How it started / How it's going

👏Congratulations to Victoria Knapp Pérez, a third-year Ph.D. student in UCI Physics & Astro who received the LEAD Graduate Student Excellence Award for her outstanding research and positive impact on the Latinx community. ps.uci.edu/news/3081

This week's departmental colloquium features Professor Allon Hochbaum, who will share the microbial secret to sustaining life by consuming rocks. "This metabolic trick, called extracellular electron transfer (EET)," which will be the focus of this talk. 🦠

Congratulations to UCI Chemistry and UCI Physics & Astro Professors Jenny Yang, Filipp Furche, and Timothy Tait for being named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society. 👏 ps.uci.edu/news/3085

Our upcoming Condensed Matter Seminar features Dr. Kin Chung Fong from Harvard Physics , who will "showcase how to measure the kinetic inductance of superconductors by listening to the sound of superfluid." UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine #physics

Join us for the next condensed matter #physics seminar, where Lidia Stocker from ETH Zurich will speak about how to approach strongly correlated quantum impurity systems using tensor networks! UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

This week's #particlephysics seminar features Chao-Hsiang Sheu from the University of Minnesota, who will speak about #symmetry breaking in chiral Yang-Mills theories. UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Dr. Learned, Yodh Prize winner, will be speaking at our next departmental colloquium about the peculiarities of #Neutrinos. The Yodh Prize recognizes #Scientists "whose research career has had a major impact on the understanding of cosmic rays." #Physics

UCI Physics & Astro grad student Amy Wu won 1st place in the #S24MRS Science as Art competition! Her original art piece is based on an atomic force microscopy map of a thin bismuth crystal she grew and characterized. Research funded by AFOSR

Join us for this week's #plasma #physics seminar featuring Weijian Sha from CommScope, who will speak about fiber #Laser technology, performance and application. UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Zoya Leonenko from Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology will visit us on Thursday to speak about the #molecular and #quantum #neuroscience of lithium and its role in neurodegeneration. UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Happy Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIMonth2024 UCI ESS UCI Physics & Astro UCI Chemistry UCI Math

This week's departmental colloquium features Edward Kolb from The University of Chicago, who will speak about Schrödinger's discovery "that particles may be created merely by the expansion of the universe." UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Come learn about dismantling inequity in #physics at our next colloquium, where expert Melissa Dancy will explain how overrepresented groups can productively engage with DEI efforts and enact meaningful change! UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

Congratulations to Postdocs Luhn & Martiniez from @uciphysastro who swept the 2024 UCI Postdoctoral Scholar Research Symposium: Jacob Luhn took 1st for oral presentation & Raquel Martinez 1st among posters! Both in exoplanet science. physics.uci.edu/node/14844

My fabulous honors undergrad thesis student Hajar Aziz presented her UCI Physics & Astro research at the @UciUrop undergrad research symposium today and did a great job engaging everyone who stopped by her poster! Watch out for her paper (& PhD application) in the future!

Congratulations to exceptional UCI Physics & Astro major Luke Xia for his impressive poster on galaxy shapes at today’s 2024 #UCIrvine Undergraduate Research Symposium - shown here with PhD student Courtney Klein Courtney Klein who has been an excellent mentor on the project #UROP

Congratulations PZ Nanopore, comprised of students from the labs of Professors Siwy and Jauregui, for making it to the finals of the Stella Zhang New Venture Competition for their work on Blue Energy! @UCI_Beall #sznvc24finale #finalist #uci #ucimerage #nvc UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine

UC Irvine researchers in UCI Physics & Astro made ultra-thin bismuth sheets - only a few nanometers thick - that could enhance the manufacturing of #quantum computers and electronics. ps.uci.edu/news/3104

Join us for an information session on our graduate program in Physics and Astronomy! You will learn about research opportunities, the application procedure, and the graduate student experience. UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine