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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 9:00 PM for public observing with the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope.
Events
Oct
22
2026
Complex Systems Seminar: Andreia Sofia Teixeira: "Enriching Our U...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Signed networks allow us to move beyond simple notions of connectivity by representing relationships as positive, negative, or potentia...
Oct
22
2026
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Victor Henner: "Comparative St...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
We investigate the spin dynamics of a dipole-coupled system by comparing a direct solution of the Schrodinger equation for quantum spin...
Oct
23
2026
Colloquium: Arthur Montanari: “Disorder as a Resource for Network...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Understanding how networked dynamical systems coordinate, adapt, and compute is a fundamental challenge in the study of complex systems...