Distinguished Professor of Physics Charles Fadley has been elected as an International Fellow of the Surface Science Society of Japan (SSSJ). The SSSJ is an academic society with over 1700 members. 2015 is the first year the society has elected International Fellows. The first group of three includes Professor Fadley (UC Davis), Prof. Roland Wiesendanger (Univ. Hamburg, Germany), an expert in scanning tunneling microscopy., and Prof. Qi-Kun Xue (Tsinghua Univ., China), also a leader in scanning tunneling microscopy and other surface science techniques.

Test collisions continue today at 13 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to prepare the detectors ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, LHCf, MOEDAL and TOTEM for data-taking, planned for early June (Image: LHC page 1) Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV for the first time. These test collisions were to set up systems that protect the machine and detectors from particles that stray from the edges of the beam.

"The authors develop a method for analysis of time series generated by a class of complex processes. They identify the mechanism that causes information divergence at each level in a hierarchy of such processes." Signatures of infinity: Nonergodicity and resource scaling in prediction, complexity, and learning James P. Crutchfield and Sarah Marzen

Type Ia supernovae1 are destructive explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs2, 3. Although they are used empirically to measure cosmological distances

A new map of the heavens took a big step forward last week as scientists and dignitaries, including Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, laid the first stone for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope on the 8900-foot summit of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile.

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Physics is Fun! April 18, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Roessler Hall 168 A room filled with demos showing cool physics and some applications to modern technology. Informal and staffed by volunteers.

February was Student Engagement and Philanthropy Month and We Are Aggie Pride planned activities throughout the month to help students in need.