe
SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM | Paul Dirac Collegiate Professorship in Physics Inaugural Lecture Epidemics, Erdos Numbers, and the Internet: The Physics of Networks
SPECIAL PHYSICS SEMINAR | Building a Better Hydro
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Harnessing the Atom-like Properties of Single Spins in Diamond
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Black Holes and Qubits
SPECIAL PUBLIC DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Dark Side of The Universe
SPECIAL PUBLIC DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Mysteries of the Dark Universe
2012 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | SDSS III and Inflation
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Physics with Exotic Nuclei and Atoms
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Frontiers in High-Resolution Numerical Modeling of the Ocean
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Newton’s Gedankenexperiment: Newton and Einstein, Gravitation and Relativity
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Understanding Brain Function and Pathology through Network Dynamics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Particle Acceleration in Astrophysics - Something New
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Self-Organization in Animal Development and the Physics of Active Foams
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Structure in Non-Equilibrium Systems
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | In Search of Dark Matter: Theoretical Models and Their Experimental Signatures Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (U-M Physics)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Latest Results from the ATLAS Experiment Speaker: Junjie Zhu
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Biomolecule Detection and Analysis with Nanopores in Graphene Membranes Speaker: Marija Drndic (University of Pennsylvania)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Understanding the Cosmic Recombination Epoch Speaker: Chris Hirata (California Institute of Technology)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Quantum Control of Light and Matter... From the Macroscopic to the Nanoscale Speaker: Lene Hau (Harvard University)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Solotronics: Manipulation, Control, and Applications of a Solitary Dopant Within a Semiconductor Speaker: Michael Flatte (University of Iowa)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searching for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Speaker: David DeMille (Yale University)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | How Cells Make Decisions and What Does Physics Have to Say About It Speaker: Jane Kondev (Brandeis University)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | From the Top Quark to the Higgs Boson - A Quest for Discovery at the Tevatron Speaker: Robert Roser (Fermilab)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Plasmonics: Oscillator Physics on the Nanoscale Speaker: Stefan A. Maier (Physics, Imperial College, London)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Exciting New Approaches to Particle Scattering Amplitudes Speaker: Henriette Elvang (U-M)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Two Meters of DNA in Micron Size Cell Nucleus: The Role of Topological Constraints in Genome Folding Speaker: Alexander Grosberg (New York University)
Physics Colloquium | State of Department Address, Speaker: Brad Orr (Physics Department Chair)
Special Physics Seminar | Two Component Bose-Einstein Condensates for Quantum Information, Speaker: Tim Brynes (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
CANCELLED Department Colloquia | Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics, Speaker: Peter Littlewood (Argonne National Laboratory)
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Discovery of the Higgs Boson Special Panel Discussion
2011 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Observing Brane Inflation Speaker: Rachel Bean (Cornell University, Astronomy)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Lessons from Nature about Solar Light Harvesting Speaker: Gregory D. Scholes (University of Toronto; Institute for Optical Sciences and Centre for Quantum Information & Quantum Control)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Discovery of the Expanding Universe Speaker: Lydia Bieri (U-M)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Can Evolutionary Dynamics Be Understood Quantitatively? Speaker: Daniel S. Fisher (Stanford University, Physics)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing Speaker: Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University, Astronomy)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Status of String Theory Speaker: Finn Larsen (UM Physics)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Remarkable Power of General Relativity
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Controlling Molecular Interactions with Electric Fields
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Measurement of Thermal Spectrum of Stimulated Hawking Radiation from an Analog Black Hole
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Dark Sector vs. Modified Gravity
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The ABC's of Modeling Pattern Formation: From Classical DFT to the Hohenberg/Halperin Alphabet Soup of Models
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | A Proposed Computational Core for the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Finding Percival's Planet
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Fluctuations and Dynamic Arrest in Cells: The Glass Transition in Cells
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Glassy Dynamics and Unusual Thermodynamics on Curved Surfaces
Physics Colloquium | The Multiverse Of String Theory, The Measure Problem, And The Cosmological Constant
2010 Department Colloquia
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | LHC: Year 0
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | High Energy Density Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | From Folding to Function
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Seeing Electrons in Graphene: A Model 2-Dimensional Material
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Global Warming: Simple Physics in a Complex System
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Electronic Liquid Crystalline Phases
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | PandaX: A Dark Matter Experiment in China
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | How to Do Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Numerical Calculation of Very Unlikely Events
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Quantum Money
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Physical Mechanisms of Animal Flight and Swimming
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | An Approach to Understanding Host Galaxy Dust Extinction of SNE la
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | An Approach to Understanding Host Galaxy Dust Extinction of SNE la
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Michigan Mechanics Matters...for Regulating Gene Expression
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Dark Universe Challenge: Is Theory up to the Task?
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | TBD
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | State of Physics Department Address
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Climate Change and Energy Solutions<
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Causes, Consequences and Broader Implications
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Laser Cooling of Atoms By Collisional Redistribution of Fluorescence
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | CANCELLED
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | In Search of L: Orbital Motion in the Land of Quarks
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Was the Big Bang the Beginning?
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Climate-Gate and Copenhagen: Science in the Arena of Climate Policy
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Evolution of Radiation Tomography for Molecular Imaging in Medicine
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | How the Large Angle Properties of the CMB Challenge Concordance Cosmology
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | After Moore's Law: Progress Toward Optically Driven Fast Quantum Devices (Quantum Physics at the Interface)
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute - Sampling of Research
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | An M theorist in ATLAS -- Top Quarks, the LHC and Exceptional Extra Dimensions
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | The Magic of Physics
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | Results and Challenges in Multimessenger Transient Searches for Gravitational Waves
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM | False Gold: Isaac Newton's Pursuit of Counterfeiters and the True Nature of Money
2009 Department Colloquia
Department Colloquium | The North American Nanohertz Observatory of Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav Project)
Department Colloquium | The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
Department Colloquium | Toward a Theoretical Physics of Living Matter: Problems and Prospects
Department Colloquium | More about Uhlenbeck: Michigan in the 1930s
Department Colloquium | TPCs with CCD Readout for Dark Matter, Double Beta Decay, and Neutron Measurements
Department Colloquium | Mechanics of Active Cellular Networks
Department Colloquium | Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant from a Different Distance Ladder
Department Colloquium | George Uhlenbeck: His life, his science
Department Colloquium | Tools for Many-Body Physics From Quantum Information Perspective
Department Colloquium | Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience
Department Colloquium | The Saga of the Varying Fine-Structure Constant
Department Colloquium | Tevatron Physics Results: The Springboard to the LHC
Department Colloquium | State of Physics Department Address
Department Colloquium | The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment
Department Colloquium | Inflation, String Theory, and Signatures in the CMB
Department Colloquium | Fermion Pairing with Ultracold Atoms
Department Colloquium | Quantum Networks
Department Colloquium | Andreev Reflection in Heavy Fermion Superconductors: Focus on CeCoIn5
Department Colloquium | Black Holes and Gravitational Collapse
Department Colloquium | The Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Department Colloquium | Plans for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at MSU
Department Colloquium | BBN Concordance: What’s the Matter with Li
Department Colloquium | Physics Problems in Early Embryonic Development
Department Colloquium | Tunnelling and Deflagration in Molecular Nanomagnets
2008 Department Colloquia
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM | The Big World of Little Neutrinos
Quantitative Biology Seminars
2016 Quantitative Biology Seminars
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>Mathematical Modeling of Cholera Epidemics
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>A Quantitative Rule of Spatiotemporal Integration of Synaptic Inputs
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>A Physical View of Gene Regulation
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>Engineered Genetic Clocks: From "Degrade and Fire" to "Integrate and Fire" Dynamics
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>Microtubule Stability in Blood Platelet Formation and Activation
2015 Quantitative Biology Seminars
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</B><br>Validity and Reliability of Granger Causality Analysis on Neuronal Network Reconstruction
<b>QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR</B><br>Consciousness and Neuronal Dynamics: Lessons from Anesthesia
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Statistical Inference on Networks of Spiking Neurons
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Keeping the Beat: Homeostatic Frequency Control in Coupled Oscillators
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Immunology à la physicienne
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Identification of A General Relationship Between Network Topology and Directed Connectivity
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Toward Determining the Function of the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb
2014 Quantitative Biology Seminars
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Cell and Network Level Changes Related to Overproduction of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-ß Cause Altered Synchronized Activity in Model of Hippocampal Theta Rhythm Generation
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>A Model of Ovarian Cancer Response to Combination Therapy
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Reconstructing Connectivity of Oscillator Networks from Observations
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>The Role of Randomness in Collective Behavior of Ants</br>
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Towards Model-Assisted Clinical Decisions During Childbirth
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Keeping It Together: Organizing the Bacterial Chromosome for Division</br>
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Elasticity and the Shape of Early Tumors
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>Kinetic Mechanisms for Inhibition of Protein Aggregation
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>From Molecules to Development: Revealing Simple Rules of Biological Clocks
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR<br>The Role of GABAergic Synapses in the Generation of Circadian Rhythms
2013 Quantitative Biology Seminars
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Structural Gymnastics by Proteins Make the Clock Mechanism Go Around
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | REM/NREM Sleep Cycles Naturally Emerge from a Mathematical Model of Human Sleep
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Ca<sup>2+</sup> and Metabolic Oscillations in Pancreatic Beta Cells
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Stabilization of the Electroneutral Model
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | A Model of Ovarian Cancer Response to Combination Therapy
SPECIAL QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Advances in Imaging Invertebrate Neural Networks with Fast Voltage Sensitive Dyes
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Temporal Characteristics of Neuronal Activity
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Systems Analysis of Clathrin-Coated Pit Dynamics
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Inferring Causal Connections and Functional Networks
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Mechanical Models of Fish and Krill Swimming
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | General Gene-State Switching Models for Stochastic Gene Expression
2012 Quantitative Biology Seminars
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Robust Circadian Rhythms From Coupled Catalytic Domains
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Brain Tumors as Organisms: Prolegomena Towards Building Realistic [Geometric ??? Physical ??? Mathematical ??? Computational] Models of Cancer
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SEMINAR | Network Mechanisms for Sleep-Dependent Plasticity in Brain Circuits
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Robustness and Flexibility of Ostreococcus Tauri Circadian Clock in Changing Weather and Seasons | Speaker: Marc Lefranc (Lillie)
Quantitative Biology Seminars | Minimizing Extinction Risk By Migration | Speaker: Len Sander (U-M Physics)
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Computational Modelling of Cell Chain Migration Reveals Mechanisms That Sustain Follow-The-Leader Behaviour | Santiago Schnell (U-M Molecular Physiology & Computational Medicine)
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Functional Disconnectivity in Schizophrenia | Speaker: Péter Érdi (Kalamazoo College and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Quantitative Biology Seminar | The Cardiovascular System as Bioreactor: Physical Features of Bloodstream Infections | Speaker: John Younger (Emergency Medicine, UM)
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Acetylcholine and Synaptic Homeostasis | Speaker: Chris Fink (UM)
2011 Quantitative Biology Seminars
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Angular Morphomechanics in the Establishment of Multicellular Architecture of Glandular Tissues | Speaker: Kandice Tanner (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Neuroregulatory Mechanisms of the Human Sleep Wake System | Speaker: Lisa Rogers, Ph.D. (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Quantitative Manipulations of the Cell Cycle in Vivo in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster | Laura Buttitta (U-M MCDB)
2010 Quantitative Biology Seminars
HET Brown Bag Series
2016 HET Brown Bag Seminars
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Modular Hamiltonians and Relative Entropies for Holographic States
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Exotic Signals in the Twin Higgs Model
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | A Broadband Approach to Axion Dark Matter Detection
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Emergent Themes Workshop
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | A Panoramic View of Infrared Singularities
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Dark Photons from the Center of the Earth
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Drama From Strings
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Expanding the Landscape of N=2 Super-Conformal Field Theories
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Baryogenesis and Particle-Antiparticle Oscillations
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Exploring Spectral Bounds from Modular Invariance
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Witten Diagrams and the Geometry of Conformal Blocks
2015 HET Brown Bag Seminars
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | New Directions in Dark Matter Direct Detection
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Universal Corner Entanglement in Conformal Field Theories
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Towards a No-Lose Theorem for Naturalness
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Anti-Branes, Fluxes, and Black Holes
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Displaced Physics at the LHC: R-Parity Violation and Displaced Higgs
The Old Made New: Nonlinear Sigma Models
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Supersymmetric Flavors on Curved Space and a Precision Test of AdS/CFT
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Algebraic Structures in Superconformal Field Theories
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The Vector Portal: A Window to a Dark Sector
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Anomalies, RG Flows, and the a-Theorem in 6d
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Pure Gravity Mediation
HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Kerr/CFT in the Sky
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | New Goals for AdS Black Holes
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The Orbifold Higgs
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Generalized Indices for N=1 Theories in Four-Dimensions
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Great Lakes String Conference
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Goldstone Gauginos
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Bootstrapping the 6d N=(2,0) Theory
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR<br>The Twin Higgs Mechanism and Composite Higgs
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Signals of Asymmetric Dark Matter From Galactic Center Pulsar Implosions
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Holographic Glasses
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | RG Flow of Entanglement Entropy
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Exact Solutions of 2d Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Not-so-sterile Neutrinos and New Leptonic Interactions
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Searching for Dark Photon with Dark Matter Detectors
2014 HET Brown Bag Seminars
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy WIMP Annihilation
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Sequestered String Scenarios: Global Embedding, de Sitter Modulistabilisation and Soft-Terms
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Holomorphic Twist and Supersymmetric Partition Functions
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Testing Electroweak Baryogenesis with Future Colliders
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | S-Duality for Intersecting D3-Branes
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Maximally Natural Supersymmetry and Its Natural New Signatures
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Domain Walls, Triples, and Acceleration
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Field Theory on Gibbons-Hawking Spaces
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Scattering Amplitudes and Cluster Polylogarithms
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on a Supersymmetric Higgs Portal
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Natural Supersymmetry in Warped Space
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Holographic Entanglement Entropy and Gravitational Anomalies</br>
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Probing the Deep IR of Scaling Geometries
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The Amplituhedron
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Annihilation Signals from Asymmetric Dark Matter
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Probing Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The SIMP Miracle
SPECIAL MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Dynamical R-Parity Violation
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | 3d Gravity, Universality and Poincare Series
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Exploring Exotic Production of the 126 GeV Higgs
2012 HET Brown Bag Seminars
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Higher Spin Symmetry and Its Breaking in Conformal Field Theories
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Results for Loop Operators in 3D N=2 SCFTS
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Looking for New Probes of Dark Matter Annihilation in the CMB Sky
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Higgs Discovery: Is there New Physics?
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Exact Results in 5d Superconformal Theories with Gravity Duals
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR<br>Aspects of Accidental Symmetry
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Quantization of Fayet-Iliopoulos Parameters in Supergravity
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The Shape of Light Stops
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Measuring a Partially Composite Higgs Boson at the LHC Using Quantum Interference of Helicity Amplitudes
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | RG Flows, Entanglement, and Holography Workshop
HET Brown Bag Series | The Z' Contribution to the Same-Charge Dimuon Asymmetry and the Recent LHCb Result | Speaker: Seodong Shin (Seoul National University)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | The Incredible Bulk | Speaker: Idse Heemskerk (UCSB)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | AdS/CMT Out of Equilibrium | Speaker: Julian Sonner (Cambridge University)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | A Flow of Dark Matter Debris: Exploring New Possibilities for Substructure | Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Gravity Duals of Cascading Theories: Higgsing and Seiberg Dualities | Speaker: Jerome Gaillard (Wisconsin)
Special HET Brown Bag Seminar | Quantum Field Theory and Grassmannian Geometry | Speaker: Jacob Bourjaily (Harvard) | PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE/TIME!
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Non-Supersymmetric Conifold | Speaker: Anatoly Dymarksy (IAS)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Weak Scale Leptogenesis, R-Symmetry, and a Displaced Higgs | Speaker: Keith Rehermann (MIT)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Speaker: Silviu Pufu (MIT)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Holography for Inflationary Cosmology | Speaker: Paul McFadden (Perimeter)
Special HET Brown Bag Seminar | F-theory, Grand Unification, and the Bottom-up Approach to String Phenomenology | Speaker: Joseph Marsano (University of Chicago)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Cosmic Corals | Speaker: Dionysius Anninos (Stanford University)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Speaker: Jared Kaplan (SLAC)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | N=1 SCFTs From M5 Branes | Speaker: Nikolay Bobev (Stonybrook)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Studying Hadronically Decaying Particles Using Photons and Leptons | Speaker: Yevgeny Kats (Rutgers)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Results of Dark Matter Searches in Dwarf Galaxies with Fermi | Speaker: Alex Geringer-Sameth
2011 HET Brown Bag Seminars
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Speaker: Paul Chesler (MIT)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | The Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes | Speaker: Michael Kiermaier (Princeton University, Physics)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Stealth Supersymmetry | Speaker: Matt Reece (Harvard University, Physics)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Search for New Non-Standard Decays of the SM-Like Higgs at the LHC | Speaker: Jinrui Huang (UC Irvine, Physics)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Speaker: Monica Guica (University of Pennsylvania, Physics)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Quantum Gravity and the Ising Model |Speaker: Tom Hartman (IAS)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Mitigating Moduli Problem in Low-Scale SUSY Breaking | Speaker: JiJi Fan (Princeton University Physics)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Speaker: Yu Nakayama (IPMU/California Institute of Technology)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Non-Static Extra Dimensions | Speaker: Chiu Man
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Supercurrents and Brane Currents in Diverse Dimensions
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Classical Strings in AdS, Pohlmeyer Reductions, and Integrability
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Classical Strings in AdS, Pohlmeyer Reductions, and Integrability
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Black Holes from Matrices
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Axion-Assisted Electroweak Baryogenesis
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Asymmetric Dark Matter from Leptogenesis
Special HET Brown Bag Seminar | A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators | Speaker: Balt Vanrees (Stony Brook)
2010 HET Brown Bag Seminars
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Wall-Crossing and Instantons in Compactified Gauge Theories
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Strange Metals from Holography
HET Brown Bag Seminar | The Search for New GeV-scale Forces
HET Brown Bag Seminar | The Effects of the Supersymmetric Seesaw on the Dark Matter and Collider Signals
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Jets and Jet-Substructure at the LHC: New Techniques and Applications
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Twisted Inflation
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Consistent Truncation of Fermions in IIB and D=11 Supergravity
HET Brown Bag Seminar | When Worlds Collide
HET Brown Bag Seminar | SUSY-Yukawa Sum Rule and MT2 Mass Measurements at the LHC
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Effective Conformal Theory and the Flat-Space Limit of AdS
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Searching for Exotic Higgs Decay at LEP2
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Extremal Three-Point Correlators in Kerr/CFT
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Generalized Lifshitz-Kosevich Scaling at Quantum Criticality from the Holographic Correspondence
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Extremal Black Hole Quasinormal Modes and Emergent Criticality in (2+1)-Dimensional QFTs at Zero Temperature
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Axion Quality and Large Gauge Group Hidden Sectors
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Wilson Loops in Various Representations
HET Brown Bag Seminar | TBA
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Gauge/Gravity Duality
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Holographic Quantum Liquids in 1+1D
HET Brown Bag Seminar | CANCELLED
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Astrophysical Constraints on Interacting Dark Matter
2013 HET Brown Bag Seminars
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Wilsonian and Large N Approaches to Non-Fermi Liquids
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Black Hole Formation Process at the Correspondence Point
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Searching for Light Dark Matter at Neutrino Factories
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | BBN and the Unnatural Weak Scale
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Search for Signatures of Dark Matter Induced Nucleon Decay:
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | From Dlogs to Dilogs
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | LHC Phenomenology of Type II Seesaw
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The Contribution of Planck to Cosmology
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | On the (2,0) Theory and 5D SYM
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR |Learning How to Count
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Black Funnels
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Stringy Hidden Valleys
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Neutrino Masses and Leptogenesis from Extra Fermions
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Vacuum Stability, Standard Model Extensions, and the 125 GeV Higgs
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Quantum Computation vs. Firewalls
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | The Top-Quark Charge Asymmetry with a Jet Handle
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Rare Event Searches Underground: New Physics Opportunities and Old Claims
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Black holes, Fuzzballs and Firewalls
MCTP HET BROWN BAG SEMINAR | Black Holes, Fuzzballs and Firewalls
HET Seminars
2016 HET Seminars
Black Hole Evaporation from D0-Brane Quantum Mechanics
Compactifying M-Theory on a G2 Manifold to Describe our World
How Hard is it to Get a De Sitter Solution in String Theory?
Graduate Student Gong Show
Noisy Branes
Conformal Bootstrap in Fractional Dimensions
Dark Energy: Testing Gravity in Voids
Gravitational Instability in AdS and the Thermalization of Dual Gauge Theories
Renormalization Group Effects in Dark-Matter Direct Detection
Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents with Beauty and Charm
Minimal Area Surfaces and Wilson Loops in the AdS/CFT Correspondence
2015 HET Seminars
Looking for a Bulk Point
Dirac Gauginos the Hard Way
Fencing in the Swampland
Frame Anomalies for the Entanglement in Chiral Theories
Massive and Partially Massless Gravity
Exotic Branes and 3D Supergravity
CFTs Old and New from the Bootstrap
<b>HET SEMINAR</b><br>Cross-Order Relations from Maximal Unitarity
<b>HET SEMINAR</B><br>Nnaturalness
<b>HET SEMINAR</b><br>A W-Prime Boson of Mass Near 2 TeV
<b>HET SEMINAR</b><br>Being Flat with No Symmetries
<b>HET SEMINAR</b><br>Scattering Equations and the Cachazo-He-Yuan Representation for Massless (and Massive) Gauge-Theory Amplitudes
HET SEMINAR<br>Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes
HET SEMINAR<br>Hexagon Functions: Bootstrapping an NMHV Amplitude through Four Loops
HET SEMINAR<br> How Accurate is Perturbation Theory? A Look at 2D Quantum Yang-Mills
HET SEMINAR<br>Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT
HET SEMINAR<br>Infrared Quantum Gravity
HET SEMINAR<br>What is Sudakov Safety?
HET SEMINAR<br>Electroweak Precision Tests: Present and Future
HET SEMINAR<br>Dark Matter as a New Particle
HET SEMINAR<br>The Memory Effect of Gravitational Waves in General Relativity
HET SEMINAR<br>Searching for Supersymmetry, Natural or Not
HET SEMINAR<br>The Higgs As a Portal to New Physics
HET SEMINAR<br>Do We Know If Our Universe Is Stable?
2014 HET Seminars
HET SEMINAR <br> Holography and the Exact Renormalization Group
HET SEMINAR<br>Gauge Origin of Higher Spin Duality
HET SEMINAR <br> Directional Neutrino Detection: from Characterizing the Cosmic Neutrino Background to Imaging Nuclear Reactors
HET SEMINAR<br>Composite Higgs Models with “The Works"
HET SEMINAR <br> Hidden GeV-Scale Interactions of Quarks and Dark Matter
HET SEMINAR<br>A Study of Holographic Entanglement: The Accelerated Quark-Anti-Quark Paradigm
HET SEMINAR<br>On Spacetime Entanglement
HET SEMINAR<br> Explicitly Broken Supersymmetry with Exactly Massless Moduli
HET SEMINAR<br>Holographic Heat Engines, and the Nuts and Bolts of Thermodynamic Volumes
HET SEMINAR<br>The N=8 Superconformal Bootstrap in Three Dimensions
HET SEMINAR<br>Holographic RG Flows
HET SEMINAR<br>Solitons on Intersecting D3-Branes
HET SEMINAR<br>Composite Strongly Interacting Dark Matter
SPECIAL HET SEMINAR<br>Boosted Top Physics and the Top Mass
SPECIAL HET SEMINAR<br>Duality on Intersecting D3-branes</br>
HET SEMINAR<br>One Loop Tests of Higher Spin AdS/CFT</br>
HET SEMINAR<br>Exceptional N=1 Duality</br>
HET SEMINAR<br>Quantization of Time Crystals</br>
HET SEMINAR<br>Higgs Physics at the LHC Run II
HET SEMINAR<br>Moonshine in String Theory
HET SEMINAR<br>Precision Predictions for the Higgs Transverse Momentum
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR<br>Searching for Dark Matter at the LHC</br>
HET SEMINAR<br>Dirac-Split Supersymmetry</br>
HET SEMINAR<br>Classifying 4-d N=2 Superconformal Field Theories
HET SEMINAR<br>Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics
HET SEMINAR<br>Stellar Particle Physics: Neutrinos, Axions, and Massive Stars
2013 HET Seminars
HET SEMINAR | Axion Detection with NMR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | The Superconformal Bootstrap Program
HET SEMINAR | CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | Introduction to Topics of the MCTP Black Hole Workshop
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | How I Learned to Worry About Stops and Love Naturalness: Topics in Lambda-SUSY
HET SEMINAR | Generalised Geometry for String and M-theory
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | The Twistor String and All Yang-Mills Tree Amplitudes
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | Hunting for Dark Matter
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | Explanation, Update & Extension of Compactified M/String Theory Prediction of the Higgs Boson Mass
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | Mapping the Space of N=1 Superconformal Field Theories from M5-branes on Riemann Surfaces
2012 HET Seminars
<b>Special HET Seminar</b><br>New Minimal Holographic Superconductors from Gauged Supergravity<br><b>Speaker: Jorge Russo (Barcelona and Perimeter)</b></br>
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | Some Generalized Geometry and Its Relation to M-theory
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR
HET SEMINAR | The Geometry of the Quantum Hall Effect
HET SEMINAR | Warped Conformal Field Theory
HET SEMINAR | Direct CP Violation in D \to P+P-."
HET SEMINAR | Confronting Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the LHC Data
HET SEMINAR | Direct Detection of Dark Matter and Lattice QCD
HET Seminar | Massive Gravity and Cosmology | Speaker: Claudia de Rham (CWRU)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Michele Papucci (Berkeley)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC)
HET Seminar | Higgs Boson and New Physics at the LHC | Speaker: Liantao Wang (Chicago)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Diana Vaman
HET Seminar | Speaker: Derek Teany
HET Seminar | Speaker: Rob Myers
HET Seminar | Speaker: Natalia Toro
HET Seminar | Speaker: Can Kilic
HET Seminar | New SCFTs from F-Theory | Speaker: Brian Wecht (Harvard)
HET Seminar | Holographic Quantum Quench | Speaker: Sumit Das (Kentucky)
HET Seminar | Searching for Low Mass Dark Matter | Speaker: Tom Schwarz (Fermilab)
HET Seminar | Scale Without Conformal Invariance in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory | Speaker: Ben Grinstein (UCSD)
2011 HET Seminars
HET Seminar | Speaker: Samir Mathur (Ohio State)
HET Seminar | Speaker: C. Keeler (U-M)
HET Special Workshop | Amplitudes 2011
HET Seminar | The Charge Radius of the Proton, a 5 Sigma Discrepancy? | Speaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Patrick Meade
HET Seminar | N-Subjettiness | Speaker: Jesse Thaler (MIT)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Radja Boughezal (Argonne)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Quiros
HET Seminar | Black Holes in Higher Spin Gravity | Speaker: Michael Gutperle (UCLA, Physics)
HET Seminar | Speaker: Sean Tulin
HET Seminar | Webs, Exponentiation and Surfaces<br>Speaker: George Sterman (Harvard)
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | Deformations, Bions, and (De)Confinement
HET Seminar |TBD
HET Seminar | TBD
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | Holographic Dual of Free Field Theory
HET Seminar | TBD
HET Seminar | Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Light Force Carriers
HET Seminar | Entanglement, Information, and Holography
2010 HET Seminars
HET Seminar | TBD
HET Seminar | Testing Astrophysical Black Holes
HET Seminar | TBD
HET Seminar | TBD
HET Seminar | A Model-Independent Approach to WIMP Dark Matter
HET Seminar | TBD
HET Seminar | Quantum Field Theory Without Lagrangians
HET Seminar | Primordial Power Spectra from Anisotropic Inflation
HET Seminar | Algebraic Singularity Methods for Mass Measurements with Missing Energy
HET Seminar | Stringy Corrections to the Kahler Potential, SUSY Breaking and the Stabilization of (All) Kahler Moduli
HET Seminar | Modifying Gravity in the Infra Red By Imposing an "Ultra-Strong" Equivalence Principle
HET Seminar | Black Holes in Our Galactic Halo: Compatibility with FGST Data and Constraints on the First Stars
HET Seminar | Testing SUSY Without Prejudice
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | Non-Standard Supersymmetric Higgs Sectors
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | Effective Field Theory in Cosmology
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | SUSY Splits But Then Returns
HET Seminar | Dark Matter from the Baryon Asymmetry
HET Seminar | TBA
HET Seminar | Modifying Gravity
HET Seminar | Light Hidden Sectors
Special HET Seminar | Generalized Geometry and M Theory
Life After Grad School Seminars
2016 Life After Grad School Seminars
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR | My Path from Ann Arbor to San Diego and the Naval Research & Development Establishment
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR | The Winding Route
2015 Life After Grad School Seminars
<b>LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR</b><Br>From Physics to Data Science
<b>LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR</b><br>What a Long, Strange (and Charmed) Trip It's Been
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Careers in Physics: What is Out There?
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>From Quarks to Cars: A Physics Ph.D. Outside Academia
2014 Life After Grad School Seminars
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL<br>What's Next? Careers after Graduate School In and Out of the Academy
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>A Career in Industry
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Getting to Innovation: Lessons Learned Along my Journey from a Student to a Scientist-Entrepreneur</br>
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>Apply Your Technical Expertise to a Career in Patent Law
LIFE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL SEMINAR<br>How to Use a PhD to Make People Angry, Happy, and/or Enlightened</br>
Farrand Memorial Lecture
<b>FARRAND MEMORIAL LECTURE</b><br>The Timeline of the Universe: From the Big Bang to the Far Future
Workshops & Conferences
<b>FOUNDATION OF MODERN PHYSICS WORKSHOP</b><br>Foundations of Ordinary Quantum Mechanics Workshop
<b>PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM</b><br>Radiations, Photons and Interference
<b>PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM</b><br>Ultra-Thin, Smooth and Low Loss Al-Doped Ag Film and Its Application in Optoelectronic Devices
<b>PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM</b><br>Hyperbolic Metamaterials Based on Graphene-Dielectric Multilayers
PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM<br>Measuring the Stark Shift in the Two-Photon Cross Section of Fluorescent Proteins
<b>PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM</b><br>Parton Dynamics in High Energy Proton Proton Collisions at PHENIX<br>
PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM<br>Information Divergence Estimation in Signal Processing and Machine Learning
<b>PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM<b><br>Galaxy Evolution in X-Ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data
<b>Physics Graduate Student Symposium</b><br>Engineering the Properties and Defects of InAsSb by Atomic Surface Structure
<b>PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM</b><br>Spintronic Devices and Spin Physics in Bulk Semiconductors
MCTP Workshop
Miscellaneous
Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science: Accreting Black Holes: Blasts from the Past
PHYSICS 391 OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION: Introduction to Modern Physics Laboratory
COLLEGIATE PROFESSORSHIP INAUGURAL LECTURE: Heat Rises: 100 Years of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
CANCELLED Due to Travel Issues from East Coast Blizzard! ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM: Global Radiation MHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks
MICHIGAN THEATER SCIENCE ON SCREEN: Physicist Tim Chupp Presents After Documentary
<b>ICAM EMERGENCE SYMPOSIUM 2015</b><Br>Emergence: Compelling Examples and Unifying Approaches
<b>SPECIAL SEMINAR</b><Br>Electrically Controlled Quibits in Silicon
<b>SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>Testing Gravity Using Galaxy Redshift Surveys and CMB
<b>COSMOLOGY - ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Evading Non-Linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the Linear Point
Cosmology - Asrophysics Seminar: Evading Non-Linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the Linear Point (Wed, 14 Oct 2015)
<b>COSMOLOGY - ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Cosmic Microwave Background Power Asymmetry and Non-Gaussianity
<b>SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>CMB Cosmology with ACT, Planck and ACTPol
SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
<b>SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE<br>From the Big Bang to the End of the Time: Scientific Creativity and the Limits of Knowledge</b>
<b>DPF2015</b>
<b>Strongly Correlated Topological Insulators: SmB6 and Beyond Conference</b>
SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE<br>Cooking up Cosmology with the Dark Energy Detectives
<i>Jeweled Net of the Vast Invisible:<br> an experience of dark matter</i><br>Live Performance and Preview
DES @ Michigan Collaboration Meeting
SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE<br>2015 Ralph B. Baldwin Award Lecture in Astrophysics and Space Sciences<br><b>Featuring: Physics Alumnus<br>Dr. Tomasz Biesiadzinski</b><br><i>Unbiasing Cosmological Surveys</i></b>
<b>2015 Distinguished University Innovator Award<br><i>An Academic's Adventures in Business</i></b>
ASTRONOMY MEETING<br>Compact Objects in Michigan
ASTRONOMY<br>Undergraduate Poster Session
Special Physics Related Event<br><i>Orbit Design</i> - Featuring Pre-Performance Talk by Professor Robert Savit</b>
Dissertation Defense: Vibrational Probe and Methods Development for Studying the Ultrafast Dynamics of Preferential Solvation of Biomolecules by 2D-IR
Watch Space Jam Movie, Post Movie Physics of Basketball and Cartoon Physics Talk with Professor Tim Chupp
2015 HENRY RUSSEL LECTURE<br>Featuring Professor Homer A. Neal<br><i>Beyond Sputnik: Challenges Facing America's National Science Policies</i>
BIOCOMPLEXITY SEMINAR<br>Two Vignettes in Computational Neuroscience: From Data to Models
2015 APS CONFERENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN PHYSICS
MCTP HET BROWN BAG <br> Renyi Entropy, Stationarity, and Entanglement of the Conformal Scalar
BIOCOMPLEXITY SEMINAR<br>Network Analysis of Structure-Function Relationships in Neurobiology
TA-YOU WU LECTURE IN PHYSICS<br>The Universe: Continuing Surprises
BIOCOMPLEXITY SEMINAR <br> The Dynamics of Calcium: Oscillations and Waves, Experiments and Theory
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Winter 2002
SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
Winter 2003
SMP 4/12/03 | Dark Matter and Dark Energy in Cosmology | Speaker: Katie Freese
SMP 4/5/03 | Dark Matter and Dark Energy in Cosmology | Speaker: Katie Freese
SMP 3/29/03 | Radioactivity: What’s the Use? | Speaker: Henry Griffin
SMP 3/22/03 | Radioactivity: Glow Blue! | Speaker: Henry Griffin
SMP 3/13/03 | The Physics of Nothing | Speaker: David Gerdes
SMP 2/15/03 | The Timing of Biological Evolution | Speaker: Vaughn Cooper
SMP 2/8/03 | The Arrow of Time in Physics | Speaker: Timothy McKay
SMP 2/1/03 | The Philosophy of Time | Speaker: Thomas Hofweber
Fall 2003
SMP 12/13/03 | Where Does the Real World Meet Superconductors? | Speaker: Sa-Lin Cheng Bernstein
SMP 12/6/03 | Why Make Holes in Superconductors? | Speaker: Sa-Lin Cheng Bernstein
SMP 11/22/03 | What Puts the Super in Superconductors? | Speaker: Sa-Lin Cheng Bernstein
SMP 11/15/03 | Probing the Causes of Disease: Single Molecule Studies of Dancing DNA | Speaker: Seth Blumberg
SMP 11/8/03 | Calling 911: The Physics of Heart and Lung Function | Speaker: Seth Blumberg
SMP 11/1/03 | Saving Lives: The Physics of Medical Imaging | Speaker: Seth Blumberg
SMP 10/25/03 | Finding the Invisible | Speaker: Stephen Miller
SMP 10/18/03 | Weighing the Untouchable | Speaker: Stephen Miller
SMP 10/11/03 | Seeing the Subatomic | Speaker: Stephen Miller
Winter 2004
SMP 4/17/04 | Shedding Light on Dark Energy: An Experimental Perspective | Speaker: Gregory Tarle
SMP 4/13/04 | Dark Energy and Our Runaway Universe | Speaker: Gregory Tarle
SMP 3/27/04 | Black Holes in String Theory | Speaker: Leopoldo Pando Zayas
SMP 3/20/04 | Novel Insights & Inventions | Speaker: Myron Campbell
SMP 3/13/04 | Electromagnetic Mysteries Explained | Speaker: Myron Campbell
SMP 3/6/04 | Electric Ideas | Speaker: Myron Campbell
SMP 2/14/04 | Magnificent Mars! | Speaker: Ken Croswell
Fall 2004
SMP 12/18/04 | Fired Up Neurons: Brain Oscillations and Synchronization | Speaker: Rhonda Dzakpasu
SMP 12/11/04 | Can You See a Thought? | Speaker: Rhonda Dzakpasu
SMP 12/4/04 | What is Memory? | Speaker: Rhonda Dzakpasu
SMP 11/6/04 | A Particle Physicist's Toolbox | Speaker: Dan Levin
SMP 11/13/04 | Heff Heff, A Herrible Higgsalump! (In Which A Trap is Set to Capture a Higgs) | Speaker: Dan Levin
SMP 11/20/04 | The Future of Particle Physics | Speaker: Dan Amidei
SMP 10/30/04 | Harnessing Quantum Weirdness: Quantum Computing with Cold Atoms | Speaker: Paul Haljan
SMP 10/23/04 | Quantum Tornadoes Near Absolute Zero | Speaker: Paul Haljan
SMP 10/16/04 | The Coolest Place in the Universe: Cooling and Trapping Atoms with Lasers | Speaker: Paul Haljan
Winter 2005
SMP 5/21/05 | Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of Our Dying Universe | Speaker: Fred Adams
SMP 5/14/05 | How to Catch a Gravitational Wave | Speaker: Keith Riles
SMP 5/7/05 | Gravitational Waves - Ripples of Space | Speaker: Keith Riles
SMP 4/23/05 | The Art of Physics Demonstrations | Speaker: Mark Kennedy, Harminder Sandhu, Warren Smith
SMP 4/16/05 | Solar Neutrinos: The Problem, Its Resolution | Speaker: Timothy Chupp
SMP 4/9/05 | The Quest to Discover New “Earths” | Speaker: John Monnier
SMP 4/2/05 | How Do We Know the Big Bang Really Happened? Case Closed | Speaker: Timothy McKay
SMP 3/19/05 | How Do We Know the Big Bang Really Happened? Early Evidence | Speaker: Timothy McKay
SMP 3/12/05 | Cosmic Genesis: How Physics Drives the Structure of the Universe | Speaker: Fred Adams
SMP 2/19/05 | Supermarket Biology | Speaker: Daniel Klionsky
SMP 2/12/05 | Physics to Pharmaceuticals | Speaker: Jeanne Stuckey
Fall 2005
SMP 12/3/05 | Matter Condensed: Science, Emergence & Society | Speaker: James Allen
SMP 11/19/05 | Matter Condensed: Science, Technology & Society | Speaker: James Allen
SMP 11/12/05 | A Better Future through Annihilation: Positrons in Materials Science | Speaker: Richard Vallery
SMP 11/5/05 | Gone in 140 Nanoseconds: The Measurement of a Lifetime | Speaker: Richard Vallery
SMP 10/29/05 | Gamma-Ray Bursts: Special Relativity in the Brightest Explosions | Speaker: Sarah Yost
SMP 10/22/05 | Observing Special Relativistic Effects Directly in Astronomy | Speaker: Sarah Yost
SMP 10/15/05 | Special Relativity: Where Do Stretched Time & Squeezed Length Come From? | Speaker: Sarah Yost
SMP 10/8/05 | Origins | Speaker: Martinus J.G. Veltman
SMP 10/1/05 | 1905: Einstein and Bern, A Year to Remember | Speaker: Thomas Zurbuchen
Winter 2006
SMP 4/22/06 | Applied Evolution: Domestication, Disease, Crime & Culture | Speaker: David Mindell
SMP 4/8/06 | Evolutionary Guide to the Tree of Life | Speaker: David Mindell
SMP 4/1/06 | Evolution of Robotics | Speaker: Peter Swanson
SMP 3/25/06 | Mars and the Evolution of Thought | Speaker: Eric Rabkin
SMP 3/18/06 | Scientific Uncertainty and Public Policy: Moving On Without All the Answers | Speaker: Henry Pollack
SMP 3/11/06 | How Old: The Physics of Dating Artifacts | Speaker: Fred Becchetti
SMP 2/18/06 | Natural Selection & the Regulation of Defense Responses: How Much Suffering is Enough? | Speaker: Randolph Nesse
SMP 2/11/06 | Genomes and Evolution | Speaker: George Zhang
SMP 2/4/06 | Evolution of Infectious Diseases: from Host-Parasite Arms Races to Superbugs | Speaker: Johannes Foufopoulos
SMP 1/28/06 | Nanomedicine – A New Frontier for Physics | Speaker: Jens-Christian Meiners
SMP 1/21/06 | Evolution: The Fossil Record and the Origin of Whales | Speaker: Philip Gingerich
Fall 2006
SMP 12/9/06 | Automobile Efficiencies: Reducing Fuel Use While Improving Safety | Speaker: Marc Ross
SMP 11/18/06 | Apocalypse Maybe: Speculative Doomsday Scenarios for the End of the Earth | Speaker: Eli Rykoff
SMP 12/2/06 | Automobile Efficiencies: Reducing Fuel Use While Improving Safety | Speaker: Marc Ross
SMP 11/11/06 | Apocalypse Maybe: Speculative Doomsday Scenarios for the End of the Earth | Speaker: Eli Rykoff
SMP 11/4/06 | Apocalypse Maybe: Speculative Doomsday Scenarios for the End of the Earth | Speaker: Eli Rykoff
SMP 10/28/06 | Higher, Faster, Longer: From Model Rocketry to Rocket Science | Speaker: Andrew Tomasch
SMP 10/14/06 | Biophysics and Single Molecules – Where Smaller is Better! | Speaker: Gerard Blab
SMP 10/21/06 | Higher, Faster, Longer: From Model Rocketry to Rocket Science | Speaker: Andrew Tomasch
Winter 2007
SMP 4/21/07 | Earth’s Changing Climate – What’s in Store for the Future? | Speaker: Henry Pollack
SMP 4/14/07 | Future of Electronics | Speaker: Cagliyan Kurdak
SMP 3/31/07 | The Electronics Revolution | Speaker: Cagliyan Kurdak
SMP 3/24/07 | The Physics Behind Music | Speaker: Christopher Monroe
SMP 3/17/07 | The Physics Behind Music | Speaker: Christopher Monroe
SMP 3/10/07 | Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nuclear Weapons | Speaker: Mike Sanders
SMP 2/17/07 | Chemical Agents as Triggers of Neurological Disease | Speaker: Rudy J. Richardson
SMP 2/10/07 | Weapons of Mass Destruction: Biological Weapons | Speaker: Phil Hanna
Fall 2007
SMP 12/1/07 | Physics (and Chemistry and Biology...) of Mastodons and Mammoths | Speaker: Daniel Fisher
SMP 11/17/07 | How Do You Mend a Broken Heart? Current Treatments and Novel Strategies for Cardiovascular Disease | Speaker: Louise Hecker
SMP 11/10/07 | Muscling in on Tissue Engineering | Speaker: Louise Hecker
SMP 11/3/07 | Lightning Lights: The Mercury Float Lighthouse Lens or How You float a 4,000lb Lens in 600 lbs of Liquid | Speaker: James Woodward
SMP 11/3/07 | Four Myths of the Copernican Revolution | Speaker: Owen Gingerich
SMP 10/27/07 | Fresnel: Before and After | Speaker: James Woodward
SMP 10/20/07 | It's All About Light! | Speaker: Bradford Orr
SMP 10/13/07 | We All Need Just the Right Amount of Exposure | Speaker: Bradford Orr
SMP 10/6/07 | How to Keep Your Focus: The Physics of Camera Lenses | Speaker: Bradford Orr
Winter 2008
SMP 4/12/08 | Taking the Plunge: The Physics of Roller Coasters | Speaker: David Gerdes
SMP 4/5/08 | Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe | Speaker: Dragan Huterer
SMP 3/29/08 | Cosmic Rays | Speaker: Lawrence W. Jones
SMP 3/8/08 | Modeling the Cosmos: Observations and Simulations | Speaker: Elena Rasia
SMP 3/15/08 | Encounters with Modern Physics | Speaker: Samuel C. C. Ting
SMP 2/16/08 | String Theory: What is it Good For? | Speaker: Sera Cremonini
SMP 2/9/08 | What is String Theory Anyway? | Speaker: Sera Cremonini
SMP 2/2/08 | Adventitious Machinery: Our Heritage as Amplified Noise | Speaker: Gus Evrard
Fall 2008
SMP 11/15/08 | Non-Euclidean Sports and the Geometry of Surfaces | Speaker: Richard Canary
SMP 11/8/08 | What Physics Has To Do with Brain Function | Speaker: Michal Zochowski
SMP 11/1/08 | Tricks with Light: How Microscopy Reveals the Biological World | Speaker: Jennifer Ogilvie
SMP 10/25/08 | Buddhism and Science | Speaker: Donald Lopez
SMP 10/18/08 | The Large Hadron Collider: The World’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerator | Speaker: Homer Neal
SMP 10/11/08 | A Current Perspective on Great Lakes Water Levels | Speaker: Frank H. Quinn
SMP 10/4/08 | Revealing the Building Blocks of Our Universe | Speaker: Aaron Pierce
SMP 9/27/08 | Superstring Cosmology: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Inflation | Speaker: Scott Watson
SMP 9/20/08 | A Physicist Looks at Brain Tumors | Speaker: Leonard Sander
SMP 9/13/08 | A Panel Discussion of Complicite's "A Disappearing Number" | Speaker: The University Musical Society
Winter 2009
SMP 4/4/09 | Milky Way Galaxy: Keeper of the Darkest Secrets of the Universe | Speaker: Oleg Gnedin
SMP 3/28/09 |Black Holes Along the Cosmic Time | Speaker: Marta Volonteri
SMP 3/21/09 | Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies | Speaker: Doug Richstone
SMP 3/14/09 | Amateur Astronomy: From Ann Arbor to the Universe | Speaker: University Lowbrow Astronomers
SMP 3/7/09 | Building Planets: When and How? | Speaker: Nuria Calvet
SMP 2/14/09 | How Did Earth Get Its Water? | Speaker: Ted Bergin
SMP 2/7/09 | Four-Hundred Years of Cosmic Discovery: Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy | Speaker: Timothy McKay
Fall 2009
SMP 11/21/09 | Sparks and Wiggles | Speaker: Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.
SMP 11/14/09 | The Science of Music | Speaker: Jim Allen
SMP 11/7/09 | Dynamics of Spinning, Rolling, and Skating | Speaker: Tony Bloch
SMP 10/31/09 | Light of The Living Dead: The Remarkable Radiation from Neutron Stars | Speaker: Keith Riles
SMP 10/24/09 | Protein, Fat, or Politics? Big-Game Hunting in Human Evolution | Speaker: John D. Speth
SMP 10/17/09 | The Museum of Zoology: A Priceless Collection of Life | Speaker: William Fink
SMP 10/10/09 | How Fast is Evolution? | Speaker: Phillip Gingerich
SMP 10/3/09 | Mirrors, Anti-Matter, & the Left-Handed World | Speaker: Dan Amidei
Winter 2010
SMP 4/17/10 | Beyond Fossil Fuels: Options and Challenges | Speaker: Levi Thompson
SMP 4/10/10 | Solar to Chemical Energy Storage: Prospects for Artificial Photosynthesis | Speaker: Stephen Maldonado
SMP 3/27/10 | The Inside Story on Lyuba, a Baby Woolly Mammoth from Siberia | Speaker: Daniel Fisher
SMP 3/20/10 | Plastics: Can They Be Used to Save the Planet? |Speaker: Stephen Forrest
SMP 3/13/10 | Black Holes and Chaos in String Theory | Speaker: Leo Pando-Zayas
SMP 2/20/10 | Light and Semiconductor Devices | Speaker: Vanessa Sih
SMP 2/13/10 | Hurricanes and Tornados and Floods! Oh, My! What’s Climate Got to Do With This? | Speaker: Perry Samson
Fall 2010
SMP 12/11/10 | Celebration of Physics | Speaker: Samuel C. C. Ting
SMP 12/4/10 | Particle Accelerators or Atom Smashers: the Engines of Discovery | Speaker: Lawrence Jones
SMP 11/13/10 | Meeting the World's Energy Needs with the Fusion Hybrid Reactor | Speaker: Terry Kammash
SMP 10/30/10 | Maintenance and Repair of Damaged Ears: Challenges for the Biologist and Bioengineer | Speaker: Yehoash Raphael
SMP 10/23/10 | Cochlear Implants: An Amazing Advancement | Speaker: Hussam El-Kashlan, Teresa A. Zwolan
SMP 10/16/10 | Comets and Cappuccinos: How a Coffee Break Helped Change the Way We Understand the Solar System | Speaker: Br. Guy Consolmango SJ
SMP 10/9/10 | Physics Meets Physiology: How We Hear and How We Can Lose Our Hearing | Speaker: Jochen Schacht
Winter 2011
SMP 4/16/11 | What Does the Nuclear Reactor Accident in Japan Mean for Our Energy Future? | Speaker: James Wells
SMP 4/9/11 | Collider Physics | Speaker: Jianming Qian
SMP 4/2/11 | Nature’s Magic | Speaker: Fred Becchetti
SMP 3/26/11 | New Physics at the LHC: A Theorist's Perspective | Speaker: Moira Gresham
SMP 3/19/11 | Taming the Killer Lakes of Africa | Speaker: George Kling
SMP 3/12/11 | Enhancing Flow Instabilities to Harness Hydrokinetic Energy | Speaker: Michael Bernitsas
SMP 2/19/11 | The Discovery of Liquid Saline Water on Mars | Speaker: Nilton O. Renno
SMP 2/12/11 | Ice and Water | Speaker: Henry Pollack
SMP 2/5/11 | A Brief History of Telling Time | Speaker: Aaron Leanhardt
Fall 2011
SMP 10/22/11 | The Other Side of Physics; What Can You Do With It? | Speaker: Tom Haddock
SMP 10/15/11 | Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background | Speaker: Jeffrey McMahon
SMP 10/8/11 | Ecological Complexity and Pest Control | Speaker: John Vandermeer
Winter 2012
SMP 3/24/12 | String Symphonies in the Sky: Understanding Black Holes Using String Theory | Speaker: Finn Larsen
SMP 3/17/12 | Cosmic Engines: The Complex Evolution of Galaxies | Speaker: Brian Nord Jr.
SMP 3/10/12 | The Shape of Our Universe: The Complexity of Large-Scale Structure and Large-Scale Science | Speaker: Brian Nord Jr.
SMP 2/18/12 | Quantum Field Theory: The Language of Particle Physics | Speaker: Henriette Elvang
SMP 2/11/12 | String Theory and Our Real World | Speaker: Gordon Kane
SMP 2/4/12 | From Negative Refraction to Wireless Power Transfer: The Path of the Superlens | Speaker: Roberto Merlin
SMP 1/28/12 | Crystals Made of Light | Speaker: Rachel Sapiro
SMP 1/21/12 | Einstein as a Cultural Figure | Speaker: Philip Glass, Sean Carroll, Michael Turner, Fred Adams
Fall 2012
SMP 12/8/12 | Cosmic Rhapsody: From the Echo of the Big Bang to the Orchestration of the Universe | Speaker: Heidi Wu
SMP 12/1/12 | Gravitational Lensing: Nature's Largest Telescopes | Speaker: Keren Sharon
SMP 11/10/12 | The Sun as a Star | Speaker: Alicia Aarnio
SMP 11/3/12 | Volcanoes and Precious Metal Deposits: What is the Connection? | Speaker: Adam Simon
SMP 10/27/12 | Solar Powering Your House or Saving the World One Electron at a Time | Speaker: Stephen Forrest
SMP 10/20/12 | How Flexible Bodies Move and Interact in Fluids | Speaker: Silas Alben
SMP 10/13/12 | The Physics Behind the Music | Speaker: James Liu
SMP 10/6/12 | The New Particle Discovery at LHC with the ATLAS Experiment | Speaker: Bing Zhou
Winter 2013
SMP 4/13/13 | Capillarity | Speaker: Professor Robert Deegan
SMP 3/13/13 | Peering Into the Proton | Speaker: Christine Aidala
SMP 3/16/13 | Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover | Speaker: Nilton O. Reno
SMP 3/9/13 | Into the Future with Plasma Rocketry: The Intriguing World of Electric Propulsion | Speaker: John E. Foster
SMP 2/16/13 | Entropy: Quantifying What We Don’t Know | Speaker: Cindy Keeler
SMP 2/9/13 | Metals with Memory: How These Amazing Materials Remember Their Shape | Speaker: Samantha Daly
SMP 2/2/13 | 100th Year Celebration: BRAVO! A Cultural Crossroads of Physics and the Performing Arts | Speaker: Scott Pfeiffer
Fall 2013
SMP 12/7/13 | Splash Gordon: The Origin of Water on Earth | Speaker: Ruud Visser
SMP 11/23/13 | Seeing the Unseeable: Black Holes and Revelation | Speaker: Rubens Reis
SMP 11/16/13 | Mapping the Beginning of the Universe | Speaker: Jeffrey McMahon
SMP 11/9/13 | Making the Chicken from the Egg: A Physicist's View of Animal Development | Speaker: David Lubensky
SMP 11/2/13 | Weighty Thoughts on the Origin of Mass | Speaker: James Wells
SMP 10/26/13 | What It Takes to Find the Elusive Sub-Nuclear Giant! | Speaker: J. Wehrley Chapman
SMP 10/19/13 | Hydraulic Fracturing 101: Clearing the Waters of the Fracking Debate | Speaker: Brian R. Ellis
SMP 10/12/13 | Epidemics, Kevin Bacon, and the Internet: The Physics of Networks | Speaker: Mark Newman
Winter 2014
SMP 4/12/14 | A Viking Navigational Aid: Polarized Light | Speaker: Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
SMP 3/29/14 | Particles and the Nature of All Things | Speaker: David Kaplan
SMP 3/22/14 | The Origin of Life: Chemistry As The Driver of Our Evolution | Speaker: Nils Walter
SMP 3/15/14 | Cell Membranes: Using Physics to Function | Speaker: Sarah Veatch
SMP 2/22/14 | Sculpting the Universe | Speaker: David Weinberg
SMP 2/15/14 | Where the Solar Wind Blows | Speaker: Susan Lepri
SMP 2/18/14 | Powering Cosmic Processes by Star Light | Speaker: Sally Oey
Fall 2014
SMP 12/13/14 | The Mechanics of Running | Speaker: Daniel Ferris
SMP 12/6/14 | Peering into the Atmospheres of Strange New Worlds | Speaker: Emily Rauscher
SMP 11/15/14 | Icy Worlds of the Outer Solar System | Speaker: David Gerdes
SMP 11/15/14 | Icy Worlds of the Solar System | Speaker: David Gerdes
SMP 11/8/14 | Responsible Environmentalism: A Physicist's Perspective | Speaker: Gregory Tarle
SMP 11/1/14 | SPECIAL EVENT: Ryoji Ikeda’s "Superposition" | Speaker: Ryoki Ideka, Adam Frank, Anthony Aguirre
SMP 10/25/14 | Measuring Your Technique to Improve Your Game | Speaker: Noel Perkins
SMP 10/18/14 | The Physics of Baseball | Speaker: Timothy Chupp
SMP 10/11/14 | Dynamic Locomotion in Humans, Animals, and Robots | Speaker: C. David Remy
Winter 2015
SMP 2/7/15 | Accretion Power in Astrophysics: Gravity Goes to Work | Speaker: Jon Miller
SMP 4/18/15 | Dark Energy, Alchemy, and Quantum Teleportation | Speaker: Graduate Students
SMP 4/11/15 | Topology and Electrons in Solids | Speaker: Lu Li
SMP 3/28/15 | The Secret Lives of Fluids | Speaker: David Goluskin
SMP 3/21/15 | Living Large: The Paleobiology Diplodocus and Other Long-Necked Dinosaurs | Speaker: Jeffrey Wilson
SMP 3/14/15 | Model Thinking: One to Many and Many to One | Speaker: Scott Page
SMP 2/21/15 | Hail to the Data: What We're Learning from Learning Analytics | Speaker: Timothy McKay
SMP 2/14/15 | Surfing the Universe | Speaker: Lydia Bieri
Fall 2015
SMP 12/5/15 | Coloring the Universe | Speaker: Travis Rector
SMP 11/21/15 | Mechanobiology at the Cellular Length Scale | Speaker: Allen Liu
SMP 11/14/15 | Mighty Cyanobacteria | Speaker: Gregory Dick
SMP 11/7/15 | Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos | Speaker: Francis Halzen
SMP 10/31/15 | The Physics of Halloween | Speaker: Timothy Chupp
SMP 10/24/15 | Measuring Time from the Ultrafast to the Ultraprecise | Speaker: Steven Cundiff
SMP 10/17/15 | Lighting Up Dark Matter | Speaker: Eric Bell
SMP 10/10/15 | When the Dust Settles: Ice Records Through Time | Speaker: Sarah Aciego
Winter 2016
SMP 4/9/16 | Photographing the Ghostly Neutrino | Speaker: Joshua Spitz
SMP 4/2/16 | Strategies for Promoting Learning in the STEM Classroom | Speaker: Anne McNeil
SMP 3/26/16 | Black Holes, Spintronics, and Time-Reversal Symmetry | Speaker: Graduate Students
SMP 3/19/16 | The Dark Side of the Universe | Speaker: Katherine Freese
SMP 3/12/16 | Higgs and the Beginning of the Universe | Speaker: Bibhushan Shakya
SMP 2/20/16 | The Hunt for Gravitational Waves: Was Einstein Right? | Speaker: Keith Riles
SMP 2/13/16 | Gravitational Waves: Einstein's Audacious Prediction | Speaker: Keith Riles
SMP 2/6/16 | How Volkswagen Got Caught Cheating | Speaker: John German
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