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Raissa D'Souza, Professor in the University of California, Davis departments of Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and faculty member of the Physics Graduate Program, has been appointed Lead Editor of Physical Review Research.

From the APS Website:

"Hyperion Research today announced the 14th round of recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award at the ISC19 supercomputer industry conference in Frankfurt, Germany. ... The HPC Innovation Excellence Award recognized achievements by users of high performance computing (HPC) technologies.
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The Physics show, "Avengers: Infinity Wire", won the Picnic Day Exhibit Award in 2019 for most fascinating demonstration that stimulates the imagination!

Are you excited for Avengers: Endgame? Did you want a refresher on the first film? Watch the Physics Club Picnic Day show as Tony Quark and his young pupil Peter Plancker stop Thorium Americium Osmium (ThAmOs) from collecting the fundamental particles and altering reality.

Published: April 30, 2019, 2:26 pm

Congratulations to the following graduate students:

Vsevolod Ivanov for being selected by Graduate Studies to receive a 2018-2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award and to Vincent Cheung and Michael Flynn for receiving the Ryan Couch Travel Award!

Vsevolod Ivano

Vincent Cheung

MIchael Flynn

Published: April 26, 2019, 4:03 pm

From Professor Llyod Knox:

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, and Friends of the Department of Physics,

If you, like me, have never given to UC Davis before, this message is particularly meant for you.

The third annual UC Davis Give Day runs from noon on Friday, April 12 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 13th. The Department of Physics is taking this occasion as an opportunity to encourage you to make your first gift. You may never have considered giving before. You may not have any idea why anyone would give. It may be helpful to know the following:

Connect with Physics at Picnic Day 2019! April 13th, 2019
See below for schedule of public lectures and the "Avengers: Infinity Wire" Physics Show!

Spark your mind with a variety of physics topics that span the gamut from high energy particle physics to superconductivity, to the curious geometric structure called the Amplituhedron that challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. If this captures your attention, these Physics Public Lectures are for you!

Researchers in China and at UC Davis have measured high conductivity in very thin layers of niobium arsenide, a type of material called a Weyl semimetal. The material has about three times the conductivity of copper at room temperature, said Sergey Savrasov, professor of physics at UC Davis. Savrasov is a coauthor on the paper published March 18 in Nature Materials.

Read more at the links below:

UC Davis Egghead https://egghead.ucdavis.edu/2019/03/18/semimetals-...

In a new paper published March 8 in Science, a team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the California Institute of Technology show how complicated and surprising behavior can emerge in a very simple experimental network. "This is the first experimental demonstration that these many distinct, complex states can occur in the same simple system," says co-author James Crutchfield.

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Veronika Hubeny has been selected as one of the new International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) Fellows for 2019. The GRG Society was founded in 1971 and there are currently only 35 GRG Fellows in the world, including prominent names in science: Prof. Abhay V. Ashtekar, Prof. James B. Hartle, Prof. Stephen W. Hawking, Prof. Kip S. Thorne, Prof. Sir Roger Penrose, Prof. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Prof. Robert M. Wald. The primary criterion for election is excellence in research. Congratulations on joining this esteemed group, Prof. Hubeny!