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Jan
16

[SMaLS] Colloids with a Twist: Tuning Bulk Mechanical Behavior with Shape-Shifting Helical Filaments

Broida 3302 | 1:45pm
Jan
20

[Colloquium] Finding the Right Questions: Three Decades as a Physicist on the Financial Frontier

Kavli Auditorium in the KITP | 3:30pm
Jan
23

[SMaLS] When waves meet vortices: A topological twist in water

Elings Hall 1605 | 12:30pm
Feb
06

[SMaLS/FNS] Creating mazes on cell surfaces: morphogenesis and patterning of microridges in zebrafish skin cells

Elings Hall - Room 1605 | 12:30pm
Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.
Astronomers discover huge dust clouds from violent collisions around nearby star
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UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden
UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden
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The MicroBooNE detector being installed at Fermilab
MicroBooNE experiment finds no sign of light sterile neutrinos
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Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries
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