The Compton Lectures: 50 Years of Discovery
Saturdays, 11 AM
Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S Ellis Ave, Room 106
October 3, 2026
Rocky Kolb
EFI and the Chicago School of Particle Cosmology
October 10, 2026
John Carlstrom
Exploring the Big Bang from the South Pole
October 17, 2026
Andy Davis
50 Years of Discovery at the Birthplace of Coscmochemistry
October 24, 2026
Marcela Carena
Broken Symmetries and the Origins of Mass and Matter
October 31, 2026
Jeff Harvey
From Hadrons to Gravitons, 50 Years of String Theory at the Enrico Fermi Institute
November 7, 2026
Luca Grandi
The 85% We Cannot See: The Long, Tireless Quest for Dark Matter
November 14, 2026
Daniel Holz
A Decade of Graviational-Wave Science
November 21, 2026
Angela Olinto
Flying High to Catch Neutrinos and Other Extreme Particles
December 5, 2026
Young-Kee Kim
From Collisions to Precision
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