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Professor Fadley elected as an International Fellow of the Surface Science Society of Japan
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.
First images of collisions at 13 TeV at the LHC
Test collisions continue today at 13 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to prepare the detectors ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, LHCf, MOEDAL and TOTEM for data-taking, planned for early June (Image: LHC page 1) Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV for the first time. These test collisions were to set up systems that protect the machine and detectors from particles that stray from the edges of the beam.
James Crutchfield’s research on the structure of complex systems was recently selected by Physical Review as an 'Editor’s Suggestion'
"The authors develop a method for analysis of time series generated by a class of complex processes. They identify the mechanism that causes information divergence at each level in a hierarchy of such processes." Signatures of infinity: Nonergodicity and resource scaling in prediction, complexity, and learning James P. Crutchfield and Sarah Marzen
Incoming Assistant Research Physicist Stefano Valenti's research on super novae featured on the front page of Nature
Type Ia supernovae1 are destructive explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs2, 3. Although they are used empirically to measure cosmological distances
First stone laid for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
A new map of the heavens took a big step forward last week as scientists and dignitaries, including Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, laid the first stone for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope on the 8900-foot summit of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile.
UC Davis Physics Assistant Professor Michael Mulhearn's Crayfis experiment app in the running for a Webby award!
Mobile Sites & Apps: Experimental & Innovation
2015 Picnic Day Schedule of Events for Physics
Physics is Fun! April 18, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Roessler Hall 168 A room filled with demos showing cool physics and some applications to modern technology. Informal and staffed by volunteers.