Department of Physics

1. September 11, 2023

   It Happened at Michigan — Physics, Ann Arbor and J. Robert Oppenheimer

   What began as a modest university summer lecture program featuring notable physicists in 1923 evolved into an extraordinary series of appearances by some of the greatest minds in theoretical physics.

2. January 9, 2023

   Saturday Morning Physics program coming live from space station

   U-M’s Saturday Morning Physics program will feature a question-and-answer session Jan. 14 with astronaut Josh Cassada that will be livestreamed from the International Space Station.

3. May 18, 2021

   Remembering LSA professor Charles Doering

   Charles Rogers Doering, N.D. Kazarinoff Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Mathematics and Physics and director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, died May 15 at age 65. 

4. October 29, 2019

   U-M builds critical component of instrument to probe dark energy

   The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, known as DESI, is designed to explore the mystery of dark energy, which makes up about 68 percent of the universe and is speeding up its expansion.

5. October 19, 2017

   Leinweber Foundation gives $8M for physics center in LSA

   An $8 million gift from the Leinweber Foundation will help students and faculty from the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics study fundamental questions in particle physics and the evolution of our universe.