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Cahill Gift to UC Davis Supports Environmental Research in Physics

May 18, 2016 — A $300,000 gift from two UC Davis faculty members will enhance environmental research in the Department of Physics.
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Vintage Venue: UC Davis Crocker Lab Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Stepping inside the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory control room is like transporting onto the set of a 1960s sci-fi flick. Bakelite knobs and flashing switches parade across sofa-sized control banks.
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Four From UC Davis Elected To American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Scholars in Classics, Cosmology, Music and English Join the Nation’s Oldest Learned Society
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Public Lecture-The Discovery of Gravity Waves: The Breakthrough by LIGO

The Department of Physics invites you to a public lecture: "The Discovery of Gravity Waves:The Breakthrough by LIGO" on May 3, 2016. Speaker: Joseph Giaime
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Prof. Andreas Albrecht elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Join us for "Illuminating Black Holes", a public lecture by Veronika Hubeny
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Join the Physics Department for the 2016 UC Davis Picnic Day
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Magneto-ionics could be a new alternative to electronics

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.