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UCSB Graduate student Jack Bargemann lays down sheet metal to smooth the ride of the LZ Detector as it comes underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo by Matthew Kapust.

At work in the Class 7 cleanroom in Broida Hall are from left to right Will Ortez operating the gantry robot, Onofre Jauregui modifying tooling, Susanne Kyre at the measuring microscope, and Alethea Butler-Nalin on the wirebond machine.  The team is made up of engineers, technicians, graduate students, and undergraduates.

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Asst. Professor Xiao Luo Receives DOE Early Career Award
  • Xiao Luo

Research Program Award For  "Searching for New Physics with Advanced Liquid Argon Detector Capabilities at Neutrino Experiments"

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2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Congratulations to UCSB Physics students awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

  1. Award

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Upcoming Event

Virtual Department Colloquium: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - Programmable Quantum Simulators with Atoms and Ions
  • Peter Zoller, Center for Quantum Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

Peter Zoller, Center for Quantum Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

  1. September 27, 2022 - 3:45pm
  1. Physics Department Colloquium