The Illinois State Physics Department’s Spring Colloquium Series kicks off Tuesday, Feb. 24, with a talk from Professor of Physics Jessie Shelton of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Shelton will be delivering the first of a seven-part series of colloquia at 4 p.m. in Moulton Hall, room 214. The talk is titled Looking for Structures in the Dark.

Shelton received her doctorate from MIT in 2006 and works on a range of topics in particle physics with a specific interest in dark matter, top quarks and the Higgs boson. She held postdoctoral appointments at Rutgers, Yale and Harvard before arriving at the University of Illinois in 2014.

For accommodation requests or more information on the colloquium series, contact the Department of Physics at 438-8756 or info@phy.ilstu.edu.