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Oct
08
2025 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Einstein, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Other Matters
Gabriela González, Boyd Professor of Physics (Louisiana State University)
4:00 PM
Fourth Floor Ampitheatre
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Join us in person for this lecture, or tune in via livestream at:
https://myumi.ch/MkzmE
More than a hundred years ago, Einstein predicted that there were ripples in the fabric of space-time traveling...
Jul
18
Andrew Cruz - Dissertation Defense
Outcompeting and Suppressing the Intramolecular Heck Arylation in Bimolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions
1:00 PM
1640
Chemistry Dow Lab
Jul
18
Andrew Bennett - Dissertation Defense
Ionic Cocrystals as Green Oxidizers
2:00 PM
A505
Chemistry Dow Lab
Aug
07
Merck Symposium
Ryan Shenvi from Scripps Research in California
8:15 AM
Chemistry Dow Lab