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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...
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multi-day
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...
multi-day
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...
May
23
2025
Colloquium: Daniel Arovas: "Brief History of Quantum Magnetism"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
I will describe major developments in the field of quantum magnetism, from Bethe’s wavefunction for the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain, the...
May
22
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Abigail Plummer: "Rupture,Instability, and Phase Transitions via Constrained Expansion"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Consider an elastic material that increases in size due to growth or swelling. If the material is unable to expand...
May
20
2025
CFP Colloquium: Ben Augenbraun: Golden Opportunities to Search for CP-Violating Physics in the Spectra of Cold Molecules
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Theories attempting to explain the prevalence of matter over antimatter often introduce “new,” yet-unobserved particles with CP-violating interactions. This...
May
19
2025
HEP Seminar:Yuhsin Tsai: “Cosmological Imprints of Exotic Neutrino Interactions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and large-scale structure measurements are powerful tools for probing the properties of neutrinos. If neutrinos...
May
16
2025
Colloquium: David Hu: " Mosquitoes, Earwax, and Bird Baths"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
We show three recent experiments where we search for general principles in long-standing biological problems. First, we ask how mosquitoes...
May
15
2025
CFP Colloquium: Jun Ye: Lighting a path for clock and fundamental physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Laser and quantum science have fueled revolutionary developments in atomic and fundamental physics. Scaling up quantum systems to increasingly...
May
15
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Gyorgy Korniss: "Fluctuations and Persistence in Quantum Diffusion on Regular Lattices"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
What is the fate of microscopic quantum (probability) density and phase fluctuations (i.e., the spatio-temporal dynamics and survival statistics of...
May
14
2025
PAECRS: Shafaq Elahi and Ana Barioni
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Shafaq Elahi, PhD Student, Geraci Research Group “Tabletop Tests of Fundamental Physics with Mesoscopic Particles” Axions, gravitons, and extra dimensions are promising...
May
12
2025
HEP Seminar: Arushi Bodas: "Seeing Heavy Particles from Inflation Through Cosmic Inhomogeneities"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The gravitational production and propagation of heavy particles during inflation can imprint distinctive signatures in the non-Gaussianity of primordial density...
May
9
2025
Colloquium: Igor Pikovski: "Testing the Gravity-Quantum Interface: from Quantum Interference of Proper Time to Single Graviton Detection"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The merger of quantum theory with gravity is one of the main open problems in physics, with little experimental input...
May
6
2025
CFP Colloquium: Samuel Brewer: Towards optical clocks based on highly charged ions for tests of fundamental physics
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Optical atomic clocks based on highly charged ions (HCIs) offer several promising avenues for the study of physics beyond...
May
5
2025
HEP Seminar: Sokratis Trifinopoulos: "Flavor Patterns of Fundamental Particles from Quantum Entanglement?"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which controls flavor mixing between the three generations of quark fermions, is a key input to...
May
2
2025
Colloquium: Eve Lee: "Theories of Planet Formation"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The discovery of thousands of exoplanets revealed a huge variety in the sizes, masses, and orbital properties of planets outside...
May
1
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Ivar Martin: "Condensed Matter Axions: Bridging Particle Physics, Quantum Materials, and Nonlinear Optics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Axions were originally proposed to resolve the strong CP problem in particle physics and are now a leading dark matter...
Apr
28
2025
HEP Seminar: Nicholas Kamp: "Heavy Neutral Leptons and Beyond in Plastic, Ice, Water, and Rock"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are among the most promising candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model. These right-handed gauge singlets...
Apr
25
2025
Colloquium: Tarek Saab: "Searching for Dark Matter with the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Cold dark matter is one of the major constituents of the leading cosmological model for our Universe, with many ongoing...
Apr
24
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Ilya Sochnikov: "Superelastic Microstructures of Superconducting Strontium Titanate"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Strain tuning is a useful method for probing exotic correlated states of matter. In practice, strain engineering has not kept...
Apr
21
2025
HEP Seminar: Rodolfo Capdevilla: "Towards a Muon Collider"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Higgs boson successfully describes the symmetry breaking mechanism that splits the electromagnetic and the weak nuclear forces apart. In...
Apr
18
2025
Colloquium: Ali Yazdani: "Visualizing Strongly Interacting Quantum Phases of Matter"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
When electrons are forced to interact strongly with each other, some of the most exotic electronic phases and novel quasiparticles...
Apr
16
2025
PAECRS: Pawan Goswami and Qiaofeng Liu
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Pawan Goswami, PhD Student, Kamal Group “Dissipation-Incorporated Self-Consistent (DISCo) Quantum Master Equations” Understanding and harnessing dissipation is an essential cornerstone of current...
Apr
15
2025
CIERA Colloquium: Elisabeth Krause: "Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Over the next decade, large galaxy surveys will map billions of galaxies and probe cosmic structure formation with high statistical...
Apr
14
2025
HEP Seminar: Eric Marzec: "First Measurement of Missing Energy Due to Nuclear Effects in Monoenergetic Neutrino Charged Current Interactions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The JSNS2 experiment is able to measure mono-energetic (235.5 MeV) kaon decay-at-rest neutrino interactions within our detector with unprecedented clarity;...
Apr
10
2025
Heilborn Lecture: Alain Aspect: The Two Quantum Revolutions: From Concepts to Applications
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: The first quantum revolution, based on wave-particle duality, has led to the society of information and communication. The second...
Apr
9
2025
Heilborn Lecture: Alain Aspect: Wave-Particle Duality for a Single Photon
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: The first quantum revolution is based on wave-particle duality for individual particles. Contrary to a widely spread belief, the...
Apr
8
2025
Heilborn Lecture: Alain Aspect: From Einstein’s Doubts to Quantum Technologies: Non-Locality in Action
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: As pointed out by Einstein, and confirmed by the violation of Bell’s inequalities, entanglement of separated particles is an...
Apr
7
2025
HEP Seminar: Martin Kwok: "Teaching CMS a New Trick: Novel Signature for Long-Lived Particle Searches"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Large Hadron Collider(LHC) at CERN offers a tremendous amount of data to explore the unsolved mysteries in elementary particle...
Apr
4
2025
Colloquium: Farhad Zadeh: "Nonstop Variability of the Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
It is clear that an under-luminous supermassive black hole (Sgr A*) with a mass of 4.2 million solar mass lies...
Apr
2
2025
Distinguished Lecture: Steven Chu (Nobel Laureate) - The Challenges in Getting to Net-Zero Global Greenhouse Emissions
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
Title: The Challenges in Getting to Net-Zero Global Greenhouse Emissions Abstract: Throughout human history, multiple industrial and agricultural revolutions have profoundly...
Mar
31
2025
HEP Seminar: Cristina Mantilla Suarez: "A Lens on the Higgs Boson’s Momentum"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
A key objective in Higgs physics for the coming decade is to measure its production cross section differentially, such as...
Mar
17
2025
HEP Seminar:Mikhail Ivanov: "Fundamental Physics from Cosmic Large Scale Structure"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Elucidating the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and dynamics of the early universe stand as major challenges of modern...
Mar
14
2025
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...
Mar
14
2025
Colloquium: Kevin Pedro:"Unsupervised and Generative AI for High Energy Physics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
AI is an essential tool to maximize the discovery potential of the upcoming flood of data from the next generation...
Mar
14
2025
Lunar Eclipse Viewing!
12:00 AM - 2:30 AM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
Weather permitting, Dearborn will be holding a viewing session for the total lunar eclipse. Check the link below for latest...
Mar
13
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Ming-Wei Liu: "Mean-Field Theory of Slip Avalanches in High-Entropy Alloys"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Slip avalanches in plastically deformed crystals exhibit collective dynamics governed by stick-slip motion and long-range interactions. Mean-field theory provides a...
Mar
12
2025
Special Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Yasunobu Nakamura : "Quantum Engineering for Superconducting Quantum Computers"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The motivation for observing quantum superposition in macroscopic systems guided us to the research of superconducting quantum circuits and the...
Mar
11
2025
CIERA Colloquium: Taeho Ryu: "Stellar Collisions - Blue Straggler Stars and Electromagnetic Transients"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
In dense stellar environments, stars can physically collide. Stellar collisions play a key role in shaping the stellar population at...
Mar
10
2025
HEP Seminar: Karla Tame Narvaez: "Machine Learning Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Sections"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections are critical theoretical inputs for long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. However, robust modeling of these cross sections...
Mar
6
2025
Colloquium: Archana Kamal: "Decoherence in the NISQ-era: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Decoherence in the NISQ-era: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde Almost 100 years ago extraordinary scientists, such as Einstein, Bohr and Heisenberg,...
Mar
3
2025
HEP Seminar: Seth Koren: "Generalized Global Symmetries and Nonperturbative Quantum Flavodynamics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Generalized global symmetries are present in theories of particle physics, and understanding their structure can give insight into these theories...
Mar
3
2025
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Omar Malik: "Concurrence Percolation Threshold of Large-Scale Quantum Networks" [copy]
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Quantum networks describe communication networks that are based on quantum entanglement. Quantum networks differ from classical networks since the topology...
Feb
28
2025
Colloquium: Sidney R. Nagel: “Evolvable Matter”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The behavior of matter – both living and non-living – stems from the physical interactions between its constituents. In evolutionary...
Feb
27
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Bertrand Ottino-Loffler: "The Evolutionary Dynamics of Incubation Periods"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The incubation period for typhoid, polio, measles, leukemia and many other diseases follows a right-skewed, approximately lognormal distribution. Although this...
Feb
24
2025
HEP Seminar: James Unwin: "Dark Matter: WIMPs, FIMPs, and Primordial Black Holes"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The dark matter phenomenon is the realisation that astrophysical and cosmological observations appear to indicate invisible mass sources. There are...
Feb
21
2025
Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell: "The Discovery of Pulsars – a Grad Student’s Tale"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In this talk I will describe how pulsars were discovered and reflect on why the discovery was made then and...
Feb
20
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Dirk Morr: "Topological Superconductivity, Majorana Zero Modes and Quantum Algorithms in Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid Systems"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid (MSH) systems have proven to be versatile platforms for the engineering of topological superconductivity and the ensuing Majorana...
Feb
17
2025
HEP Seminar: Manoa Andriamirado: "Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Reactor Neutrino Detector and Roads to PROSPECT-II"
4:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to detect eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillation at short...
Feb
14
2025
Colloquium: Andrew Sonnenschein: "Next Generation Searches for Axion Dark Matter"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In the early 1980s, axions and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) were identified as promising dark matter candidates. The last...
Feb
12
2025
PAECRS: Danel Wilbern and Cong Shen
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Daniel Wilbern, Postdoctoral Scholar, Velasco Group "The Fast Beam Conditions Monitor for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade" The CMS experiment is one of...
Feb
11
2025
CFP Colloquium: Daniel Carney: Terrestrial quantum gravity experiments
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I will give an overview of recent activity based on the idea that we can test quantum properties of...
Feb
10
2025
HEP Seminar: Ira Rothstein: "SuperPlanckian Scattering in Quantum and Classical Gravity"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will introduce a Lagrangian formalism to calculate in quantum gravity in the Regge limit in a systematic expansion in...
Feb
7
2025
Colloquium: Henrik Johansson: "From Graviton Scattering to Black-Hole Quantum Amplitudes in General Relativity"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Since the 2015 discovery of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes, it has become crucial to better understand gravitational two-body...
Feb
6
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Joseph Sklenar: "Controlling Magnetization Dynamics at GHz and THz Frequencies within Antiferromagnetic Metamaterials"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Within antiferromagnetic materials and metamaterials, magnons, with frequencies spanning tens of GHz to THz frequencies exist at all wavenumbers. The...
Feb
4
2025
CFP Colloquium: Christopher G. Tully: How to unravel early moments of the Universe with neutrinos: introduction to the PTOLEMY project
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: What would we give to see an even younger image of the Universe from relics of the Big Bang?...
Feb
3
2025
HEP Seminar: Vishvas Pandey: "Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions and the Quest for New and Precision Physics Searches in Neutrino Experiments"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Current and future accelerator-based neutrino facilities, leveraging intense neutrino beams and advanced detectors, aim to precisely determine neutrino properties and...
Jan
31
2025
Colloquium: Lina Necib: "Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In this talk, I will explore the interfacing of simulations, observations, and machine learning techniques to construct a detailed map...
Jan
30
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Lin-Ding Yuan, "New Physics in Symmetry-Breaking Antiferromagnets"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Central to the study of spin-related phenomena is the capability tocreate spin polarized states. The conventional way of creating spin...
Jan
29
2025
PAECRS: Jiru Liu and Kyle Rocha
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Jiru Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Kamal Group “Detecting Multimode Entanglement from Classical-Nonclassical Polarity” Recent research in continuous-variable systems introduces the concept of classical-nonclassical...
Jan
28
2025
CIERA Colloquium: Pieter van Dokkum: "Did JWST break the Universe?"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
JWST has shown us that the galaxy population in the high redshift Universe is richer and more complex than we...
Jan
27
2025
HEP Seminar: Gray Putnam: "Search for Long-Lived Particles with Di-Muon Decays at the ICARUS Detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The ICARUS detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab is sensitive to “long-lived” particles (LLPs) that would be...
Jan
24
2025
Colloquium: Neelesh Patankar: "Phase Change of Water near Surfaces"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Water-hating (superhydrophobic) and water-loving (superhydrophilic) surfaces have been extensively studied for the past two decades. The early focus in the...
Jan
23
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Mahsa Bagherikalhor: "The Complexity of Social Networks: The Role of Triadic Interactions"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Have you ever noticed how your attitude can be influenced by your relationships? Traditional models of social interaction often focus...
Jan
17
2025
Colloquium: Elvira Mulyukova: "Microphysics of Creep: The Role Of Crystalline Defects In Earth’s Unique Tectonic Regime"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Why did life evolve on Earth but not on other known terrestrial planets? One of the necessary ingredients for planetary...
Jan
16
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Jennifer Fowlie: " Novel Superconductors and Helimagnets by Topotactic Redox Reactions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Topotactic transformation of epitaxial thin films by soft chemistry allows the realization of high crystalline quality metastable phases. In this...
Jan
15
2025
Special CFP Seminar: Neil McCall: When crystal harps play cosmic symphonies: progress towards a tabletop test of PeV-scale physics using molecules trapped in cryocrystals
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Despite its triumphs, the Standard Model cannot explain, among other things, why our universe contains more matter than antimatter....
Jan
14
2025
CFP Colloquium: Hartmut Häffner: 3D-Printed Micro Ion Trap Technology for Scalable Quantum Information Processing and Precision Measurements
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped-ion applications, such as in quantum information, precision measurements, optical clocks, and mass spectrometry, rely on specialized high-performance ion...
Jan
13
2025
HEP Seminar: Ryan Linehan: "Superconducting Qubit Devices for Low-Threshold Dark Matter Direct Detection"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The continued absence of a conclusive detection of conventional, GeV-scale particle dark matter (DM) has recently increased focus on developing...
Jan
13
2025
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Carl Goodrich: "The Hidden Architecture of Self-Assembly"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Experiments have reached a monumental capacity for designing, synthesizing, and controlling microscopic particles for self-assembly. However, our ability to take...
Jan
10
2025
Colloquium: Evelyn Tang: "Robust Dynamics and Function in Stochastic Topological Systems"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Living systems exhibit various robust dynamics during system regulation, growth, and motility. However, how robustness emerges from stochastic components remains...
Dec
16
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Erik Kountz: "Thermal Diffusivity and Conductivity in Charge Density Wave Materials"
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Photo-thermal microscopes can be used to take high resolution thermal diffusivity by measuring phase delay in local-temperature through measurements of...
Dec
2
2024
HEP Seminar: Carolina Figueiredo: "A Geometric Formulation of the Cosmological Wavefunction"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Is there a geometric object underlying the cosmological wavefunction for Tr $\phi^3$ theory, just as associahedra underlie scattering amplitudes? In...
Nov
22
2024
Colloquium: Rafael Martinez Galarza: "The Chandra Source Catalog: A Legacy Product for Machine Learning Discovery in High Energy Astrophysics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The era of data-driven discovery is producing a wave of new science in high energy astrophysics, and the Chandra Source...
Nov
21
2024
CMP Seminar: Alexey Levchenko: "Hydrodynamics of Dirac Fluids"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will review the evolution of ideas surrounding the hydrodynamic behavior of electron liquids in solids and...
Nov
21
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Hanlin Sun: "Triadic Percolation Induces Dynamical Topological Patterns in Higher-Order Networks"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Triadic interactions are higher-order interactions which occur when a set of nodes affects the interaction between two other nodes. Examples...
Nov
21
2024
Special HEP Seminar: Kevin Pedro: “Dark QCD: the Next Frontier in Dark Matter”
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
There has been a surge of interest in hidden valley models with new, strong forces, sometimes called "dark QCD". These...
Nov
19
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Smadar Naoz: "It's Raining Black Holes...Hallelujah!"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes has forever changed how we observe the Universe. Upcoming detectors,...
Nov
15
2024
Colloquium: Ronald Walsworth: "Quantum Diamond Sensors — Best of Both Worlds"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The nitrogen–vacancy (NV) quantum defect in diamond is a leading modality for magnetic, electrical, temperature, and pressure sensing with high...
Nov
14
2024
CIERA 15th Anniversary Public Astronomy Lecture: Stephon Alexander: "The Jazz of Physics"
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight...
Nov
14
2024
CMP Seminar: Mahdi Hosseini: "Engineering Mesoscopic Coherence Between Photons and Atoms"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Realizing and utilizing quantum correlations between many atoms and photons is an active area of physics that leads to fascinating dynamics...
Nov
14
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Maria E. Pope: "Dynamic Activity in the Healthy Brain: Shaped by Structure, Routed for Communication, Rich in Information"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The brain’s activity is highly dynamic as is necessary for maintaining responsiveness to a changing environment. Characterizing these dynamics and...
Nov
13
2024
PAECRS: Emanuela Celi and Daniel Wilbern
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Emanuela Celi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Figueroa-Feliciano Group “Hunting Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with Cryogenic Detectors” Since its discovery in 2017, interest in Coherent...
Nov
13
2024
CIERA Special Colloquium: Stephon Alexander "Is the Universe Right-Handed?"
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Stephon Alexander is an award winning theoretical physicist of international repute, author, and jazz musician whose work is at the...
Nov
12
2024
CFP Colloquium: Andrei Derevianko: Fragility of life or what would happen if the speed of light were smaller
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The anthropic principle implies that life can emerge and be sustained only in a narrow range of values of...
Nov
12
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Joshua Frieman "Is Dark Energy Evolving? Probing Cosmology with Large Surveys and AI"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
I will discuss how large cosmic surveys are providing new insights into our understanding of the dark universe, with emphasis...
Nov
11
2024
HEP Seminar: Dylan Temples: "Superconducting Sensors for Particle Dark Matter Searches: R&D at NEXUS"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Superconducting thin films have long been used as phonon sensors, particularly in the field of dark matter (DM) direct detection,...
Nov
9
2024
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 an extra Saturday evening open house--no reservations are required. The session...
Nov
8
2024
Colloquium: Dashun Wang: "The Science of Science: Exciting Progress and Future Directions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The increasing availability of large-scale datasets that trace the entirety of the scientific enterprise, have created an unprecedented opportunity to...
Nov
7
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara A. Solla: "Artificial Neural Networks: a Statistical Physics Perspective"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are composed of very simple elements that implement Boolean logic. The basic model, the McCulloch-Pitts (MP)...
Nov
5
2024
CFP Colloquium: Shusei Kamioka: Muon g-2/EDM experiment at J-PARC
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Precise measurements using muon beam are promising approaches to search for new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics....
Nov
4
2024
HEP Seminar: Si Wang: "Searching for Heavy Leptophilic Z’: from Future Muon Collider to Gravitational Waves"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The extra gauge U(1) model is special, with the simplest extension of the SM symmetry, it introduces a gauge boson...
Nov
1
2024
Colloquium: Don Lincoln: "Talking about Science: Engaging the Media, the Government, Students, and your Mom"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Our world is a bubbling frenzy of information, misinformation, and disinformation. Scientific thinking under constant assault in the public marketplace,...
Oct
31
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Xiang Cheng: "Drop Impact Case Study: "Uncovering the Fascinating Physics Behind an Everyday Fluid Phenomenon"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
From raindrops striking a windshield to coffee splashing on a table, drop impact is a common occurrence in everyday life...
Oct
30
2024
PAECRS: Eva Zhao and Leone Luzzatto
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Eva Zhao, PhD Student, Motter Group "Hysteresis and Nongenetic Traits in Bacterial Regulatory Networks" A fundamental biophysical question is how bacteria may...
Oct
29
2024
CFP Colloquium: David Moore: Mechanical sensors for dark matter and neutrinos
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The development of optomechanical systems—in which the motion of a massive object is controlled and measured using light—has revolutionized the...
Oct
29
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Catherine Espaillat: "Dynamic Protoplanetary Disks: New Perspectives from JWST"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Protoplanetary disks surround many pre-main-sequence stars, but the process by which these systems evolve into planetary systems remains a fundamental...
Oct
28
2024
HEP Seminar: Miguel Hernandez Morquecho: "Measurements of Pion and Muon Nuclear Capture at Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
LArIAT is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiment in a test beam, took data at Fermilab from 2015...
Oct
25
2024
Colloquium: Dionysios Anninos: " Toward Theories of Accelerated Expansion”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
There are significant indications that at large scales our Universe experiences epochs of accelerated expansion. During such epochs, quantum effects...
Oct
24
2024
CMP Seminar: Andrew Higginbotham: "Thermally Stabilized Superconductivity and Photonic 'Friction' in Josephson Junction Arrays"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Superconducting resonators are technological building blocks for quantum computing, cosmology, and particle physics. Yet, despite their prevalence, in some limits...
Oct
24
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara Solla: "On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This seminar is on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries...
Oct
24
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara Solla: "On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics" [copy]
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This seminar is on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries...
Oct
22
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Erin Kara: “Black Hole Accretion and Growth in the Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Era”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The field of black hole accretion is seeing a renaissance in the last 5–10 years, thanks to the advent of...
Oct
21
2024
HEP Seminar: Aidan Herderschee: “An Amplitudes Perspective on Gravitational Waves”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will introduce how amplitude techniques are applied to the study of gravitational waves. After a broad...
Oct
18
2024
Colloquium: Kin Fai Mak: "Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Moiré Semiconductors"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The realization of graphene has provided a tabletop platform to explore the physics of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with well-defined...
Oct
17
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Jennifer Schwarz: "Physical Processes that Function as Learning Mechanisms"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
All biological systems are learning systems. Moreover, all biological systems are physical systems. Therefore, there exists a direct connection between...
Oct
16
2024
PAECRS: Elena Prieto and Adrian Thompson
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Elena Prieto, PhD Student, Rasio Group "Formation of Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters" The existence of black holes (BHs) with masses...
Oct
15
2024
Physics and Astronomy Fall Welcome
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Come meet the faculty and other physics and astronomy majors (and physicists and astronomers at heart) for our department’s Fall...
Oct
15
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Phil Arras: "Debris Disks as the Origin of High-Altitude Clouds in Exoplanet Atmospheres"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The entry of interplanetary dust particles into Earth’s atmosphere deposits heavy elements at high altitudes, and may be observed in...
Oct
14
2024
HEP Seminar: Michael Wagman: “Solving the Signal-to-Noise Problem with Lanczos”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) can provide important theory inputs needed for new physics searches ranging from the muon g-2 to...
Oct
11
2024
Colloquium: Jeff Wereszczynski:"Exploring the Physical Mechanisms of Nucleosome Dynamics and Gene Regulation through Molecular Simulations"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The regulation of gene expression is governed by complex molecular interactions involving DNA, histones, and various regulatory proteins. These processes...
Oct
10
2024
CMP Seminar: Nana Shumiya: "Disentangling and Eliminating Loss Sources in Tantalum Superconducting Circuits"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The field of quantum computing has seen an explosion in research efforts and interest in both academia and industry within...
Oct
8
2024
CFP Colloquium: Eric Hudson: Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: In 1976 Kroger and Reich established the existence of a low-lying nuclear excited state in 229Th through the spectroscopy of...
Oct
8
2024
Astrophysics Colloquium: Elisabeth Krause: "Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Over the next decade, large galaxy surveys will map billions of galaxies and probe cosmic structure formation with high statistical...
Oct
7
2024
HEP Seminar: Cash Hauptmann: "Enhanced Dark Matter Abundance in First-Order Phase Transitions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
This talk will cover recent work proposing a non-thermal production mechanism of dark matter utilizing first-order phase transitions. The mechanism...
Oct
4
2024
Colloquium: Eric Dahl: "Preparing for Discovery in the Hunt for Dark Matter"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment’s 7-ton xenon time projection chamber is the largest and most sensitive detector yet in our field’s...
Sep
30
2024
HEP Seminar: Matheus Hostert: "Exotic Flavor-Violating New Physics at Mu3e and Mu2e"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will discuss examples of flavor-violating light new physics in experiments searching for ultra-rare µ+ --> e+e+e- decays (Mu3e) and...
Sep
27
2024
Colloquium: Selim Shahriar: "Precision Quantum Sensing with Exotic States of Atoms: Superluminal Lasers and Schroedinger Cats"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Specially prepared quantum states of alkali atoms can have exotic properties that can be tailored to produce extremely sensitive quantum...
Sep
26
2024
CMP Seminar: Nitin Samarth: "Emergent Superconductivity in Epitaxial Quantum Materials”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The synthesis of epitaxial quantum materials provides opportunities to explore interesting phenomena that emerge from the interplay between factors such...
Sep
20
2024
Special Colloquium: William Halperin: “Superfluid 3He: Science and Serendipity”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The remarkable discovery of superfluid 3He has paved the way for the modern era of quantum condensed states of matter....
Sep
12
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Daniel Grass: "Photon Counting Interferometry to Detect Geotropic Space-Time Fluctuations with GQuEST"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
The GQuEST (Gravity from the Quantum Entanglement of Space-Time) experiment uses tabletop-scale Michelson laser interferometers to probe for fluctuations in...
Aug
8
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: John Zima: "Tensor Networks for Stochastic Chemical Kinetics"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Well-mixed chemical reaction networks (CRNs) contain many distinct chemical species with copy numbers that fluctuate in correlated ways. While those...
Jul
29
2024
Special HEP Seminar: Daniel Naredo Tuero: "Global LFV Analysis of EFTs"
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
In the search for New Physics, one of the most promising avenues are lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes, which suffer...
Jul
24
2024
Special CMP Seminar: Oleg Mukhanov: "Integrated Superconducting Control of Superconducting Quantum Circuits"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Traditionally, the control and measurement of superconducting quantum devices including arrays of qubits are done using room-temperature classical electronics connected...
Jun
6
2024
CMP Seminar: Anton Vorontsov: "Suppression of Superfluid He-3 by Magnetically-Active Surfaces"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Quasiparticles' scattering on surfaces is the dominant pairbreaking mechanism in unconventional superfluids in confinement. It is also the main player...
Jun
6
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Caroline Szczepanski: “Manipulating Multi-Scale Surface Instabilities in Polymer Coatings and Gels”
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
A common hallmark amongst biological interfaces are hierarchical surface features. These topographical structures vary in type and quality (e.g., wrinkles,...
May
30
2024
CMP Seminar: Nicolo Lo Piparo: “Toward a Routing Protocol for Aggregated Quantum Networks”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Quantum networks will allow remote users to exchange information by sharing quantum states over large distances. This will greatly improve...
May
30
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Joseph Paulsen: "The Interplay of Gross and Fine Features inFlexible Sheets"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Although thin films are typically manufactured in planar sheets or rolls, they are often forced into three-dimensional shapes, producing a...
May
28
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Paul Duffell: "Binary Accretion"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
In astrophysics, there are many scenarios in which a gaseous disk accretes onto a binary system. Two major examples are...