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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
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Erin Kara: “Black Hole Accretion and Growth in ...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
The field of black hole accretion is seeing a renaissance in the last 5–10 years, thanks to the advent of wide-field, time domain surve...
Oct
24
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara Solla: "On the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
This seminar is on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inven...
Oct
24
2024
CMP Seminar: Andrew Higginbotham: "Thermally Stabilized Supercond...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Superconducting resonators are technological building blocks for quantum computing, cosmology, and particle physics. Yet, despite thei...