Welcome to Northwestern Physics and Astronomy

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
Feb
17
2025
HEP Seminar: Manoa Andriamirado: "Final Search for Short-Baseline...
4:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to detect eV-scale sterile neutri...
Feb
20
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Dirk Morr: "Topological Superco...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid (MSH) systems have proven to be versatile platforms for the engineering of topological superconductivity a...
Feb
21
2025
Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell: "The Discovery of Pulsars – a G...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
In this talk I will describe how pulsars were discovered and reflect on why the discovery was made then and in that way. Jocelyn Bell B...