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Understanding hadrons and cosmic rays with collider neutrinos with Toni Makela

Toni Makela (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from University of California, Irvine will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Understanding hadrons and cosmic rays with collider neutrinos.
Compton 241

Unveiling the Hidden: A Search for Light Dark Matter with DAMIC-M with Paolo Privitera

Paolo Privitera (hosted by Karthik Ramanathan) from the University of Chicago will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Unveiling the Hidden: A Search for Light Dark Matter with DAMIC-M.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Optical and mechanical probing of 2D magnetic systems with Xiao-Xiao Zhang

Xiao-Xiao Zhang (hosted by Sheng Ran) from the University of Florida will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Optical and mechanical probing of 2D magnetic systems.
Compton 241

Pulsars, the Lighthouses of the Cosmos with Alex Chen

Alex Chen from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on Pulsars, the Lighthouses of the Cosmos.
Crow 201

Henric Krawczynski Presents at the A&S Teaching Innovation Showcase

Join us in supporting our faculty member, Henric Krawczynski, as he presents at this year’s A&S Teaching Innovation Showcase!
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall

Effectively Probing Beyond the Standard Model Physics with Wouter Dekens

Wouter Dekens (hosted by Maria Dawid) from the University of Washington will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Effectively Probing Beyond the Standard Model Physics.
Compton 241

Anyons on the Move: Fractional Particles and Superconductivity in Flatland with Eslam Khalaf

Eslam Khalaf (hosted by Alex Seidel) from Harvard University will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Anyons on the Move: Fractional Particles and Superconductivity in Flatland.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Diamond Quantum Sensing Microscopy of Magnetic Nanomaterials with Abdelghani Laraoui

Abdelghani Laraoui (hosted by Erik Henriksen) from University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Diamond Quantum Sensing Microscopy of Magnetic Nanomaterials.
Compton 241

Accelerating Physics with AI: A Scientific Discovery Workshop

Addressing Research Challenges Through Cross-Sector Collaboration
Compton 340

What are the Laws Governing the Evolution of The Law? with James Holehouse

James Holehouse from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on What are the Laws Governing the Evolution of The Law?
Crow 201

The Global Meteor Network: A World-wide Effort in Meteor Science, Space Situational Awareness and the Atmospheric Environment: St. Louis Astronomical Society October 2026 Meeting

Tam Do, University of Western Ontario, will be presenting the St. Louis Astronomical Society's October meeting
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Galaxies and Their Black Holes: Tracing and Harnessing a Cosmic Partnership with William Brandt

William Brandt (hosted by Henric Krawczynski) from Pennsylvania State University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on "Galaxies and Their Black Holes: Tracing and Harnessing a Cosmic Partnership"
Compton 241

Correlated Artificial Lattices Realized Through Patterned Adatoms, Impurities, and Vacancies in 2D Hosts with Malte Rösner

Malte Rösner (hosted by Shaffique Adam) from Bielefeld University will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Correlated Artificial Lattices Realized Through Patterned Adatoms, Impurities, and Vacancies in 2D Hosts.
Compton 241

A&S WOWS Virtual Info Session feat. Physics Department

Virtual | Zoom

High Energy Horrors: Astronomy on Tap

Nicole Osborn and Ben de Jonge will be presenting this month's Astronomy on Tap: High Energy Horrors
Urban Chestnut - The Grove Meeting Room

Probing Emergent Phenomena in Layered Magnets with Zhong Lin

Zhong Lin (hosted by Xi Wang) from Binghamton University will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Probing Emergent Phenomena in Layered Magnets.
Compton 241

The Physical Foundations of Precision Black Hole Astrophysics with George Wong

George Wong (hosted by Vedant Dhruv) from Princeton University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on The Physical Foundations of Precision Black Hole Astrophysics.
Compton 241

From Quantum Geometry to Phase Rigidity in Multiband Superconductors and Exciton Condensates with Enrico Rossi

Enrico Rossi (hosted by Shaffique Adam) from the College of William and Mary will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on From Quantum Geometry to Phase Rigidity in Multiband Superconductors and Exciton Condensates.
Compton 241

Candidate for a Fractional Topological Insulator with Xiaoyang Zhu

Xiaoyang Zhu (hosted by Xi Wang) from Columbia University will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Candidate for a Fractional Topological Insulator.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

The Galactic Annihilation Line Explorer (GALE) Balloon-borne Mission to Study 511-keV Annihilation Emission Morphology in the Inner Galaxy with Makoto Sasaki

Makoto Sasaki (hosted by Manel Errando) from the Goddard Space Flight Center will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on The Galactic Annihilation Line Explorer (GALE) Balloon-borne Mission to Study 511-keV Annihilation Emission Morphology in the Inner Galaxy.
Compton 241

Nonlinear Quantum Matter for AI Imaging and Computing Conference

Nonlinear Quantum Matter for AI Imaging and Computing brings together researchers working at the intersection of quantum materials, nonlinear optics, artificial intelligence, computational imaging, sensing, and emerging computing hardware.

Umrath Lounge

A Sharper View of the GeV Sky: High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Astronomy with a Balloon-Borne Nuclear Emulsion Telescope with Hiroki Rokujo

Hiroki Rokujo (hosted by Manel Errando) from Nagoya University, Japan will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on A Sharper View of the GeV Sky: High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Astronomy with a Balloon-Borne Nuclear Emulsion Telescope.
Compton 241

Waving in the Dark with Mustafa Amin

Mustafa Amin (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from Rice University will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Waving in the Dark.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Engineering an Atomically Thin Superfluid with Adrian del Maestro

Adrian del Maestro (hosted by Erik Henriksen) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Engineering an Atomically Thin Superfluid.
Compton 241

High-Energy Neutrinos in the Multi-Messenger Era: From Cosmic Accelerators to Fundamental Physics with Mainak Mukhopadhyay

Mainak Mukhopadhyay (hosted by Writasree Maitra) from the University of Chicago & Fermilab will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on High-Energy Neutrinos in the Multi-Messenger Era: From Cosmic Accelerators to Fundamental Physics.
Compton 241

Quantum Geometry Nonlinearity Near a Singularity with Suyang Xu

Suyang Xu (hosted by Sheng Ran) from Harvard University will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Quantum Geometry Nonlinearity Near a Singularity.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Is There Anyone Out There?: St. Louis Astronomical Society September 2026 Meeting

Vivian White, The Astro Society, will be presenting the St. Louis Astronomical Society's September meeting
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Spectral radiative transfer post-processing of GRMHD simulations of black hole accretion with Christopher Nagele

Christopher Nagele (hosted by Henric Krawczynski) from Johns Hopkins University will be presenting the Astrophysics & Space Sciences Seminar on Spectral radiative transfer post-processing of GRMHD simulations of black hole accretion.
Compton 241

A Collider-, Cosmology-, and Astrophysics-Testable Curvaton with Takuya Okawa

Takuya Okawa (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from SISSA will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on A Collider-, Cosmology-, and Astrophysics-Testable Curvaton.
Compton 241

The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics with Rob Phillips

Rob Phillips (hosted by Trevor GrandPre) from Caltech will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Moiré excitons in van der Waals Materials with Gang Lu

Gang Lu (hosted by Xi Wang) from California State University, Northridge will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Moiré excitons in van der Waals Materials.
Compton 241

Producing the GeV Galactic Center Excess via Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Scattering with Debopam Goswami

Debopam Goswami (hosted by Writasree Maitra) from Texas A&M University will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Producing the GeV Galactic Center Excess via Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Scattering.
Compton 241

From Diamond Defects to Protein-based Qubit Sensors with Peter Maurer

Peter Maurer (hosted by Chong Zu) from the University of Chicago will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on From Diamond Defects to Protein-based Qubit Sensors.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 2:30pm Compton 245

Aesthetics and Physics Embodied in the Japanese Bow with John Neu

John Neu (hosted by Mark Alford) from UC Berkeley will be presenting the Physics Colloquium on Aesthetics and Physics Embodied in the Japanese Bow.
Compton 340 | Coffee: 1:30pm Compton 245

Pairing by repulsion in fractional Chern insulators with Clemens Kuhlenkamp

Clemens Kuhlenkamp (hosted by Alex Seidel) from Harvard University will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Pairing by repulsion in fractional Chern insulators.
Compton 241

Welcome Back Barbecue

Join us for the Physics Department Welcome Back Barbecue!
Compton Courtyard

X-ray Astronomy in Living Color: St. Louis Astronomical Society August 2026 Meeting

Michael Nowak, Research Professor of Physics and Associate Director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, will be presenting the St. Louis Astronomical Society's August meeting
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Compton 340

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.

Physics Department BBQ

Join us for the first Physics Department BBQ of the summer!
Compton Courtyard

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.

Physics Commencement Reception

We are excited to invite you to the Department of Physics Commencement Reception in celebration of our graduates!
Compton 340

Commencement: Class of 2026

College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony

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

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

Single-gate tracking behavior in flat-band multilayer graphene devices with Cyprian Lewandowski

Cyprian Lewandowski (hosted by Sheng Ran & Dmitry Chichinadze) from the Florida State University will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Single-gate tracking behavior in flat-band multilayer graphene devices.
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

Hydrodynamic phenomena in nonreciprocal electron liquids with Alex Levchenko

Alex Levchenko (hosted by Sheng Ran & Dmitry Chichinadze) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Hydrodynamic phenomena in nonreciprocal electron liquids.
Compton 241

Composite Quarks, Leptons, and Higgs: Flavor Signatures of a Preon Theory with Amartya Sengupta

Amartya Sengupta (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Composite Quarks, Leptons, and Higgs: Flavor Signatures of a Preon Theory.
Compton 241

Spontaneously Broken Non-Invertible Symmetries in Transverse-Field Ising Qudit Chains with Kristian Tyan Kai Chung

Kristian Tyan Kai Chung (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from Rice University will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Spontaneously Broken Non-Invertible Symmetries in Transverse-Field Ising Qudit Chains.
Compton 241

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

Unveiling Anyon Fusion in Quantum Hall Systems from Microscopic Principles with Gerardo Ortiz

Gerardo Ortiz (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from Indiana University, Bloomington will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Unveiling Anyon Fusion in Quantum Hall Systems from Microscopic Principles.
Compton 241

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

Quantum Industry Colloquium featuring Dr. Yong Meng Sua, CTO of Quantum Computing Inc.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Yong Meng Sua to WashU as part of the Quantum Industry Colloquium Series hosted by the Center for Quantum Leaps. On April 1st at 9:30am in the Danforth University Center, classroom 234 to learn from industry experts.
Danforth University Center (DUC), Room 234

Exciting Stuff: Dynamical Excursions with Tunable Quantum Matter with Gal Shavit

Gal Shavit (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from CalTech will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Exciting Stuff: Dynamical Excursions with Tunable Quantum Matter.
Compton 241

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

Quantum transport and frustrated magnetism in strained graphene with Christophe De Beule

Christophe De Beule (hosted by Shaffique Adam) from Antwerp University will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Quantum transport and frustrated magnetism in strained graphene.
Compton 241

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

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

Strain-Tuned Electronic Structure in Bilayer Nickelates with Chunjing Jia

Chunjing Jia (hosted by Xi Wang) from the University of Florida will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Strain-Tuned Electronic Structure in Bilayer Nickelates: Insight from ab initio Calculations and Angle-resolved Photoemission.
Compton 241

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.

Three-body hadronic reactions from Lattice QCD with Sebastian Dawid

Sebastian Dawid (hosted by Saori Pastore) from Indiana University will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Three-body hadronic reactions from Lattice QCD.
Compton 241

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

Quantum Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Sensing Rare Decays to Solving Collider Challenges with Kyoungchul Kong

Kyoungchul (KC) Kong (hosted by Bhupal Dev) from the University of Kansas will be presenting the Physics Theory Seminar on Quantum Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Sensing Rare Decays to Solving Collider Challenges.
Compton 340

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

Harnessing Quantum Metastable States with Record Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity: Bridging High-Pressure Creation and Ambient Stability with Liangzi Deng

Liangzi Deng (hosted by Chong Zu) from the University of Houston will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Harnessing Quantum Metastable States with Record Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity: Bridging High-Pressure Creation and Ambient Stability.
Compton 241

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

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

Reimagining two-channel Kondo physics: fermions to bosons and back in a consistent way with Nayana Shah

Nayana Shah (hosted by Alex Seidel) from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Reimagining two-channel Kondo physics: fermions to bosons and back in a consistent way.
Compton 241

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

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

Lunar New Year Potluck

Join us for a department potluck to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Bring your favorite dish to share!
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

Pure Mathematics as Applied Physics with Tadashi Tokieda

Tadashi Tokieda (hosted by Li Yang) from Stanford University will be presenting the Math / Physics Colloquium on Pure Mathematics as Applied Physics.
Compton 241

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

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

Emergent phases in Kitaev spin-orbital magnets with Onur Erten

Onur Erten (hosted by Erik Henriksen) from Arizona State University will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Emergent phases in Kitaev spin-orbital magnets.
Compton 241

Dirac Quantum Materials with Shizeng Lin

Shizeng Lin (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from Los Alamos National Laboratory will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Dirac Quantum Materials.
Compton 241

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

Magnetic and electronic properties of Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidates Cu2IrO3 and Na2IrO3 under pressure with Gilberto Fabbris

Gilberto Fabbris (hosted by Sheng Ran) from the Argonne National Laboratory will be presenting the Condensed Matter / Biophysics Seminar on Magnetic and electronic properties of Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidates Cu2IrO3 and Na2IrO3 under pressure.
Compton 241

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.

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

mosAIcs & brAIns : the computational aesthetics of mosaic art

The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures at Washington University in St. Louis invites you to join an exciting lineup of leaders in the field to address the synergy between art, aesthetics, and AI when applied to contemporary mosaic art. The symposium's objective is to encourage the fusion of (i) contemporary mosaic art, (ii) established computational aesthetics paradigms, and (iii) novel opportunities arising from computational creativity. We invite participants to envision links between their present research and one or more of the three listed scholarly directions.
Holmes Lounge

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

Edwin Thompson Jaynes Fellowship Symposium

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

Quantum Circuits Symposium

Compton Hall, room 241, Danforth Campus

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

What Can Bulk Viscosity Tell Us about Dense Matter and Physics Beyond the Standard Model? with Steven P. Harris

Steven P. Harris (Hosted by Liam Brodie), a NP3M Fellow from Iowa State University will be presenting at the Physics Theory seminar on What Can Bulk Viscosity Tell Us about Dense Matter and Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:45pm

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

Probing New CP Violation through Electric Dipole Moments with Kaori Fuyuto

Kaori Fuyuto (Hosted by Saori Pastore) from KEK will be presenting at the Nuclear Physics Seminar on Probing New CP Violation through Electric Dipole Moments.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 11:45am

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

Faculty Open House with the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Join us for a Faculty Open House with the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science!
Crow 204 | Coffee: 2:00pm Compton 245

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

Which Bits Matter? Optimal Sensing in a Population of Sensory Neurons with Kyle Bojanek

Kyle Bojanek (hosted by Mikhail Tikhonov) from the University of Chicago will be presenting the Condensed Matter & Biophysics Seminar on Which Bits Matter? Optimal Sensing in a Population of Sensory Neurons.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:45pm

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

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

Computer Simulation Studies of Disordered Magnets with Martin Weigel

Martin Weigel (hosted by Zohar Nussinov) from TU Chemnitz will be presenting the Condensed Matter & Biophysics Seminar on Computer Simulation Studies of Disordered Magnets.
Compton 241 | Coffee: 2:45pm

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

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