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Michigan Physics In the News
- October 2005 - 2006 Frank Isakson Prize to Roberto Merlin (Physics Professor Roberto Merlin)
October 2005 - Vanilla Ice (Society of Physics Student's Diag Days)
- September 2005 - In Einstein's footprints His theories have taken scientists far (Physics Department Theme Semester)
- September 2005 - Beach party provides a peek at heavenly bodies ... in the sky (Physics Professor Fred Adams)
- July 2005 - Seven faculty receive University's highest honor (Physics Professor Philip Bucksbaum)
- July 2005 - Department of Physics Lab Demonstrators nominated for staff Spotlight Award (Physics Staff Mark Kennedy and Warren Smith)
- June 2005 - Subatomic particles: An art form (Physics Professors Gordon Kane & David Gerdes)
- May 2005 - Astronomers Detect Visible Light Simultaneously With Gamma-Ray Burst (Physics Research Fellow Sarah Yost, Physics Professor Carl Akerlof)
- April 2005 - U-M student wins Churchill Scholarship, one of 11 nationwide
- April 2005 - Scientists control super fast frequencies (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- April 2005 - Nano World: Nano for quantum computers (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- April 2005 - Qubit Twist (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- March 2005 - Nobel Laureate speaks on ultra-cold matter (Ford Motor Company lecture)
- February 2005 - 13 things that do not make sense (Physics Professor Katherine Freese quoted; please see #9.)
- February 2005 - Six honored with Thurnau professorships (Physics Professor Tim McKay)
- February 2005 - Astronomers eclipse record for most distant massive object (Physics Professor Gus Evrard's MCTP conference)
- February 2005 - Illuminating Dark Energy (Physics Professor Greg Tarlè and team)
- February 2005 - Delving for Dibosons at DZero (Physics Professor Bing Zhou, Graduate Student James Degenhardt)
- February 2005 - Einstein's insights live on (Physics Professor Gus Evrard quoted)
- February 2005 - High Energy Physics Center Attracts U.S. Undergrads to Summer in Switzerland (Physics Professors Jean Krisch and Homer Neal)
- January 2005 - Physics professor taps into the potential of thermoelectrics (Physics Professor Ctirad Uher)
- January 2005 - Magnetic Flux Quanta Reversible Rectifier (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- January 2005 - Come (brrr!) sail away (Physics Staff Jeremy Herr)
- January 2005 - Spotlight: Peering into the past to see the future (Physics Senior Research Scientist Bruce Bigelow)
- January 2005 - Marshall Scholar winner tackles dark matter mystery (Physics Undergraduate Student Jacob Bourjaily)
- December 2004 - LSA dean announces theme semesters for next 3 years (Physics Department)
- December 2004 - Spin-flipping crosses the Atlantic (Physics Professor Alan Krisch and team)
- December 2004 - Hello, hello, Earth? (Physics Professor Mark Newman) (scroll to third article)
- December 2004 - 'U' students tutor sixth-graders in everyday physics (Physics Department Society of Physics Students)
- November 2004 - Election Map Makers, Exercising Some Latitude (Physics Graduate Student Michael Gastner, Complex Systems Research Fellow Cosma Shalizi, and Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- November 2004 - Physics student awarded Marshall Scholarship (Physics Undergraduate Student Jacob Bourjaily)
- October 2004 - 2004 physics Nobel Prize recipient to give annual Ta-You Wu lecture (Physics Department Event)
- October 2004 - Quantum Leap (Physics Graduate Student Mark Acton and Undergraduate Student David Hucul with Physics Professor Christopher Monroe)
- October 2004 - From a Physicist and New Nobel Winner, Some Food for Thought (Physics Professor Michael Duff quoted)
- October 2004 - Thomas Donahue, Expert on Exploration of the Planets, Dies (Physics Emeritus Professor Thomas Donahue)
- September 2004 - Physicist focused on environment: Marc Ross believes energy shouldn't be squandered (Physics Emeritus Professor Marc Ross)
- September 2004 - Leading scholar is also a top teacher: Adams, a theorist on star and planet formation, simplifies the complex for classes (Physics Professor Fred Adams)
- August 2004 - A Better Distorted View: The physics of diffusion offers a new way of generating maps (Physics Professor Mark Newman and Physics Graduate Student Michael T. Gastner)
- July 2004 - US team breaks power density record (Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences)
- July 2004 - Smart cruise control eliminates traffic jams (Physics Adjunct Professor L.C. Davis)
- July 2004 - Catching those gamma rays: U-M scientists are key players in far-flung telescope project (Physics Professor Carl Akerlof and Physics graduate student Eli Rykoff)
- June 2004 - Particle physics: From the top... (U-M High Energy Physics Professors who participate in the Collider Detector Facility Collaboration, the DØ Collaboration and the Tevatron Electroweak Working Group)
- May 2004 - Microchannel folds fluids (Physics Professor Jens-Christian Meiners and Graduate Student Hao Chen)
- May 2004 - Researchers use physics formula to develop map-making computer program (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- May 2004 - Studying the universe's form of sprawl (Physics Professors Gregory Tarlé and Tim McKay)
- May 2004 - McDonald restructures college by discipline (Physics Professor Meigan Aronson)
- May 2004 - 'Rocket Mania' launches Physics Olympiad (Physics Department Annual Event)
- April 2004 - Two professors elected to NAS (Physics Professor Philip Bucksbaum)
- April 2004 - From football conferences to food webs: U-M researcher uncovers patterns in complicated networks (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- April 2004 - Technological Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- April 2004 - 14 honorary degrees awarded (Physics Professor Homer Neal)
- March 2004 - Student Research Helps Discover Cancer Drugs (Almut Mecke, Physics Doctoral Student)
- March 2004 - The Quest for the Gold-Plated Collision (Michigan Physics ATLAS team)
- March 2004 - The eventful life of Bing Zhou (Physics Professor Bing Zhou)
- March 2004 - Nobel Prize winner Robert B. Laughlin to speak at U-M (Physics Department Sponsored Event)
- March 2004 - MYTH #1 — Are SUVs Safer Than CARS? (Physics Professor Marc Ross interviewed on ABC News 20/20 program)
- March 2004 - If seeking dark matter, beware spherical cows (Physics Professor Katie Freese quoted)
- March 2004 - Physics pioneers lauded at U-M (Physics Department sponsored event)
- March 2004 - Atom-photon entanglement (Professor Christopher Monroe)
- February 2004 - "Did Life Come From Mars?" Leading Mars expert to speak at U-M (MCTP sponsored lecture)
- February 2004 - Perception of the Extreme Unseen: Visual Logistics and Representation of Subatomic Particle Energy and Matter (Physics Professors Dave Gerdes and Gordon Kane)
- February 2004 - Physics lecture investigates possibility of life on Mars (Physics Department Sponsored Event)
- February 2004 - Sculpted Science (Physics Professor Jens Zorn)
- February 2004 - Ziemlich verknotet (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- February 2004 - Patterns in complicated networks (4th news item) (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- February 2004 - Are you just four steps away from a genius? (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- February 2004 - Six (or fewer) degrees of science (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- January 2004 - Giving physics pizzazz (not archived on Ann Arbor News website) (Physics Employees: Warren Smith, Mark Kennedy, Harminder Shandhu)
- January 2004 - Science that's sizzling: Getting those little atoms to compute (Physics Professor Chris Monroe)
- January 2004 - Quantum Computing Makes a Giant Leap (Physics Professor Roberto Merlin)
- December 2003 - Deuterons display surprising spin gymnastics (Physics Professor Alan Krisch)
- November 2003 - Flux Quanta on the Move (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- November 2003 - What Is Gravity, Really? (Physics Professor Katie Freese)
- October 2003 - US launches joint effort to probe dark secrets of the Universe, Nature 425, 887 (30 October 2003); doi:10.1038/425887a (Professor Greg Tarle)
- October 2003 - Investigating a Surface Science Mystery: The Case of the Disappearing Monolayer (Physics Professor Brad Orr and Team)
- October 2003 - NSLS Chairman, Steve Dierker, Appointed Associate Lab Director for the Light Sources Directorate (Physics Professor Steve Dierker)
- October 2003 - NOVA Television program, ``The Elegant Universe,'' airing on PBS Oct. 28 & Nov. 4, 2003 at 8 p.m. The Elegant Universe program is available via your computer, click here. (Physics Professor Michael Duff )
- October 2003 - Illness puts physics whiz on new path of service (Physics Graduate Student Seth Blumberg)
- October 2003 - A personal window on physics (Saturday Morning Physics)
- August 2003 - Granular materials not so puzzling after all, physicists find (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- August 2003 - Quantum logic gate lights up (Physics Professor Duncan Steel)
- August 2003 - Stolen bust recovered (Physics Department)
- July 2003 - Physics staff member is LSA staff spotlight winner! (Physics Staff Member Angela Yerks)
- July 2003 - Pentaquarks: a new form of matter (Physics Professor Wolfgang Lorenzon)
- June 2003 - Researchers devise a new way to control the motion of tiny particles (Physics Professor Franco Nori)
- June 2003 - The dark side of the universe (Physics Department MCTP sponsored event)
- May 2003 - RU rockets to third in physics contest (Physics Department sponsored event)
- May 2003 - Behind the Six Degrees of SARS (Physics Professor Mark Newman)
- April 2003 -3 faculty members named Guggenheim fellows (Physics Professor Martin Einhorn)
- April 2003 - It’s a nova … it’s a supernova … it’s a HYPERNOVA (Principle Investigator of ROTSE, Physics Professor Carl Akerlof)
- March 2003 - Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman to speak at U-M (Physics Department sponsored event)
- March 2003 - Homer Neal receives 2003 Bouchet Award (Professor Homer Neal)
- February 2003 - Quantum Entanglement of Electrons Achieved (second article)
- February 2003 - U-M launches ambitious exploration of inner space (Physics Department receives funding)
- December 2002 - The American Physical Society recognizes Professor Leonard Sander's 1981 paper with Tom Witten, Diffusion Limited Aggregation, A Kinetic Critical Phenomenon, as the ninth most cited paper in the history of Physical Review Letters.
- December 2002 - Researchers propose breakthrough devices to control the motion of magnetic fields
- November 2002 - U-M student inventor wins national competition
- November 2002 - Thoughtful about uploading
- November 2002 - Researchers propose devices to control mothion of magnetic fields
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