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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
7
2024
HEP Seminar: Cash Hauptmann: "Enhanced Dark Matter Abundance in F...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
This talk will cover recent work proposing a non-thermal production mechanism of dark matter utilizing first-order phase transitions. T...
Oct
8
2024
Astrophysics Colloquium: Elisabeth Krause: "Large-Scale Structure...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Over the next decade, large galaxy surveys will map billions of galaxies and probe cosmic structure formation with high statistical pre...
Oct
8
2024
CFP Colloquium: Eric Hudson: Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston
Abstract: In 1976 Kroger and Reich established the existence of a low-lying nuclear excited state in 229Th through the spectroscopy of ...