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Join us as we celebrate women in physics at the annual Ta-You Wu Lecture!

Join us as we celebrate women in physics at the annual Ta-You Wu Lecture! Dr. Donna Strickland is one of three women to ever win the Nobel Prize in physics. The award was given for co-inventing chirped pulse amplification, a method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses. This technique enabled the development of laser-based applications including laser eye surgery and the machining of small glass parts, such as what you find in cell phones. Details here: lsa.umich.edu/physics/special-lecture

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Five U-M Physics Faculty Recently Promoted Xiaoming Mao and Tom Schwarz promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure; Lu Li, David Lubensky, and Vanessa Sih promoted to Full Professor

Gérard Mourou, 2018 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, Visits with Physics Students Gérard Mourou is the 2018 Nobel Prize Laureate and the A.D. Moore Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor David Gerdes Named Next Physics Department Chair Professor Gerdes is the 16th Chair to serve the department.

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U-M Physics Professor Wins Fundamental Physics Innovation Award

Professor Tim Chupp receives award to collaborate with researchers at the Max Planck Institute on magnetic field measurements

Professor Christine Aidala Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

It is the highest honor the United States government bestows on scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.

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2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses

Dr. Donna Strickland, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018 (University of Waterloo)

4:00 PM
Rackham Auditorium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)

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Euclidean Black Saddles and AdS4 Black Holes

Anthony Charles (KU Leuven)

12:00 PM
3481 Randall Laboratory

Department Colloquium | Quantum Tricks for Detecting Dark Matter Waves

Aaron Chou (Fermilab)

4:00 PM
340 West Hall

Complex Systems/MICDE Seminar | Numerical Simulations of Turbulence in Heated Fluids

Janet Scheel Occidental College, Associate Professor of Physics

11:30 AM
747 Weiser Hall

Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents

Dr. Elisabeth Mills, Research Assistant Professor, Brandeis University

3:30 PM
411 West Hall

HET Seminar | "Quantum Superposition of Massive Bodies"

Bob Wald (UChicago)

3:00 PM
335 West Hall

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October 12, 19, 26
November 2, 16, 23
December 7 and 14