Aug 2, 2023, 1:33 PM
Campus Design & Construction Management and campus Building Maintenance Services personnel worked quickly in the short break between end of spring quarter 2023 and the start of summer session 1 to…
Jun 30, 2023, 3:12 PM
Many thanks go to Peter Klavins, David Barnes, and David Hemer (not pictured) who helped Professor Dong Yu’s group move a >800 lb optical table to new lab space in the basement of the Physics…
Jun 30, 2023, 11:14 AM
The Physics & Astronomy Department is proud to announce that the following department-sponsored physics majors were invited to join the national honor society Phi Beta Kappa for 2022-2023. Via…
May 18, 2023, 3:41 PM
The Tuesday May 23 general meeting of the Mount Diablo Astronomical Society will feature Professor Lloyd Knox speaking about "Cepheids, Supernovae, and the Cosmic Microwave Background." This event…
May 17, 2023, 11:39 AM
Professor Maxwell Chertok is spending the spring as a Bristol Benjamin
Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, UK.
Performing ground-breaking research in particle physics…
May 12, 2023, 2:20 PM
Congratulations to our 2022-2023 undergraduate award winners!
May 10, 2023, 10:13 AM
Best in Show! Congratulations to our Physics Club for winning the Best in Show award for their R-Ohm-eo and Joule-iet performance complete with physics demos.
Dec 13, 2022, 11:36 AM
UC Davis physics adjunct professor Kai Liu was elected to the rank of NAI Fellow, citing his demonstrated “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that…
Dec 12, 2022, 5:04 PM
Physics professor Robin Erbacher is one of seven UC Davis faculty members recognized among the top female scientists around the globe, as assessed by Research.com in its first ranking of the "Best…
Oct 27, 2022, 2:17 PM
Zhen Pan, the Zel'dovich Fellow at the Perimeter Institute and former PhD student advised by Professor Lloyd Knox, will be joining the faculty of the T. D. Lee Institute, a new institute in Shanghai,…
Oct 25, 2022, 3:35 PM
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Davis will be hosting a 2-hour online open house to introduce prospective graduate students to our PhD program. Students will be able to meet with faculty…
Oct 14, 2022, 12:46 PM
Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy John Rundle has been tapped to be a Keynote speaker at the upcoming Natural Disasters Exposition in Anaheim, CA, in recognition of his high visibility…
Oct 12, 2022, 3:05 PM
Join us for a screening of the film "Secrets of the Universe" at the Mondavi Center on October 26. Through the film, you will embark on a journey into one of the most amazing scientific instruments…
Oct 10, 2022, 2:32 PM
Prof. David Wittman was awarded 8 orbits of Hubble Space Telescope time to study collisions of galaxy clusters. These are the largest masses in the universe and a large fraction of their mass is dark…
Oct 6, 2022, 12:13 PM
James Crutchfield, a physics professor and director of the Complexity Sciences Center at UC Davis and graduate student Kyle Ray have a cooler proposal, and it involves a fundamental shift in how…
Sep 29, 2022, 12:14 PM
An international team of astronomers has discovered dozens of strong gravitational lenses that will allow astronomers to look deep into the universe, revealing ancient structures and giving insight…
Sep 23, 2022, 10:02 AM
A technological breakthrough often requires the discovery of a new material with unprecedented physical properties. Ferromagnetic materials for example, enable a wide range of technologies with…
Sep 22, 2022, 2:42 PM
An international team of physicists have used atoms about 3 billion times colder than interstellar space to open a portal to an unexplored realm of quantum magnetism. The results were published Sept.…
Sep 19, 2022, 11:47 AM
Professor Sir Michael Berry will visit UC Davis as Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, hosted by Warren Pickett on behalf of sixteen other faculty in four departments…
Sep 1, 2022, 2:19 PM
In conjunction with the UC Davis Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Theatre and Dance, the University of California Observatories presents “EINSTEIN!,” an acclaimed one-man play about the…