Department of Physics Faculty At A Glance

UCSD Physics Awards

Professor Sunil Sinha chosen as a 2012 Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society

The American Physical Society has announced that UCSD Physics faculty member Sunil Sinha is among the 149 people chosen as Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and... Read More

Christopher M. Smith awarded the 2011 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards
Twenty-five individuals, units and departments will be recognized for their contributions to diversity and equal opportunity at UC San Diego and in the community at a cer... Read More

Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence Division of Physical Sciences
My congratulations to all of the students recognized today who are receiving this award. The Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence was established in 2004 to rec... Read More

"Earl Dolnick Best Project Awards"
Physics 120B is a projects-based course; students conceive, design, and build a microprocessor-based gizmo of their choice, with support from faculty and staff. The only ... Read More

UC San Diego Professor Lu Jeu Sham Named 2011 AAAS Fellow
Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest s... Read More

2012 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids Recipient
Dmitri N. Basov received the M.S. degree (1988) from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the Ph.D. (1991) from Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russ... Read More

Dr. Alison Coil awarded the NSF CAREER Grant (2011)

Dr. Coil will carry out three complementary research projects to tackle several key outstanding questions in galaxy evolution. Her goal is to uncover the physical proc... Read More

UCSD Physics News

Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America, authorized by Congress

UCSD physics graduate Student Jonathan Kaufman was recently awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America, authorized by Congress in recognition of...Read More

UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a paper published in the Marc...Read More

POLARBEAR experiment showing first microwave/radio "vision"
We are proud to announce that we got "first light/microwave" today with the POLARBEAR telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile. We saw the planets Venus and Jupiter, not...Read More

Hints of the Higgs Boson Seen as Trap Set for Elusive Particle Tightens
Physicists announced today that they may have caught glimpses of the Higgs boson, but the signals they see are not yet robust enough to meet the stringent requirements th...Read More

Professor Dudko's PRL publication receives "Editor's suggestion" and is highlighted with a Synopsis on the American Physical Society website
UC San Diego physicist Olga Dudko and her colleagues at the University of Cambridge resolve a central discrepancy between theory and experiment regarding how molecu...Read More

Physics and Quantitative Biology: identifying a simple genetic circuit for stripes
Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle.

Now a team of scientists ...Read More

UCSD Physics Colloquium

Title:  "Electronic Fingerprints of DNA Nucleotides for DNA Sequencing with
Time:   4:00PM
Speaker:  Alexander Balatsky
Affiliation:  Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and Theory Division, LANL
Location:  Garren Auditorium (BSB)

UCSD Physics Seminars

Title:  "Cryogenic Sensors for Astrophysics and Terrestrial Materials Analysis"
Time:   4:00PM
Research Group:  Astrophysics Seminar
Speaker:  Joel Ullom
Affiliation:  National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO
Location:  SERF 280

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