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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- SMP 2/7/15 | Accretion Power in Astrophysics: Gravity Goes to Work | Speaker: Jon Miller
- SMP 4/18/15 | Dark Energy, Alchemy, and Quantum Teleportation | Speaker: Graduate Students
- SMP 4/11/15 | Topology and Electrons in Solids | Speaker: Lu Li
- SMP 3/28/15 | The Secret Lives of Fluids | Speaker: David Goluskin
- SMP 3/21/15 | Living Large: The Paleobiology Diplodocus and Other Long-Necked Dinosaurs | Speaker: Jeffrey Wilson
- SMP 3/14/15 | Model Thinking: One to Many and Many to One | Speaker: Scott Page
- SMP 2/21/15 | Hail to the Data: What We're Learning from Learning Analytics | Speaker: Timothy McKay
- SMP 2/14/15 | Surfing the Universe | Speaker: Lydia Bieri
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Gravitational waves travel the Universe. In 1915, Albert Einstein developed the General Theory of Relativity unifying space, time and gravitation into a curved spacetime. It is gravitation that `curves' the world. We will explore what happens when a gravitational wave packet passes. The Universe even `remembers' the passage of such a wave train. The latter is like a footprint left in the spacetime. There are experiments going on and planned for the future that aim at detecting these gravitational waves, which are predicted by the General Theory of Relativity.
All talks are free and refreshments will be served. Visitor parking for the seminars (Central Campus) is across the street from the Dennison Building in the U-M Church Street parking structure. There is a $2.00 parking charge implemented by U-M Parking Services.
For more information regarding the Saturday Morning Physics series, click here, or call 734.764.4437.
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