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Professor Calderon de la Barca to Participate in Filming of IMAX Documentary on Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Calderon de la Barca has been invited to participate in the filming of an IMAX screen documentary highlighting physics research done at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe

An international team of astronomers including Brian Lemaux and Lori Lubin of UCD Physics has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

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Robin Erbacher named Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields

Robin Erbacher was named Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields, for significant contributions to measuring the properties of the top quark and to use it to probe for a variety of new physics signatures.

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Wendell Potter Remembered at the AAPT 2018 Summer Meeting

Professor Emeritus (deceased) Wendell Potter was remembered at the 2018 American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting.

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A Big Day for Neutrino Physics!

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks.

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Nicholas E. Sherman wins the APS 2018 LeRoy Apker Award

Nick Sherman, B.S. in physics and applied mathematics, with a minor in computer science, UC Davis 2018, has won American Physical Society's 2018 LeRoy Apker Award.

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2019 APS CUWiP at UC Davis

Eleven sites across the US and one in Canada will host Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in January 2019. The APS CUWiP at UC Davis will draw students from northern California and Nevada.

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Graduate Student Adam Rupe Developing Data Analytics Tools for Climate Science

UCD Physics graduate student Adam Rupe is spending time at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developing data analytics tools for climate science.