UC San Diego | Department of Physics

Physicists’ Room-Temperature Research Leads to ‘Exciting’ Possibilities for Science

UC San Diego Physicists Apply Pencil, Paper and Sociology to Breakthrough Research

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named Professors Tongyan Lin, Elena Koslover, and Tenio Popmintchev as 2018 Sloan Fellows

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: Abstract: Understanding the details of planet formation requires direct observations of protoplanets themselves. Transition disks, protoplanetary disks with inner clearings in dust, are the most promising targets for these studies. Their inner clearings and relatively low stellar accretion rates may be caused by forming planets sweeping up material that would have otherwise fallen onto the star. While protoplanets are expected to have low infrared contrasts compared to mature exoplanets, the large distance
: Astrophysics Seminar
: 4:00PM, SERF 383
: Steph Sallum, UC Santa Cruz, 'Imaging Protoplanets with Adaptive Optics and Interferometry'

: TBA
: Condensed Matter Seminar
: 4:00PM, Mayer Room 4322

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UC San Diego Researchers Charge Quest to End ‘Voltage Fade’

Physicists Practice ‘Spin Control’ to Improve Information Processing

‘Gold Standard’ Research Presents Promise for Plasmonic Devices

UC San Diego Researchers Shed Light on Formation of Black Holes and Galaxies

Chelsey Dorow has won 2018 Inamori Fellowship

Oleg Shpyrko Recipient of 2017 UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Kristian Skylar Mackewicz named 2016-2017 recipient of the Shang-Keng Ma Memorial Award

Kelson James Kaj named 2016-2017 recipient of the John Holmes Malmberg Prize

David Moore named 2016-2017 recipient of the John Holmes Malmberg Prize

UC San Diego Names Elizabeth H. Simmons New Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Jason Leonard wins Springer Thesis Award

Ph.D student Chelsey Dorow has won 2017-2018 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship