Past Events

Bhupal Dev, Associate Professor of Physics at WashU, will be presenting “Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars”

Avia Raviv-Moshe (hosted by Francesc Ferrer) from Stony Brook University will be presenting at the Colloquium on The Dynamics on Line Defects: Renormalization Group Flows and Applications .

Abigail Lee (Hosted by Anastasia Sokolenko) from University of Chicago will be presenting the seminar on The J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) method: An Independent Measurement of the Hubble Constant using Carbon Stars as Standard Candles.

Mihir Pendharkar (hosted by Erik Henriksen) from Stanford University will be presenting the seminar on "Enabling Predictable Twistronics: Robotic vacuum stacking and Torsional Force Microscopy of Van der Waals Moire Heterostructures"

Michael Wiescher (hosted by Lee Sobotka) from University of Notre Dame will be presenting at the Colloquium on “Threshold effects in stellar reaction processes”

Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (hosted by Takuya Okawa) from Virginia Tech will be presenting the seminar on New multi-messenger probes of dark matter and the cosmic neutrino background.

Lanqing Yuan (Hosted by Karthik Ramanathan) from University of Chicago will be presenting the seminar on "Towards an ultimate search for light dark matter with XENONnT"

Guillaume Le Treut, Scientist, Theory Group, Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco James Holehouse, Postdoc, Santa Fe Institute

Baxi Zhong, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology Brandon Schlomann, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Bingrong Yu (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Cornell University will be presenting at the seminar.

Melodie Kao (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from the Lowell Observatory will be presenting a seminar on Comparative Magnetospheric Science: Bridging Planets to Low-Mass Stars.

Trevor GrandPre, Associate Research Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Princeton University; Caroline Farrior, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

Volcanism on Io and the Prometheus Mission

Honyung Lee (hosted by Erik Henriksen) from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be presenting the seminar on Precision synthesis of quantum and energy materials for emergent phenomena.

Michael Malolepszy, St. Louis Astronomical Society, will be presenting “Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the Next Big Thing in Radio Astronomy”

Michael Ogilvie from the Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, will be hosting this Saturday's Science Lecture, "Chaos from order, order from chaos"

Pepi Fabbiano (hosted by Mike Nowak) from Chandra X-ray Center will be presenting at the Colloquium on 25 years of Chandra.

Elena Pinetti (Hosted by Anastasia Sokolenko) from Flatiron Institute will be presenting at the seminar on Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Atomic Pizza: Dare to Discover the Secrets of the Universe! Join us for Particles & Pepperoni on Friday, February 28th from 12pm - 2pm in the Compton Library.

Stella Schindler will be hosting this Saturday's Science Lecture, "Harnessing the strong force: Physics at America's future Electron-Ion Collider"

Geoffrey Diederich (hosted by Xi Wang) from University of Maryland, Baltimore County will be presenting the seminar on Exciton dressing by extreme nonlinear magnons in a layered semiconductor.

Dean Lee (hosted by Maria Piarulli) from Michigan State University will be presenting at the Colloquium on Emergent physics from nuclear lattice simulations.

Lars Zurek (Hosted by Jason Bub) will be presenting the seminar on Extending the reach of nuclear ab initio approaches with tensor factorization.

Rafael Luque (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from the University of Chicago will be presenting a seminar on Towards a holistic understanding of sub-Neptunes.

Duncan Lorimer (hosted by Tansu Daylan) from West Virginia University will be presenting at the Colloquium on The growing population of fast radio bursts.

Duncan Lorimar, West Virginia University, will be presenting a talk for the March St. Louis Astronomical Society meeting, "The Cosmic Mystery and History of Fast Radio Bursts"

Yafei Ren (hosted by Xi Wang) from University of Delaware

Building Connections: Faculty Open House with the Department of Radiation Oncology

Nathan Secrest (Hosted by Bhupal Dev) from US Naval Observatory will be presenting the seminar.

WashU is excited to host this year's Zone 12 Meeting!

Mükremin Kılıç (Hosted by Tansu Daylan) from University of Oklahoma will be presenting the seminar on A Revolution in Stellar Astrophysics, and the Remaining Challenges

Tansu Daylan and Bryce Wedig from the Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, will be hosting this Saturday's Science Lecture, "Seeing the dark with gravitational lensing"

Andrei M. Beloborodov (hosted by Alex Chen) from Columbia University will be presenting at the Colloquium.

Francesca Bonaiti (Hosted by Saori Pastore) from FRIB/ORNL will be presenting the seminar.

Reunite with Your Physics Classmates at the 2025 Graduate Reunion!

Howard Isaacson (Hosted by Tansu Daylan) from UC Berkeley will be presenting the seminar on Ground-based Radial Velocity Surveys as the Foundation for Future Space Missions.

Sheng Ran from the Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, will be hosting this Saturday's Science Lecture, "Unveiling material mysteries of the universe"

Tiancheng Song (hosted by Xi Wang) from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sebastian Deffner (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from the University of Maryland Baltimore County will be presenting at the Colloquium.

Debasish Borah (Hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and University of Pittsburgh will be presenting at the seminar.

Joseph Neilsen (Hosted by Michael Nowak) from Villanova University will be presenting the seminar.

Phil Kaaret (hosted by Henric Krawczynski) from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will be presenting on "Science Results from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)" at the Colloquium.

Alexei Prokudin (Hosted by Saori Pastore) from Penn State University Berks will be presenting the seminar

Lia Hankla (Hosted by Manel Errando) from University of Maryland will be presenting the seminar.

Megan Dickson, St. Louis Astronomical Society, will be presenting "Beyond Particles: The Elegant Universe of Strings"

Thomas Allison (hosted by Erik Henriksen) will be presenting the seminar on Momentum-Space Imaging of Electron and Exciton Dynamics in 2D Materials.

Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, will present the 2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures, Colloquium, "New Insights into the Formation of the First Black Holes"

Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, will present the 2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures, "Unveiling the Invisible Universe with JWST"

Wenzer Qin (Hosted by Chris Cappiello) will be presenting the seminar.

Dibyendu Nanda (Hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Osaka University will be presenting the seminar.

Join us for our 50th Anniversary Symposium!

Liang Wu (hosted by Li Yang) will be presenting the seminar.