Department of Physics Faculty At A Glance
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
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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
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Title:
Time: 12:00PM
Research Group: Special Astrophysics Seminar
Speaker: Amanda Karakas
Affiliation: Stromlo Fellow, Mt. Stromlo Observatory
Location: SERF 329
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
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Title:
Time: 4:00PM
Research Group: Astrophysics Seminar
Speaker: Gillian Wilson
Affiliation: UC Riverside
Location: SERF 280
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
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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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