On July 24, a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee issued a report of its findings and conclusions related to the science case for a future U.S.-based Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a particle accelerator in which electrons collide with atomic nuclei. Four University of California campuses (UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC Davis) and the...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter — constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth. Dark matter — nonluminous material in space — is understood...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems center, known as SHINES, at the University of California, Riverside, has received funding for two more years from the Department of Energy. SHINES received $12 million from the department in 2014. The new funding of $1.9 million is part of $100 million in funding...
Kenneth Barish (standing), the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, welcomed the participants with opening remarks. Kenneth Barish, the chair of the UC Riverside Department of Physics and Astronomy, formally began the Summer Physics Teacher Academy this year with opening remarks that included the following sobering statistics: Nationally, 33 percent of high school...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — Ten UC Riverside assistant professors have received prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. CAREER Awards last for five years and support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and build a firm foundation for a...
“Fiesta Familiar: Explorando La Ciencia Juntos” at UC Riverside will include activities such as smelling the universe, touching meteorites, and getting a close look at the DNA molecule RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — The University of California, Riverside, is hosting a free, public event on Saturday, May 19, aimed at the Spanish-speaking community. Children, teens...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Two University of California, Riverside undergraduates — one studying physics and the other engineering and applied physics — have each won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and competitive undergraduate STEM awards. UCR, which is one of the leading UC campuses for Goldwater Scholars, has had a total...
UC Riverside’s Flip Tanedo is featured in the NOVA Wonders episode “What’s the Universe Made of?” airing May 30 on PBS; will participate in Harvey Mudd College panel to discuss the episode on May 2 RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, Flip Tanedo watched PBS, especially documentaries like NOVA...
Kenneth N. Barish (second from left), professor and chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, visited Washington, D.C., on April 9 for Nuclear Physics DC Day, and met with lawmakers and their staff. Nuclear Physics DC Day is an annual event that gives physicists like Barish an opportunity to advocate for the national importance...
Leonid Pryadko, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been selected by the American Physical Society (APS) as one of 147 outstanding referees for 2018 who “have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals.” Instituted in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program annually recognizes with this lifetime award approximately...
In mid-March, students from Murrieta Valley High School, Centennial High School (Corona), and Sage Hill High School (Newport Beach) visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy to participate in the International Particle Physics Masterclass, an annual program of the European Particle Physics Outreach Group. The Masterclass is an interactive exercise in which high school students...
Even powerful supercomputers have difficulty simulating quantum phenomena. But now a UC Berkeley-led research team reports in Physical Review X, a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the American Physical Society, on the realization of a quantum simulator (assembly of qubits) that can potentially give new insights into complex biological quantum systems in the future. “This...
UC Riverside to host free public telescope observation of Jan. 31 event RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — On Wednesday, Jan. 31, sky watchers in the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii will be treated to a “super blue blood moon” eclipse. The University of California, Riverside will host a free public telescope observation during the...
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting a workshop at UC Riverside titled “Fundamental Enduring Problems in Quantum Condensed Matter” on Dec. 7-9. Well known physicists in the U.S. and abroad are expected to attend the workshop, which takes place in the Bear Cave, Pentland Hills. Topics include developments in experimental techniques, high temperature...
UC Riverside scientists won the “Best in Show” and “Most Whimsical Hack” awards at the eighth-annual “Science Hack Day: San Francisco” RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of California, Riverside has won two medals – “Best in Show” and “Most Whimsical Hack” – at the eighth annual “ Science Hack Day: San Francisco,” the world’s premier...
