Content Tagged with: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physicist named fellow of the American Physical Society
Roya Zandi is an expert on the physics and biophysics of virus formation
A summer of particle physics
Three UC Riverside undergraduates just finished internships at CERN in Switzerland
Antiferromagnetic hybrids achieve important functionality for spintronic applications
UC Riverside-led study shows robust spin transport at antiferromagnet/ferromagnet interfaces
Transfer student wins award at his first conference
Luis Garabito was recognized at the Electron Ion Collider Group Meeting held in New York
Researchers report discovery of novel electronic state
Discovery can help understand interactions among electrons in two dimensions for engineering new electronic devices, says UC Riverside physicist
Formation of black holes linked to spatial dimensions
More spatial dimensions can facilitate the collapse of gas, UC Riverside study finds
Astronomer shares excitement over James Webb Space Telescope images
Bahram Mobasher is at Paris meeting to decide how to use the new data
Local high school teachers get up to date with physics
Summer Physics Academy is offered in person at UCR after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic
Physicist receives lifetime award from American Physical Society
Each year a small percentage of active referees of the Physical Review journals are selected and honored by the American Physical Society, or APS, with the “Outstanding Referee” designation. The number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports determine the selections. Outstanding Referee is a lifetime award. UC Riverside physicist Simeon Bird is...
Grant to physicists will help design nuclear physics detector with artificial intelligence
UC Riverside is the lead institution of a grant from the Department of Energy, or DOE, to use machine learning techniques to optimize the design of the ATHENA detector, one of the proposed experiments for the future Electron-Ion Collider, or EIC. The research team, which includes members from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence...
Department of Energy renews quantum condensed matter grant to physicist
The Basic Energy Sciences program of the U.S. Department of Energy has renewed a grant to Michael Mulligan, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy. The three-year grant of $370,000 will support research by Mulligan and UCR graduate students in quantum condensed matter theory. The Basic Energy Sciences program supports basic scientific...
Equipment grant will support two labs on campus
B oerge Hemmerling and Christopher Bardeen have received an equipment grant of about $214,000 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, for a project titled “High-Flux Source for Aluminum Monochloride with Applications in Material Science.” “We will be creating and studying a new material, made of aluminum monochloride,” said...
Deep dive into the atomic nucleus
M iguel Arratia, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has received a $508,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to perform experiments using the electron accelerator facility at the Jefferson Laboratory, or JLab, in Newport News, Virginia, the world’s premier laboratory for imaging the subatomic structure of matter. “We will use...
Physics graduate student receives prestigious NASA fellowship
M ing-Feng Ho, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a three-year fellowship from Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology, or FINESST, which supports research projects designed and performed by graduate students. Ho is one of 21 students to receive the prestigious fellowship out of...
Measuring how a bottom quark decays
UC Riverside physicists performed the analysis
Algorithm helps speed up simulation of vast, complex universes
UC Riverside astrophysicist Simeon Bird explains
Physicist joins NSF-funded team focused on accelerating quantum computing research
Peng Wei, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, is a co-principal investigator and theme lead on a grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, supported by the NSF Convergence Accelerator — a new model of innovation for the government, industry, and academia. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Wei...
Riverside Unified School District honors astronomer for his contributions to K-12 STEM education
For his numerous contributions to education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, Bahram Mobasher, a professor of physics and observational astronomy at UC Riverside, has been named a recipient of the Riverside Unified School District Board of Education Presidential Award for the year 2020. The Riverside Unified School...
Physics and Astronomy joins elite group promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion
The UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy has been accepted to the American Physical Society Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance, or APS-IDEA, joining a consortium of physics departments, laboratories, and research collaborations committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion. APS-IDEA, a network of nearly 100 institutions...
CNAS meets Living the Promise campaign goal
A gift made anonymously to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Riverside has helped the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, or CNAS, in which the department is housed, meet and surpass its goal of raising $100 million toward the $300 million Living the Promise campaign, the university’s first ever comprehensive fundraising...