Applied Physics undergraduate majors Jesse Patton and Liang Li, along with Ph.D. students Victoria Norman (Physics) and Sridhar Majety (Electrical Engineering), won the California division of the Qiskit Summer Jam Hackathon, sponsored by IBM. Their project, QUantum Information Demonstrations PROmoting QUantum Optics (Quid Pro Quo) used the quantum circuit programming package, Qiskit, to simulate quantum optics phenomena. The team created a suit of user-friendly desktop applications to display and illustrate quantum optics experiments. The students hope Quid Pro Quo will be used for quantum education in classrooms and for STEM outreach programs.

Dustin Gilbert, UC Davis Physics alumnus (Ph.D. 2014; major professor Kai Liu) and Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was one of a select group of scientists to receive funding through the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program in 2020.

Physics Professor Daniel Cox and colleague Professor Michael Toney of the Department of Chemistry are adapting technology to make self-assembling protein scaffolds to combat coronavirus.

Message from the Physics Department chair, 6/9/2020

The Office of Research has announced a move to Phase 2 for research, starting Monday June 1. Continue reading for more information.

Recent graduate Daine Danielson has been awarded a Hertz Foundation Gradaute Fellowship. Daine earned his Applied Physics BS in winter 2017. He worked on neutrino research in Professor Bob Svoboda's lab for most of his time at Davis and is now in physics graduate school at the University of Chicago. The Hertz Fellowship is highly selective; this year there were 16 awards nationwide across science, mathematics, and engineering.

Professor Tucker Jones has been named one of three 2020 Dean's Faculty Fellows in the College of Letters & Science at UC Davis. The program, instituted by former Dean Elizabeth Spiller, aims to support emerging junior faculty who have a potential for extraordinary research impact in the coming years. The award will provide Professor Jones with $7,500 per year for three years. Congratulations!

Information about the Physics online offerings for Summer Sessions 2020.