Our electronic devices are based on what happens when different materials are layered together: “The interface is the device,” as Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously claimed over 40 years ago.

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!

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.

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”.

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.

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