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...
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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...
Apr
3
2026
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...
Mar
13
2026
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...
Mar
13
2026
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...
Mar
12
2026
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...
Mar
12
2026
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...
Mar
12
2026
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...
Mar
10
2026
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...
Mar
9
2026
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...
Mar
9
2026
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,...
Mar
6
2026
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...
Mar
5
2026
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...
Mar
5
2026
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...
Mar
3
2026
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...
Mar
3
2026
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...
Mar
2
2026
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...
Feb
28
2026
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...
Feb
27
2026
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...
Feb
26
2026
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...
Feb
25
2026
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...
Feb
24
2026
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...
Feb
23
2026
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...
Feb
21
2026
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...
Feb
20
2026
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,...
Feb
17
2026
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...
Feb
17
2026
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...
Feb
16
2026
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...
Feb
14
2026
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...
Feb
13
2026
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...
Feb
12
2026
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,...
Feb
11
2026
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...
Feb
10
2026
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...
Feb
10
2026
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...
Feb
9
2026
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...
Feb
7
2026
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...
Feb
6
2026
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...
Feb
5
2026
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 ...
Feb
2
2026
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...
Jan
31
2026
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...
Jan
30
2026
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...
Jan
26
2026
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...
Jan
24
2026
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...
Jan
23
2026
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...
Jan
22
2026
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...
Jan
17
2026
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...
Jan
16
2026
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...
Jan
15
2026
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...
Jan
13
2026
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,...
Jan
12
2026
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!...
Jan
12
2026
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...
Jan
10
2026
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...
Jan
9
2026
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....
Jan
8
2026
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...
Jan
8
2026
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...
Dec
18
2025
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...
Dec
4
2025
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...
Dec
2
2025
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...
Dec
1
2025
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...
Nov
21
2025
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...
Nov
20
2025
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...
Nov
20
2025
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...
Nov
18
2025
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...
Nov
17
2025
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...
Nov
14
2025
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...
Nov
13
2025
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...
Nov
12
2025
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...
Nov
12
2025
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...
Nov
12
2025
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...
Nov
11
2025
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...
Nov
10
2025
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...
Nov
7
2025
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...
Nov
6
2025
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...
Nov
6
2025
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...
Nov
4
2025
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...
Nov
3
2025
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...
Oct
31
2025
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...
Oct
28
2025
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...
Oct
27
2025
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...
Oct
24
2025
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...
Oct
23
2025
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...
Oct
22
2025
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...
Oct
20
2025
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...
Oct
18
2025
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...
Oct
17
2025
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...
Oct
17
2025
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,...
Oct
14
2025
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...
Oct
13
2025
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...
Oct
10
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...
Oct
10
2025
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...
Oct
9
2025
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...
Oct
8
2025
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...
Oct
7
2025
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...
Oct
6
2025
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...
Oct
4
2025
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...
Oct
3
2025
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...
Oct
3
2025
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...
Sep
29
2025
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...
Sep
26
2025
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...
Sep
25
2025
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...
Sep
19
2025
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...
Sep
18
2025
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...
Aug
5
2025
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...
Jul
2
2025
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...
Jun
26
2025
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...
Jun
18
2025
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
Jun
5
2025
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)....
Jun
5
2025
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...
Jun
5
2025
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...
Jun
3
2025
Physics and Astronomy: How To Apply to Grad School Panel
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Are you considering applying to grad school? Join us Tuesday, June 3 at 6:00 PM in Tech F160 to find...
Jun
3
2025
Quantum Information Seminar: Istvan Kovacs: "Quantum Entanglement at Magnetic Phase Transitions”
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Entanglement is a distinguishing property of quantum mechanics, offering fundamentally stronger correlations than classical physics. However, our knowledge remains limited...
Jun
2
2025
HEP Seminar: Benjamin Rosser: "The MAIA Detector for a 10 TeV Muon Collider"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Muon colliders have recently emerged as an exciting option to access the 10 TeV energy scale. However, significant research and development is...
May
30
2025
Colloquium: Radu Roiban: "Precision Gravitational Wave Physics From Quantum Scattering Amplitudes"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaborations has opened a new window onto our Universe, and upcoming experiments...
May
29
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: James Gaynor: “New Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopies for Understanding Nonequilibrium Phenomena”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Photoexcited species in condensed phase molecules and materials are used in a wide range of applications and the processes upon...
May
29
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Colm Kelleher: " Liquid Crystal Physics in the Spindle Microtubule Network"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
While we have a complete, or nearly complete, ''parts list'' of the hundreds of proteins and other biomolecules that make...
May
28
2025
Special CFP Seminar: Louis Hamaide: New insights into optomechanical detection of ultralight dark matter
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Optomechanical sensors have seen recent innovations which make them more useful as leading detectors of ultralight dark matter. To...
May
27
2025
CFP Colloquium: David Schuster: Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Qubits
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The nature of dark matter remains one of physics' greatest mysteries, with compelling evidence for its existence from gravitational effects...
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
Gender Minorities in Physics and Astronomy Spring Mixer
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is excited to host another informal social gathering for all gender minorities in the...
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
13
2025
Physics of Modern Quantum Processors- Physics Horizons Seminar
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professors Archana Kamal and Jens Koch will present their research “Physics of Modern Quantum Processors” in a talk aimed at...
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...