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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 10:00 PM for public observing with the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope.
Events
Apr
21
2025
HEP Seminar: Rodolfo Capdevilla: "Towards a Muon Collider"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
The Higgs boson successfully describes the symmetry breaking mechanism that splits the electromagnetic and the weak nuclear forces apar...
Apr
24
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Ilya Sochnikov: "Superelastic M...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Strain tuning is a useful method for probing exotic correlated states of matter. In practice, strain engineering has not kept up with t...
Apr
25
2025
Colloquium: Tarek Saab: "Searching for Dark Matter with the Super...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Cold dark matter is one of the major constituents of the leading cosmological model for our Universe, with many ongoing experimental ef...