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Vintage Venue: UC Davis Crocker Lab Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Stepping inside the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory control room is like transporting onto the set of a 1960s sci-fi flick. Bakelite knobs and flashing switches parade across sofa-sized control banks.
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Four From UC Davis Elected To American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Scholars in Classics, Cosmology, Music and English Join the Nation’s Oldest Learned Society
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Public Lecture-The Discovery of Gravity Waves: The Breakthrough by LIGO

The Department of Physics invites you to a public lecture: "The Discovery of Gravity Waves:The Breakthrough by LIGO" on May 3, 2016. Speaker: Joseph Giaime
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Prof. Andreas Albrecht elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Join us for "Illuminating Black Holes", a public lecture by Veronika Hubeny
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Join the Physics Department for the 2016 UC Davis Picnic Day
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Magneto-ionics could be a new alternative to electronics

Our electronic devices are based on what happens when different materials are layered together: “The interface is the device,” as Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously claimed over 40 years ago.

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Andreas Albrecht: LIGO Announcement Regarding Gravitational Waves on February 11th 2016

There will be a big announcement from the LIGO collaboration regarding the detection of gravity waves. This FB event will point you to the live streaming of the press conference as well as other info: https://www.facebook.com/events/830955763680595/. Some of us will be gathering in rm 185 (reserved 7-9am) to watch and discuss together, and you are most welcome to join!