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FALL 2020

SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Scientific Espionage, Open Exchange, and American Competitiveness
Speaker: Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University), who spoke on Scientific Espionage, Open Exchange, and American Competitiveness.
Date: 9/30/2020; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
This lecture was co-sponsored by Indigo: The LSA Asian and Asian-American Faculty Alliance and the U-M Association of Chinese Professors.
More information about Professor Xi in The Record article.
Colloquium Recording

SPECIAL DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
The Increasing Peril From Nuclear Arms: And How Physicists Can Help Reduce the Threat
Speaker: Professor Stewart Prager (APS, Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction Astrophysical Sciences (Princeton University)
Date: 10/14/2020; 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Slides

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Small Galaxies, Big Science: Fundamental Physics from the Faintest Galaxies
Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab and University of Chicago)
Date: 11/11/20; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording

WINTER 2021

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Moiré Superlattices: A New Hubbard Model Simulator?
Jie Shan (Cornell University)
Date: 01/20/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording

SPECIAL DEPARTMENT MLK COLLOQUIUM
Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
Julie Posselt (USC Rossier School of Education)
Date: 1/28/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording (Note: large file with long download time)

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
The Proton Remains Puzzling
Haiyan Gao (Duke University)
Date: 2/17/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording (Note: large file with long download time)

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Population Properties of Compact Objects From the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
Eric Thrane (Monash University)
Date: 3/3/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter
Yonatan Kahn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Date: 3/17/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
The First Measurement of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Collaboration
Alec Tewsley-Booth (U-M Physics)
Date: 4/14/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Recording

Fall 2021

DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Megaconstellations of Satellites Are About to Ruin the Night Sky for Everyone
Samantha Lawler (University of Regina)
Date: 9/8/21; 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Virtual
Colloquium Slides