Arthur H. Compton Lecture Series

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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