Physics Department News
News
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May 13-15: UCSB Physics welcomed Dr. David Spergel as the 2009 LCO Lecturer. Find out more
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April 2009: Stan Peale was elected as one of the 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his key contributions to planetary science.
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April 2009: David Awschalom is principal investigator for research projects aimed at utilizing diamond for quantum communication processing. Two government funding agencies are putting $6.1 million towarrds the projects. UCSB is leading the charge on both efforts, due to dramatic developments in quantum physics in the past decade at the university.
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March 2009: UC Santa Barbara senior Tobias Mansuripur, a physics major in the College of Creative Studies, is one of 14 science and engineering students in the nation to receive a prestigious Winston Churchill Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 8:00 pm
Special Public Lecture
A Journey to the Heart of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Mark Sherwin , UCSB
Location: Broida 1610
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Thursday, March 12, 2009, 4:30 pm
51st Annual Harold J. Plous Lecture -- open to the public
Dark Matter and Black Holes over Cosmic Time
Tommaso Treu , UCSB Physics
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February 2009: Five UC Santa Barbara professors -- including Alan Heeger -- will share a $2.1 million grant with scientists from University of Cambridge as part of Science Bridges, a project announced by Research Councils UK (RCUK).
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January 2009: Alan Heeger discussed low-cost, highly efficient plastic solar cells at the University of Utah's Frontiers of Science lecture on January 29.
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January 2009: A team of NASA-funded scientists, including Phil Lubin, have discovered cosmic radio noise, from data collected from a NASA balloon.
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