Congratulations to Postdocs Luhn & Martiniez from
@uciphysastro who swept the 2024 UCI Postdoctoral Scholar Research Symposium: Jacob Luhn took 1st for oral presentation & Raquel Martinez 1st among posters! Both in exoplanet science. physics.uci.edu/node/14844

Come learn about dismantling inequity in #physics at our next colloquium, where expert Melissa Dancy will explain how overrepresented groups can productively engage with DEI efforts and enact meaningful change!
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Happy Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! #AAPIHeritageMonth
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This week's departmental colloquium features Edward Kolb from The University of Chicago, who will speak about Schrödinger's discovery 'that particles may be created merely by the expansion of the universe.'
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UCI Physics & Astro grad student Amy Wu won 1st place in the #S24MRS Science as Art competition! Her original art piece is based on an atomic force microscopy map of a thin bismuth crystal she grew and characterized. Research funded by AFOSR

Zoya Leonenko from Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology will visit us on Thursday to speak about the #molecular and #quantum #neuroscience of lithium and its role in neurodegeneration.
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Join us for this week's #plasma #physics seminar featuring Weijian Sha from CommScope, who will speak about fiber #Laser technology, performance and application.
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Dr. Learned, Yodh Prize winner, will be speaking at our next departmental colloquium about the peculiarities of #Neutrinos . The Yodh Prize recognizes #Scientists 'whose research career has had a major impact on the understanding of cosmic rays.' #Physics

This week's #particlephysics seminar features Chao-Hsiang Sheu from the University of Minnesota, who will speak about #symmetry breaking in chiral Yang-Mills theories. UCI Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Join us for the next condensed matter #physics seminar, where Lidia Stocker from ETH Zurich will speak about how to approach strongly correlated quantum impurity systems using tensor networks! UCI Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Our upcoming Condensed Matter Seminar features Dr. Kin Chung Fong from Harvard Physics , who will 'showcase how to measure the kinetic inductance of superconductors by listening to the sound of superfluid.' UCI Physical Sciences UC Irvine #physics

Congratulations to UCI Chemistry and UCI Physics & Astro Professors Jenny Yang, Filipp Furche, and Timothy Tait for being named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society. 👏
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This week's departmental colloquium features Professor Allon Hochbaum, who will share the microbial secret to sustaining life by consuming rocks. 'This metabolic trick, called extracellular electron transfer (EET),' which will be the focus of this talk. 🦠

👏Congratulations to Victoria Knapp Pérez, a third-year Ph.D. student in UCI Physics & Astro who received the LEAD Graduate Student Excellence Award for her outstanding research and positive impact on the Latinx community. ps.uci.edu/news/3081

How it started / How it's going

We're excited to welcome science communicator, author and Harvard Physics associate Matt Strassler for this week's colloquium! He will tell the story of how our model of particles fits into 'a larger narrative...concerning the nature of spacetime and its many fields.'

Join us for the first department colloquium of the spring quarter, where Professor Heidbrink will explain ways to keep #nuclear spins aligned in #plasma to enhance #fusion reactions! ⚛️
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Congratulations to Professor UCI Physics & Astro Howard Lee who has won a Partnership for #Innovation award from the NSF => Medical imaging with fibers the size of a human hair. Thanks to UCI Physical Sciences Industry Advisory Board who enabled this success! UCI Beall Applied Innovation @ the Cove ps.uci.edu/news/3074

We had an amazing winter quarter of colloquia, swipe to recap the fantastic speakers that visited our department! 💬
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Join us in viewing the partial solar eclipse on April 8! We will meet outside around 10 in front of Croul Hall. The eclipse will cover about 50% of the sun by around 11am. **First 200 attendees will receive specialty NASA eclipse viewing glasses!**