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…
May 16, 2018, 12:43 PM
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…
May 10, 2018, 11:22 AM
Physics Faculty Richard Scalettar was awarded the 2018 Charles P. Nash Prize. The award acknowledges achievement in and commitment to promoting shared governance in keeping with Charlie Nash's efforts…
May 8, 2018, 11:38 AM
Jaroslav Trnka, Assistant Professor of Physics, has received a UC Davis Creativity-Innovation Award to support his research proposal "Quantum Scatteringâ€
Apr 17, 2018, 5:08 PM
The UC Davis College of Letters and Science is inviting alumni and friends to add their support on Give Day, April 20, 2018. As part of the Give Day effort, QMAP has set a goal to reach $10,000 in…
Apr 9, 2018, 4:29 PM
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…
Apr 8, 2018, 5:00 PM
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…
Mar 28, 2018, 2:36 PM
UC Davis Physics Professor Bob Svoboda is helping to lead the project, WATer Cherenkov Monitor of ANtineutrino, with the goal of developing tools to help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Feb 7, 2018, 10:15 AM
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).
Jan 10, 2018, 10:39 AM
Physics is one of the top 10 graduate programs at UC Davis. With over 450 applications to our graduate program for Fall 2017 admission, an advanced degree in Physics was in high demand.
Oct 16, 2017, 3:24 PM
For the first time, astronomers have observed a celestial event through both conventional telescopes and gravitational waves.
Aug 15, 2017, 8:39 AM
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.
Aug 14, 2017, 5:30 PM
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…
Apr 11, 2017, 10:49 AM
Astronomers led by Austin Hoag, a UC Davis graduate student, have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe.
Mar 13, 2017, 2:48 PM
Physics graduate student Cina Aghamohammadi was awarded the 2017 Biruni Prize by the Iranian-American Physics Network (IrAP). The award is part of the IrAP long term plan for promoting and recognizing…