EVENTS

Speaker: Dr. Jessie Shelton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics is a stunning success: it is a rich edifice that can explain the results of just about every terrestrial experiment performed to date.  But this … Read more

Anyone interested in open discussions about STEM education issues over lunch this semester is welcome to attend these informal weekly meetings. Bring your own lunch or just come and join the conversation! If you are interested but not available at … Read more

Title: Tidal Disruption Events: Hungry Black Holes and Astrophysical Probes of Fundamental Physics Abstract: The centers of most galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBHs), enormous objects that contain between a million up to ten billion times the mass of our … Read more

Anyone interested in open discussions about STEM education issues over lunch this semester is welcome to attend these informal weekly meetings. Bring your own lunch or just come and join the conversation! If you are interested but not available at … Read more

Come and hear the students from the First-Year Seminar "The Interplay of Music and Physics" perform their own compositions for ensembles of instruments that they made from found objects!  You may hear the bassoodle, the poboe, the magazine recorder, or … Read more

The Physics and Astronomy Department will have its annual holiday luncheon today.