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Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
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Events
Please click here for our department seminars (excluding PAECRS) calendar.
Nov
3
2025
HEP Seminar: Pouya Asadi: "Taming Axion Rotation: Dark Vector-like Confinement for Axiogenesis"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Despite its remarkable success, the Standard Model of particle physics leaves many open problems and falls short of explaining the...
Nov
4
2025
CIERA Colloquium: Wanying Kang: "Icy Ocean Worlds -- from the Surface to the Interior"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Icy moon oceans are promising targets in the search for extraterrestrial life, but characterizing their internal dynamics remains challenging, as...
Nov
6
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Kaiyuan Sun: "Modeling the Multiscale Complexity of Infectious Disease Dynamics"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The transmission dynamics of infectious diseases represent a complex dynamical system shaped by intricate host-pathogen interactions, feedback loops, and adaptive...
Nov
6
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Istvan Kovacs: "Critical Behavior in Disordered Josephson Junction Arrays"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Heterogeneities in the form of quenched disorder often have a fundamental impact on the emergent phases and phase transitions in...
Nov
7
2025
Colloquium: Marina Artuso: "LHCb at the Frontier of Flavor Physics: a Tale in Three Chapters"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The LHCb experiment is the first experiment designed to study interesting decays of the b and c quarks at a...
Nov
10
2025
HEP Seminar: Grace Cummings: "When they go Low, we go Lower: Extending the Reach of Collider Experiments with Low-Level Detector Information"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Even in the time of streaming and industrial big-data, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider still produce data of...
Nov
13
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Filippo Radicchi: "Modeling Resource Consumption via Minimum-Cost Percolation"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In this talk, I introduce a dynamic percolation model designed to describe resource consumption and depletion in networks: the minimum-cost...
Nov
13
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Alexey Bezryadin: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Alexey Bezryadin, Professor, University of Illinois - Ubana/Champaign Host: Venkat Chandrasekhar
Nov
14
2025
Colloquium: Irmgard Bishofberger: "Instabilities and Flow-Induced Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystals"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) solutions in the nematic phase have peculiar properties. They are tumbling materials, which means that...
Nov
17
2025
HEP Seminar: Daniel Hooper: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Daniel Hooper, Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison Host: Adrian Thompson
Nov
20
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Xiang Cheng: "Extraordinary Life of Microswimmers: how does a Microorganism Swim and Navigate in complex Environments
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Microorganisms inhabit and swim in fluids at low Reynolds numbers, a world, though foreign to us, is of utmost importance...
Dec
1
2025
HEP Seminar: Alex Wen: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Alex Wen, PhD Student, Harvard Host: Adrian Thompson
Jan
16
2026
Colloquium: Wendy Freedman: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Wendy Freedman, Professor, University of Chicago Host: Vicky Kalogera