Kemper Spotlight Talk: Erin Sutherland on Speculum Romanae prints

Wind Ensemble Concert

MFA Reading

Second-year MFA students read from their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Workshop in Politics, Ethics, and Society: "Directives and Responsibility"

Taking the Measure of Neutron Stars with NICER

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is NASA's new X-ray timing instrument onboard the ISS that was launched in June 2017. With a large effective area, low background, very precise absolute timing and great low energy response, NICER has been doing a fantastic job in observing many interesting phenomena related to neutron stars and black holes. One of the main goals of the NICER mission is to constrain the equation of state of ultra-dense matter by measuring the masses and radii of several rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. This is being done by fitting pulse waveform models that incorporate all relevant relativistic effects and atmospheric radiation transfer processes to the periodic soft X-ray modulations produced by the rotation of hot spots located near the magnetic polar caps of these pulsars. Some of the other interesting topics that are being studied with NICER includes phenomena related to Type I X-ray bursts, which are thermonuclear flashes observed from the surfaces of accreting neutron stars in Low Mass X-ray Binaries, such as photospheric radius expansion and burst oscillations. NICER's large effective area and excellent low energy response enable new, detailed studies of these bursts in the soft X-ray band. In this talk I will present some of the early results from the first nine months of the NICER mission and will report on the progress being made by the NICER team in measuring the masses and radii of pulsars.

Breaking Down Barriers: Promoting Mental Health in Marginalized Communities

Celebrate Five Years of Cortango

Please join us for a very special event to commemorate 5 years of Cortango! The Washington University Department of Music presents Cortango in Concert in the spectacular E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall and Cortango will host a DJ milonga to follow in the ballroom. Complimentary wine and refreshments will be served.

TICKETS: https://red.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=1a4b7cbdf1a81d1c219...

$20 - General Admission
$15 - Seniors/WU Faculty & Staff
$10 - Youth and Students

Washington University students are free with ID.

Cortango Orquesta is a Tango, Classical and Jazz fusion concert and dance band featuring members of the Saint Louis Symphony. Founded and led by Cally Banham, a trained social Tango dancer, the band is named for her instrument, the "Cor anglais", or "English horn" - the atypical instrument in this otherwise orquesta tipica! Cortango's songbook comes entirely from original arrangements made by members of the ensemble, and by Argentine bandoneon player and Tango arranger, Julian Hasse.

Cortango Orquesta was born from a desire to create a live music experience which would be ideal for social dancers, and has evolved to become a concert ensemble, exploring the vast repertoire of contemporary Tango. The band debuted at the St. Louis Ritz-Carlton's "Nuestra Milonga" in May 2013. Engagements during their first season included a New York City Debut at Cary Hall, and a Festival debut performance at the Midwest Tango Festival. The group has been featured twice in concert at spectacular Powell Symphony Hall, as well as at the Public Media Commons, presented by the Nine Network. As part of the community programs at the St. Louis Symphony, Cortango has performed for patients at Siteman Cancer Center and for veterans at The Jefferson Barracks. To celebrate the great community of Tango dancers in St. Louis, Cortango created the popular annual "Chapel Milonga" event!

Cortango's Debut Album, "Tandas"​, was released in 2015, and is available on iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby. Their album release was featured on the national PBS show "Arts America". Currently Cortango is a featured collaborator on a new Christmas recording, scheduled for release in November 2018.

Symphony Orchestra

History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine