The Big Throughput Camera was designed and built by a team led by Gary Bernstein and UC Davis Physics Professor Tony Tyson while he was at Bell Labs (Tony Tyson came to UC Davis in 2005).

Physics is one of the top 10 graduate programs at UC Davis. With over 450 applications to our graduate program for Fall 2017 admission, an advanced degree in Physics was in high demand.

For the first time, astronomers have observed a celestial event through both conventional telescopes and gravitational waves.

Researchers at the University of California in collaboration with Stanford University have found firm evidence of the Majorana fermion, a long sought-after particle that acts as its own antiparticle.

Astronomers have spied the short-lived blue glow from a giant companion star struck by a spectacular supernova. The discovery offers compelling evidence for a leading theory about the origin of Type Ia supernovae — that these enormous explosions occur when a white dwarf steals matter from a larger star.

Astronomers led by Austin Hoag, a UC Davis graduate student, have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe.

Physics graduate student Cina Aghamohammadi was awarded the 2017 Biruni Prize by the Iranian-American Physics Network (IrAP). The award is part of the IrAP long term plan for promoting and recognizing outstanding research by Iranian physics graduate students in United States.

Jim Crutchfield is part of a collaboration with Intel Corp and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs’ NERSC supercomputer center that is co-developing algorithms to model and predict climate on one of the world’s largest supercomputers.