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

Six U-M Physics Students Awarded Competitive National Fellowships Graduate students Alec Kirkley and Shreya Sutariya and 2019 graduates Polina Abratenko, Tali Khain, Noah McNeal, and Robert Weinbaum win prestigious national fellowships

Pushing boundaries: Nobel prize winner on science literacy and lasers Nobelist Donna Strickland visited U-M campus recently as part of the Ta-You Wu lecture series.

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Physics Grad Student Rory Fitzpatrick and Professor Josh Spitz Shed Light on Electron Neutrino Interactions

Graduate student and her collaborators are bringing the neutrino into focus at Fermilab.

Professors Bjoern Penning and Marcelle Soares-Santos Highlighted in Physics Today Article

We welcome Professor Penning and Professor Soares-Santos as new Department of Physics Faculty! We also welcome their nine-person research group!

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Physics Special Department Colloquium | Scientific Espionage, Open Exchange, and American Competitiveness

Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University Physics)

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HEP-Astro Seminar | Dynamics of the Outer Solar System: from Neptune to Planet Nine

Tali Khain (University of Chicago)

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Complex Systems Seminar | The Ranking Game from a Hungarian Perspective

Péter Érdi, Kalamazoo College, UM Visiting Professor

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Department Colloquium | How Often Do Muon Neutrinos Turn Into Electron Neutrinos?

Joshua Spitz (U-M Physics)

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Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents

Keith A. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin

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Abhijit Gadde (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

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