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Norman M. Leff Assistant Professor Na Hyun Jo Selected as 2026 Cottrell Scholar
Dr. Na Hyun Jo has been named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
A ‘new era’ in cosmology: Dark Energy Survey releases new analysis of how the universe expands
Six years worth of data on nearly 670 million galaxies is helping scientists tighten the constraints on the dark energy driving the expansion of the universe
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Feb
28
Saturday Morning Physics | Surviving the Death of a Star: Life on Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Juliette Becker, Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
10:30 AM
170 & 182
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Feb
17
Applied Physics Seminar | Innovations in Scintillator Detector Technologies for Nuclear Material Monitoring and Verification
Dr. Sara A. Pozzi, Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, and Professor of Physics atthe University of Michigan
12:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
18
Department Colloquium | The Final Fermilab muon g-2 result
Tim Chupp (U-M Physics)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
19
The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
Dr. Andrea Banzatti, Associate Professor, Texas State University
3:30 PM
411
West Hall
Feb
20
Life After Grad School Seminars | I’m no expert – embracing the dynamics of industrial research
Dr. Joel McDonald, Technical Director for Dow's Mobility Science Segment and Applied Physics Alumnus 2007
12:00 PM
340
West Hall
Feb
23
HEP-Astro Seminar | Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?
Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
