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Physics
News & Features
Physics Professor Dragan Huterer Recieves Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
Physics Professor Dragan Huterer recently won the 2025 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for his textbook, "A Course in Cosmology: From Theory to Practice"
LSA Women in History: Carolyn B. Parker
Meet Carolyn B. Parker, a scientist and mathematician who helped to uncover the frightening power of radiation.

Events
Featured
Mar
29
Saturday Morning Physics | ZEUS: The Highest Power Laser in the U.S.
Karl Krushelnick, Professor: Nuclear Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Physics. Director, ZEUS laser facility and Gerard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
10:30 AM
170 & 182 Auditoriums
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Mar
21
HET Seminar | The Full Spectrum of Thermal Dark Matter
Eric Kuflik (Hebrew U/Cornell)
3:00 PM
3481
Randall Laboratory
Mar
25
CM-AMO Seminar | Visualization of Tunable Electronic Structure of Van der Waals Heterostructures
Jyoti Katoch (Carnegie Mellon University)
4:00 PM
340
West Hall
Mar
26
Brown Bag Seminar | Comments on closed universes
Ying Zhao (MIT)
12:00 PM
3481
Randall Laboratory
Mar
26
Department Colloquium | Probing the Structures of Pyramids using Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography
E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)
3:00 PM
340
West Hall
Mar
27
Quantum Research Institute | Coupling control and quantum dynamics of spin defects in solids: from room temperature quantum sensing to quantum computation
Michael E. Flatté, Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Iowa (UI)
11:00 AM
2000PML
Virtual