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Special Events
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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


Awards & Fellowships
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January 2008 - Professor John Rundle has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Each year only one in a thousand members is elected to Fellowship!
December 2007 - Professor John Terning named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
For seminal contributions to studies of electroweak symmetry breaking beyond the standard model, and cosmology in extra dimensions.
November 2007 - Professor Xiangdong Zhu named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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.

October 2007 - Japan Society of Promotion of Science Awards
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
$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."

November 2006 - Lori Lubin, 2006-07 Chancellor's Fellow

Lubin
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.

11.15.06 - Randy Dumas Receives Leo M. Falicov Award

Dumas
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.

10.26.06 - National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship

Davies
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.

July 2006 - Fellowship Award

Chiang
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.

4.10.06 - Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Awards

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!

3.30.06

Bosch
James Bosch wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

11.16.05 - Helmholtz-Humboldt Award

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.

5.31.05 - Medard W. Welch Award

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."

5.20.05 - Graduate Student Travel Award

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.

5.5.05 - Wayne Rosing: First Ever Senior Fellow Appointed to Mathmatical and Physical Sciences

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.

4.20.05 - Prof. Warren Pickett Awarded the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists

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!

4.1.05 - Prof. Kai Liu Awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics

  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.

3.4.05 - Katherine Fadley Pusateri Memorial Fund

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.

3.4.05 - Ryan Couch Memorial Fund

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.

1.21.05 - Prof. Lloyd Knox Awarded Chancellor's Fellowship.

 Knox
"The accomplishments and the considerable promise of this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Fellows award are so impressive..."


UC Davis Physics In The News
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Professor John Rundle to Lead New California Hazards Institute

Rundle
"Preventing California's many natural hazards from turning into natural disasters is the aim of the new California Hazards Institute, a multicampus research program of the University of California. The institute will be led by John Rundle, interdisciplinary professor of physics, engineering and geology, and director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering at UC Davis." Read More - Dateline

Professor Joe Kiskis tests SmartSite (Sakai) - IT Times

Kiskis
"Focus on what will help your students learn. If there's a tool in Sakai that'll help, use it. If not, don't use a tool just to use it."


Picnic Day crowd revels in traditional events - The Davis Enterprise
"While there were no explosions at the Eighth Annual Physics Show, the demonstrations were just as exciting and educational. To start, physics student David Cherney lay down on a bed of nails." Read More

Spotlight: Einstein's Legacy - UC Davis physicists continue where Albert left off

Chiang, Carlip
"Albert Einstein was clearly one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, and he accomplished a record amount of outstanding work in the year 1905," said Shirley Chiang, chair of the Department of Physics. Read More

Prof. John Rundle's research in the news following the tsunami disaster:

Rundle
"We need to think about this. The risk for tsunamis like the one we saw in Sumatra is very real and very present and very possible."
Could a tsunami hit the US?- MSNBC/Dateline


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