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Physics
News & Features
Applied Physics Graduate Student, Christopher Ayala, Named Winner of NSBP-NSHP 2024 Conference Oral Presentation Award
Christopher Ayla's Presentation on 'High Harmonic Generation with Wide-Gap Semiconductors' Wins Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the 2024 Joint Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists.
Not So Simple Machines: Cracking the Code for Materials That Can Learn
U-M Physics Postdoctoral Researcher Shuaifeng Li and Professor Xiaoming Mao devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks.
Events
Featured
Jan
29
Physics Department Martin Luther King Colloquium | Justice in Science: Where We Stand at Times of Challenge and Controversy
Shirley Malcom, Senior Advisor, SEA Change initiative (AAAS)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Upcoming
Jan
15
Department Colloquium | Divine Abacus: The physics-driven pursuit of a new computer
Chad Rigetti (Founder and Former CEO of Rigetti Computing)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Jan
16
Quantum Research Institute | The invisible drummer: A quantum optomechanical dark matter search
Dalziel Wilson, Associate Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona
11:00 AM
411
Virtual
Jan
22
Brown Bag Seminar | Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
Dan Kapec (Harvard)
12:00 PM
3481
Randall Laboratory
Jan
22
HET Brown Bag | Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
Dan Kapec (Harvard)
12:00 PM
3481
Randall Laboratory
Jan
27
HEP-Astro Seminar
Oz Amram (Fermilab)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall