Past Events

Past Events

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Final Presentations and Awards
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Mid-Semester Check-in
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

mosAIcs & brAIns: engaging mosaics emerging from art, aesthetics, and AI with Ralf Wessel

Ralf Wessel from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on mosAIcs & brAIns: engaging mosaics emerging from art, aesthetics, and AI.
Crow 201

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Team Formation and Project Kickoff
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Surprises in the Math of Bouncing and Rolling: Finding Stability Where Randomness and Chaos are Expected with Renato Feres

Renato Feres from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on Surprises in the Math of Bouncing and Rolling: Finding Stability Where Randomness and Chaos are Expected.
Crow 201

Probability in Quantum Mechanics: From Stern-Gerlach, to Antenna Polarizations, to Quantum Qubits with Joe Zehnle

Joe Zehnle will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on Probability in Quantum Mechanics: From Stern-Gerlach, to Antenna Polarizations, to Quantum Qubits.
Crow 201

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Intro to Jupyter, GIT, and Google Earth Engine
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Worm Regeneration and Reproduction: A Story in Several Segments with Duygu Özpolat

Duygu Özpolat from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on Worm Regeneration and Reproduction: A Story in Several Segments.
Crow 201

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Earth Data Challenge Overview
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Brown Bag: Kun Wang

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

From Variable Stars to Dark Matter – The Expanding Legacy of Henrietta Leavitt

The WashU Departments of Physics & Performing Arts have partnered for a colloquium celebrating the life and contributions of Henrietta Leavitt in honor of the upcoming PAD production of 'Silent Sky' - a play focused on Leavitt's life and discoveries.
Seigle 206

WashU Physics Research Symposium

Join us for the seventh annual WUPRS poster session!
Compton Library

Cosmic Crust Pizza Party

Explore galaxies, meet astrophysicists, grab a slice, and discover your place among the stars!
Compton Library

The Incubator Unbound: Scales of Life

Life thrives across scales, from the microbiome to the world's forests, throughout urban cityscapes, and perhaps even on exoplanets light years away. Bring your openness and curiosity for a conversation that rethinks the big questions of our time.
Lobby of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

The Physics of Mysterious Cellular Droplets with Trevor GrandPre

Trevor GrandPre from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on The Physics of Mysterious Cellular Droplets.
Crow 201

Brown Bag: Stephanie Zhang / Abby Santis

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Physics Family Fun Day

Illuminate your curiosity! Discover what light can do & what physics can explain.
Crow Hall, 2nd Floor

Physics and the Puzzle of Artificial Intelligence with Zohar Nussinov

Zohar Nussinov from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on Physics and the Puzzle of Artificial Intelligence.
Crow 201

Why You Might Want Your Brain at the Very Edge of Chaos with Keith Hengen

Keith Hengen from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on Why You Might Want Your Brain at the Very Edge of Chaos.
Crow 201

Brown Bag: Bavan Rajan / Lauren Wratchford

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Dissertation Defense: Emily Millman

"Selective Absorption of Amino Acids to Smectite and Serpentine Clays under Varying Fluid Conditions"
Rudolph Hall 301

Brown Bag: Zhihua Xiong

Diffusive Isotope Fractionation In Minerals: Implications for the Thermal and Chemical Evolution of Planetary Bodies
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Physics Department Showcase - Arts & Sciences WOWS Fall Series

Virtual | Zoom

WashU Danforth Shared Research Facilities Expo

Whitaker Hall Atrium

International Observe the Moon Night

Join us to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night
Crow Observatory, Crow Hall

Brown Bag: Xuanyu Liu / Megan Broussard

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Brown Bag: Alex Meyer / Skandalaris Center

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Open House

Rudolph Hall

EEPS Dissertation Defense: Patrick Matulka

“Studies of seismicity in the Alaska subduction zone and Antarctica"
Rudolph Hall 301

First Look at the Cosmos with NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Join us to tune in with viewers around the world to watch the unveiling of the first spectacular images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Crow 201

EEPS Dissertation Defense: Thomas Condus

"Spectral Mixture Analyses of Hematite-Rich and Clay-Bearing Terrains in Meridiani and Oxia Planum, Mars"
Rudolph Hall Room 301

Guest Lecture: Dr. Pierre Sikivie

Crow Hall 204

Graduate Hooding & Recognition Ceremony

Graham Chapel

Dissertation Defense: Emily Culley

From Anorthosite to Silicic Volcanics: photometry, composition, and buoyancy of crustal rock types on the Moon
Rudolph Hall Room 301