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A Summer of Astounding Astrophysics Awaits You!

posted on 5:37 AM, June 15, 2025
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A series of FREE public lectures

hosted by the UMN School of Physics & Astronomy

 

Join the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy for an astounding series of free public lectures on amazing advances in Astrophysics! You are invited to come learn about the mysteries of the universe and what your local astrophysicists are doing to solve them every Tuesday in July at 7 p.m.

 

Find out how citizen scientists are helping researchers find exciting and unexpected patterns in bigger-than-life data sets, what we can learn from staring directly at the sun, how scientist sleuths are looking back in time to see how the very first galaxies came to be, and more!

 

Registration not required, but to join the mailing list for the lecture series and express your interest in future events, please sign up here!

 

For more information about Astounding Astrophysics, visit our webpage.

 

Lecture Schedule

  • June 24th | Superman Meets Newton and Einstein (Jim Kakalios) 
  • July 1st | Weird Galaxies & Wonderful Animals: Why Big Data Needs YOU! (Lucy Fortson)
  • July 8th | Riding Some Gravitational Waves (Michael Coughlin)
  • July 15th | Here Comes the Sun (Lindsay Glesener)
  • July 22nd | Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter (Patrick Kelley)
  • July 29th | The Quest for the Very First Galaxies (Claudia Scarlata)

 

Event Details

Date: Tuesdays,  June 24th to July 29th

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Tate Hall B50

116 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

 

RSVP: Please RSVP here

More Information on our website

 

These events are FREE and open to all: UMN students, faculty, families, and the public are welcome