Physics and Astronomy Congress
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Featured Event:
 Unapologetically Being

Join us as Dr. K. Renee Horton leads an amazing workshop focused on learning about you, supporting your future self, and how you can unapologetically be yourself in physics and astronomy.
Workshop by K. Renee Horton

Plenary Speakers

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2025 Plenary Speaker
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
APR 25, 2024
K. Renee Horton
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2025 Plenary Speaker
K. Renee Horton
APR 30, 2024
Eric Cornell
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2025 Plenary Speaker
Eric Cornell
APR 30, 2024
Sarah Horst
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2025 Plenary Speaker
Sarah Hörst
APR 30, 2024
Julianne Pollard Larkin
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2025 Plenary Speaker
Julianne Pollard-Larkin
APR 30, 2024
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2025 Plenary Speaker
Donnell Walton
APR 27, 2024

Special Events

Dance Party
Celebrate a successful end of Sigma Pi Sigma Congress with a dance party! Bring your best moves and dress up in a physics/Astronomy costume to celebrate Halloween. Includes prizes for costumes and a live DJ.
Spooky High Energy Chocolate Night
Join our friends at UC Denver SPS chapter for games, hot chocolate, and time to chill! Physics-themed Halloween costumes are encouraged.
Sigma Pi Sigma Networking Reception
Are you a graduated Sigma Pi Sigma member? Please join us for an networking event to help connect you to each other, SPS, and AIP.

Workshops

Noura Ibrahim Physics Congress 2022 Congress Workshop

Choose from 15 different workshops to attend during your two breakout sessions at the 2025 Physics & Astronomy Congress! Ranging from outreach to graduate school to career panels, there is sure to be something to interest you.

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Noura Ibrahim Physics Congress 2022 Congress Workshop

Tours

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Join us on Wednesday, October 30, for tours around Denver! Tours range from touring goverment labs, like NIST and NOAA, to a hiking tour of the Red Rocks Ampitheathre!

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Full Schedule

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Optional Tours to return before 1pm

6:00AM – 5:00PM Registration

12:00PM – 1:45PM Expo & Career Fair

1:45PM – 2:30PM Physics Teatime (Break)

2:30PM – 3:00PM Opening Events & Sigma Pi Sigma Recognition Awards

3:00PM – 3:15PM Historian

3:15PM – 4:30PM Plenary I - Jocelyn Bell Burnell

4:30PM – 4:45PM Break

4:45PM – 6:15PM Physics and Astronomy Congress (Plenary Workshop)

6:15PM – 8:00PM Dinner on your own

8:00PM – 12:00AM SPS Lounge and study room

Friday, October 31, 2025

9:00AM – 10:15AM Plenary II

10:30AM – 11:30AM Coffee in Expo

10:15AM – 12:00PM Expo & Career Fair

10:30AM – 12:00PM Poster Session & Physics Phine Art I

12:00PM – 1:30PM Lunch

1:30PM – 2:45PM Plenary III

2:45PM – 3:30PM Coffee/Tea time

3:30PM – 5:00PM Breakout session I

5:15PM – 6:45PM Renee Horton’s Plenary student workshop

5:15PM – 6:45PM Faculty Workshops

6:45PM – 8:45PM Dinner on your own

8:00PM – 12:00AM Spooky Action at a distance @ UC-Denver

8:00PM – 12:00AM SPS Lounge and study room

Saturday, November 1, 2025

10:00AM – 11:30AM Plenary IV

11:30AM – 1:00PM Expo & Career Fair

11:30AM – 1:00PM Posters & Art Session II

1:00PM – 2:15PM Lunch with Scientists

2:15PM – 3:30PM Plenary V

3:30PM – 4:00PM Awards

4:15PM – 5:45PM Breakout session II

6:00PM – 7:15PM Dinner

7:30PM – 9:00PM Chapter showcase

9:00PM – 9:05PM Closing remarks

9:00PM – 12:00AM Dance Party

9:00PM – 12:00AM SPS Lounge and study room