Welcome to Northwestern Physics and Astronomy
![Two physicists in a research lab](images/microroller_instability.jpg)
Faculty and Research
Our research employs an broad range of theoretical and experimental approaches to understand the fundamental nature of the universe.![](images/higgs.jpg)
Seminars and Colloquia
See our weekly seminars and colloquia throughout the academic year.![Dearborn Observatory](images/home-page/dearborn-observatory-544x310.jpg)
Dearborn Observatory
Visitors are invited to tour the Observatory every Friday night.
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
May
21
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Marla Geha: "The SAGA Survey: Exploring Sa...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
The Milky Way's satellite galaxies provide critical clues to how low mass galaxies form and the nature of dark matter. Yet the Milky ...
May
21
2024
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Logan Wright: "Programming Physi...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
My new lab at Yale works on two complementary research directions. In the first, we are trying to understand and control photonic syste...
May
21
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Peter Pauzauskie: Synthesis and characteriza...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Abstract: The first detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO collaboration in 2015 ushered in new era of experimental gravitational...