Department of Physics Faculty At A Glance

Dr. Olga Dudko

Dr. Vivek Sharma

Dr. Max (Massimiliano) Di Ventra

Dr. Michael Norman

Dr. Brian Keating

Dr. Kim Griest

Dr. Michael Fogler

Dr. Lu Sham

Dr. Julius Kuti

Dr. Ivan Schuller

Dr. Herbert Levine

Dr. Frank Wuerthwein

Dr. Patrick Diamond

Dr. Adam Burgasser

Dr. Michael Anderson

Dr. M. Maple

Dr. Daniel Arovas

Dr. Alison Coil

Dr. Michael Holst

Dr. Kenneth Intriligator

Dr. Dimitri Basov

Dr. James Branson

Dr. Hans Paar

Dr. Douglas Smith

Dr. Clifford Surko

Dr. Alexander Groisman

Dr. Benjamin Grinstein

Dr. Congjun Wu

Dr. Terence Hwa

Dr. Arthur Wolfe

Dr. Elizabeth Jenkins

Dr. Sunil Sinha

Dr. Fred Driscoll

Dr. Aneesh Manohar

Dr. Leonid Butov

Dr. Henry Abarbanel

Dr. Thomas Murphy

Dr. Daniel Dubin

Dr. David Kleinfeld

Dr. Oleg Shpyrko

Dr. Jorge Hirsch

Dr. David Tytler

Dr. George Fuller

Dr. Avi (Avraham) Yagil

Dr. Jose Onuchic

UCSD Physics Awards

Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence Division of Physical Sciences

My congratulations to all of the students recognized today who are receiving this award. The Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence was established in 2004 to rec...Read More

"Earl Dolnick Best Project Awards"
Physics 120B is a projects-based course; students conceive, design, and build a microprocessor-based gizmo of their choice, with support from faculty and staff. The only ...Read More

UC San Diego Professor Lu Jeu Sham Named 2011 AAAS Fellow
Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest s...Read More

2012 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids Recipient
Dmitri N. Basov received the M.S. degree (1988) from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the Ph.D. (1991) from Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russ...Read More

Dr. Alison Coil awarded the NSF CAREER Grant (2011)

Dr. Coil will carry out three complementary research projects to tackle several key outstanding questions in galaxy evolution. Her goal is to uncover the physical proc...Read More

Professor Herbert Levine elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.
The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the h...Read More

Professor Alison Coil receives the Hellman Faculty Fellow Award for 2011
The Hellman Fellowship Program was established at UCSD in 1995 through the generosity of Chris and Warren Hellman. The program is designed to provide financial support an...Read More

UCSD Physics News

POLARBEAR experiment showing first microwave/radio "vision"

We are proud to announce that we got "first light/microwave" today with POLARBEAR. We saw the planets Venus and Jupiter, not in the visible portion of the electromagnet...Read More

Hints of the Higgs Boson Seen as Trap Set for Elusive Particle Tightens
Physicists announced today that they may have caught glimpses of the Higgs boson, but the signals they see are not yet robust enough to meet the stringent requirements th...Read More

Professor Dudko's PRL publication receives "Editor's suggestion" and is highlighted with a Synopsis on the American Physical Society website
UC San Diego physicist Olga Dudko and her colleagues at the University of Cambridge resolve a central discrepancy between theory and experiment regarding how molecu...Read More

Physics and Quantitative Biology: identifying a simple genetic circuit for stripes
Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle.

Now a team of scientists ...Read More

Suspects in the quenching of star formation exonerated

Supermassive black holes millions to billions times the mass of our Sun lie at the heart of most, maybe all large galaxies. Some of these power brilliantly luminous, r...Read More

Endgame for the Higgs Boson
The last missing piece of scientists' fundamental model of particle physics is running out of places to hide. That piece, an elementary particle called the Higgs boson...Read More

UCSD Physics Colloquium


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2

    Title:  "Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems"
    Time:   4:00PM
    Speaker:  Jack Lissauer
    Affiliation:  NASA Ames
    Location:  Garren Auditorium (BSB)

UCSD Physics Seminars


TUESDAY, JANUARY 31

    Title:  
    Time:  12:00PM
    Research Group:  Special Astrophysics Seminar
    Speaker:  Amanda Karakas
    Affiliation:  Stromlo Fellow, Mt. Stromlo Observatory
    Location:   SERF 329

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

    Title:  
    Time:   4:00PM
    Research Group:  Astrophysics Seminar
    Speaker:  Gillian Wilson
    Affiliation:  UC Riverside
    Location:   SERF 280

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

    Title:  "Spontaneous Coherence in a Cold Exciton Gas"
    Time:   4:00PM
    Research Group:  Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
    Speaker:  Leonid Butov
    Affiliation:  UCSD Physics Department
    Location:   4322 Mayer Hall


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