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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- 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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- Seminars & Colloquia
Einstein thought gravitational waves were too weak ever to be detected. But now, on the centennial of his prediction of them, scientists working on the project called LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) believe we now have the sensitivity required to "hear" these tiny and elusive signals. Using giant "microphones" consisting of 4-km-long laser cavities in Washington and Louisiana, LIGO is listening intently to the Universe. Has anything gone bump in the night?
All talks are free and refreshments will be served. Visitor parking for the seminars (Central Campus) is across the street from Weiser Hall (formerly the Dennison Building) in the U-M Church Street parking structure. There is a $2.00 parking charge implemented by U-M Parking Services. For more information regarding the Saturday Morning Physics series click here or call 734.764.4437.
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