An exotic, swirling object with the sci-fi name of a “magnetic skyrmion†could be the future of nanoelectronics and memory storage. Physicists at UC Davis and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now succeeded in making magnetic skyrmions, formerly found at temperatures close to absolute zero, at room temperature.
The Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize recognizes a most outstanding contribution to physics. The prize consists of $10,000, a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient, plus expenses for the three lectures by the recipient given at an APS meeting, a research university, and a predominantly undergraduate institution.
Lloyd Knox hunts for answers about the universe’s creation. The cosmologist has boosted the search for particles called neutrinos that are key to research
Much of the time, popular stories about science emphasize the broader impact, the implications for the field, what it might mean for our lives. But in reality, science is often about finding that some detail of the universe works the way we had already predicted, and for scientists that’s pretty cool too.
A crowdfunding effort to support the film "Secrets of the Universe", which will be a 3-D IMAX film about the Physics of the LHC in which Prof. Manuel Calderon de la Barca is the primary science advisor, was launched last week. You can find more about this physics outreach project in the following link:
Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez, along with STEAD Committee members win the 2015 Faculty Citation of the Soaring to New Heights Diversity & Principles of Community Award. STEAD Committee – Strength Through Equity & Diversity
Physics and Applied Physics Undergraduate Class of 2015
Distinguished Professor of Physics Charles Fadley has been elected as an International Fellow of the Surface Science Society of Japan (SSSJ). The SSSJ is an academic society with over 1700 members. 2015 is the first year the society has elected International Fellows. The first group of three includes Professor Fadley (UC Davis), Prof. Roland Wiesendanger (Univ. Hamburg, Germany), an expert in scanning tunneling microscopy., and Prof. Qi-Kun Xue (Tsinghua Univ., China), also a leader in scanning tunneling microscopy and other surface science techniques.
