Professor Zhu and Professor Taufour recently demonstrated a Sagnac-interferometry-based magneto-optical microscope for imaging magnetic domains of novel crystalline materials at low temperature.
It was recently discovered that the anomalous Nernst effect is dramatically amplified in magnetic Weyl semimetals.
The results of the inaugural UCD Physics & Astronomy Climate Survey were released on April 20th, 2021! This survey was a joint venture between the departmental climate survey committee, departmental leadership, the UCD Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), the UCD Office of Budget and Institutional Analysis (BIA), and the entire department community.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program recognizes junior faculty who conduct outstanding research, are excellent educators and include education or community outreach in their work.
College of Letters & Science writer Becky Oskin’s blog post highlights some of the many options.
This Give Day 2021, generous donors have the opportunity to transform our students' lives. Please consider supporting our Give Day Challenges described below. A gift of any amount will make a big impact, and it will help our College come out on top to win the UC Davis Battle of the Colleges
With 9 days left to go to Give Day, 27 gifts have come in to the College of Letters and Sciences already. 12 of the gifts are to Physics and Astronomy, with eight of these in response to Department Chair Rena Zieve’s Give Day Challenge in support of a new graduate student support fund, the Opportunity Award. Chair Zieve will donate $50 for a donation from any current UC Davis Physics and Astronomy graduate student or major.
Some of the Milky Way’s oldest stars have been spotted in a surprising place — the disk the youngest region of the galaxy. Computer simulations of their orbits suggest these "metal-poor" stars came from a smaller galaxy that slammed into the Milky Way more than 7 billion years ago. Isaiah Santistevan, a doctoral candidate in our department is the lead author of a new study examining the simulation results, which is available on arXiv.org
