physics
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September 11, 2025
$19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems
U-M will lead the Center for Prediction, Reasoning and Intelligence for Multiphysics Exploration, or C-PRIME, which will aim to answer any physics question.
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April 22, 2025
U-M physicists among winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prize
U-M scientists are among the researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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November 21, 2024
New DESI results weigh in on gravity
A new study using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has traced how gravity helped create sprawling strands of galaxies over the past 11 billion years.
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December 4, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — ‘You’ve got to be excellent’
Willie Hobbs first stepped foot on U-M’s campus as an 18-year-old first-year student in 1952. Twenty years later she was the first African American woman in the U.S. with a Ph.D. in physics.
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November 3, 2023
Five from U-M named American Physical Society fellows
Four physics researchers and one biophysicist from LSA have been elected to the American Physical Society, each from a different field within physics.
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September 25, 2023
University part of federal DOE grant to diversify physics
U-M is among three universities that have received a $1.125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to recruit students of diverse backgrounds into the field of physics.
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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.
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February 10, 2023
Russel lecturer to discuss impact of connected networks
Physics and complex systems professor Mark E. Newman will discuss ways in which different networks form and share information when he delivers the 98th Henry Russel Lecture on Feb. 23.
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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.
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March 9, 2021
Physics undergrad proposes quantum field theory solution
A pair of U-M physicists, including an undergraduate student, has discovered a set of functions can tighten the interpretation step, showing physicists may be able to overcome one of the major limitations of modern quantum simulation.
