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Andreas Albrecht: LIGO Announcement Regarding Gravitational Waves on February 11th 2016

There will be a big announcement from the LIGO collaboration regarding the detection of gravity waves. This FB event will point you to the live streaming of the press conference as well as other info: https://www.facebook.com/events/830955763680595/. Some of us will be gathering in rm 185 (reserved 7-9am) to watch and discuss together, and you are most welcome to join!

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Professor Nemanja Kaloper wins Buchalter Cosmology Prize

The Buchalter Cosmology Prize is an annual prize that seeks to stimulate ground-breaking theoretical, observational, or experimental work in cosmology that has the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in our understanding.

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Professor Kai Liu named 2016 IEEE Fellow

Kai Liu, Professor of Physics at the University of California - Davis, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized “for contributions to the understanding of magneto-transport effects and magnetization reversal in nanostructures”.

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The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač

One could say that snowflakes are simply frozen water — but if you compare a snowflake to an ice cube, you’ll notice a big difference.

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The most violent events since the Big Bang itself

There is nothing more violent than a collision between two entire clusters of galaxies. One such impact is so extreme, it could tell us what the universe is made of

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LUX dark matter experiment

New results from LUX dark matter detector

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Running of the Turkeys

Thank you for another successful event. We raised about $4,200, surpassing our goal of $4,000.

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Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 6:30pm-9pm Location: 3001 PES (Plant & Environmental Sciences) UC Davis Campus