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Faculty and Research
Our research employs an broad range of theoretical and experimental approaches to understand the fundamental nature of the universe.
Seminars and Colloquia
See our weekly seminars and colloquia throughout the academic year.
Dearborn Observatory
Visitors are invited to tour the Observatory every Friday night.
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News and Events
Observing at Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is open on Friday evenings for walk-in tours at 10:00 PM for public observing with the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope.
Events
Nov
6
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Kaiyuan Sun: "Modeling the Multiscale Co...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
The transmission dynamics of infectious diseases represent a complex dynamical system shaped by intricate host-pathogen interactions, f...
Nov
6
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Istvan Kovacs: "Critical Behavi...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Heterogeneities in the form of quenched disorder often have a fundamental impact on the emergent phases and phase transitions in quantu...
Nov
7
2025
Colloquium: Marina Artuso: "LHCb at the Frontier of Flavor Physic...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
The LHCb experiment is the first experiment designed to study interesting decays of the b and c quarks at a hadron machine. Currently it...