DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and...

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Xi Wang: "Programmable Quantum Phases in Moiré Heterostructures"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Atomically assembled van der Waals heterostructures provide an emerging platform for engineering quantum matter with unprecedented precision. In these systems,...

CIERA Colloquium: Brittany Miles: "Forging a Path Towards the Coldest Gas Giants and Rocky Worlds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The mid-to-long wavelength infrared region holds essential information on the atmospheric composition, dynamics, and evolutionary history of both brown dwarfs...

Colloquium: Marta Gonzalez: "Mobility Science for Urban Planning: From Job Access to Sustainable Travel"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Mobility science offers a powerful lens for planning cities that are more equitable and sustainable. Cities today face pressing challenges...

Complex Systems Seminar: Safa Jamali: "A Network Science Approach to Physics and Rheology of Colloidal Systems"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Attractive colloidal particles in a simple fluid, depending on their packing fraction and interactions can exhibit a wide range of...

How to Apply to Grad School Panel

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Come hear from Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Physics faculty about the process of applying to grad school and have all...

Special Quantum Information Seminar: Theo Malas-Danze and Emilio Rui

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Theo Malas-Danze from Alice and Bob - INRIA Quantic Team (Paris) “Satellite Limit Cycles can Break Cat-Qubit Stability” I will present a...

CANCELLED: CFP Colloquium: Mark Saffman: Atomic qubits for computing and sensing

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Rapid progress with quantum state control and entanglement on demand in arrays of individual atomic qubits is shortening the...

Colloquium: Bart Ripperda: “Are We There Yet? First-principles Modeling of Multimessenger Signals in the Plasma Universe”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Astrophysical black holes are surrounded by accretion disks, jets, magnetospheres, and coronae consisting of magnetized relativistic plasma. They produce observable...

Complex Systems Seminar: Pranav Vyas: "Lattices across Scales: From Sea Cucumber Biomineral Ossicles to Arctic Brittle Star Assemblages"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Living systems construct complex structures through interactions at multiple scales. In this talk, I will explore this idea in two...

CFP Colloquium: Alex Sushkov: Macroscopic magnetic resonance at the quantum sensitivity limit

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Quantum science tools have been pivotal in various precision experiments, such as gravitational wave detectors, atomic clocks, and searches...

CIERA Colloquium: Yuri Levin "Exotic Dynamics of Neutron Star Interiors"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Quantum fluids, crystal lattice, magnetic fields, and conducting electrons are strongly coupled inside a neutron star. Their coupling to the...

CIERA Colloquium: Yuri Levin "Exotic Dynamics of Neutron Star Interiors" [copy]

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Quantum fluids, crystal lattice, magnetic fields, and conducting electrons are strongly coupled inside a neutron star. Their coupling to the...

HEP Seminar: Mohammad Abrar Wadud: "Seeing H-WW* in One Jet at the LHC"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

In a recent CMS paper, we exploited a new handle on boosted Higgs bosons by identifying H->WW decays at high...

Colloquium: Rosemary Braun: "How to Have the Time of Your Life"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

For many organisms, timing is a literal matter of life and death: survival depends on foraging, hiding, sleeping, reproducing, and...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Britton Plourde: "Phonons, Quasiparticles, and Correlated Errors in Superconducting Qubits"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Phonon bursts in the substrate of a superconducting qubit array with energy above the superconducting gap can produce dissipative quasiparticle...

Physics Horizons Seminar with Professor Michelle Driscoll

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michelle Driscoll will present her research in a special seminar targeting undergraduates (but the entire community is welcome!). Following the...

CFP Colloquium: Zoe Yan: New opportunities in quantum simulation with ultrapolar molecules

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Ultracold molecules are an emerging platform for quantum science that combines the techniques of atomic physics pioneered over the...

HEP Seminar: Joseph Redeker: "The Secrets of CP-Asymmetry"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

In the early universe matter and antimatter were created in unequal amounts, leaving a universe that is predominately composed of...

Colloquium: Shu-Heng Shao: “What's Done Cannot Be Undone: Non-Invertible Symmetries”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Abstract: I will discuss recent developments on a novel kind of symmetry known as non-invertible symmetry. It is implemented by...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Shuolong Yang: "Engineering Topological Quantum Matter in Space and Time"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Topology has emerged as a unifying principle in modern condensed matter physics and materials science, enabling quantum phases that are...

Complex Systems Seminar: Xiaoming Mao: “From Frustrated Assemblies to Functional Complexity: A Statistical Mechanics of Structure and Property”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Abstract: Geometric frustration prevents simple building blocks from assembling into perfectly ordered structures, but this failure can become a powerful...

HEP Seminar: Avinay Bhat: "Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with SBND"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The Short-Baseline Near Detector, SBND, is the near detector of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino program, a suite of liquid-argon time projection...

Quantum Information Seminar: Ken DeRose: "A Surprise in the Lab from the Interplay of Dynamical Decoupling and Dissipation"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Speaker: Ken DeRose (Northwestern University) Title: A Surprise in the Lab from the Interplay of Dynamical Decoupling and Dissipation Abstract: Dynamical decoupling...

Colloquium: Daniel Green: "Signals of a Quantum Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The idea that structure in the Universe was created from quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations is compelling but unproven. Testing this...

Amplitudes and Insights Seminar: Daniel Green: "The Quantum Mechanics of Rare Events"

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Determining the tail of probability distributions is an important topic in many physical settings. For classical stochastic systems, much about...

Complex Systems Seminar: Sarah Keller: "Two Extremes of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Membranes: Minimal, Artificial Membranes with two Lipids versus Living, Biological Membranes with Hundreds of Components"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Amidst longstanding excitement about phase separation in cells, fundamental questions have persisted about exactly which molecules are required for liquid–liquid...

Special CIERA Colloquium: Ray Jayawardhana: "Exploring Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Objects and Their Disks"

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs) in star-forming regions represent the low end of the stellar initial mass function and overlap in...

PAECRS:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

CIERA Colloquium: Pawan Kumar: "The Physics of FRBs and Their Use as Cosmological Probes"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

This talk will explore our current understanding of the fast radio burst (FRB) radiation mechanism, highlighting key observational findings and...

HEP Seminar: Walter Tangarife: "Heavy Dark Matter in Rapidly Evolving Massive Stars"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

This talk will address the impact of heavy dark matter (DM) captured in massive stars via scattering(s) with the star...

Heilborn Lecture: Sean Carroll: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Abstract: One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which...

Heilborn Lecture: Sean Carroll: Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Abstract: Quantum mechanics is a theory of wave functions in Hilbert space. Many features that we generally take for granted...

Heilborn Lecture: Sean Carroll: Explaining the Arrow of Time

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Abstract: Over a century ago, Boltzmann and others provided a microscopic understanding for the tendency of entropy to increase. But...

HEP Seminar: Sarunas Verner: "Spectator Scalar Fields in the Early Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Inflation may have involved more than a single scalar degree of freedom. Spectator scalar fields, while subdominant in the background...

Colloquium: Taylor Hughes: “Defeating the Chiral Doubling Theorem: Three Paths to New Phenomena”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Over forty years ago, Nielsen and Ninomiya proved that chiral modes cannot exist in discrete systems without a matching anti-chiral...

CFP Colloquium: Nick Rodd: Magnets are Weber Bars

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: In this talk I'll describe how a magnet can be used as a Weber bar for the detection of...

CIERA Colloquium: Decker French: "Temporally Resolving the Connections between Nuclear Activity and Galaxy Evolution"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The evolution of galaxies is fundamentally connected to the evolution of their central black holes. The large-scale environment of the...

HEP Seminar: Gustavo F. S. Alves: "Open System Approach to Neutrinos Propagating in an Ultralight Scalar Background"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

We examine decoherence in neutrino oscillations induced by an ultralight scalar field coupled to neutrinos. The scalar induces time- and...

Quantum Information Seminar: Melinda Yuan: "Genuine Multipartite Entanglement"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Quantum entanglement is well-understood in a two-qubit system. Concurrence is a scalar quantity that measures the degree of entanglement between...

Colloquium: Daniel Abrams: "Modeling and Analysis of Synchronous Signaling in Biological Systems"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Self-organization is a hallmark of biological systems. It is characterized by the spontaneous appearance of collective order that arises merely...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Daniel Dahlberg: "The Arrhenius Law Prefactor in Mesoscale Systems"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

The Arrhenius equation is regularly used to describe the dynamics of two-state switching in a variety of systems.  The prefactor in ...

Complex Systems Seminar: Jeff Tithof: “Coupled Blood–CSF Flow Dynamics Driving Waste Clearance in the Brain”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The last decade has seen a tremendous increase in research probing the role of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation through the...

HEP Seminar: Callum Jones: "Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

It is possible that the large-scale structure of both the very early and very late universe are approximately de Sitter....

Colloquium: Max Bi: "Order in Disorder: Hidden Geometries and Exotic Phases in Cellular Structures"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Biological tissues are often framed simply as fluids or solids, creating a binary that overlooks rich intermediate structures. In this...

Colloquium: Andrea Liu: "Tunable Matter"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In 1972 Phil Andersen articulated the motto of condensed matter physics as “More is different.” However, for most condensed matter...

Careers in Physics with Dr. Phalguni Shah

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Physics degrees open doors to careers in data science, software development, consulting, education, industry research, and more. To highlight the...

Careers in Physics with Dr. Phalguni Shah

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Physics degrees open doors to careers in data science, software development, consulting, education, industry research, and more. To highlight the...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Ray Simmonds: "Harnessing Parametric Interactions for Superconducting Quantum Systems"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Over 15 years ago, parametric coupling was proposed as a way to entangle flux qubits at their “sweet spots” with...

Complex Systems Seminar: Keng-Hui Lin: "Investigating Mechanobiology in Vivo and in 3D"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

This talk presents two complementary directions of my research in mechanobiology. First, I will present our recent work to solve the...

CIERA Colloquium: Jon Miller: "X-ray black holes with XRISM"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Gas accretion onto massive black holes at high fractions of the Eddington limit may produce galaxy-altering feedback, in the form...

HEP Seminar: Cole Kampa: "Mu2e in the AI Era"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Mu2e, the muon-to-electron conversion experiment at Fermilab, will search for charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) through the coherent conversion of...

Special Complex Systems Seminar: Charles Reichhardt: "Dynamics of Chiral Systems, Vortices, Skyrmions, Active Matter and Time Crystals"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

There are a variety of systems that exhibit chiral dynamics, including vortices in fluids and superfluids, charges in magnetic fields,...

Colloquium: Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere: "The Turbulent Lives of Young Galaxies"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

High-resolution simulations of galaxy formation predict that young, low-mass galaxies undergo bursty star formation, with star formation rates that vary...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Ian Hays: Progress in Understanding the Superconductivity of UTe2"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

The discovery of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride (UTe2) precipitated a flurry of research activity motivated both by strong evidence for...

Complex Systems Seminar: Jairo Diaz Amaya: "Self-assembly via Colloidal Expansion"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The self-assembly of materials is oftentimes restricted by the capacity to grow and deform building blocks. Here, I will present...

CFP Colloquium: Michael Bishof: Laser cooling and trapping “odd” atoms

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: The Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory has developed techniques to laser cool and trap extremely rare, radioactive isotopes...

CIERA Colloquium: Eugene Chiang: "Giant Planet Formation"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Planets, unlike stars, are thought to form from the bottom up. We review the "core accretion" theory for giant planets...

HEP Seminar: Daniel Guerrero: "Fantastic Signatures and how to find them: Long-lived Particle Searches in CMS"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Many theories beyond the Standard Model predict new particles with macroscopic lifetimes, giving rise to striking displaced signatures at collider...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Fine Wine and Sour Milk: Is Aging Inevitable?" Age comes for us all, from the scale of our whole bodies to...

Colloquium: Edward Colgate: "Surface Haptics: Toward Human Resolution and High Realism"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

We take it for granted that sight and sound can be recorded, stored, and replayed with high realism.  Indeed, modern...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Vlad Pribiag: "Superconductor-Semiconductor Multi-Terminal Josephson Devices"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Superconducting nanostructures underpin the development of many promising quantum computing approaches and alternatives to conventional classical computing. Most work to...

PAECRS: Sachin Venkatesh Thakku Saravana, PhD Student and Dustin Greenwood, PhD Student

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Sachin Venkatesh Thakku Saravana, Tchekhovskoy Group "UNOfying the Scales: Simulating Black Hole Accretion from Event Horizon to Galaxy Scales using Physics-Informed...

CFP Colloquium: Tejas Deshpande: Search for ultralight dark matter using cryogenic optical cavities

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: One of the biggest challenges in fundamental physics is understanding the microscopic nature of dark matter. Scalar ultralight dark matter...

HEP Seminar: Yaxni Gu: "From Higgs Resonance to Fast Tracking: Resonance Search for X→YH→γγbb and Novel GPU-Based Track Reconstruction"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Searches for Higgs-related resonances in b b γ γ final states provide a sensitive probe of extended Higgs sectors and...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Getting Life Under Control" Life has evolved sophisticated regulatory and control mechanisms, from cells regulating protein production to neuronal circuits generating...

Colloquium:Enrique Paillas: "Fundamental Cosmology with Galaxy Clustering"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy clustering provides a precision probe of the expansion rate of the Universe and the growth of structure within it,...

CFP Colloquium: Amar Vutha: Searching for nuclear T-violation using octupolar nuclei in a crystal

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Time-reversal symmetry (T) breaking due to undiscovered new physics can couple to gluons, which in turn modulates the interactions between...

CIERA Colloquium: Rana Ezzeddine: "Observing the Signatures of R-Process Enrichment Events in the Galaxy

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

R-process-enhanced metal-poor stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and nearby satellites, hold the keys to understanding heavy element production across...

HEP Seminar: Justin Berman: "Positivity with Long–Range Interactions"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The 2->2 scattering amplitudes of unitary field theories obey positivity bounds that constrain, for example, Wilson coefficients in weakly-coupled effective...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Biophysical Fiction or Reality" To what extent are the possibilities of brain-machine interfaces, thought-reading through brain scanning, chimeric organ transplants, and...

Colloquium: Michael Kagan: "Exploring New Frontiers of Fundamental Physics with AI"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In fundamental physics our aim is to understand the building blocks of the nature and their interactions, and we study...

Complex Systems Seminar: Deborah Fygenson: "Capturing Kinks: Magnifying and Measuring Bent States of dsDNA"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Like silicon for electronics, DNA is the revolution-enabling material for biotechnology. It is chemically stable, readily produced with high purity,...

PAECRS: Gideon McFarland, PhD Student and Yulun Miao, PhD Student

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Gideon McFarland, Starkenburg Group "A Journey Through The Space Between: Probing The Expansion of The Universe with Cosmic Voids in LSST" The...

Physics Horizons with Professor Adam Miller

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Don't be Dense: Understanding the Diversity of White Dwarf Supernova Explosions" Professor Adam Miller will present his research in a special...

CIERA Colloquium: Anna-Christina Eilers: "Supermassive Black Holes across Cosmic History"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The discovery of billion-solar-mass black holes within the first Gigayear of cosmic history presents an intriguing puzzle: how did supermassive...

HEP Seminar: Giulia Isabella: "Analyticity of the Black Hole S-Matrix"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

"Analyticity of the Black Hole S-Matrix" I will discuss the analytic structure of the S-matrix for classical wave scattering on a...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Artificial Intelligence and Other Bio-Inspired Technologies" Biologically inspired technologies are ubiquitous, including the airplane, sonar, and even machine learning broadly construed-from...

Colloquium: Aashish Clerk: "From Foe to Friend: Harnessing Dissipation and Noise for Quantum Sensing"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Quantum sensing and metrology seek to use quantum states and entanglement to improve our ability measure a variety of quantities...

Cancelled - Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Daniel Dahlberg: "The Arrhenius Law Prefactor in Mesoscale Systems"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

The Arrhenius equation is regularly used to describe the dynamics of two-state switching in a variety of systems.  The prefactor in ...

HEP Seminar: Osmond Wen: "Transmon-Based Single Microwave Photon Detectors for QCD Axion Searches in the Classical Window"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The post-inflationary QCD axion is a sharp BSM theory target that spans a frequency range from 5 to 50 GHz...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"The Physics of the Brain" The brain is the most energy-efficient computational device yet encountered, requiring only about 20 Watts of...

Colloquium: Roni Harnik: "Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Physics"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

I will review the connections of quantum field theory to modern quantum devices and opportunities to probe fundamental physics with...

HEP Seminar: Max Fieg: " Towards Automated Flavor Model Building with Machine Learning"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

In the Standard Model, the flavor sector contains the majority of free parameters corresponding to masses and mixings of the...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Living Systems Across Scales" Organisms of different sizes face distinct energetic challenges and yet, they are related by common allometric scaling...

Colloquium: Andrea Liu: "Turntable Matter"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In 1972 Phil Andersen articulated the motto of condensed matter physics as “More is different.” However, for most condensed matter...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Zhigang Jiang: "Sharp Spectroscopic Fingerprints of Disorder in an Incompressible Magnetic State"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Disorder significantly impacts the electronic properties of conducting quantum materials by inducing electron localization and thus altering the local density...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"What is Life After All and What Makes It Possible?" Living organisms are built out of cells, which serve to segregate...

Colloquium: Wendy Freedman: “Is the Hubble Tension Signaling New Physics Beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology?”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

One of the central open questions in cosmology is whether the standard ΛCDM model fully describes the evolution of the...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Jigang Wang: "Terahertz Coherent Control of Quantum Condensates: Bridging Cooper Pairs and Excitons"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Efforts to achieve coherent control of complex quantum matter have  reshaped multiple disciplines at the foundation of quantum materials discovery...

CIERA Colloquium: David Hogg: "Precision Measurement, Causal Structure, and Machine Learning"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Astrophysics abounds with precision measurement problems, for example when we search for exoplanets, map the dark matter in our Galaxy,...

Undergraduate Research Mixer

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Are you wondering how you can join a physics or astronomy research lab? Here is your chance to find out!...

HEP Seminar: Lua Airoldi: : "Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the Extremely High-Energy KM3NeT Neutrino Event?”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

A black hole is expected to end its lifetime in a cataclysmic runaway burst of Hawking radiation, emitting all Standard...

Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "Physics of Life: From Molecules to Minds"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

"Life on Earth from it's Origin to Present Day" Today, it's easy to take the sheer diversity of life on Earth...

Colloquium: Pedram Khalili: “Probabilistic Computing with Unconventional Magnetic Tunnel Junctions"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) can potentially solve many computationally hard problems more efficiently than deterministic algorithms on von Neumann computers....

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Alex Ma: "Controlling and Probing Quantum Correlations with Engineered Dissipation"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Superconducting circuits have emerged as a powerful analog quantum simulation platform for exploring many-body physics in synthetic quantum matter. In...

Complex Systems Seminar: Zheng Shi: "Decoding Mechanical Signals at the Subcellular Level"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The surface of a cell experiences frequent stretching and compression. The resulting membrane tension is converted to intracellular electrochemical signals...

Special Complex Systems Seminar: Theodore Faust: "Inference and Size Localization of Mesoscale Structures in Temporal Networks"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

In studies of networks, researchers often examine the evolution of mesoscale structures, structures that involve groups of nodes that are...

Complex Systems Seminar: Gentian Muhaxheri: "Collective Memory Formation in Networks of Hysteretic Elements”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Many driven systems in condensed matter, such as sheared amorphous solids, compressed crumpled sheets, and disordered magnets, undergo complex sequences...

CIERA Colloquium: Ryan Foley: "It is Time for a Compact Object Paradigm Shift”

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The last decade has provided exceptional data on black holes and neutron stars: imaging of black hole shadows with the...

HEP Seminar: Alex Wen: " Using Neutrinos and the Weak Force to Measure the Earth with IceCube"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has measured a sample of primarily atmospheric muon neutrino events over 11 years from all directions...

Colloquium: Venkat Chandrasekhar: "Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Quantum Electronic Circuits -- The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, John Martinis and Michel Devoret “for the discovery of...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Alexey Bezryadin: "Meissner-Current-Controlled Transmon Qubits and Memory Elements"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

We present a transmon split-junction qubit which can be controlled by Meissner screening currents, which generate required phase bias. The...

Complex Systems Seminar: Xiang Cheng: "Extraordinary Life of Microswimmers: how does a Microorganism Swim and Navigate in complex Environments

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Microorganisms inhabit and swim in fluids at low Reynolds numbers, a world, though foreign to us, is of utmost importance...

CIERA Colloquium: Philip F. Hopkins: "The Non-Thermal Universe from Black Holes to the Circum and Intergalactic Medium"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

We have known for decades that magnetic fields and relativistic particles (cosmic rays) can play a key role in some...

HEP Seminar: Daniel Hooper: "Dark Matter and the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess has a spectrum, angular distribution, and overall intensity that agree remarkably well with that expected...

Colloquium: Irmgard Bischofberger: "Instabilities and Flow-Induced Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystals"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) solutions in the nematic phase have peculiar properties. They are tumbling materials, which means that...

Complex Systems Seminar: Filippo Radicchi: "Modeling Resource Consumption via Minimum-Cost Percolation"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

In this talk, I introduce a dynamic percolation model designed to describe resource consumption and depletion in networks: the minimum-cost...

Physics Horizons with Professor Ian Low

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Professor Ian Low will present his research “The Origin of Symmetry -- A Perspective from Quantum Information” in a talk...

PAECRS: Sissi Chen, Master's Student and Buduka Orognor, PhD Student

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Sissi Chen, Carrasco Research Group “The Root of Black Hole Evaporation” Einstein’s general relativity predicts that black holes can only absorb matter...

PAECRS: Sissi Chen, Master's Student and Buduka Orognor, PhD Student [copy] [copy]

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Sissi Chen, Carrasco Research Group “The Root of Black Hole Evaporation” Einstein’s general relativity predicts that black holes can only absorb matter...

CIERA Colloquium: Rebecca Bernstein: "The Giant Magellan Telescope: An Overview of the Design, Unique Capabilities, and Status"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The Giant Magellan Telescope is one of the two, next generation, “extremely large” telescopes (ELTs) now under construction.  Both GMT...

HEP Seminar: Grace Cummings: "When they go Low, we go Lower: Extending the Reach of Collider Experiments with Low-Level Detector Information"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Even in the time of streaming and industrial big-data, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider still produce data of...

Colloquium: Marina Artuso: "LHCb at the Frontier of Flavor Physics: a Tale in Three Chapters"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The LHCb experiment is the first experiment designed to study interesting decays of the b and c quarks at a...

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Istvan Kovacs: "Critical Behavior in Disordered Josephson Junction Arrays"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Heterogeneities in the form of quenched disorder often have a fundamental impact on the emergent phases and phase transitions in...

Complex Systems Seminar: Kaiyuan Sun: "Modeling the Multiscale Complexity of Infectious Disease Dynamics"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The transmission dynamics of infectious diseases represent a complex dynamical system shaped by intricate host-pathogen interactions, feedback loops, and adaptive...

CIERA Colloquium: Wanying Kang: "Icy Ocean Worlds -- from the Surface to the Interior"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Icy moon oceans are promising targets in the search for extraterrestrial life, but characterizing their internal dynamics remains challenging, as...

HEP Seminar: Pouya Asadi: "Taming Axion Rotation: Dark Vector-like Confinement for Axiogenesis"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Despite its remarkable success, the Standard Model of particle physics leaves many open problems and falls short of explaining the...

Colloquium: Allan MacDonald: "Moiré Materials Magic”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Recent progress in two-dimensional materials has made the fabrication of artificial two-dimensional crystals – moiré materials [1-3] - with lattice...

CIERA Colloquium: Di Li: "An Evolutionary Picture of FRBs' Origin”

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Astronomers reconstruct the life stories of cosmic phenomena by comparing vast populations frozen in a single moment, i.e. a human...

HEP Seminar: Irene Dutta: "When Higgs met Higgs - Present and Future Di-Higgs Searches at the LHC"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The Higgs boson plays a pivotal role in our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature and is unique as...

Colloquium: Karin Dahmen: "Universal Avalanches and Prediction: from Nanoindentation and the Brain to Earthquakes and Stars?"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Slowly-compressed nano-crystals, bulk metallic glasses, rocks, granular materials, and the earth all deform via intermittent slips or “quakes”. We find...

Complex Systems Seminar: Chaoming Song: "Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Social dynamics emerge from the complex interactions among large groups of individuals. Despite their diversity, many social systems exhibit comparable...

PAECRS: Tiffany Liou, Master's Student and Asad Ukani, PhD Student

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Tiffany Liou, Strom Research Group “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger : Warm-ionized Outflows at Cosmic Noon” Star-formation and chemical evolution in galaxies is...

HEP Seminar: Zongzhe Du: "Fundamental Theories in de-Sitter Spacetime"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

In this talk, I will present a novel approach based on a de Sitter S-matrix defined on an extended Poincaré...

Family Weekend at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

In honor of Family Weekend, the Dearborn will hold a special open house event--no reservations are required.  The session is...

Family Weekend at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

In honor of Family Weekend, the Dearborn will hold a special open house event--no reservations are required.  The session is...

Colloquium: Mark Raizen: " Isotopes for Medicine and New Tests of Quantum Mechanics"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In this talk, I will report on our progress in meeting three challenges from the past by James Clerk Maxwell,...

CIERA Colloquium: Renu Malhotra: "Pluto and Co-Travelers"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The dwarf planet Pluto travels an unusual orbital path near the edge of the solar system. Its long term stability...

HEP Seminar: Samuel Patrone: “Long-lived ALPs from Electromagnetic Cascades”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Hadrophobic axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling primarily to photons and electrons are well-motivated new physics targets, yet previous beam dump sensitivity...

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...

Colloquium: John Chisholm: "A GLIMPSE of the Early Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The physical processes shaping the first galaxies—gravity, gas dynamics, star formation, and feedback—have long been out of observational reach. With...

Physics and Astronomy Fall Welcome

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy

Join us as we kick off the new school year! Meet faculty, connect with current students, and learn more about...

PAECRS: Anya Abraham and Saptarshi Biswas

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Anya Abraham, Kovachy Research Group “Progress Toward Narrow-Line Cooling of Strontium" Atom interferometers are natural extensions of optical interferometers, and exploit the...

CIERA Colloquium: Siegfried Eggl: "Noisy Neighbors: Satellite Constellations and Ground Based Astronomy, Can they Get Along?"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Current estimates see up to half a million artificial satellites being launched in the near future. This rapid industrialization of...

HEP Seminar: Navin McGinnis: "Symmetries of the S-Matrix from Quantum Information"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Recently there have been a number of hints suggesting that fundamental symmetries of particle and nuclear physics could be emergent...

Homecoming / Reunion Weekend at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

In honor of Homecoming & Reunion Weekend, the Dearborn will be walk-in only this evening.  No reservations are required--just show...

Homecoming / Reunion Weekend at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

In honor of Homecoming & Reunion Weekend, the Dearborn will be walk-in only this evening.  No reservations are required--just show...

Colloquium: Timothy Kovachy: "New Tools for Dark Matter and Gravitational Wave Detection: Cryogenic Optical Resonators and Long-Baseline Atom Interferometers "

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The search for dark matter and for new sources of gravitational waves offers potentially revolutionary opportunities to learn about the...

HEP Seminar: Tyler Horoho: "Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The NuMI facility at Fermilab produces a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, designed to study neutrino oscillations. This...

Colloquium: Anupam Garg: "Dynamic Magnetic Reversal: Fighting the Suhl Instability"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

A common technique for reversing the nuclear spins in NMR is to apply a special radio-frequency magnetic field pulse known...

Complex Systems Seminar: Istvan Kiss: "Emergent Networks and Hypernetworks in Electrochemical Systems"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

While network analysis is commonly applied to biological and social systems, understanding the impact of network coupling on self-organized structures...

Colloquium: Istvan Kovacs: "Understanding Brain Anatomy through the Lens of Physics"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The human brain is incredibly complex, raising the question: can we even develop models with substantial predictive power? In this...

Complex Systems Seminar: Francesco Bullo: "Contraction, Optimization and Control: A Unified Perspective"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

This talk presents three connected topics, starting with contraction theory as a practical tool for analyzing stability using one-sided Lipschitz constants. We...

Special CFP Seminar: Sam Borden: Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with LEGEND

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Neutrinoless double-beta (0𝜈ββ) decay is a hypothetical nuclear decay that, if observed, would show that the neutrino mass term...

Special Complex Systems Seminar: Hiroki Sayama: "Adaptive networks: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Adaptive networks are a class of dynamical network models in which both the states of nodes/edges and the structure of...

Complex Systems Seminar: Carla Gomes da Silva: "From Motion to Connection – the Importance of Distinguishing Lineage Identity, Space, and Time in this Step of Neuronal Development" This event is ONLINE

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Neuronal circuits, the biological units underlying cognitive processes and behaviors, are formed by an optimal number of excitatory and inhibitory...

Special HEP Seminar: Zhe Ren: “Basis Construction, Basis Conversion and Their Application in Effective Field Theories”

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Zhe Ren, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Granada, Spain Host: Frank Petriello

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Anand Bhattacharya: “Superconductivity at Interfaces of the Quantum Paraelectric KTaO3”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

In this talk I will discuss the recently discovered two-dimensional superconductivity found at interfaces of the incipient ferroelectric KTaO3 (KTO)....

Complex Systems Seminar: Vincent Thibeault: "The Low-Rank Hypothesis of Complex Systems"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Behind the blur caused by the high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics and the intricate organization of complex systems, hide essential mechanisms that...

Complex Systems Seminar: Vincent Thibeault: "The Low-Rank Hypothesis of Complex Systems" [copy]

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Behind the blur caused by the high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics and the intricate organization of complex systems, hide essential mechanisms that...