Congratulations to Austin Hoag for being selected for the Graduate Student Travel Award offered by the Graduate Studies Office! The call for Graduate Studies Travel Award applications are every Fall and Spring quarters if you are interested in applying. Look out for future emails and deadlines!

With great sadness we report the passing of Sr Lecturer SOE Emeritus Wendell Potter.

Solid (the departmental mail server) will be down for maintenance from 4:00 PM Thursday, 12/29/2016 until the early morning (approximately 3:00 AM) on Friday, 12/30/2016. For more information see http://ithelp.physics.ucdavis.edu.

QMAP will host this week-long conference at UC Davis from December 12 to December 16, 2016.

Dong Yu and collaborators win a UC Lab Fee Award for their research on “Designer Mesoscale Quantum Dot Solids.”

Members of the UC Davis Physics Department received awards this year from the APS Far West Section.

Mail Services' annual Holiday Food Drive is underway, and another campus group is rounding up runners and support for the annual Running of the Turkeys fundraiser for the Yolo Food Bank.

D'Souza's research focuses on mathematical models of self-organization, phase transitions and the structure and function of networked systems.