Much of the time, popular stories about science emphasize the broader impact, the implications for the field, what it might mean for our lives. But in reality, science is often about finding that some detail of the universe works the way we had already predicted, and for scientists that’s pretty cool too.

A crowdfunding effort to support the film "Secrets of the Universe", which will be a 3-D IMAX film about the Physics of the LHC in which Prof. Manuel Calderon de la Barca is the primary science advisor, was launched last week. You can find more about this physics outreach project in the following link:

Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez, along with STEAD Committee members win the 2015 Faculty Citation of the Soaring to New Heights Diversity & Principles of Community Award. STEAD Committee – Strength Through Equity & Diversity

Physics and Applied Physics Undergraduate Class of 2015

Distinguished Professor of Physics Charles Fadley has been elected as an International Fellow of the Surface Science Society of Japan (SSSJ). The SSSJ is an academic society with over 1700 members. 2015 is the first year the society has elected International Fellows. The first group of three includes Professor Fadley (UC Davis), Prof. Roland Wiesendanger (Univ. Hamburg, Germany), an expert in scanning tunneling microscopy., and Prof. Qi-Kun Xue (Tsinghua Univ., China), also a leader in scanning tunneling microscopy and other surface science techniques.

Test collisions continue today at 13 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to prepare the detectors ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, LHCf, MOEDAL and TOTEM for data-taking, planned for early June (Image: LHC page 1) Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV for the first time. These test collisions were to set up systems that protect the machine and detectors from particles that stray from the edges of the beam.

"The authors develop a method for analysis of time series generated by a class of complex processes. They identify the mechanism that causes information divergence at each level in a hierarchy of such processes." Signatures of infinity: Nonergodicity and resource scaling in prediction, complexity, and learning James P. Crutchfield and Sarah Marzen

Type Ia supernovae1 are destructive explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs2, 3. Although they are used empirically to measure cosmological distances