News 2002-2003
- David Gross shares prestigious High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for 2003.
- UCSB 93106 article, September 22, 2003.
UCSB press release July 24, 2003.
- UCSB 93106 article, September 22, 2003.
- Physics undergraduate Robert Nelson presents department's first senior thesis.
- Andrew Cleland in the news: New Detector May Test Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
- UCSB laboratories of Kevin W. Plaxco and Alan Heeger develop new sensor capable of detecting DNA in one step.
- Lars Bildsten's neutron star theory has gained support of a NASA study reported by international team of scientists in the July 3 issue of
Nature . - Highly cited Robert Antonucci talks about review papers and Space Science: The In-cites interview.
- Rob Geller receives the UCSB Foundation Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for 2002-2003.
- Matthew Fisher elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Jean Carlson and Eric Dunham: Researchers Check Quakes' Irregular Pulses.
- UCSB Physics Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn donates papers to UCSB Davidson Library.
- UCSB Physics graduate student Jason Alicea was recipient of the LeRoy Apker Award.
- Bubbles and Black Holes: Henriette Elvang wins APS Topical Group in Gravitation Prize for best talk by a graduate student at the 19th annual Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting.
- Crystal Martin awarded Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Eric Dunham receives Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2002 American Geophysical Union meeting for work on earthquake source physics.
- David Awschalom in USA Today: Here's a switch, for quantum computing.
- David Awschalom named as joint recipient of the IUPAP Magnetism Prize for 2003.
- David Awschalom leads efforts to successfully establish CNID: New Center for Nanoscience Innovation Transfers Knowledge From Universities to Industry.
- UCSB Physics Circus in the news: An experiment in fun
- Steve 'Gravity' Giddings highlighted in American Physical Society's Physics Central "People in Physics."
- Crystal Martin named Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Helen Hansma in the news: Research on the web - UCSB scientists see many uses for spider silk
- Crystal Martin in the news: "Dwarf Galaxy Gives Universe a Breath of Fresh Oxygen" Research supports the idea that dwarf galaxies may be responsible for most of the heavy elements between the galaxies.
- Steve Giddings awarded first prize by the Gravity Research Foundation from the Synergos Institute for "Black Holes in the Lab" The stated purpose of the prize is to stimulate thought and encourage work on gravitation. Over the years, the first place winners have included many of the leaders in the field, including Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, and Robert Wald.
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Alan Heeger and his work in "coaxing conductivity from plastic" is examined in a Wired Magazine article, "The Next Plastic Revolution".
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