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[Special Events]
[Awards/Fellowships] [In
The News]
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
7:30 pm - ARC Ballroom
"Seeing in the Dark" - film by science writer Timothy Ferris
http://www.timothyferris.com/
This event is included in the College of Letters and Science
Deans' Speaker Series. The event will include a welcome by Dean Ko,
introduction of Timothy Ferris by Andy Albrecht, a brief opening for the
film by Tim, viewing the 60-minute film with Q&A to follow. Tim has
also agreed to do a book signing after the event concludes.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
7:30 pm - ARC Ballroom
Sponsored by the High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the UC Davis Physics Department
HEFTI Public Lecture
To the Top and Beyond: Particle Physics and the New Century
Presented by Professor Robin Erbacher, UC Davis
Friday and Saturday, November 16-17, 2007
Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center
Hosted by the High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the UC Davis Physics Department
HEFTI Workshop
Detecting the Unexpected
There are a number of well-defined proposals for physics beyond the standard model that generate LHC signals that are significantly different from what is usually discussed (e.g. "unparticle" physics, "hidden valley models", heavy stable particles, "quirks",...). The idea behind the workshop is to get theorists and experimentalists together to discuss these ideas and what search strategies could be employed for these and other "unexpected" new physics at LHC.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
8:00 - 10:00 pm
123 Sciences Lecture Hall
Sponsored by the UCD Office of Research, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) Public Lecture
A Different Universe
Presented by Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University
1998 Nobel Laureate, Physics
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
7:30 pm
ARC Ballroom
Hosted by the High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the UC Davis Physics Department
HEFTI Public Lecture
Supersymmetry & Strings
Presented by Professor Gordon Kane, University of Michigan
[Special Events]
[Awards/Fellowships] [In
The News]
| January 2008 - Professor John Rundle has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union
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Each year only one in a thousand members is elected to Fellowship!
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| December 2007 - Professor John Terning named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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For seminal contributions to studies of
electroweak symmetry breaking beyond the standard model, and
cosmology in extra dimensions.
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| November 2007 - Professor Xiangdong Zhu named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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For innovative study of physical and chemical processes and ultrathin films, including those of biological significance, on solid surfaces, using real-time/spectroscopic linear and nonlinear optical techniques.
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| October 2007 - Japan Society of Promotion of Science Awards
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Awarded to Professor Chuck Fadley by Japan Society of Science's 141st Committee, "for contributions to atomic-level characterization of novel materials and devices," on Microbeam Analysis.
Prior winners of this award have been Ernst Bauer
(Arizona State) for low energy electron microscopy, Oliver C. Wells
(IBM) for scanning electron microscopy, A. Tonomura (Hitachi) for
electron holography, and H. Rose (Darmstadt) for aberration
correction in electron microscopy. |
| May 2007 - Gravity Research Foundation Awards for Essays
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$5,000 First Prize awarded to Professor Steven Carlip for his essay titled, "Symmetries, Horizons, and Black Hole Entropy."
$1,500 Second Prize awarded to Professors Nemanja Kaloper and John Terning for their essay titled, "How Black Holes Form in High Energy Collisions."
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| November 2006 - Lori Lubin, 2006-07 Chancellor's Fellow
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Lubin
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Professor Lori Lubin has been selected to be a
2006-07 Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Davis. The
honor comes with a $25,000 award to be
used in support of research, teaching, and service activities.
The Chancellor's Fellows Program is supported in part by funds from the
Davis Chancellor's Club and the Annual Fund of the University of
California, Davis. The Program was established in 2000 to honor the
achievements of outstanding faculty members early in their careers.
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| 11.15.06 - Randy Dumas Receives Leo M. Falicov Award
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Dumas
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Graduate student Randy Dumas won a Leo M. Falicov Award
at the American Vacuum Society (AVS) 53rd International
Symposium & Exhibit in San Francisco. The Falicov Award,
with a $1,000 prize, recognizes best graduate student
research and presentation in the Magnetic Interfaces &
Nanostructures Division (MIND). Randy was selected for
his work on "Single domain and vortex state phase fractions
in arrays of sub-100nm Fe Nanodots," in which he has used
a first order reversal curve method to study the change
of magnetization reversal mechanisms in Fe nanomagnets.
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| 10.26.06 - National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Davies
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Graduate Student Joseph Davies has been awarded a National Research Council Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral research
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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| July 2006 - Fellowship Award
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Chiang
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Professor Shirley Chiang has been awarded Fellowship in the AVS,
the principal national organization in surface, interface, and
vacuum science and technology. The citation for this award reads:
"For advances in real-space imaging by scanned probe microscopies,
especially molecular identification, chemical reactions, metals
and alloys, adsorbates on metals, metals on semiconductors, and
frictional forces." The AVS fellowship was established in 1993
to recognize members who have made sustained and outstanding
scientific and technical contributions in areas of interest to AVS.
This is a prestigious membership level to which members are elected.
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| 4.10.06 - Department of Energy Outstanding
Junior Investigator Awards
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Erbacher, Cheng
| Robin
Erbacher and Hsin-Chia
Cheng, assistant professors of physics, received 2006
Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) awards from the Department
of Energy. Eight of these awards were made in the nation this
year - UC Davis got two!
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| 3.30.06
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Bosch
| James Bosch wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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| 11.16.05 - Helmholtz-Humboldt Award
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Fadley
| Professor Charles Fadley, Distinguished Professor of Physics
at UCD and Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences
Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has
received a Helmholtz-Humboldt Award from the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation. Each year, the German-based Helmholtz
Association of 15 government research laboratories and the
Humboldt Foundation jointly grant up to six research awards
to internationally acknowledged scientists from abroad in
recognition of their achievements. This honor comes with a
cash award of up to $90,000, an additional $30,000 to promote
university research collaborations, and an invitation to undertake
research in Germany with government laboratory and university
partners. Professor Fadley is a leading authority on photoelectron
spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation studies of materials.
While in Germany, he will collaborate with groups in Hamburg,
Juelich, and Berlin, and will pursue standing-wave studies
of magnetic nanostructures, as well as spin-polarized and
dichroic atomic holography.
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| 5.31.05 - Medard W. Welch Award
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Fadley
| Professor Charles Fadley has won the Medard W. Welch Award
from the AVS (American Vacuum Society). The citation says,
"For the development of novel techniques based on photoelectron
spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation, and their application
to the study of the atomic, electronic, and magnetic structure
of surfaces and buried interfaces, and for the mentoring of
young scientists." This is a major award in the field of surface
physics and chemistry. The purpose of the award is "To recognize
and encourage outstanding research in the fields of interest
to the AVS." The AVS website says, "The award consists of
a $10,000 cash award, a struck gold medal and a certificate
setting forth the reasons for the award, and an honorary lectureship
at a regular session of the International Symposium."
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| 5.20.05 - Graduate Student Travel Award
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Marleau
| Graduate student Peter Marleau has received a travel
award from the Graduate Council subcommittee on Support and
Welfare, to attend the Topics in Astroparticle and Underground
Physics (TAUP) international conference in Zaragoza, Spain
in September 2005.
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| 5.5.05 - Wayne Rosing: First Ever
Senior Fellow Appointed to Mathmatical and Physical Sciences
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Rosing
| Rosing passionate about range of disciplines: Rosing's
range of interests and abilities will be a perfect match for
UCD's unique interdisciplinary research opportunities, according
to physics professor J. Anthony Tyson, whom Rosing will be
working with on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope currently
in the planning phase at UCD.
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| 4.20.05 -
Prof. Warren Pickett Awarded the Humboldt Research Award
for Senior U.S. Scientists
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Pickett
| Professor Warren Pickett has been elected the recipient
of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists. This
honor is reserved for scientists and scholars with internationally
recognized academic accomplishments in research and teaching.
Professor Pickett will spend 2005-06 on sabbatical leave in
Germany where he will collaborate with colleagues on the strong
interaction effects in magnetic and superconducting phases
of complex materials. Congratulations to Professor Pickett
on this exceptional achievement!
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| 4.1.05 -
Prof. Kai Liu Awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
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Liu
| Professor Kai Liu has been awarded the
Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship in Physics. The fellowships, worth $45,000 over two
years, are intended to enhance the careers of the very best
young faculty members in specified fields of science.
Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in
seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary
molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics,
neuroscience, and physics. Since the program began in 1955,
35 Sloan Fellows have become Nobel laureates.
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| 3.4.05 - Katherine Fadley Pusateri
Memorial Fund
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Dumas
| Graduate student Randy Dumas has received a travel
award from the Katherine Fadley Pusateri Memorial Fund to
present his paper, "Magnetization Reversal in Arrays of Nanodots,"
at the
APS Meeting, Los Angeles, in March 2005.
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| 3.4.05 - Ryan Couch Memorial Fund
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Jeong
Lizarazo
| Graduate students Tae Seong Jeong and Juan Lizarazo
have received travel awards from the Ryan Couch Memorial Fund.
Tae Seong will present his paper, "Semimetallic Antiferromagnetism
in the Half-Heusler Structure: CuMnSb," at the
APS Meeting, Los Angeles, in March 2005. Juan will present
his paper, "Measurement of the Crab Nebula Spectrum at 50
GeV using CACTUS Gamma Ray Detector," at the Topics in Astrophysics
and Underground Physics conference, Zaragoza, Spain, in September
2005.
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| 1.21.05 -
Prof. Lloyd Knox Awarded Chancellor's Fellowship.
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Knox
| "The accomplishments and the considerable promise of this
year's recipients of the Chancellor's Fellows award are so
impressive..."
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