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.
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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
Nov
2
2026
HEP Seminar: Vincent Lee: "The Dark Dimension, Revisited"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Motivated by the swampland program, it has been proposed that a tower of massive Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons from a compactified flat e...
Nov
5
2026
Complex Systems Seminar: Ahmed Allibhoy: "Computing via Synchroni...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
In this talk we explore how coupled oscillator networks can be employed to solve a variety of difficult computing problems. These syst...
Nov
6
2026
Colloquium: Shep Doeleman: "Taking Pictures and making Movies of ...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) project will enhance the global EHT array so that it is possible to make real-time ...
