News 2005

• LEAPS in the news: 09/12/05 UCSB Press Release and 12/12/05 UCSB Press Release
• May 2005: UCSB Physics Student Celebration honors this year's outstanding Physics students. See Awards Listings [PDF]
• Department newsletter, Inside Physics, is now available online [PDF]
• Special Event: Nobel Laureates Dr. Walter Kohn and Dr. Alan Heeger present documentary, "The Power of the Sun," at Physics Colloquium, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:00pm, Campbell Hall.
• UCSB Press Release: David Awschalom and students' recent work on the cover of Nature November 2005.
• Paul Hansma's Interdisclipinary Bone Research: Finding the "Glue" in Human Bone
  • Coastlines Magazine, Fall 2005
    Nature Materials Magazine, Volume 4, August 2005
    Iran Daily, July 23, 2005
    LiveScience.com, July 2005
    People's Daily Online, July 2005
    UCSB Press Release, July 18, 2005
    Santa Barbara News-Press, July 19, 2005 [requires subscriber login]
• James Langer mentioned in "Faculty 'Retirees' Continue to Contribute to Campus," 93106, June 15, 2005
• "'Smart' Bio-nanotubes Developed; May Help in Drug Delivery'," UCSB Press Release, August 2, 2005
• Article about Robert Antonucci's research from NewScientist.com: Most distant maser may solve cosmic conundrums [PDF]
• Dirk Bouwmeester mentioned in Science article, To Physicists’ Surprise, a Light Touch Sets Tiny Objects Aquiver
• Harry Nelson shares the 2005 High Energy Physics Prize awarded by The European Physical Society (EPS) for his contributions to the NA31 Collaboration at CERN, "which showed for the first time Direct CP Violation in the decays of neutral K mesons".
• Joe Polchinski elected to The National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
• Steve Giddings in Scientific American May 2005: Quantum Black Holes: Physicists could soon be creating black holes in the laboratory.
• U.S. News & World Report 2006 Edition of America's Best Graduate Schools rank UCSB Physics among the nation's Top Ten Ph.D Physics programs.
• David Awschalom awarded The Agilent Technologies' Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Condensed Matter Physics for work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics.
• Everett Lipman awarded a 2005 Sloan Research Fellowship.
• UCSB chapter of Society of Physics Students selected as a 2004-2005 Marsh White Award winner. Proposal for physics outreach activities submitted by Mika McKinnon under the guidance of faculty advisor, Mark Sherwin.
• David Awschalom receives 2005 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics "for fundamental contributions to experimental studies of quantum spin dynamics and spin coherence in condensed matter systems."
• Other UCSB press releases
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