With great sadness we report the passing of Sr Lecturer SOE Emeritus Wendell Potter.

Solid (the departmental mail server) will be down for maintenance from 4:00 PM Thursday, 12/29/2016 until the early morning (approximately 3:00 AM) on Friday, 12/30/2016. For more information see http://ithelp.physics.ucdavis.edu.

QMAP will host this week-long conference at UC Davis from December 12 to December 16, 2016.

Dong Yu and collaborators win a UC Lab Fee Award for their research on “Designer Mesoscale Quantum Dot Solids.”

Members of the UC Davis Physics Department received awards this year from the APS Far West Section.

Mail Services' annual Holiday Food Drive is underway, and another campus group is rounding up runners and support for the annual Running of the Turkeys fundraiser for the Yolo Food Bank.

D'Souza's research focuses on mathematical models of self-organization, phase transitions and the structure and function of networked systems.

Jack Gunion has been awarded the APS J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics. The citation reads: "For instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson." Jack will share the Prize with Howard Haber of UCSC, Sally Dawson of BNL, and Gordan Kane of U. Michigan. For more information on the Sakurai Prize see: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/sakurai.cfm Congratulations from your Physics Department colleagues!