Along with most other UC Davis campus departments and services, our department staff offices (remote and onsite) will be closed for winter break December 19, 2020, through January 3, 2021. We will resume support on Monday, January 4, 2021. Winter quarter 2021 instruction begins Monday, January 4th, and will once again be remote delivery.
All of the Physics and Astronomy undergraduate classes in Winter 2021 will be entirely remote and in some cases asynchronous. Please click the link above for more information.
A survey is now being carried out to assess the climate in our department. This survey is intended to identify areas of strength in the department, any issues that individuals and groups within our community might have, and to conduct a broad demographic census of the department in order to help us identify areas for improvement that may help guide department policy moving forward.
The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) has received a grant of almost $1 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to fund international science exchanges on quantum matter.
Brian Lemaux and Lori Lubin were featured, through UC Davis and other institutions, in a press release on observations of distant galaxies with radio telescopes in Chile as part of an astronomical survey called 'ALPINE'.
Jaroslav Trnka received 2021 Henry Primakoff Award for Early Career Particle Physicists from American Physical Society (APS) for "For seminal work on the computation of particle scattering amplitudes, including the development of a new mathematical approach, the amplituhedron."
His nomination materials noted his efforts in mentoring high school students, undergraduates, and even other faculty.
COVID-19 Daily Symptom Survey - We must all complete the Daily Symptom Survey before entering a UC Davis campus facility. When Physics & Astronomy department members receive the email Approval Notification, please forward that email to COVID19survey@physics.ucdavis.edu. These approval notices will be maintained up to 30 days before being deleted from our department records. The Qualtrics survey takes about 30 seconds on your smartphone or other device. Beginning 9/21/2020, a Qualtrics-based survey is available for campus visitors, including vendors. The visitor survey and the one for students and employees are both available at https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/symptom-monitoring
