Welcome to Northwestern Physics and Astronomy
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.
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
20
2024
Amplitudes and Insights Seminar: Zhewei Yin: "An Area Law for Ent...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
We show in a very general setup that the linear entropy for the entanglement of a final state, resulting from a quantum 2 to 2 scatteri...
May
20
2024
HEP Seminar: Abdollah Mohammadi: "Standard Model-Like is the 125...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
One of the very first pivotal questions that arose immediately after the announcement of the observation of the Higgs boson was whether...
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 ...