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Kate Espe stands in front of a classroom with a slide on the screen behind her. The slide has the title of her presentation and two research images.

Three Minute Thesis Competition Challenges Students to Communicate Complex Ideas Quickly

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Law Part of Team that Found Cosmic “Hamburger” has Ingredients of Giant Planet Formation

Charles Law

School Welcomes Professor Charles Law

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Woodward Named Co-Chair of Important Astronomy Review Study

Maxim Pospelov

Pospelov named Solvay Chair in Physics

Members of the Planetary Systems and Plasmas Group. From left: Nick Kruegler, Evan Skinner, Bob Lysak, Ali Sulaiman, Sadie Elliott, Wonde Eshetu and Yash Sarkango.

University of Minnesota-led team helps explain what powers Jupiter’s brightest auroras

Oct 29 Thu 3:35pm

SPA Colloquium: Steven Girvin (Yale University)

Nov 5 Thu 3:35pm

SPA Colloquium: James Davenport (Univ. of Washington)

Nov 12 Thu 3:35pm

SPA Colloquium: Dan Garisto (Science Journalist)

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