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The Physics of Networks
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Statistical analysis of interconnected groups—of computers, animals, or people—yields important clues about how they function and even offers predictions of their future behavior. |
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U-M Physics Professor Awarded the Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Physics Professor Gabriel Weinreich received the prestigious Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics from the Acoustic Society of America for contributions to violin and piano acoustics. |
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UM Physicist Aaron Pierce Creates Exhibit Museum Display
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"The World’s Biggest Experiment: At the Frontiers of Particle Physics" has opened in the Exhibit Museum rotunda lobby. Curated by U-M theoretical physicist Aaron Pierce, and gives background information about particle physics in general and the Large Hadron Collider project in particular. |
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Saturday Morning Physics Returns with Variety of Lecture Topics
Monday, September 22, 2008
Since 1995 the Saturday Morning Physics (SMP) lectures have drawn 350-400 people to the Dennison Building each week from as far away as Alpena, Grand Rapids and northern Ohio. The tradition continues with the commencement of the fall 2008 lecture series. |
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Smashing success: University of Michigan scientists helped bring collider online
Monday, September 22, 2008
The U-M scientists have been working since 1997 to build and bring online the collider, which has a 17-mile circumference and sits 300 feet underneath the French-Swiss border. |
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Scientists Turn on Biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
After 14 years of preparation, a new scientific wonder of the world opened for business Wednesday with the official startup of Europe's Large Hadron Collider. |
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U-M Physicists' Analysis Leads to Discovery of New Particle
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
U-M physicists played a leading role in the discovery of a new particle, the Omega b baryon, which is an exotic relative of the proton. |
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Michigan Integral to World's Largest Physics Experiment
Thursday, September 04, 2008
CERN's epic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to send the first proton beam zipping through its 17-mile tunnel on Sept. 10. The project currently involves 25 University of Michigan physicists and students and has been 20 years in the making! |
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Fast Quantum Computer Building Block Created
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Physics professor Duncan Steel, doctoral student Xiaodong Xu and their colleagues have demonstrated the fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit. Read more... |
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Video Archive Project Can Record Lectures for Posterity
Monday, August 11, 2008
A new video service on University of Michigan's campus can capture presentations, classes and training workshops, post them online within 24 hours and archive them indefinitely in a high-quality universal format. |
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Physicist Confines Plasma Components in a Trap within a Trap
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Professor Georg Raithel has taken a step toward simulating a type of matter found in the crusts of neutron stars, in the cores of gas giant planets, and in exotic plasmas thought to be present in the earliest universe. |
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Air Force gives UM-led team $6.8M for electronic heat study
Sunday, May 04, 2008
The U.S. Air Force has approved a $6.8-million, five-year study on how to control heat transmission as electronic devices keep shrinking. The UM team involved consists of researchers John Kieffer, Max Shtein (Materials Science and Engineering); Rachel Goldman (MSE & Physics); Kevin Pipe (Mechanical Engineering); and Roberto Merlin, David Reis (Physics). |
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| APRIL | back to top |
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PHYSICS STUDENT AWARD WINNERS!
Monday, April 28, 2008
physics 2008 award winners |
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR
PHYSICS DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS!
Friday, April 25, 2008
We wish each of you the very best! |
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Pinpoint Microwave Resolution Could Lead to Wireless Power Transfer
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Physics Professor Roberto Merlin, Physics Graduate Student Lei Jiang, and EECS Professor Anthony Grbic have focused microwaves to specks which could lead to advances in cordless laptop charging, huge data storage CDs, and higher-resolution microscopes for observing molecules. |
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Simple 'Superlens' Sharpens Focusing Power
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Physics Professor Roberto Merlin, Physics Graduate Student Lei Jiang, and EECS Professor Anthony Grbic have focused microwaves to specks which could lead to advances in cordless laptop charging, huge data storage CDs, and higher-resolution microscopes for observing molecules. |
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Saturday Morning Physics Talks Premiere on iTunes U!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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Four Physics Professors Named Outstanding Referees by the APS
Monday, April 07, 2008
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The Famous Michigan Quantum Summer School is Back!
Friday, April 04, 2008
Michigan aims to continue this tradition with a two-week summer school for senior graduate students and post doctoral fellows and will feature lectures from world-leaders. |
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World Renowned Astrophysicist to speak at U-M
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Margaret Geller, Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
will give the eighth annual 2008 Ford Motor Company Distinguished Lecture in Physics, "Newton Meets Einstein: Mapping Dark Matter in the Universe." |
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Mark Skalsey, associate research scientist and lecturer in physics, died Feb. 23
Monday, March 10, 2008
Skalsey was born in Detroit and graduated from Cass Technical High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1971 from U-M. He earned a master's degree in nuclear physics in 1974 from the University of Manitoba then returned to Michigan to begin his doctoral studies in physics. |
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Physics Professor Sharon Glotzer unravels the Quasicrystal mystery with computer simulation
Thursday, March 06, 2008
The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate patterns that are technologically useful. |
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Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity
Friday, February 15, 2008
Georg Raithel, Karl Krushelnick, OPIL, FOCUS |
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First stars might have been powered by dark matter
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
For a long time, scientists have assumed that the very first stars were powered by fusion, in processes similar to what goes on in present day stars. But a new theory is emerging to challenge that view. “The first stars were different in a lot of ways,” Katherine Freese, UM theoretical physicist, tells PhysOrg.com. |
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| JANUARY | back to top |
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Look where it's lively
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Professor Tim McKay discusses new flows of energy on which both liveliness and life might subsist. |
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