A technological breakthrough often requires the discovery of a new material with unprecedented physical properties. Ferromagnetic materials for example, enable a wide range of technologies with diverse applications ranging from energy production to computer hardware, memory storage, and transportation. As such, intense efforts are pursued worldwide to improve the magnetic properties of known materials, by, for example, reducing their economic or environmental cost, or to find new magnetic materials altogether. The search for entirely new families of ferromagnetic compounds is challenging, and, as a result, efforts are often focused on already known families that can be further improved. Accelerating material discovery remains one of the greatest challenges in material research.

An international team of physicists have used atoms about 3 billion times colder than interstellar space to open a portal to an unexplored realm of quantum magnetism. The results were published Sept. 1 in Nature Physics. “Fermions are not rare particles. They include things like electrons and are one of two types of particles that all matter is made of.”

Professor Sir Michael Berry will visit UC Davis as Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, hosted by Warren Pickett on behalf of sixteen other faculty in four departments involved in research of joint interest. Michael will provide a colloquium and a public lecture, with topics ranging from the geometric phase (Berry phase) upon which his early career and reputation is based, to everyday phenomena such as the physics of light, touching on the dancing lines of light on the bottom of swimming pools.

In conjunction with the UC Davis Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Theatre and Dance, the University of California Observatories presents “EINSTEIN!,” an acclaimed one-man play about the greatest scientific mind of all time.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has selected Pratik Gandhi for a Frontera Computational Science Fellowship.

Congratulations to Inna Vishik for her selection as a 2022 Dean's Faculty Fellow!

Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez is featured in the movie “Secrets of the Universe”, which is getting its Sacramento premiere at the Museum of Science and Curiosity.

Congratulations to Professor Mukund Rangamani who has been elected a Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation for his "groundbreaking contributions to the gauge-gravity duality and the fluid-gravity correspondence." This is only the fifth class of Fellows, so it's a very select group. http://www.isgrg.org/fellows.php.