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5/22/2013: Sean Carroll will speak at the UC Davis Conference Center.  Sean is a very entertaining and compelling public speaker and the author of two books, "From Eternity to Here:  The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time" and "The Particle at the End of the Universe:  How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World." He will speak about "The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time."  Although free, due to high demand, a ticket will be needed for admission.  For more information, including how to obtain tickets, please see this link.

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4/20/2013: The Lander Lab was dedicated as part of our annual Picnic Day Alumni Reception.  View photos here.

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4/6/2013: A day of exciting public lectures from four prominent physicists including Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.  April 6 is Decision Day.  Plan for extra traffic near the campus.

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5/2012: Physics Chair and Professor Andreas Albrecht joins featured speakers at May 2012 UC Davis TEDx Event

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4/17/2012: Professor Lisa Randall, particle physicist and popular author, will speak at UC Davis on April 17.

Hefti Public Lecture - Lisa Randall

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4/20/12 Special Colloquium:Charlotte Elster (Ohio University, Athens) Special Colloquium Tea at 4:30 location: Physics Atrium

Fri, April 20, 5pm – 6pm

Roessler 66

Topic:The Nuclear Force Through the Decades, a Rod Reid Memorial Colloquium

 Abstract

Tales of Rod page compiled by Prof Richard Scalettar

4/21/2012: UC Davis Picnic Day/14th Annual Physics Show

Public lectures by physics faculty

Roessler 55 & 66

   2:10 Lloyd Knox                Introduction (Room Change! Roessler 55)

   2:15 Michael Mulhearn      The Higgs Boson: A Tale of Two Cities (Room Change! Roessler 55)

   2:40 Andreas Albrecht       The Multiverse (Roessler 66)

   3:05 Tony Tyson                 Dark Energy and Dark Matter (Roessler 66)

   3:30 Richard Scalettar       Infinity in Mathematics and Physics (Roessler 66)

14TH ANNUAL PHYSICS SHOW

Three shows starting at 12:10 PM; 1:00 PM; and 1:50 PM

Roessler 66

Physics with Liquid Nitrogen  11 AM – 1:00  PM

Roessler 166

PHYSICS IS FUN! 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Roessler 168   

Physics makes the world go ‘round! Come experience cool physics demos,and learn how modern technologies are applications of basic physics.

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4/26/2012: A Conversation on Creativity

Nobel Prize winning physicist Martin Perl and his son The New Republic's art critic Jed Perl discuss the creative process in the sciences and the arts.

 Moderated by Dean Simonton

 Thursday, April 26

8:00 pm, UC Davis Conference Center

 More info at: http://artstudio.ucdavis.edu/lectures/lectures_Perl.html

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3/8-3/9/2012: The 1st UCD – Nanjing University Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics will be held during March 8-9 in 185 Physics. The event is open to public.

Program can be found online: http://physics.ucdavis.edu/%7ekliu/UCDNJUWorkshopProgram.pdf

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4/25/2011: TedxDavis Speakers enlighten and engage Davis guests with a full day of talks and presentations

In particular, Physics professors Knox and Zimanyi fascinated listeners with Physics-related stories and fantasy-meets-reality tales of space and nanoparticles, respectively.

April 23, 2011: Physics Professors Lloyd Knox and Gergely Zimanyi chosen as TedxDavis Speakers

Founded in 1984, TED is a nonprofit organization that combines Technology, entertainment and design, and offers fascinating speakers willing to share their ideas via visually broadcast talks, available at http://www.ted.com. TEDxDavis is an independently organized event scheduled to occur on the UC Davis campus. The April 23rd Davis event theme is: "Think Big. Think Small. Think Forward." Several speakers from alternating fields, including Physics professors Lloyd Knox and Gergely Zimanyi have been chosen to speak at this event.

For more information, visit: http://tedxdavis.com/

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4/16/11: 2011 Picnic Day Physics Show

Picnic Day 2011 Schedule of Events - PUBLIC LECTURES BY PHYSICS FACULTY at Chemistry Bldg, Rm179

1:00 Lloyd Knox - Seeing Sound in the Primordial Plasma
1:30 Bob Svoboda - Do We Live in a Universe of WIMPs?
2:00 Robin Erbacher - The Smallest Things in the Universe: Discoveries of Subatomic Particles
2:30 Markus Luty - The Quest for the Fundamental Laws of Physics: a Tale of Three Universes
3:00 Steven Carlip - Black Holes, Extra Dimensions and All That
3:30 Thomas Cahill - The Physics of 9/11/2001

PHYSICS IS FUN!
10:00 AM -4:00 PM
Roessler Hall, Rm168

Physics makes the world go 'round! Come experience cool physics demos, and learn how modern technologies are applications of basic physics.

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Last update: April 30, 2013