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.

Astronomers have just made a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, and it doesn’t quite line up with a different estimate of the same number.

The honor recognizes outstanding scholarship and academic contributions to the campus.

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.