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.
Jenna Samuel, a student of Andrew Wetzel, was just awarded an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship. Jenna will take this fellowship to the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas, Austin this fall to pursue her project: "Modeling the physics of gas removal and quenching in Local Group satellite galaxies with next-generation simulations”.
Updated March 5th 2021: The department will offer two in-person classes for physics majors who have achieved senior standing and who plan to graduate in the near future. All other PHY and AST classes will be held remotely. Click the link above for more information.
The Army Research Office is supporting Prof. Jim Crutchfield to explore the fundamental principles of adaptive emergent computation and to experimentally demonstrate how thermodynamic forces can drive a system to be naturally programmable. The three-year $1.5 million project is an experimental collaboration with Prof. Michael Roukes (Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech) to design arrays of nanoscale information-heat engines that exhibit emergent computation and with Prof. Erik Winfree (Computer Science, Caltech) to deploy his DNA computing technology to evolve emergent computation in chemical reactions.
The film "Secrets of the Universe", featuring Prof. Manuel Calderon de la Barca from UCD Physics and his graduate students, is featured in the film festival Toronto Geek Fest. It is nominated for several awards, including Best Physics Film, Best Short Documentary, and Best Science Film. It can be screened virtually on Sunday February 14 at 9AM PST by registering for free at http://geekfesttoronto.com
