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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 CSC graduate students. These prestigious fellowships support three years of research at $110K/year: https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/fellowship/.

The Amplitudes 2018 Summer School will be held at the Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) at the University of California, Davis from June 11-15, 2018. The summer school will precede the Amplitudes 2018 conference (hosted by SLAC from June 18-22, 2018) and will bring together experts in this area discussing recent discoveries, as well as offer a set of introductory lectures to some of the key topics to be discussed at the conference.

Laura Greene, Outgoing President, American Physical Society, will spend two days at UC Davis in May, hosted by the Physics Department. Dr. Greene will give a public lecture on Wednesday, May 23rd, at the health campus in Sacramento, and a more detailed physics seminar on Thursday, May 24th at the Welcome Center on the Davis campus. Both events are free and open seating.

Distinguished Professor Richard Scalettar was recently awarded the 2018 Charles P. Nash Prize.

The Charles P. Nash Prize, funded by the campus community and the Nash family and friends, is awarded by the Davis Division of the Academic Senate, the UC Davis Academic Federation, the Davis Faculty Association and the Nash Family.

Jaroslav Trnka, Assistant Professor of Physics, was awarded a UC Davis Creativity-Innovation Award. The award is given each year to "an up-and-coming faculty member who exhibits great promise as a creator and innovator in his or her research." The selection committee chose two recipients this year, and described the research proposals involved as "[promising] a significant advance that would bring distinction to UC Davis". Jaroslav's research proposal is "Quantum Scattering":

There's a packed schedule of events put on by the Physics Department for Picnic Day this year, including public talks by our faculty members, a room filled with cool physics demos, and of course, the Award-Winning Physics Club show entitled, "Lord of the Strings."

Physics Picnic Day schedule:
(Click on the image to download the PDF)

Saturday, April 21

On Monday, April 16th at 4:10pm, there will be a special Physics colloquium: "Superconductors: New and Old" by Bob Birgeneau, Chancellor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, former President of the University of Toronto, former dean and faculty member at MIT, and national academy member. There will be a reception in the Physics atrium at 3:30 PM. The lecture will be held in the MPR of the Student Community Center (across the traffic circle from the Silo).

See the flyer for the colloquium below:

Read the full UC Davis News article here:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/physicists-join-watch...

The Big Throughput Camera was designed and built by a team led by Gary Bernstein and UC Davis Physics Professor Tony Tyson while he was at Bell Labs (Tony Tyson came to UC Davis in 2005). The camera, which was the first mosaic of its type, was put on the CTIO 4-meter telescope in Chile to collect the data that showed the expansion of the universe was accelerating.

By Elizabeth Forrest Lambert on January 8, 2018

Excerpt from the UC Davis News article:

Experiment Finds Evidence of Majorana Fermion

Researchers at the University of California in collaboration with Stanford University have found firm evidence of the Majorana fermion, a long sought-after particle that acts as its own antiparticle.

From the UC Davis News article:

"Astronomers have spied the short-lived blue glow from a giant companion star struck by a spectacular supernova. The discovery offers compelling evidence for a leading theory about the origin of Type Ia supernovae —"

From the UC Davis News article:

Astronomers led by a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe, and it's nothing out of the ordinary.