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...
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...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
While galaxies stand out as the brightest lights observed by telescopes, most of the atoms in the Universe are in...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Among thousands of nuclei, the isotope Thorium-229 (229Th) is the only nucleus having an extremely low-lying excitation level of only...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Thanks to GAIA, ultra-wide stellar binaries have recently reasserted themselves as key probes of the Galactic environment, of dark matter...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) composed of bosons lighter than 1eV is expected to behave as a macroscopic classical field oscillating...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Soft matter physics is at its heart a discipline that studies systems which are nonlinear, disordered, and out-of-equilibrium, making many...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The AsymmetRic Trap for measurement of Electron Magnetic moments in IonS (ARTEMIS) utilizes the so-called laser-microwave double-resonance spectroscopy technique...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
This talk will present recent results concerning the dynamics of weakly dissipative Hamiltonian systems submitted to stochastic perturbations. The probability...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Precise measurements of atomic, molecular, and optical systems are opening a new experimental window into fundamental physics. The high...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Anne-Marie Madigan, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder Host: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
The capture of Dark Matter in compact objects has garnered considerable interest over recent years. This renewed interest is driven...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Rare reactive events are ubiquitous in noisy complex systems throughout the physical sciences and to large extent determine their function...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In this talk, I will explain how the problem of entanglement distribution on quantum networks (QN) is traditionally understood by...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
TES-based dark matter detectors and certain qubit experiments rely on understanding the dynamics of quasiparticles (QP), broken Cooper pairs in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
My lab is interested in the active and adaptive materials that underlie control of the shape and movement of biological...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The defining property of an active fluid is that energy is added to the system at the small length scales...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The recent advent of numerous wide field transient surveys has led to a large increase in the discovery of tidal...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Discover the cutting-edge research of our brilliant graduate students at Rapid Fire Research 2023! Rapid Fire Research is an event...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Active matter, both synthetic and biological, demonstrates complex spatiotemporal self-organization and the emergence of collective behavior. Active fluids comprised of...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Abstract: The 1.4 GHz radio continuum emission from star-forming galaxies (SFGs) is primarily synchrotron radiation from electrons accelerated in the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
A central problem in science concerns forecasting sudden changes in complex systems, which are difficult to anticipate and disrupt the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
While Feynman integrals and scattering amplitudes are often very difficult to compute directly, their underlying properties often point to new...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In this talk, we present a demonstration of “giant artificial atoms” realized with superconducting qubits in a waveguide QED architecture....
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
What is the best way to extract information from a finite amount of perturbative information? This is a common problem...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Plasma membrane heterogeneity has been tied to a litany of cellular functions and is often explained by analogy to membrane...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
"Optimal control of large quantum systems: assessing memory and runtime performance of GRAPE" Yunwei Lu, PhD Student, Koch Group Quantum optimal control...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Supermassive black holes appear to be ubiquitous in galaxy nuclei, and several large-scale galaxy properties have been to found to...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: When properly engineered, simple quantum systems such as harmonic oscillators or spins can be excellent detectors of feeble forces...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect [1], and its prompt observation in a richvariety of systems, has shown...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The brain accomplishes perceptual, motor, and cognitive function through interconnected neurons wired in precise functional circuits, and the resulting patterns of...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Observational searches for dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at kiloparsec separations are crucial for understanding the role of galaxy mergers...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Ultracold atom technologies have transformed our ability to perform high-precision spectroscopy and apply it to time and frequency metrology....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The worldwide particle physics community is currently in the process of launching the most ambitious and exciting accelerator-based neutrino program...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
It may seem unlikely that rich mathematical structures still remain to be uncovered in small arrays of classical, linear oscillators....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
I will describe measurements of individual photons that are scattered from a cavity filled with superfluid helium. We use these...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The actomyosin cytoskeleton is a naturally occurring active gel found in virtually all mammalian cells. Its ability to contract allows...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
A satisfying theory for star or planet formation should not consider these processes in isolation. Leveraging advances in computations and...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics accurately describes all fundamental particles discovered so far. However, it is unable to address...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Pattern formation is ubiquitous in biological systems. While pattern formations are often associated with Turing-like reaction-diffusion systems, biology also exploits...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
This talk will consist of two parts: First, we review the status of ferromagnetic (FM) memory devices, also referred to...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The origin of the heaviest elements in our universe - those produced via the rapid neutron capture process ("r-process") -...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Developments over the last decade have pushed the search for particle dark matter to new frontiers, from just below the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
One major open problem in quantum information theory is how to build a quantum hard drive, i.e. a quantum system...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Despite traditional thinking, an appreciable population of (relatively small) supermassive black holes may be lurking in dwarf galaxies. Before the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Neuromorphic Computing: Data acquisition (sensors) and manipulation (memory, computation, communications, data mining) in its many forms drives and fuels our...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The need for a comprehensive and predictive model for galaxy formation and evolution has never been greater — new and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The observed asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe still awaits for an explanation. If lepton number conservation, a...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
People love to rank things. From songs to sportspeople, top 10s are ubiquitous. So, it is perhaps unsurprising that some...
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The Variables and Slow Transients Survey (VAST) on the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is designed to detect highly variable...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Effective field theories (EFTs) have recently advanced to become an essential language for formulating the LHC's legacy. Building on the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Modern machine learning has had an outsized impact on many scientific fields, and particle physics is no exception. What is...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Metallic antiferromagnets have generated a wide range of interest recently, since they can exhibit a complex interplay between charge transport...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Despite the tremendous success of the Standard Model of particle physics, many basic phenomena surrounding us remain without any satisfactory...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The presentation discusses the methods, theories, and strategies of scientific approaches to studying art objects, and considers the meanings of...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Stars in nearly all globular clusters show complex relations among the abundances light elements (up to Na). Many also show...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
This talk aims to give a gentle introduction to the effective-field-theory viewpoint on tree-level scattering amplitudes in superstring theories. Their...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Using an atom interferometer, it is possible to precisely measure the ratio between the Planck constant and the mass of...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Quasars, and their extreme variety "Blazars", are the brightest examples of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) which are powered by supermassive...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Following the successful launch in December of 2021 of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the global astronomical community has...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Searches for new physics in the LHC Run 2 datasets have produced a number of excesses above standard model expectations....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The 2022 Nobel prize celebrates the detection of entanglement between two photons. Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled states...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Quantum computing has long promised to speed up certain tasks that are intractable on classical computers. However, quantum devices are...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Sterile neutrinos are well-motivated extension of the Standard Model. In this seminar I will focus on the interaction between sterile...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Observations and applications of quantum mechanical phenomena at a macroscopic scale are among the most important goals shared between quantum...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, and showed properties that are drastically different from that in the solar system. This...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Precise control of quantum states allows atom interferometers to explore fundamental physics and perform inertial sensing. For atomic fountain...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Mu2e, the muon-to-electron conversion experiment, will search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV), which is forbidden in the Standard Model...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The bottom row of the periodic table is known for its radioactive elements, which compared to stable isotopes are little-explored....
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Quantum correlations such as entanglement are not only a prerequisite for performing any meaningful task in quantum information processing but...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Planets form from disks of dust and gas surrounding young stars. As they grow, these new planets inherit their chemical...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrons are stable inside atomic nuclei. Outside the confines of the nucleus, they decay into a proton, electron, and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
A wormhole, as first described by Einstein and Rosen in 1935, is a shortcut between two points in space. In...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Recently, sum-of-squares (SOS) based methods have been used for the stability analysis and control synthesis of polynomial dynamical systems. This...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
In the past decade, quantum simulators have increased in their power and scope, offering exquisite dynamical control of tens or...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
This talk presents an overview of my research on dark energy with focus on recent developments towards incorporating gravitational wave...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Anomalies in the flavor sector have attracted significant attention in recent years. Of particular interest for this talk are those...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Quantum mechanics is traditionally considered when measuring at the extreme microscopic scale, i.e. single photons, electrons or atoms. However, even...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Nonequilibrium dynamics is a frontier topic in quantum many-body physics that has seen remarkable advances over the past decade. Essential...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The population of stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplored. Only a dozen black holes...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Quantum technologies provide new base capabilities which open up new frontiers in sensing, networking, and computation. I will discuss the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Recent developments in jet substructure allow novel measurements of Higgs boson production at high transverse momentum. I will discuss these...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Chemical systems can deviate from equilibrium for a variety of reasons: because they are kinetically trapped, because they are subject...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Detections of neutron stars in binaries through gravitational waves offer a novel way to probe the properties of extremely dense...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Experimental tests of fundamental symmetries using nuclei and other particles subject to the strong nuclear force have led to...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Parametric driving has long been used in weakly nonlinear superconducting circuits to create nearly quantum-limited ‘parametric’ amplifiers, which are in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
10 years ago, the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments opened a new chapter of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains the fuel for future star formation and the record of past feedback, making it uniquely...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This talk will be split into two parts. In the first half, I will discuss my work on developing a...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will discuss signatures of dark baryons that mix with the neutron at underground neutrino experiments. Intense neutron sources can...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the primary goals of discovering CP violation in the neutrino sector, determining the neutrino...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos through a variety of ground-breaking discoveries ranging...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
FRBs and gravitational waves are the only distant sources sufficiently coherent to exhibit wave optics phenomena in their propagation. Nominally...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The gravitational interaction of a tungsten source mass with atomic wavepackets has been observed in an atom deBroglie wave interferometer,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We present a phenomenological study of MicroBooNE’s ability to investigate e+e- final states produced in dark photon mediated neutrino-upscattering —...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Fast, high-fidelity multi-mode operations between microwave resonators are an important tool for bosonic quantum computation and simulation with superconducting circuits....
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The idea of using light to manipulate individual particles is well known: optical traps are a widely used tool in...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Over the past several decades, the scientific pursuit of “precision cosmology” has led to the currently accepted paradigm of a...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
In the first 7 years of operation, ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected nearly 100 compact binaries, most...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: When properly engineered, simple quantum systems such as harmonic oscillators or spins can be excellent detectors of feeble forces...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
A framework for performing real-time simulations of QCD on a one-dimensional lattice using quantum computers is presented. By including weak...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The growing ability to achieve quantum optical control over...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Diffusion is the most commonly encountered type of transport in nature, in classical and quantum systems alike. The diffusive...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Astrophysics is the perfect nursery for Data Science: we cannot touch the stars, we cannot explode them in a lab....
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I will describe quantum-enhanced sensing of motional excitations and electric fields using a crystal of ~150 trapped ions formed in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We study low-energy scattering of spin-1/2 baryons from the perspective of quantum information science, focusing on the correlation between entanglement...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is marking Family Weekend with a special walk-in only evening. The evening is free and open to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is a very successful theory that explains a large diversity of physical phenomena, that...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: . Nonmagnetic materials with unidirectional spin-momentum locking, or persistent spin textures (PST), have been shown to exhibit spin transport...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: When a disordered jammed solid is sheared for many cycles at constant strain amplitude, it can relax until the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Standard accretion disk theory does a pretty good job of explaining the overall energetics of gas draining into black holes,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: In this talk I discuss the findings of the American Institute of Physics’ TEAM_UP Task Force that examined causes and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Material systems, devices, and circuits, based on the manipulation of individual charges, spins, and photons in solid-state platforms are key...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: I will introduce the mid-sized and growing list of planetary systems with 2-body and 3-body resonances among the planets....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Recent results from the Short Baseline Sterile Neutrino Global Fits are presented. Several new datasets, from experiments such as...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: A one-electron quantum cyclotron, quantum mon-demolition (QND) detection, inhibited spontaneous emission, a split dilution refrigerator, and a self-shielded superconducting solenoid...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: The upper critical magnetic field, H_c2, the nucleation field of surface superconductivity, H_c3, and the thermodynamic critical magnetic field,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Historically, the search for the inter-galactic medium (IGM) motivated the search for the Far Ultraviolet (FUV) background which in turn led...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most compelling open questions in particle physics and cosmology....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Parity violation by the weak force was demonstrated in an experiment led by Chien-Shiung Wu in 1957 on the asymmetry...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Noise has been a long-standing issue for further improving the qubit coherence times. It remains an important task to further...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The observation of compact binary mergers by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration marks the dawn of a new era in astronomy. Next-generation...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The age of multimessenger astronomy promises to benefit numerous subdisciplines within physics. In particular, precision studies of neutron stars will...
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is marking Reunion Weekend with a special three hour walk-in only evening. The evening is free and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The quantum conception of light consisting of particles of discrete energy, or photons, underlies its interaction with matter. For...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Hybrid dynamic systems have recently attracted great attention due to their applications in quantum computing, communications, and sensing. In particular,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Our Local Group has been a rich testing ground for small-scale predictions of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model,...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: A single trapped electron cooled to its cyclotron ground state-- the quantum cyclotron -- is the precision tool that we...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The long-baseline neutrino experiments continue to provide precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters by searching for the appearance of...