May 22, 2015, 3:40 PM
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…
May 22, 2015, 3:33 PM
"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…
Apr 24, 2015, 3:01 PM
Type Ia supernovae1 are destructive explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs2, 3. Although they are used empirically to measure cosmological distances
Apr 20, 2015, 10:54 AM
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…
Apr 17, 2015, 1:32 PM
Mobile Sites & Apps: Experimental & Innovation
Apr 16, 2015, 1:22 PM
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.
Mar 25, 2015, 1:27 PM
February was Student Engagement and Philanthropy Month and We Are Aggie Pride planned activities throughout the month to help students in need.
Mar 13, 2015, 1:36 PM
Sequestration of Vacuum Energy and the End of the Universe
Nemanja Kaloper and Antonio Padilla
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 101302 – Published 10 March 2015
Mar 2, 2015, 11:00 AM
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time spotted four images of the same distant exploding star, arranged in an “Einstein’s Cross,†a cross-shape pattern created…
Feb 26, 2015, 11:32 AM
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has heartily endorsed the nominations of 22 staff members as UC Davis stars in the second annual campuswide STAR Award Program.
The Chancellor’s STAR Awards — STAR…
Feb 25, 2015, 1:32 PM
Recipient, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, Alfred H. and Marie E. Gibeling Fellowship, Dissertation Year Fellowship, and the Graduate Research Mentorship
Feb 25, 2015, 1:32 PM
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the…
Feb 25, 2015, 1:31 PM
The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide…
Feb 20, 2015, 2:23 PM
The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide…
Jan 28, 2015, 1:33 PM
UC Davis has announced its 15th class of Chancellor’s Fellows — 10 faculty members at the associate professor level who have caught the attention of their colleagues, department chairs and deans,…
Nov 26, 2014, 1:34 PM
Six UC Davis faculty members have been elected in the 2014 class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Nov 8, 2014, 2:45 PM
Physics faculty are participating in the sixth annual Running of the Turkeys — a Thanksgiving Day benefit — and inviting other people in the campus community to join in.
Nov 7, 2014, 3:04 PM
Professor Emerita of Physics Ling-Lie Chau (喬玲麗) was 10 years old in 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party took over much of China and her family fled from Shanghai to Taiwan.
Oct 15, 2014, 3:27 PM
he International Year of Crystallography has understandably been a celebration of order. From Rene-Just Haüy's prescient drawings of stacked cubes to the convolutions of membrane proteins, Nature…
Oct 10, 2014, 3:48 PM
Every second, the Earth is being struck by cosmic rays, high energy particles that slam into the atmosphere. Understanding where they come from and how they're generated could provide information…