Frances E. Walker Lecture Series

The Frances E. Walker Lecture Series brings prominent women physicists and astrophysicists to campus to highlight their accomplishments and connect mentors with students. The series is supported by the Frances E. Walker Fund for Women in Physics.

Past Frances Walker Lectures

April 18th, 2024
Dr. Lois Pollack, Cornell University
Using the Tools of Physics to Watch Biomolecules Work

May 4th, 2023
Dr. Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin
The Status of Collective Behavior in Rare Earth Nuclei

October 15th, 2020
Dr. Catherine Hirshfield Crouch, Swarthmore College
Supporting Interdisciplinary Learning in Physics for Life Science Students

April 18th, 2019
Dr. Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown University
What Can we Learn from the Neurochemical and Cellular Perturbations of in vitro Neuronal Networks

April 12th, 2018
Dr. Samar Safi-Hard, University of Manitoba
Neuron Stars and Supernovae: The Most Exotic Astrophysical Objects that Keep Surprising Us

September 21st, 2017
Dr. Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
The Promise and Challenges of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

September 12th, 2014
Dr. Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University
From Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes to Single Biomolecules and Single Cells

November 7th, 2013
Dr. Concettina Sfienti, Johannes Guttenberg University
The Low-Energy Physics Frontier at MAMI: Results and Perspectives

January 17th, 2013
Dr. Chryssa Kouveliotou, NASA Marshal Space Flight Center
Three Decades of Explosive High Energy Transients