INNOVATION & COLLABORATION

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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2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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

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Skyler Palatnik wins People's Choice award at the UCSB Grand Slam Finals
  • Skyler Palatnick

For his presentation "Imaging Exoplanets with Metasurfaces"

  1. Award

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Department of Physics
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Upcoming Event

Department Colloquium: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - Boundary behavior at classical and quantum phase transitions
  • Max Metlitski, MIT

Max Metlitski, MIT 

  1. May 24, 2022 - 3:45pm
  1. Physics Department Colloquium