Five members of the UC Santa Barbara community will join 41 Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany this summer
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Carlos Marquez, new manager of the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence, reflects on a long and fruitful career on campus
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Postdoctoral scholar pushes beyond the boundaries of physics with his Café’ KITP talk on the brain’s physical structure
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$1 million gift to UCSB creates a high-level postdoctoral fellowship in fundamental physics
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UCSB astronomers part of study that observed supernova smash into companion star, resulting in a surprising UV pulse
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His selection brings to 34 the number of UCSB faculty members who have been named fellows of the academy
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Art and physics intersect at an exhibit at the College of Creative Studies
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Guenter Ahlers and his postdoctoral co-workers show that transitions from one state of turbulence to another are sharp
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A portable “lab” with a host of action-packed demonstration experiments brings physics to life for budding young scientists
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A newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Physics receives the American Astronomical Society's top prize for young physicists
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Five UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been named 2014 fellows of the American Physical Society
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A team of faculty members from five UC campuses will work on projects at the newly formed California Institute for Quantum Emulation
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Matthew Fisher has been awarded the 2015 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for his superconductor research
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger makes a $65 million gift — the largest donation in campus history — to UC Santa Barbara
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Emperor Akihito will present the Order of Culture Medal to Shuji Nakamura at a ceremony at the Imperial Palace on November 3.
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The prize recognizes Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes
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If students wrote essays about what they did during vacation, this year’s Worster Summer Research Fellows would have amazing stories to tell
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This crop of NSF CAREER awardees include a chemical engineer, a computer scientist and a physicist
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While many teachers take the summer off, educator JulieAnn Villa uses the time to go back to school
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A UCSB professor’s numerous breakthroughs in physics culminate in a prize that comes with 2.5 million euros
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Physics professor Joseph Incandela on the Higgs boson, the latest mystery of the universe, and what it's like to be back at UCSB.
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The Harvey L. Karp Award provides seed funding to the most exceptional young science postdocs at UC Santa Barbara early in their career
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Examining the past, present and potential future of computer-generated imagery — and academia's unsung role in filmmaking
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His lecture, “Space-Time Versus the Quantum,” will cover the yin and yang of general relativity and quantum mechanics
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The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship honorees are both from the UCSB College of Creative Studies
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A fully functional quantum computer is one of the holy grails of physics. A group of UCSB physicists has moved one step closer to making a quantum computer a reality
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Professors of religious studies, physics elected to prestigious learned society
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Tarun Grover and his colleagues show that a topological superconductor is conducive to displaying phenomena of emergent supersymmetry
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For the second year in a row, theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski has won a Milner Foundation Physics Frontiers Prize. This award puts him in the running for the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize.
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A UCSB physics team helped design, build and fill the water tank that houses the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. With 122 detector tubes, LUX is much more sensitive than its closest rival in the competitive field of dark-matter...
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High school students from near and far came to the Research Mentorship Program to learn how to conduct graduate-level research
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With a passion for science and faith in its potential for life-changing advancements, longtime UC Santa Barbara benefactors Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga have gifted the campus with a $1 million endowed chair in the field.
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Douglas Scalapino, UC Santa Barbara research professor of physics, will receive the 2013 Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal.
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Erica Mason didn't plan to study physics at UC Santa Barbara. In fact, the campus wasn't even her top choice when she was deciding where to spend her undergraduate years. But you know what they say about the best-laid plans.
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Without a laboratory –– using only a blackboard, computer, and his powerful intellect –– a young theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara is quickly racking up national and international awards honoring his research in quantum physics.
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Cenke Xu, an assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
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Ania Bleszynski Jayich, an assistant professor in physics at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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Quantum hardware developed by physicists at UC Santa Barbara is among the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2011, as named by Physics World, the news organization of the Institute of Physics.
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Scientists have taken a new step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed. This research appears today in the online version of Nature magazine.
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Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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David D. Awschalom, a professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2005 Oliver E.
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The 2004 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to David Gross, professor of physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and two others.
