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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
Mar
9
2026
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Charles Reichhardt: "Dynamics of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
There are a variety of systems that exhibit chiral dynamics, including vortices in fluids and superfluids, charges in magnetic fields, ...
Mar
9
2026
HEP Seminar: Cole Kampa: "Mu2e in the AI Era"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Mu2e, the muon-to-electron conversion experiment at Fermilab, will search for charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) through the cohere...
Mar
10
2026
CIERA Colloquium: Jon Miller: "X-ray black holes with XRISM"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Gas accretion onto massive black holes at high fractions of the Eddington limit may produce galaxy-altering feedback, in the form of io...