Public Lecture-The Discovery of Gravity Waves: The Breakthrough by LIGO
The Department of Physics invites you to a public lecture: "The Discovery of Gravity Waves:The Breakthrough by LIGO" on May 3, 2016. Speaker: Joseph Giaime
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Prof. Andreas Albrecht elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Join us for "Illuminating Black Holes", a public lecture by Veronika Hubeny
Join the Physics Department for the 2016 UC Davis Picnic Day
Magneto-ionics could be a new alternative to electronics
Our electronic devices are based on what happens when different materials are layered together: “The interface is the device,†as Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously claimed over 40 years ago.
Andreas Albrecht: LIGO Announcement Regarding Gravitational Waves on February 11th 2016
There will be a big announcement from the LIGO collaboration regarding the detection of gravity waves. This FB event will point you to the live streaming of the press conference as well as other info: https://www.facebook.com/events/830955763680595/. Some of us will be gathering in rm 185 (reserved 7-9am) to watch and discuss together, and you are most welcome to join!
Professor Nemanja Kaloper wins Buchalter Cosmology Prize
The Buchalter Cosmology Prize is an annual prize that seeks to stimulate ground-breaking theoretical, observational, or experimental work in cosmology that has the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in our understanding.
Professor Kai Liu named 2016 IEEE Fellow
Kai Liu, Professor of Physics at the University of California - Davis, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized “for contributions to the understanding of magneto-transport effects and magnetization reversal in nanostructuresâ€.