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- 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
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Since 2004, David Weinberg has been collaborating with artist Josiah McElheny on the design of cosmologically inspired sculptures, which represent the history of the expanding universe and the formation of structure within it. In this talk, he will describe these sculptures and the astronomical concepts that underlie them, which include the nature of cosmic expansion, the transition from an opaque universe to a transparent universe, the formation and clustering of galaxies and quasars, the seeding of cosmic structure by primordial fluctuations in the early universe, and the possibility that our observable cosmos is only an "island" in a larger "multiverse." The sculptures that have emerged from this collaboration have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S. and Europe.
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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