ALT A multi-tiered octagonal aluminum frame holding black cylindrical detectors arranged radially inward inside a laboratory.

ALT A social media graphic for the Ta-You Wu Lecture. The title reads "From Prehistoric Qubits to Building a Useful Quantum Computer," with the date "Wednesday, October 14th." An oval frame holds a portrait of a smiling gray-haired man, labeled JOHN MARTINIS, Qolab & Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara. Graphic elements include stone monuments with quantum symbols, connected to circuit traces.

ALT Poster for the Ta-You Wu Lecture titled "From Prehistoric Qubits to Building a Useful Quantum Computer," featuring John Martinis from Qolab and UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday, October 14th.

ALT Promotional flyer for the Ta-You Wu Lecture on October 14, 2026, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Rackham. Speaker Professor John Martinis, Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara, presents "From Prehistoric Qubits to Building a Useful Quantum Computer". Presented by the University of Michigan Department of Physics.

ALT Woman with short dark hair and colorful glasses smiling against a blue backdrop.

ALT Promotional graphic for the Ta-You Wu Lecture on October 14, 2026, titled "From Prehistoric Qubits to Building a Useful Quantum Computer," featuring Professor John Martinis.

ALT A close-up portrait of a smiling senior man with short white hair, wearing a light blue button-down shirt outdoors with blurred green foliage in the background.

ALT A smiling man named Stephen Forrest, with glasses, wears a light blue striped short-sleeved shirt with a small black clip-on microphone. He stands in a modern, brightly lit indoor space with soft-focused figures and large glass windows in the background.

ALT A sign with a blue background and yellow lettering with the words "We're Hiring! Join Our Team."

ALT Roy Clarke, a man with short white hair and glasses wearing a black t-shirt, smiles as he high-fives and greets a large, supportive crowd of clapping community members outdoors.

ALT A prominent sign on a university campus announces a job opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position.

ALT A 3D ATLAS Experiment particle collision visualization featuring energetic particle jets rendered as purple and teal cones radiating from a central interaction vertex.

ALT When two pulses of different colored lasers (the two waves at the top of the image) light meet in a new device created at the University of Michigan, researchers create a beam of electrons (small golden particles) that flows in a controllable direction. By changing the laser colors, the electron beam can sweep through different directions like the beam of a lighthouse. Image credit: Yiming Gong

ALT Physicist Stephen Forrest smiling and wearing glasses and a striped short-sleeved shirt standing in a modern hallway.

ALT Two men standing next to each other on a stage, smiling and holding an open certificate award folder together.

ALT Lu Li, a University of Michigan physics professor, smiling with the background filled with his scientific equipment.