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[Special Events] [Awards/Fellowships] [In The News]
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
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[Special Events] [Awards/Fellowships] [In The News]
| 03.11.2008 - Prof. Lawrence B.
Coleman Named Senior Fellow at NASULGC |
Professor Lawrence B. Coleman, former vice
provost for research at the University of California system, has been
named a Senior Fellow at the National Association of State Universities
and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
As a senior fellow, Coleman will help launch a new national initiative,
Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative (SMTI), designed to increase
the number and diversity of high quality middle school and high school
science and mathematics teachers prepared by NASULGC member
universities and other higher education institutions |
| 03.29.2007 - Dr. Manuel Calderon
de la Barca receives NSF Career Grant |
Calderon |
A prestigious career grant was awarded to Dr.
Calderon for his
Studies of Heavy Quarkonium Production in Relativistic Heavy-Ion
Collisions at UC Davis. As the Principal Investigator, Dr. Calderon
will "measure the production of the heaviest available quark-antiquark
bound states in heavy ion collisions." |
| 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!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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,
2006-11 Chancellor's Fellow |
Lubin |
Professor Lori Lubin has been
selected to be a 2006-11 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..." |
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[Special Events] [Awards/Fellowships] [In The News]
| Ching-Yao Fong and
Warren Pickett Named Outstanding Referees by APS |
Fong, Pickett |
"The Outstanding Referee program was instituted
in 2008. The highly selective award program recognizes scientists who
have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for
publication in the APS journals. The program will annually recognize
approximately 130 of the 42,000 currently active referees, but in the
inaugural year a larger group of 534 referees has been selected for the
Outstanding Referee designation. Like Fellowship in the APS, this is a
lifetime award." Read
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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 |
| 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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