News 2006

• Fall/Winter 2006: Department newsletter, Inside Physics, is now available online [PDF]
  • find out more about Inside Physics
• December 2006: Alan Heeger has been awarded the Eni Italgas Prize on Energy and Environment for his innovative research on solar cells made with plastic material: cheap, versatile and clean. The shared prize, that consists of a sum of 120,000 euros, is aimed to scientists that have achieved relevant results in research on energy sources and their relation with the environment. more
• November 15, 2006: The Santa Barbara Independent featured Ski Antonucci in "A is for Astronomy", the first article in a new series, "Curiouser and Curiouser: Plain Talk with Brilliant Scholars".
• November 7, 2006: David Gross, Steve Giddings, featured in NPR's article and podcast, "Short of 'All,' String Theorists Accused of Nothing"
• October 27 , 2006: David Awschalom named new fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  • 93106 article, December 4, 2006
    UCSB Press Release, November 27, 2006
    AAAS website article
• October 26, 2006: Steve Giddings featured in New Scientist's article, "The elephant and the event horizon"
• September 4, 2006: Jim Allen and David Awschalom mentioned in Computerworld's article, "Subatomic IT" [PDF version]
• Fall 2006: Joseph Polchinsski, together with Juan Maldacena of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, has been awarded the 2007 Dannie Heineman Prize for “profound developments in mathematical physics that have illuminated interconnections and launched major research areas in quantum field theory, string theory, and gravity.”
• August 15, 2006: UCSB Press Release: Philip Lubin shares 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize
• July 2006: Doug Scalapino received the John Bardeen Prize at the 8th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors for "his contributions to life time effects of quasiparticles and how strong correlations affect their properties." Other prize winners included Alexander Andreev and Kazumi Maki.

• July 31, 2006: The Foundational Questions Institute awards $2 million for research into foundational questions in physics & cosmology; recipients include Steve Giddings.

• July 17, 2006: UCSB Press Release: UCSB Announces Winners of $10,000 Competition for New Plays About Science and Technology
• July 4, 2006: David Gross mentioned in New York Times essay, Physics Awaits New Options As Standard Model Idles [requires subscriber login]
• Summer 2006: Lars Bildsten discusses new technologies in UCSB Engineering's Convergence Magazine [PDF]
• Summer 2006: David Awschalom and spintronics profiled in UCSB Engineering's Convergence Magazine [PDF]
• Summer 2006: David Gross was bestowed the honor of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa at Sao Paulo University, Brazil.
• May 2006: Don Marolf won first place in the Gravity Research Foundation annual essay contest. Previous winners at UCSB include Gary Horowitz and Steve Giddings.
• May 2006: Astronomer Alan Dressler's Search for 'Another Earth' at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on May 24
  • UCSB Press Release, May 22, 2006
    Santa Barbara News-Press article, May 24, 2006 [requires subscriber login]
• May 2006: UCSB Physics Student Celebration honors this year's outstanding Physics students. See Awards Listings [PDF]
• April 24, 2006: David Awschalom elected as Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • April 25, 2006: UCSB Press Release: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects 3 Affiliated with UC Santa Barbara
• April 21, 2006: UCSB Press Release: UCSB Launches New National Center for Nanotechnology in Society
• March 23, 2006: UCSB Press Release: UCSB's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Hosts National Conference for High School Physics Teachers on Nanoscience and Quantum Computing
• March 22, 2006: UCSB Press Release: UCSB scientists, inluding Cyrus Safinya, have created a new molecule that holds promise in fighting disease via gene therapy
• March 9, 2006: UCSB Press Release: UCSB, UCLA, UCB and Stanford Join to Establish Western Institute of Nanoelectronics
  • 93106 article, March 20, 2006
• March 2006: Paul Hansma's Interdisclipinary Bone Research: Finding the "Glue" in Human Bone
  • National Institute of General Medical Science's Findings, March 2006. [PDF]
    NASA's Kids' Science and News Network
    see related 2005 archives
• February 24, 2006: UCSB Press Release: Portable Cocaine Sensor Developed at UC Santa Barbara; UCSB Physics Professor and Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger Contributed
• February 17, 2006: UCSB Press Release: Capturing Emerging Nanotechnology -- Researchers Scrutinize 'Spintronics' as History in the Making
• February 2006: David Awschalom and his colleagues YK Kato, RC Myers, and Art Gossard have been awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for their paper "Observation of the Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors"
  • UCSB Press Release, February 13, 2006
• Other UCSB press releases
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