Dec 20, 2018, 9:51 AM
Professor Calderon de la Barca Sanchez and Professor Cebra are part of a collaboration, led by UC Berkeley, that will design detectors for the Electron-Ion Collider, a new particle accelerator…
Nov 15, 2018, 4:05 PM
UC Davis alumnus Austin Sendek (B.S. physics, 2012) was named by Forbes in the 2019 elite list of top 30 individuals under 30 making an impact in the field of energy.
Nov 2, 2018, 5:21 PM
In Summer 2018, eleven students in the class of Mr. Dubarrie Fagout of River City High School in West Sacramento, participated in a paid research internship in the Physics Department at UC Davis,…
Oct 30, 2018, 10:21 AM
Prof. Calderon de la Barca has been invited to participate in the filming of an IMAX screen documentary highlighting physics research done at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.
Oct 17, 2018, 1:58 PM
An international team of astronomers including Brian Lemaux and Lori Lubin of UCD Physics has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.
Sep 27, 2018, 10:52 AM
Robin Erbacher was named Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields, for significant contributions to measuring the properties of the top quark and to use it to probe…
Sep 21, 2018, 9:12 AM
Professor Emeritus (deceased) Wendell Potter was remembered at the 2018 American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting.
Sep 21, 2018, 8:49 AM
The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks.
Sep 17, 2018, 1:34 PM
Nick Sherman, B.S. in physics and applied mathematics, with a minor in computer science, UC Davis 2018, has won American Physical Society's 2018 LeRoy Apker Award.
Sep 13, 2018, 9:33 AM
Eleven sites across the US and one in Canada will host Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in January 2019. The APS CUWiP at UC Davis will draw students from northern California and…
Sep 13, 2018, 9:02 AM
UCD Physics graduate student Adam Rupe is spending time at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developing data analytics tools for climate science.
Jul 23, 2018, 2:27 PM
Physical Review X has published an article by Professor Jim Crutchfield and his group on a novel view of the arrow of time.
Jun 26, 2018, 4:55 PM
In this new book, authors John Terning (UC Davis Physics professor) along with L. William Poirier and Yasunori Nomura explore, explain and debunk common misconceptions about quantum physics, particle…
Jun 26, 2018, 10:26 AM
Teal Pershing, UC Davis Graduate Student, receives award for oral presentation at the Nuclear Security Program Review event, UC Berkeley
Jun 25, 2018, 5:34 PM
Professor Jim Crutchfield and his group will publish an article in Physical Review X on a new, fundamental limit on the energy cost of computing.
Jun 22, 2018, 5:14 PM
Nearly 100 of the world’s top students in theoretical physics traveled to UC Davis in June for the week-long Amplitudes Summer School, devoted to the study of scattering amplitudes and related…
Jun 19, 2018, 12:50 PM
Last week we had nearly 90 PhD students from all over the world for the week full of lectures and discussions! Check out our photo gallery!
Jun 18, 2018, 11:07 AM
Prof Jaroslav Trnka has just been awarded the Young Scientist Prize in Particles and Fields by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
"For the discovery and exploration of new…
Jun 4, 2018, 5:52 PM
The Templeton World Charity Foundation recently recognized the UC Davis Complexity Sciences Center’s international impact by awarding its “Power of Information†postdoctoral fellowships to two…
Jun 1, 2018, 4:58 PM
The Amplitudes 2018 Summer School will be held at the Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) at the University of California, Davis on June 11-15, 2018. This summer school will precede the…