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The Powerful Legacy of Homer A. Neal The new Randall Laboratory was renamed for the scholar on April 14, providing an opportunity for those who knew him to reflect on the boundless impact he had on U-M’s Physics Department.

Get Involved in the Physics Community! Take a look at our organizations. They offer a place for students involved in physics to get to know and support one another.

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News & Features

Join Us! Department Chair and Professor of Physics Open Position

The U-M Department of Physics is conducting an external search for its next chair. We are looking for a future colleague with an exceptional record of research, teaching, and leadership. This five-year term position is renewable.

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

One of the greatest puzzles in the universe is solving the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe. Read how the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, with 38 institutions, including U-M, searches for dark matter.

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Events

Featured

2024 Helmut W. Baer Lecture | When a Symmetry Breaks

Professor Hitoshi Murayama (University of California, Berkeley and University of Tokyo)

3:00 PM
340 West Hall

Upcoming

CM-AMO Seminar | Berry Phase Enforced Spinor Pairing Order

Yi Li (Johns Hopkins University)

4:00 PM
340 West Hall

Department Colloquium | Geometry, Elasticity, and Other Catastrophes

Christian Santangelo (Syracuse University)

3:00 PM
340 West Hall

HET Seminar | Fivebrane Stars

Emil Martinec (UChicago)

3:00 PM
340 West Hall

HEP-Astro Seminar | Jet Quantum Imaging of the Nucleus and Next-Generation Calorimeters at the Electron-Ion Collider

Miguel Arratia (UC Riverside)

3:00 PM
340 West Hall

Brown Bag Lunch & Learn

Dr. Gillen Brown, Astronomy PhD Alumni, Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses

12:00 PM
411 West Hall

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This week's Physics Events

CM-AMO SEMINARS

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIA

HEP-ASTRO SEMINARS

SATURDAY MORNING PHYSICS

WORKSHOPS or SPECIAL EVENTS

Saturday Morning Physics
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Winter 2024 Schedule:
February 17
March 9 and 23
April 6 and 20

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