For the 2021 UC Davis Virtual Picnic Day, the Physics Department will present the following talks.

For the last eight years a research team from UC Davis has been working with an international team of scientists to build the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Plus (SNO+) detector in Northern Ontario. SNO+ is designed to investigate the nature of the neutrino, a small, electrically neutral subatomic particle that has been seen to have unusual properties that set them apart from other known particles.

Jaroslav Trnka received a 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching from UC Davis.

As described in a recently published paper in Nano Letters, UC Davis Adjunct Professor Kai Liu and collaborators have demonstrated light weight nanowire-based metal foam filters that are highly efficient, durable, reusable, and recyclable, particularly for deep submicron airborne particulates.

Prof. Manuel Calderón de la Barca will be the featured speaker at a webinar hosted by TELUS World of Science, in Edmonton, Canada. The webinar will focus on the Giant Screen film "Secrets of the Universe", and will also feature Director Stephen Low. They will answer questions from webinar participants about the science of the film and the making of the film.

Victoria Strait, a student of Marusa Bradac, was just awarded a DAWN fellowship at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, one of the top astrophysics fellowships in Europe. Victoria was selected from a pool of approximately 100 applicants. She will be studying the star formation in the galaxies at the earliest epoch.

Saturday, March 13 - 7:30pm, this performance is free. Jeremy  Rourke presents a performance of expanded cinema works  rooted in original  music  and experimental animation. The Exploded View From My Time Machine is a rendition of his residency inside Professors Darrin Martin and John Terning’s SHAPE course, “Creative Visualizations of Science.” SHAPE (Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement) is a special project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which links science and engineering, together with the arts and humanities in a new set of undergraduate courses.

Pickett’s review, entitled "The dawn of the nickel age of superconductivity,” discusses the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in nickelates during the past year.