Physics Department News
News
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April, 2008: UCSB Physics ranks among the Top Ten Graduate Schools in US World News and Report.
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March 17, 2008: The faculty Senate has bestowed its highest honor on David Awschalom, an internationally recognized researcher who is a professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB. Awschalom was named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2008 on March 6. In announcing the award, the UCSB Academic Senate said Awschalom “has made remarkable contributions to our campus in the fields of physics and engineering.”
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March 14, 2008: Helen Hansma authors article for NSF/LiveScience: "Granny Says Life Evolved Between the Mica Sheets"
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March 17, 2008: Scientists conducting the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, of which UCSB is a participant, have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. engineering.
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March 2008: Walter Kohn told students to flex their brain power and try to solve the global energy problem at the UCSB Energy Forum inauguration, a student-run campus group focused on forms of energy.
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February 2008: Chronicle of Higher Education ranks UCSB Physics #8 of 375 for faculty productivity in the Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. The 2007 index compiles overall institutional rankings on 375 universities that offer the Ph.D. degree.
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January 15, 2008: Mark Srednicki and James Hartle mentioned in New York Times article, Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?
- January 10, 2008: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a double-ring pattern, caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy.
The ring was found by an international team of astronomers led by Raphael Gavazzi and Tommaso Treu of the UCSB. The discovery is part of the ongoing Sloan Lens Advanced Camera for Surveys (SLACS) program. The team is reporting its results at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. A paper has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.
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- ScienceDaily.com article
- Sky & Telescope Magazine article
- SlashDot.com article
- Universe Today article
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Fall/Winter 2007: Department newsletter, Inside Physics, is now available online [PDF]
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- December 2007 : The silicon tracker of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN -- of which Joseph Incandela is the US Project Leader -- has been installed.
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