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- 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
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Beyond Neptune lies a frigid region of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. The thousands of minor planets that populate this region are relics from the formation of the solar system, cosmic leftovers that never became part of a larger planet. The Kuiper Belt has a rich dynamical structure that helps shed light on the processes by which the major planets formed. It also contains a small number of distant outliers whose orbits cannot be explained by interactions with the known planets in their current configurations. Professor Gerdes will describe the characteristics of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), and discuss a search for new TNOs we are conducting using data from the Dark Energy Survey. He will highlight the discovery of several new TNOs made this summer by undergraduates at Michigan.
Detailed Information
All talks are free and refreshments will be served. Visitor parking for the seminars (Central Campus) is across the street from the Dennison Building in the U-M Church Street structure. There is a $2.00 parking charge implemented by U-M Parking Services.
Contact Information
For more information regarding the Saturday Morning Physics series, see the Physics Department website, or call 734.764.4437.
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