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Planetary Thermal Emission in the Age of Roman: St. Louis Astronomical Society July Meeting

Zifan Lin, McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University, will be presenting "Planetary Thermal Emission in the Age of Roman" at the St. Louis Astronomical Society's July meeting
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

New GeV constraints on GRB 221009A with Riki Matsui

Riki Matsui (hosted by Alex Chen) from the University of Tokyo will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on "New GeV constraints on GRB 221009A"
Compton 241

Weather Vanes for the Universe's Most Extreme Storms: Probing the Interiors of Relativistic Outflows Launched by Neutron Stars and Black Holes with Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan (hosted by Yajie Yuan & Alex Chen) from Stanford University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on "Weather Vanes for the Universe's Most Extreme Storms: Probing the Interiors of Relativistic Outflows Launched by Neutron Stars and Black Holes."
Compton 241

Halley's Spectacular 2061 Prospects: St. Louis Astronomical Society June Meeting

Joseph Marcus, former editor of Comet News Service, will be presenting "Halley's Spectacular 2061 Prospects" at the St. Louis Astronomical Society's June meeting
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Planets with Two Suns: St. Louis Astronomical Society May Meeting

Ekrem Esmer, McDonnell Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting "Planets with Two Suns: What Eclipsing Binaries Can Tell Us About Their Hidden Worlds"
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Commencement: Class of 2026

The 165th Commencement ceremony is scheduled for Friday, May 15, 2026 at 9:00 a.m.
Francis Field

Graduate Hooding & Recognition Ceremony 2026

Graham Chapel

Advances in Digital Innovation Across Arts & Sciences and Beyond

Join us to spark new collaborations and project ideas.
Holmes Lounge

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Final Presentations and Awards
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Science Results from the Tierras Observatory: The Wonders of Night-to-Night Photometric Stability with Juliana Garcia-Mejia

Juliana Garcia-Mejia (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Science Results from the Tierras Observatory: The Wonders of Night-to-Night Photometric Stability.
Compton 241

Learning quantum many-body states with Jane Kim

Jane Kim (hosted by Maria Piarulli) from the Argonne National Laboratory will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Learning quantum many-body states.
Compton 340

Weird Stars: St. Louis Astronomical Society April Meeting

Richard Heuermann, St. Louis Astronomical Society, will be presenting "Weird Stars"
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Extreme ionization from a single compact accretor: JWST spectroscopy of the ULX Holmberg II X-1 with Federico Fogantini

Federico Fogantini (hosted by Michael Nowak) from STSci will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Extreme ionization from a single compact accretor: JWST spectroscopy of the ULX Holmberg II X-1.
Compton 241

Hints of New Physics from the KM3NeT and ANITA Anomalies with Dibya Chattopadhyay

Dibya Chattopadhyay (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Oklahoma State University will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Hints of New Physics from the KM3NeT and ANITA Anomalies.
Compton 241

Active Integrated Photonics for Information Processing and Quantum Networking with Liang Feng

Liang Feng (hosted by Chuanwei Zhang) from the University of Pennsylvania will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Active Integrated Photonics for Information Processing and Quantum Networking.
Compton 340

Historical insights and new perspectives on Xe nucleosynthesis: from the molecular cloud to the Earth's atmosphere

Guillaume Avice, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, MCSS Visiting Scientist
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Glassberg/Greensfelder Forum

Hosted by EEPS and the Center for the Environment
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Tripti Bhattacharya

Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya, Thonis Family Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Jonghan Moon

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Resolving AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters with XRISM and Chandra with Hannah McCall

Hannah McCall (hosted by Manel Errando) from the University of Chicago will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Resolving AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters with XRISM and Chandra.
Compton 241

EEPS Colloquium: Tamlin Pavelsky

Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky, Professor of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Untangling the nuclear physics and astrophysics of heavy element creation with Rebecca Surman

Rebecca Surman (hosted by Saori Pastore) from the University of Notre Dame will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Untangling the nuclear physics and astrophysics of heavy element creation.
Compton 340

EEPS Brown Bag: Julia Alvarez Lozano - PhD candidate from Universidad Complutense Madrid

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures: Public Lecture with Andrea Ghez on From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole

Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Public Lecture, "From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole"
Whitaker 100

2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures: Colloquium with Andrea Ghez on Our Galactic Center

Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture, Colloquium, "Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes"
Wilson 214 | Reception: 3:45pm

Spring Equinox Party: Astronomy on Tap

Astronomy on Tap is hosting a Spring Equinox Party
Urban Chestnut - The Grove

Planet Formation and Evolution Through a Statistical Lens with Sarah Blunt

Sarah Blunt (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from UC Santa Cruz will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Planet Formation and Evolution Through a Statistical Lens.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 1:30pm in Compton 245

How to Detect & Characterize Exoplanets: The St. Louis Astronomical Society March Meeting

Marc Ollivier, Director, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale - Paris, will be presenting a talk at the March meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "How to Detect & Characterize Exoplanets."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Mid-Semester Check-in
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium - Stephen Zatman Memorial Lecture: Harriet Lau

Dr. Harriet Lau, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Particle Acceleration in Highly Magnetized Plasmas with Luca Comisso

Luca Comisso (hosted by Manel Errando) from Columbia University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Particle Acceleration in Highly Magnetized Plasmas.
Compton 241

EEPS Colloquium: Sarah Stamps

Dr. Sarah Stamps, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

A Physics Approach to Deep Learning Theory with Blake Bordelon

Blake Bordelon (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from Harvard University will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on A Physics Approach to Deep Learning Theory.
Compton 340

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

EEPS Colloquium: John Higgins

Dr. John Higgins, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The present and future of gravitational-wave astronomy with Michael Coughlin

Michael Coughlin (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from the University of Minnesota will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on The present and future of gravitational-wave astronomy.
Compton 340

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

AI and the Smart Telescope: How Both May Change Amateur Astronomy: The St. Louis Astronomical Society February Meeting

Jesus Ponce de Leon will be presenting a talk at the February meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "How will (may) AI change Amateur Astronomy."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Stellar Bumper Cars! Collisional Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei with Sanaea Cooper Rose

Sanaea Cooper Rose (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from Northwestern University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Stellar Bumper Cars! Collisional Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei.
Compton 241

EEPS Colloquium: Emma "Mickey" MacKie

Dr. Emma "Mickey" MacKie, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Florida
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Mistakes on the way to a good idea: Feenberg Lecture with Helen Quinn

Helen Quinn (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Stanford University will be presenting the Feenberg Lecture on Mistakes on the way to a good idea.
Compton 340

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

Designing New Optics to Investigate Galactic Positron Generation with Dustin Swarm

Dustin Swarm (hosted by Manel Errando) from the University of Iowa will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Designing New Optics to Investigate Galactic Positron Generation.
Compton 241

New Neutrino Interactions and Core-Collapse Supernovae with Anna M. Suliga

Anna M. Suliga (hosted by Writasree Maitra) from New York University will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on New Neutrino Interactions and Core-Collapse Supernovae.
Compton 241

Numerical simulations of strongly correlated electron systems with Fakher Assaad

Fakher Assaad (hosted by Shaffique Adam) from the University of Würzburg will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Numerical simulations of strongly correlated electron systems.
Compton 340

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 Colloquium: Sherilyn Fritz

Dr. Sherilyn Fritz, George Holmes University Professor Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Supercooled liquids and glasses: a many-body perspective with Zohar Nussinov

Zohar Nussinov from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Supercooled liquids and glasses: a many-body perspective.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Earth Data Challenge Overview
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Anne Hofmeister Retirement Lecture

Research Professor Emeritus of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Neutrino-nucleus interactions and the quest for new and precision physics searches in neutrino experiments with Vishvas Pandey

Vishvas Pandey (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Fermilab will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Neutrino-nucleus interactions and the quest for new and precision physics searches in neutrino experiments.
Compton 241

EEPS Colloquium: Jacob Jordan

Dr. Jacob Jordan, Chief Science Officer at Mati Carbon
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

New Frontiers in Electrical, Thermal, and Thermoelectric Transport Predictions with Jenny Coulter

Jenny Coulter (hosted by Shaffique Adam) from the Flatiron Institute will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on New Frontiers in Electrical, Thermal, and Thermoelectric Transport Predictions.
Crow 204

Planets with Two Suns: The St. Louis Astronomical Society January Meeting

Ekrem Esmer, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting a talk at the January meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "Planets with Two Suns: What Eclipsing Binaries Can Tell Us About Their Hidden Worlds."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Colloquium: Jeffrey Catalano

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Director of Environmental Studies
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The Ultraview Effect: The St. Louis Astronomical Society December Meeting

Deana Weibel, Grand Valley State University, will be presenting a talk at the December meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "The Ultraview Effect."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Black Hole Accretion from the Inside Out with Jason Dexter

Jason Dexter (Hosted by Alex Chen) from Colorado University, Boulder will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Black Hole Accretion from the Inside Out
Compton Hall 241 | Coffee: 8:45 AM

Brown Bag: Kun Wang

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

New Class of Three-Nucleon Forces and Their Implications with Maria Dawid

Maria Dawid (Hosted by Saori Pastore) from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting at the Physics Theory seminar on New Class of Three-Nucleon Forces and Their Implications.
Compton 241

EEPS Colloquium: Grace Barcheck

Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Edwin Thompson Jaynes Fellowship Symposium

Join us for the annual Edwin Thompson Jaynes Fellowship Symposium!
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

The Making of an Enterprise: How Star Trek Helped NASA Dream Big and How NASA Helped Star Trek Survive: The St. Louis Astronomical Society November Meeting

Glen Swanson, historian and author, will be featured at the November meeting of the Saint Louis Astronomical Society.
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

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

Electromagnetic Signals of High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Asher Berlin

Asher Berlin (Hosted by Jim Buckley) from Fermilab will be presenting at the Physics Theory seminar on Electromagnetic Signals of High-Frequency Gravitational Waves.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 12:45pm

Astrophysics & Space Sciences seminar with Richard Feder-Staehle and Lindsey Gordon

Richard Feder-Staehle from UC Berkeley / LBNL and Lindsey Gordon from UMN (Hosted by Tansu Daylan) will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences seminar on "From Pixels to Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Beyond: Mission Status and Science with the SPHEREx All-Sky Survey" and "AGN Jets in Complex Cluster Environments", respectively.
Compton Hall 241 | Coffee: 8:45 AM

Silent Sky

Before Edwin Hubble and Stephen Hawking, there was Henrietta Leavitt. 'Silent Sky' takes audiences on Leavitt’s real-life journey as one of Harvard Observatory’s female “human computers” at the turn of the 20th century.
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

EEPS Colloquium: Joe Guinness

Associate Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Washington University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

WashU Physics Research Symposium

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

Running COSMOS.exe: Astronomy on Tap

Yajie Yuan and Alex Chen will be presenting this month's Astronomy on Tap: Running Cosmos.exe — how we use computers to understand the wildest objects in the universe.
Urban Chestnut - The Grove Meeting Room

Cosmic Crust Pizza Party

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

Critical Slowing Down and Bulk Viscosity in Binary Neutron Star Mergers with Rachel Steinhorst

Rachel Steinhorst (Hosted by Liam Brodie) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be presenting at the Physics Theory seminar on Critical Slowing Down and Bulk Viscosity in Binary Neutron Star Mergers.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:45pm

EEPS Colloquium: Nicole Nie

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

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

Pulsar Wind Nebulae: A Treasure Trove of High-energy Astrophysics with Niccolo Bucciantini

Niccolo Bucciantini (Hosted by Henric Krawczynski) from INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and University of Firenze will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Pulsar Wind Nebulae: A Treasure Trove of High-energy Astrophysics.
Compton 241

2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures Public Lecture: The NASA Psyche Mission: First Visit to an Unknown World

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Public Lecture: "The NASA Psyche Mission: First Visit to an Unknown World"
Whitaker 100 | Free and open to the public

2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures Colloquium: The NASA Psyche Mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Colloquium: "The NASA Psyche Mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object"
Whitaker 100 | Refreshments in Whitaker Hall Atrium | 3:30 pm

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

Cosmic Tricks and Multiwavelength Treats: From Galactic PeVatrons to Solar Axions with Jooyun Woo

Jooyun Woo (Hosted by Manel Errando) from Columbia University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Cosmic Tricks and Multiwavelength Treats: From Galactic PeVatrons to Solar Axions.
Compton Hall 241 | Coffee: 8:45 AM

EEPS Colloquium: Kiya Riverman

Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Portland
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Reconstructing Multi-frequency Movies of Supermassive Black Holes with PRIMO with Lia Medeiros

Lia Medeiros (hosted by Andrea Gokus) from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be presenting at the Colloquium on Reconstructing Multi-frequency Movies of Supermassive Black Holes with PRIMO.
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

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

Event Canceled - EEPS Colloquium: Morgan Cable

Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The Terahertz Intensity Mapper with Joaquin Vieira

Joaquin Vieira (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from UIUC will be presenting at the Colloquium on The Terahertz Intensity Mapper.
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

Venus: the St. Louis Astronomical Society October Meeting

Paul Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting "Venus" at the October meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Brown Bag: Bavan Rajan / Lauren Wratchford

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

New Theoretical Insights into Black Hole Coronae with Navin Sridhar

Navin Sridhar (Hosted by Alex Chen) from Stanford University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences seminar on New Theoretical Insights into Black Hole Coronae.
Compton Hall 241 | Coffee: 8:45 AM

Thermal Resummation, Dark Matter, and Baryogenesis: Higgs-Portal Windows into the Early Universe with Subhojit Roy

Subhojit Roy (Hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Argonne National Lab will be presenting at the Physics Theory seminar on Thermal Resummation, Dark Matter, and Baryogenesis: Higgs-Portal Windows into the Early Universe.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:45pm

EEPS Colloquium: Stefano Nerozzi

Research Professor and Planetary Geologist, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Connecting the Lab to Cosmos: Probing the Densest Matter in the Universe with Jaki Noronha-Hostler

Jaki Noronha-Hostler (hosted by Maria Piarulli) from UIUC will be presenting at the Colloquium on Connecting the Lab to Cosmos: Probing the Densest Matter in the Universe.
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

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

Searching for Circumbinary Planets and Initial Results from the Indian X-ray Polarimeter

Ekrem Esmer from WashU and Ketan Rikame (hosted by Henric Krawczynski) from the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru, India will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences seminar
Compton Hall 241

Small Galaxies, Big Science: Fundamental Physics from the Faintest Galaxies with Alex Drlica-Wagner

Alex Drlica-Wagner (hosted by Jim Buckley) from University of Chicago and Fermilab will be presenting at the Colloquium on Small Galaxies, Big Science: Fundamental Physics from the Faintest Galaxies.
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

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

New Clues to an Old Mystery: GRB Emission Mechanisms and Hidden Populations with Maria Edvige Ravasio

Maria Edvige Ravasio (Hosted by Henric Krawczynski) from Radboud University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences seminar on New Clues to an Old Mystery: GRB Emission Mechanisms and Hidden Populations.
Compton 241

EEPS Colloquium: Jonathan Lunine

Chief Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Searching for New Physics with High-Energy Atmospheric and Cosmic Neutrinos with Carlos Argüelles-Delgado

Carlos Argüelles-Delgado (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Harvard University will be presenting at the Colloquium on Searching for New Physics with High-Energy Atmospheric and Cosmic Neutrinos.
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

Brown Bag: Xuanyu Liu / Megan Broussard

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Yang Liu

Larry Haskin Memorial Lecture
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Equinox Party: Astronomy on Tap

Astronomy on Tap is hosting an Equinox Party with Mikhail Tikhonov and Zifan Lin from WashU
Urban Chestnut - The Grove

The Roman Space Telescope: The Roman View of Strong Lenses: the St. Louis Astronomical Society September meeting

Tansu Daylan, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting "The Roman View of Strong Lenses" at the September meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Brown Bag: Alex Meyer / Skandalaris Center

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Journey from Research Scientist to Science Communicator with Diana Hannikainen

Diana Hannikainen (Hosted by Michael Nowak) from Sky & Telescope will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Journey from Research Scientist to Science Communicator.
Compton Hall 241 | Coffee: 8:45 AM

EEPS Colloquium: Professor William Holt

Professor of Geophysics, Stony Brook University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Brown Bag: Eric Hiatt

Constraints on the Early Mars Paleoclimate Through Observed Geomorphology and Groundwater Modeling
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The Roman Survey for Gravitational Lenses Across Cosmic Time

Tansu Daylan, Washington University, will be presenting the ESE Seminar, "The Roman survey for gravitational lenses across cosmic time"
Green Hall, Rodin Auditorium room 0120

EEPS Colloquium: Jonathan Aurnou

Jonathan Aurnou Professor of geophysics and planetary physics and Chair of the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Piecing Together the Dining Habits of Supermassive Black Holes with Peter Boorman

Peter Boorman (Hosted by Andrea Gokus) from Caltech will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences seminar on Piecing Together the Dining Habits of Supermassive Black Holes.
Compton Hall 241 | Coffee: 8:45 AM

EEPS Colloquium: David Fike

Glassberg/Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Electron and Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei with Saori Pastore

Saori Pastore (hosted by Wim Dickhoff) from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting at the Colloquium on Electron and Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Aspects of cosmological gravitational waves at Pulsar Timing Arrays with Fabrizio Rompineve

Fabrizio Rompineve (Hosted by Francesc Ferrer) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & IFAE will be presenting the Physics Theory seminar on Aspects of cosmological gravitational waves at Pulsar Timing Arrays.
Compton 241 | COFFEE: 2:45PM

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Open House

Rudolph Hall

EEPS Colloquium: Mark Jellinek

How do explosive eruptions through water change climate and why does it matter?
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Dissertation Defense: Patrick Matulka

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

A Journey to the Ring Giant - The Legacy of Cassini Huygens

Megan Dickson, University of Missouri, St. Louis, will be presenting "A Journey to the Ring Giant - The Legacy of Cassini Huygens" at the August meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

From NewAthena to Gamma-Ray Lenses: The Potential of Silicon Pore Optics with Nicolas Barrière

Nicolas Barrière from Cosine will be presenting the seminar on From NewAthena to Gamma-Ray Lenses: The Potential of Silicon Pore Optics.
Crow 206

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