Astronomy

Come along with a young woman on her personal quest to find a special place in the night sky. Narrated by Roxann Dawson, Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres of TV’s Star Trek: Voyager.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Craig Cahillane, LIGO/CalTech. Dr. Cahillane will present their talk, “Controls and Inference for Current and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors”.

Seeing! A photon’s journey across space and time.

Join us on Family Weekend for a smashing good time at the 16th Annual Pumpkin Drop. Sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Club, this pre-game, gravity-bound extravaganza celebrates the fun side of science by dropping pumpkins of all shapes and sizes from the highest point in Pullman: the 12th floor of Webster Hall.

The adaptive immune system consists of highly diverse B and T cells whose unique surface receptors enables them to mount specific responses against a multitude of pathogens.

In this talk, I will present some recent and ongoing work at the UW Ion Trap group. Our main focus is on quantum computing and quantum simulations. T

Ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night? We sure do love to scare ourselves.