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UVa Physics News http://www.phys.virginia.edu Recent news from the University of Virginia Physics Department. National Physics Day /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e8edc4f8-f77b-11ee-bd71-d067e5edbac8 The University of Virginia Department of Physics presents: A FAMILY ... Hoxton Lecture: John Preskill on Quantum Computing /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0947dd10-f34e-11ee-bd71-d067e5edbac8 <a href="/images/hoxton-2024-letter.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="The 49th Annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture for the General Public University of Virginia Department of Physics Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier. John Preskill The ... POSTPONED: Kip Thorne: Exploring the Warped Side of Our Universe /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=34763220-edd6-11ee-bd71-d067e5edbac8 NOTE: This lecture has been postponed until a later date. <img alt="" src="/images/kip-thorne-lecture_letter-2048-POSTPONED.png" ... Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3c7761d4-ebad-11ee-bd71-d067e5edbac8 On March 21, 2024, new members of our chapter were ceremonially inducted to the National Physics Honor Society, Sigma Pi Sigma. Following words of wisdom and exhortation from Professor Stefan Baessler, inductees were charged and pledged to uphold ... Shivaram Elected Vice-Chair of APS' Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1646867b-af41-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Bellave Shivaram has been elected to be the Vice-Chair of the Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public (FOEP) of the American Physical Society.  His one year term starts January 1, 2024.  As per the APS bylaws the Vice-Chair successively ... Schauss Recipient of 2023 Research Excellence Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1113d574-a1b2-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Peter Schauss has been selected as a recipient of the 2023 Research Excellence Award by the University of Virginia Research Achievement Awards committee.  The award recognizes faculty members who have generated sufficient volume of scholarship ... Yagi Honored with NSF Career Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=484f54b6-8ec4-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Congratulations to Kent Yagi who has been granted an NSF CAREER Award based on his proposal, Exploring Strong-field Gravity and Dense Matter Physics through Gravitational-wave Observations. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) ... Sutton Wins Springer Thesis Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=8c5cf2ce-87d9-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Former graduate student Andrew Sutton won a Springer Thesis award in 2023.  Sutton worked with Ph.D. advisor Craig Group on the NOvA experiment at Fermilab.   As part of this award, his thesis was published in book form: ... Equivalence Principle To Be Tested At Quantum Level In Cold Atom Lab Aboard The International Space Station /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b79dafdc-848d-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Congratulations to UVa Physics Professor Cass Sackett and colleagues, who have published a paper in the journal Nature in which they describe recent results at the Cold Atom Lab onboard the International Space Station. In this work, potassium atoms ... Horoho Wins DoE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fc61c92e-7e6b-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Tyler Horoho is a recipient of a Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award.  From UVAToday: <blockquote> From chasing subatomic particles to counting bees, Tyler Horoho’s varied research pursuits ... Nichols and Vucelja Interviewed for HOOS in STEM Podcast /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2ab5ddd3-7a74-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to announce this morning’s drop of the HOOS in STEM episode “UVA’s Physicists are studying Black Holes and Unraveling Ancient Paradoxes”. Enjoy (and share) the conversation ... Jones Interviewed About 2023 Physics Nobel Prize /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=88a68bfd-655e-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 UVaToday interviewed Prof. Robert Jones regarding this years Physics Nobel Prize Award.  As noted by UVaToday, Prof. Jones' research has some overlap with the Nobel recipients’ work and he collaborated with one of the laureates, ... Congratulations to 2023's Physics Department Award Recipients! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3b881876-3853-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Michael Bowler and Jason Boynewicz are co-recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Physics Major Award. The Outstanding Undergraduate Physics Major Award is presented each year to the graduating physics ... A Crash Course in Python Coding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a9ce25af-24ef-11ee-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Prof. Craig Group’s new class, PHYS1655, is a crash course in Python coding for scientists and engineers.  Read the recent article here: <a href="https://as.virginia.edu/inside-colleges-crash-course-coding" ... Designing a Muon Telescope to Explore the Great Pyramid of Giza /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=eeb89a88-f4e3-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 UVA research scientist, Dr. Ralf Ehrlich, at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Minneapolis, presented plans to search for hidden structures of the Great Pyramid of Khufu using cosmic-ray muons.  Dr. Ehrlich, along with ... Wright Winner of 2023 Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e2fe1794-e456-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Bryan Wright is the winner of the 2023 Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award.  The Distinguished Service Award was established to recognize a member of the University community who has exhibited leadership qualities which serve as an ... Ford wins Goldwater Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7db02043-e04b-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Dawn Ford, a third-year physics major, has won a 2023 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering in America.  From UVAToday: <blockquote> ... 2023 National Physics Day Show, April 20, 7pm /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=bf0869c2-d2e9-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 <a href="/Announcements/PhysicsDay/npd-2023-letter.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/Announcements/PhysicsDay/npd-2023-letter-800.png" style="height:1035px; width:800px" /></a> Zheng Winner of 2023 Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2f093b14-debc-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Prof. Xiaochao Zheng is the winner of the 2023 Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award.  From UVAToday: <blockquote> She piques student interest by framing physics as a science that answers fundamental questions, said one ... Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=798f7032-d7a4-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 <img alt="" src="/Announcements/Pictures/News798f7032-d7a4-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8.png._original-12331093622" style="width:100%" /> On March 24th, 2023, eleven new members from our chapter got inducted to the National Physics Honor Society ... 2023 Hoxton Lecture, April 6: Subir Sachdev /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=401f34fa-cccb-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8   <a href="/Announcements/Hoxton/hoxton-2023-letter.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="The 48th Annual Llewellyn G.Hoxton Lecture for the General Public Subir Sachdev Herchel Smith Professor of Physics Harvard University Thursday, April ... What The Heck Is A 'Cosmic Ray Veto Detector'? /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=048abaa2-bdc5-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 The Craigs Group has shipped out their final large cosmic ray veto detector elements for the Fermilab based Mu2e experiment.  UVAToday has a nice writeup: <a ... UVa's SPS Chapter Recognized as Outstanding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d8c94356-b07e-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 UVa’s SPS chapter has been named a 2021-22 SPS Outstanding Chapter, the 5th time in the last 7 years.   This is the highest honor recognized at the chapter level and is only given to the top 15% of all SPS chapters in the ... Schauss Selected as a 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=af80a9f3-ad3f-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Peter Schauss is this year’s winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship for his work with ultra-cold quantum gases and quantum many-body physics. Peter has pioneered the development of “quantum gas microscopy” techniques ... Zheng Quoted in Quantamagazine /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=5413b890-74bd-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 Xiaochao Zheng was quoted in a Quantamagazine article about the ongoing research into the internal structure of the proton. From Quantamagazine: <blockquote> Proof that the proton contains multitudes came from the Stanford ... Twelfth Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=68f19be8-607b-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 The Twelfth Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium, organized by our Sigma Pi Sigma officers, was held on November 4th, 2021, in the Rotunda's Lower West Oval Room with students from the Physics and Astronomy Departments. ... Diving into Math with Emmy Noether /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=54372d04-1e6c-11ed-bd6c-d067e5edbac8 <a href="/Announcements/Noether/UVA__Poster_DivingintoMathwEN-2048.png" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/Announcements/Noether/UVA__Poster_DivingintoMathwEN-2048.png" style="width:100%" /></a> O'Neill Receives Astronaut Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=92dbe796-febf-11ec-8b4e-d067e5edbac8 From UVAToday: <blockquote> Theo O’Neill will continue exploring space as an Astronaut Scholar. “I think astronomy is fascinating because of the sheer scope of topics involved,” said O’Neill, a rising ... Vucelja Quoted in Quantamagazine /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c2737e2a-f970-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Marija Vucelja was quoted in a Quantamagazine article about the ongoing research into the Mpemba effect.  [The strong Mpemba effect was predicted by Vucelja, Klich, et al., in a <a ... Presley Awarded DOE's Graduate Student Research Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=9e4cd5c0-d9e3-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Hunter Presley for winning Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship. With support from this award,  Presley will work with Dr. Jianping Chen, a staff scientist at Jefferson ... Velie a Runner-up for National Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6dd8bb06-d205-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Physics major Philip Velie has been selected as a runner-up for the <a href="https://www.spsnational.org/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-research" target="_blank">Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award</a>. The selection is made by the national ... Using Particle Physics to Search for Hidden Chambers in Pyramids /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=04fdf4fc-d16a-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Professor Dukes, research scientist Ralf Ehrlich, and undergraduate student Sydney Roberts are embarked on two archeology projects to search for hidden structures in the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza, Egypt and the El Castillo pyramid in Chichen ... QCD Evolution 2022 Workshop, May 9-13 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f7e730c8-ccb2-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Sponsored by the Department of Energy-funded Jefferson Lab and the Southeastern Universities Association, QCD Evolution has grown into an important hadron-physics meeting since its first workshop in 2011. With additional sponsorship by the ... Zheng a Winner of Student Council 2022 Teaching Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1c681bca-c64f-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Prof. Xiaochao Zheng has been selected as a winner of a UVa Student Council 2022 Teaching Award.  According to Adriana Gao, UVa Student Council's Director of Academic Affairs: <blockquote> We loved reading student ... Louca Elected a Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=aeffb91e-bbfc-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Despina Louca has been elected a Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) in 2022.  Less than 1% of the NSSA membership is accorded this recognition every two years, which is awarded on the basis of excellence in research and ... Leondaridis elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=5ae6bd74-b45d-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 Physics major John Leondaridis was elected to the <a href="http://college.as.virginia.edu/awardsandhonors#phi-beta-kappa" target="_blank">Phi Beta Kappa</a> honor society, based upon his academic achievements and the depth and breadth of his ... MoEDAL Collaboration Sets Lower Mass Limit For Magnetic Monopoles /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0cf2fd20-8f56-11ec-b919-d067e5f349a5 A recent <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04298-1" target="_blank">article in Nature</a> reports on results from the MoEDAL collaboration providing a lower mass limit for finite-size magnetic monopoles. P.Q. Hung is a member of ... Louca Receives Distinguished Researcher Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ff31c292-61d4-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 Professor Louca has been selected to receive a Distinguished Researcher Award by the University of Virginia Research Achievement Awards committee. The Distinguished Researcher Award recognizes University of Virginia faculty members ... Cox, Hirosky, and Neu Receive Research Collaboration Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=16eb1dbc-61d4-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 Professors Cox, Hirosky, and Neu have been selected to receive a Research Collaboration Award by the University of Virginia Research Achievement Awards committee.  This award recognizes a team of faculty researchers (3 or more ... UVA Physics Idol! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0efbbe3c-5ddc-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 Chris Neu's course assessment innovation has recently been recognized by a very nice article in <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/physics-idol-offers-students-alternative-method-assessment-popular-course" ... UVa's SPS Chapter Recognized as Distinguished /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e054478e-5d18-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 UVa’s SPS chapter has been recognized as “distinguished”. This honor is only given to the top 20% of all SPS chapters in the country.  This is the eigth straight year that the local chapter has been recognized as either ... Eleventh Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b67e8c44-4166-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 The Eleventh Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium was held on November 5th, 2021, in the Rotunda's Lower West Oval Room. Professors Xiaochao Zheng, Ed Murphy, Craig Group, Gordon Cates were invited to judge student talks and posters from ... Neutron Skin Measurement /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=5c1b6998-2d20-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 A new measurement, presented by UVa graduate and postdoctoral scholar Caryn Palatchi at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics annual meeting, reveals that heavier types of calcium nuclei are relatively thin-skinned. The result is the first electroweak ... Cotton Awarded DOEâ€™s Graduate Student Research Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=22ddecb4-2627-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Cameron Cotton for winning Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship. With support from this award, Cameron will work on two research topics with Dr. Dave Gaskell, a staff ... Buehlmann, Garwood, Mikhailova, and Stepniczka Receive 2021 Deaver Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=297bf390-22cb-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 The 2021 recipients of the Deaver Scholarship are listed below:     Gracemarie Buehlmann (4th Year) (BS)     Davis Garwood (4th Year) (BS)     Catherine Mikhailova (3rd Year) ... Machine Learning Algorithm Predicts How Multiple Alloyed Elements Interact /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fd717f34-22bd-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 A new class of materials known as high entropy alloys (HEAs) has generated considerable excitement in the materials research community. The number of possible HEAs can easily exceed a million or even billion, resulting in vastly numerous ... Louca Quoted in Physics Today /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=91670a8a-1fbf-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 Despina Louca was quoted in Physics Today about the temporary closure of the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). From Physics Today: <blockquote> Louca says it will be difficult for her students to complete their ... Nichols Wins Ralph E. Powe Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d3c2cd54-0f1d-11ec-9385-d067e5f349a5 David Nichols is a recipient of a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for the 2021-2022 academic year.  ORAU (Oak Ridge Associated Universities) has awarded the competitive research grants totaling $175,000 to 35 junior faculty from ... Nonlinear Magnetic Response of a Putative Quantum Spin Liquid /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=626a00cc-f6c8-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 In a paramagnet such as common salt or a piece of aluminum the number of electrons that align with an external magnetic field, H, increases linearly initially with field.  But as all spins line up the magnetization, M, ... Freezing of a Spin Liquid with Strong Quantum Fluctuations /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=02fefdae-e0b6-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 In magnets, spins of electrons can interact with their neighbors due to the overlap of their wavefunctions and the Pauli exclusion principle leading to an effective exchange interaction Hamiltonian. When the interactions are competing or frustrated, ... Schauss Granted NSF CAREER Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a8ed84f8-dfec-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Peter Schauss who has been granted an NSF CAREER Award based on his proposal, “Quantum Gas Microscopy of Frustrated Hubbard Systems”.  The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the NSF’s ... Quantum Gas Microscope is First to Image Individual Ultra-cold Fermionic Atoms in a Triangular Lattice /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6f1d3c98-d2d9-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 UVa Physics professor Peter Schauss and colleagues demonstrate a quantum gas microscope to image individual fermionic atoms in a triangular lattice. They prepare a degenerate Fermi gas, load it into the triangular lattice, and image the individual ... Congratulations to the 2021 Physics Department Award Recipients! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6d6814f0-bfd7-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>Outstanding Undergraduate Major Award in Physics</li> </ul> Michael Stepniczka, was awarded <a href="https://math.virginia.edu/2021/05/Floyd_McShane/" target="_blank">Edwin E. Floyd Prize</a> from the Math Department. This prize is awarded annually to math majors who show exceptional promise in mathematics. ... Bloomfield Wins All-University Teaching Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e13124b8-ba45-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Lou Bloomfield for winning a 2021 All-University Teaching Award!  These awards recognize excellence in undergraduate, graduate, and/or professional teaching at UVA. Our students, and Department, benefit so much from all he ... Hopkins' Research Helps Keep Pace with Moore's Law /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=08420ce6-b403-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 A multidisciplinary group that includes Physics alumnus Patrick Hopkins (B.A. 2004), a professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Physics Department, is ... Physics Faculty Win 3Cavaliers Awards /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=015a915a-b1bf-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 Two separate teams lead by Condensed Matter physicists Bellave Shivaram and Gia-Wei Chern have won awards in the recent round of funding from the <a href="https://3c.virginia.edu" target="_blank">3Cavaliers program</a> of the ... Heeck Interviewed by Science News /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=883aae8e-adbf-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 Prof. Julian Heeck was <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antimatter-stars-antistars-milky-way-galaxy-space-astronomy" target="_blank">interviewed by Science News</a> about the potential existence of antistars in the Milky Way. Measuring the neutron skin on the lead-208 nucleus /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6068122c-a926-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 A new result from the PREX-2 experiment, recently published in <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.172502" target="_blank">Physical Review Letters</a>, suggests that an unexpectedly thick “skin” of ... First results from the Muon g-2 experiment unveiled /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f957b548-9bcd-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 The first result from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab was unveiled and discussed publicly on Wednesday, 7 April 2021, in a special set of online seminars, that attracted widespread attention. The Muon g-2 experiment is studying the ... Research on the proton spin published in Nature Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cce92394-9d61-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 The world may be buzzing about the muon spin this week, but the proton spin poses just as much challenge to the field of nuclear and particle physics. Analysis for an experiment that was carried out at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility ... Shen, Wolz, and Blaser elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=856118ba-90b9-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 Physics majors Lingnan Shen, Anna Martha Wolz, and Ethan Blaser, were recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa. From the <a href="http://college.as.virginia.edu/awardsandhonors#phi-beta-kappa" target="_blank">UVa Phi-Beta-Kappa web site</a>: ... Sackett Interviewed By Scientific American /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fe5c0050-8cb2-11eb-9385-d067e5f349a5 Cass Sackett was interviewed by Scientific American about a recent study where scientists achieved several seconds of microgravity by dropping ultracold atoms from a nearly 150-meter high tower: <a ... Lee and Colleagues Improving Weapons Screening at U.S. Ports /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e1f406ee-66f9-11eb-a677-d067e5f349a5 From UVaToday: <blockquote> In a roundabout way, University of Virginia chemical engineering associate professor Joshua J. Choi and Commonwealth Professor of Physics Seung-Hun Lee are kindred spirits with the artists who created the ... Hung Joins MoEDAL Collaboration /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=4a1946c0-5116-11eb-a677-d067e5f349a5 Prof. P.Q. Hung has joined the MoEDAL experiment (at the Large Hadron Collider) Collaboration.  Prof. Hung's activities with MoEDAL consist of theoretical support to the Collaboration (he is collaborating with two theorists of the ... Louca Elected to APS Panel on Public Affairs /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=4c1e3f6a-389e-11eb-a677-d067e5f349a5 Despina Louca has been elected to a three-year term on the American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs (POPA). <blockquote> POPA is responsible for making recommendations to the President, the Board, and the Council on public ... UVa's SPS Chapter Once Again Recognized as Outstanding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c723bc82-3662-11eb-9226-d067e5f349a5 UVa's SPS chapter has been named a 2019-20 SPS Outstanding Chapter, the 4th time in the last 5 years.   This is the highest honor recognized at the chapter level and is only given to the top 15% of all SPS chapters in ... Louca Organizing Workshop on Muon Spin Spectroscopy /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a601fd16-35ae-11eb-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Prof. Louca is organizing a 2-day workshop in February 1-2, 2021, on Muon Spin Spectroscopy. The workshop will be virtual  given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Virtual Muon-2021 Workshop will give us an opportunity to listen to muon experts ... Fall 2020 Physics Newsletter /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=22e44aa2-34ae-11eb-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 The current edition of our departmental newsletter features a message from our Chair, Bob Jones, a profile of new faculty member David Nichols, several articles about life and work in our department during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a memorial to ... Joe Poon Awarded the 2020 Jesse W. Beams Award! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=80ae7e8a-1f70-11eb-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Joe Poon has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Jesse W. Beams Research Award which is given annually by the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. The award will be bestowed (virtually) during the 87th Annual ... Liuti Appointed to APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c0c5d266-0e7c-11eb-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Simonetta Liuti has been appointed to the American Physical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP). The CSWP addresses the production, retention, and career development of women physicists and gathers and maintains data on ... Trailblazing Physics Alumna Honored and Highlighted in Histories of Women at UVA /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=01f81e76-0976-11eb-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Just three years after the Virginia General Assembly passed a bill that enabled white women to enroll in "professional" and graduate programs at UVA, Lois Ketcham Carwile became the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree from the ... Klich Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0f6a150a-01ab-11eb-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Israel Klich for his election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society! The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise in physics research, important ... In Memoriam: Prof. Emeritus Art Brill /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f3ebb15c-e572-11ea-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Arthur S. Brill, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Virginia June 11, 1927 – June 2, 2020      Arthur Sylvan Brill, Professor Emeritus, died of COVID-19 on June 2, ... Vucelja Quoted in ScienceNews /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c0841f4a-dd91-11ea-bfa3-d067e5f349a5 Marija Vucelja was quoted in a <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-new-experiment-hot-water-freeze-faster-cold-mpemba-effect" target="_blank">ScienceNews article</a> about a <a ... Day Publication Selected by Physical Review C as Milestone Paper /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=295762b2-d035-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 2020 is the 50th anniversary of Physical Review C which was spun-off by its parent publication, The Physical Review, in 1970. As part of its anniversary PRC is creating a collection of milestone papers that "remain central to ... Nguyen awarded the Nathan Isgur Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nuclear Experiment /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cd800f74-c7d4-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Jefferson Lab has recently announced that Dien Nguyen, a 2018 graduate of the department, has been awarded the Nathan Isgur Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nuclear Experiment. Dien arrived at UVa in 2011 having earned her undergraduate degree from Hue ... Bychkov Helps Inspire Pre-Med Student /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=06dfd7b4-af51-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 In an article highlighting a recent grad's COVID-19 service, credit was given to Max Bychkov as one of the professors who helped convince her that the pre-med track was right for her. See <a ... Sackett participates in NASA cold-atom experiment /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0f3e656a-acef-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Cass Sackett is a principal investigator and science team member in the NASA Cold Atom Lab project, in which ultra-cold atoms are produced and studied on the International Space Station. A report on the project has just been published in Nature, ... UVA SPS Holds Drive to Support Under-Represented Minorities /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=44b70f32-a8e7-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 The UVA Chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has created a funding drive to encourage donations to several organizations dedicated to assisting under-represented minorities, especially in education. See <a ... Congratulations to this year's Physics Department Award Recipients! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=11183aa4-96cf-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Rajveer Nehra is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Research Award in Physics. Raj will soon complete his dissertation entitled “Non-Gaussian States and Measurements in Quantum Information Science” under the supervision of ... Nadjari elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=61dc7026-8e79-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Fourth year Physics major Sam Nadjari has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization. The Society has pursued its mission of celebrating and advocating excellence in the liberal ... Nehra Wins 2020 Gwathmey Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=191fce42-88ab-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Rajveer Nehra who has been honored with the 2020 Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award!  This award comes with a $6,500 prize, and is reserved for the most accomplished graduate students in the physical sciences at ... Zheng Interviewed in Nature News /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=58d47818-8670-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Xiaochao Zheng is interviewed in Nature News article about the highly successful virtual APS April Meeting. See <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01239-2" ... Vaman Wins All-University Teaching Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=416d729e-705c-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Diana Vaman for winning a 2020 All-University Teaching Award! This is very well-deserved, and overdue, recognition for her consistent dedication to, and excellence in, classroom teaching. Louis Nelson, Vice Provost for ... Ghosh Viewpoint featured in Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=17e403d0-69f8-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Avik Ghosh wrote a Viewpoint, "Spin Control with a Topological Semimetal", for <a href="http://physics.aps.org/" target="_blank">Physics</a>, an American Physical Society site that provides daily on-line news and commentary about papers ... Bloomfield Explains the Crucial Math Behind Social Distancing /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0a31f254-6798-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Professor Lou Bloomfield has posted a <a href="https://youtu.be/H_fFYICwmho" target="_blank">video</a> explaining how social distancing can help to "flatten the curve" by decreasing the exponential growth of COVID-19. ... Hung's Contributions Highlighted in Vietnamese Newspaper /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=8f60b65c-3e0a-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 PQ Hung’s significant contributions to higher education and scientific research in Vietnam were highlighted in the lunar New Year issue of the popular Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien. The full article (in Vietnamese) can be found ... Vucelja Granted NSF CAREER Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c1324dda-3180-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Marija Vucelja who has been granted an NSF CAREER Award based on her ... Sackett's Intro Physics Course Garners Praise /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e54f9b3c-20fa-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> On UVA’s Instagram account, we asked students about their favorite fall-semester courses. Submissions poured in with students highlighting engaging classes and how professors’ teaching styles ... UVa's SPS Chapter Recognized Yet Again as Outstanding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=dd4c1568-17a5-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 UVa's SPS chapter has been named a 2018-19 SPS Outstanding Chapter for the 3rd time in the last 4 years.   This is the highest honor recognized at the chapter level and is only given to the top 15% of all SPS chapters in the ... Liuti Awarded 2019 Francis Slack Prize /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=698724c6-ec24-11e9-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 The Southeastern Section of the American Physics Society (SESAPS) has awarded Simonetta Liuti the 2019 Francis Slack prize. This award is in honor of her excellence in service to physics in the Southeast. The citation reads: <blockquote> ... Bloomfield's "How Things Work" Online Course Highlighted /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=5c97f5fe-15d9-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 From Big Think: <blockquote> A great intro course that looks at physics in the context of everyday objects and processes. How does skating work? Why do things fall? The course uses the cases of ramps, wheels, bumper cars and more to ... Craigs' Group Work Highlighted in Cavalier Daily Article /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c6f608e4-0c6c-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 From The Cavalier Daily: <blockquote> University physicists are beginning to make their mark on two multi-million dollar experiments in particle physics by contributing their research analyses to experiments with the Fermi National ... Pfister Discusses the Goals and Benefits of the UVA Physics Graduate Bridge Program /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f0b16d22-01b3-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 In an interview for the Optical Society of America’s “OSA Stories,” Olivier Pfister gives his perspective on the importance of providing graduate school opportunities for bright students from underserved or disadvantaged ... Craigs' Group Mu2e Work Highlighted in UVAToday /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ecbcabda-0007-11ea-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Work by the Dukes and Group group on a major experiment at Fermilab to search for neutrino-less muon to electron conversion is highlighted by UVAToday with a photo spread.  From UVA Today: <blockquote> University of Virginia ... Kolomeisky Work Earns Editor's Suggestion /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e8b2f3f8-ff0f-11e9-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 What do charge oscillations in conductors and expansion of the physical Universe have in common?  More than meets the eye!  This Editor's Suggestion, <a href="https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.140301" ... Paschke Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e7f28092-df06-11e9-a0fb-d067e5f349a5 Dear Colleagues, Abstract: <blockquote> We present a data-driven approach to predict entropy changes (ΔS) in small magnetic fields in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) relevant to their application as magnetocaloric refrigerants. We construct a ... Alumnus Troy's PhysicsBowl Team Places Second in Nation /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b039bfbe-7749-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 One of our alums, Bob Troy who teaches Physics at St Anne’s Belfield in Charlottesville, led the STAB PhysicsBowl team to a 2nd place ranking in the nation and 6th place in the world. See links below to a STAB highlight ... Han Receives ISO Academic Excellence Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f5f14c3a-6b68-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 Jiwon "Jesse" Han is receiving the International Studies Office Graduating International Students Awards in the category for Academic Excellence. See <a href="https://issp.virginia.edu/iso-graduation-celebration-awards" ... Farris, Seymour, and Winn elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c1ffc8cc-6a80-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 Fourth year Physics majors Peter Farris, Brian Seymour, and Aaron Winn have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization. The Society has pursued its mission of ... Duan Wins Gwathmey Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=abc26e38-63ab-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 Congratulations to Chunruo Duan who is the recipient of the 2019 Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award! ... Carson and Wijayaratne Receive Graduate Teaching Awards /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=27fa4aec-5647-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 Zack Carson and Kapila Wijayaratne who have been recognized with university-wide graduate teaching awards!  Zack is the recipient of the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award for STEM Fields, and Kapila is a recipient of an All-University ... Yagi Receives 2019 Young Scientist Prize /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d3e85022-4686-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 Kent Yagi has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Young Scientist Prize from the International Commission on General Relativity & Gravitation.  Kent's citation and additional information on his prize can be found here: ... Yagi Named 2019 Sloan Research Fellow /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fdf10caa-3485-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 Kent Yagi has been named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow.  From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Press Release:   <blockquote> “Sloan Research Fellows are the best young scientists working today,” says Adam F. Falk, ... Seymour Receives Churchill Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7a0d1a64-199b-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> Brian Seymour explores the universe, its black holes and pulsars. Now he can go further with the help of a Churchill Scholarship. This fall, Seymour, a fourth-year physics and mathematics major at the ... UVa Physics Majors Play Key Role in Physics Teaching Initiative Serving Rural, Low-Income Communities /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a4b7e82e-1055-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> An innovative pilot program launched by UVA alums, now in its second year, has made significant progress in addressing the disparate access to advanced courses in rural Mississippi. The Global Teaching Project ... First Observation of the Parity-Violating Gamma-Ray Asymmetry in Neutron-Proton Capture /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=4a4e323c-ffeb-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 The weak interaction of quarks between the neutron and proton have been measured for the first time by the NPDGamma experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge National Lab. UVa postdoctoral research associate Jason ... UVa Hosts "Femtography" Symposium /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=9819f04a-558c-11e9-a169-d067e5f349a5 A Symposium on Imaging and Visualization in Science was held at the University of Virginia December 10-11, 2018. This symposium brought together scholars and researchers from Virginia universities and research institutes to discuss recent ... Gillies Named Fellow of National Academy of Inventors /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a2224128-fe57-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 George Gillies, UVa Physics PhD and recently Visiting Research Professor of Physics, has been inducted into Fellowship in the National Academy of Inventors. From UVAToday: <blockquote> The academy lauded Gillies, who holds 36 ... Lee Co-organized the Inaugural UVA Symposium on Korea /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=12712556-f805-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 Seung-Hun Lee co-organized the inaugural UVA Symposium on Korea as a part of his Pavilion Seminar, “Science & Politics.” During the Symposium, which was held in September, three leading experts on Korea -- Professor Paik, Nak-chung ... UVa Quartet At The Center Of Efforts To Gain U.S. Edge /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=464365ae-e36c-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 UVAToday has a nice article highlighting UVa's expertise in quantum optical physics and photonics engineering: <blockquote> A University of Virginia physics professor and three UVA engineering professors are members of three new ... New Clues to the Proton Puzzle /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d59730ce-dee8-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 UVa Physics professor Nilanga Liyanage and his colleagues in the PRad collaboration have made a new measurement of the proton's radius.  Other experiments have arrived at two different, incompatible values for this radius.  The ... Fall 2018 Physics Newsletter /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fd1233cc-dc65-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 <a href="/Announcements/Newsletter/Vol07Num01.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/Announcements/Newsletter/newsletter-frontpage-2018.png" style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; float:left; height:388px; margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px; ... Oscar A. Rondon Aramayo Elected to APS Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c07482f8-cd5b-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 Oscar A. Rondon Aramayo, a recently retired Principal Scientist from the UVa Institute ... Cox and Poon Highlighted in UVAToday Story on Dozen Top Science Discoveries /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3e3e5aa6-c58c-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 Brad Cox's work on the discovery of the Higgs boson and Joe Poon's work on amorphous "super steel" is celebrated in a UVAToday story on UVA's top twelve notable science discoveries of the last half-century.   ... Louca Group Work Highlighted By AIP /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=5649d9a8-bcf5-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 Despina Louca’s group, and in particular graduate student Aaron Wegner and postdoctoral researcher Junjie Yang, has discovered a way to boost the magnetoresistance in the I-Mn-V class of semiconductors, the highest ever observed in this class, ... Schauss a Regional Finalist for Blavatnik Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7cd5b07a-b9ca-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 Peter Schauss was selected as a 2018 <a href="http://blavatnikawards.org" target="_blank">Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists</a> Regional Finalist. The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists honor exceptional young scientists and ... Physics in Orbit /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0b385c68-b2ab-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 UVa Physics professor Cass Sackett is testing gravity and quantum mechanics in space using the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), a device aboard the International Space Station.  His work is described in the current edition of <a ... Waddy, Walker, and Schult Report on April APS Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=9b4faa56-b051-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 A report written by physics undergraduates Morgan Waddy, Matt Walker, and Levi Schult on a trip that they took to the American Physical Society April Meeting last year was published on the national Society of Physics Students website at <a ... UVA Physics Shines at VT Conference /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c3714ef4-a49e-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 On August 13-18 the <a href="https://nufact2018.phys.vt.edu" target="_blank">20th International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators</a> was held at Virginia Tech.  The UVA HEP group took advantage of proximity to UVA and ... Chen Wins NIST Postdoctoral Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c2af3c5a-9a59-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 Tianran Chen won a NIST Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for foreigners that is equivalent to the prestigious NRC postdoctoral fellowship for US citizens. He is moving to NIST late August in 2018 Shen wins Lawrence Harrison Kilmon and May Lewis Kilmon Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2d618c50-8c28-11e8-a169-d067e5f349a5 The physics department congratulates Lingnan Shen for being selected as a recipient of the Lawrence Harrison Kilmon and May Lewis Kilmon Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement.  It is one of the highest forms of recognition bestowed ... UVa Physicists Probing Ever Deeper Into The Stuff Of The Universe /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b822a818-6f15-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 UVAToday has a nice article highlighting UVa's contributions to recent results in particle physics:   <blockquote> University of Virginia physicists have recently played key roles in new particle physics discoveries. The ... Stetzler Awarded DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=4bfd3db4-699e-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Graduating student, Stephen Stetzler, was one of 20 students awarded the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.  The DOE CSGF program provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that ... First observation of Higgs boson-top quark interactions at CERN's CMS Experiment /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=5b5eacf2-6836-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 was an important breakthrough in understanding the tiniest building blocks of our universe. Since then, the focus has shifted to measuring the properties of the Higgs boson in order to determine if this new ... Charged impurities in a conducting sheet can cause a new kind of wake in the current pattern /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=eb3014b6-6803-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 The wake behind a boat and the ripples caused by rocks in a stream are both due to the relative motion of a fluid and an obstacle,  which gives rise to wave patterns on the surface.   A recent Physical Review Letter "Kelvin-Mach wake ... Seymour Receives Astronaut Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=22e80360-6416-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> Brian C. Seymour of Ruckersville, a rising fourth-year student at the University of Virginia double-majoring in physics and mathematics, has received an Astronaut Scholarship, which is designed to encourage ... Results from Jefferson Lab's Qweak experiment published in Nature /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=acded742-545d-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 The weak charge of the proton has been measured to high precision, for the first time, by the Q-weak experiment at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab).  UVa Associate Professor of ... Bridget Andersen Featured in UVaToday Series on Class of 2018 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=95a5c540-4ee5-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Astronomy/Physics major Bridget Andersen is featured in an article in this week's edition of UVaToday. From UVaToday: <blockquote> “Even though Bridget chose to specialize in astronomy for her research, she also took ... Sutton Receives DOE SCGSR Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0e509a6a-495a-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 UVa physics graduate student, Andrew Sutton, was one of only four students in the country who received the prestigious DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowships to conduct their research at Fermilab. The program goal is ... Tianran Chen Wins 2018 Allen Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3d46333e-43dd-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Tianran Chen is a recipient of the 2018 Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award.  The Gwathmey award is an honor reserved for the most accomplished graduate students in the physical sciences at the University of Virginia in recognition of a ... Li Receives Goldwater Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=49d0b358-3d08-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> University of Virginia students Chris Li and Sebastian Haney have received scholarships from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for 2018. Two other UVA students received ... Origin of vertical orientation in two-dimensional metal halide perovskites and its effect on photovoltaic performance /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f88a4716-3a91-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Thin films based on two-dimensional metal halide perovskites have achieved exceptional performance and stability in numerous optoelectronic device applications. Simple solution processing of the 2D perovskite provides opportunities for manufacturing ... Gupta, Lee, McMullen elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a23efc38-3818-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Fourth year Physics majors Arvind Gupta, Kevin Lee, and Timothy McMullen have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Congratulations! See <a href="http://college.as.virginia.edu/phi-beta-kappa" ... Ghosh, Poon, et al. Receive DARPA Funding To Shrink Computing Memory /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3b7f3884-3686-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> In a case of “smaller is better,” a team of University of Virginia researchers has received a $3.4 million grant from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the goal to shrink computing ... UVa Hosts Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f7b553d8-3381-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 <h3 style="color:#aaaaaa; font-style:italic">The following article describes the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), hosted by UVa in January 2018.</h3> ... 2018 Mitchell Summer Research Scholarships Awarded /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d010305e-31e8-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Every year, the Physics Department awards six to ten Mitchell Summer Fellowships to rising third or fourth year declared physics majors. ... UVa's SPS Chapter Recognized Again as Outstanding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=720d631a-261b-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 UVa's SPS chapter has been named an SPS Outstanding Chapter for the second year in a row.   This honor is only given to the top 10% of all SPS chapters in the country. The Director of the Society of Physics Students & Sigma Pi ... Bloomfield Develops Jelly Earplug /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b4bbf06a-1044-11e8-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From NBC29: <blockquote> Trademarked as “MemorySil,” the shape-memory material is first being marketed as an earplug called EarJellies, referencing the jelly-like texture of the rubber. “It is a very soft ... Strain engineering of a topological semimetal /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=76de6ad2-e8c8-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Researchers at UVa found a way through strain engineering to manipulate the electronic band structure, and induce large, reversible response of the magnetoresistive properties under high magnetic fields in topological Weyl semimetal MoTe2. ... Seventh Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0fd7ae92-e4fa-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 The Seventh Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Research Symposium was held on November 3rd, 2017 in the Rotunda's Lower West Oval Room. Professors Craig Group, Marija Vucelja, Shane Davis, and Kent Paschke were invited to judge nine presentations delivered ... Craigs' Group NOvA Homework /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c4be742e-dc32-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From UVA Today: <blockquote> University of Virginia physicists are playing a key role in one of the world’s largest physics experiments, a nearly $300 million project called “NOvA” that is designed to study fundamental ... Lee Group's Work on Solar Cells Highlighted by DOE /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ab96e5b2-c94f-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Twisting Molecule Wrings More Power from Solar Cells Inside a solar cell, sunlight excites electrons. But these electrons often don’t last long enough to go on to power cell phones or warm homes. In a promising new type of solar ... Alumnus Caplan Receives APS Dissertation Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cec0e41a-bd84-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 UVa Physics Alumnus Matthew Caplan (B.S. 2013), now a Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, has received the 2018 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society. ... Alumna Manning Receives Maria Goeppert Mayer Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=dc67d16a-ba95-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 UVa Physics Alumna M. Lisa Manning (B.S. 2002), now Associate Professor of Physics at the Syracuse University, has received the 2018 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award by the American Physical Society.   Citation: "for her use ... Stetzler Wins Major Scholarship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1d0ee51e-b802-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From UVA Today: <blockquote> Steven Stetzler asks big questions, such as “What is the universe made of?” and “Why is the universe the way it is?” Stetzler, of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, a fourth-year physics ... Cass gets Ultra-Cool /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6942ec7e-b801-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From UVA Today: <blockquote> It is said that what goes up must come down. Thank gravity for that. But sometimes gravitational effects affect matter on Earth in ways that physicists would rather do without. So early next year NASA is ... Probing Matter with Attosecond Photo-Electron Wavepackets /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f62aa7e4-a794-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Electronic processes and electron-driven reactions in atoms, molecules and condensed systems can proceed very rapidly, with relevant time-scales ... Fall 2017 Physics Newsletter /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=66d8d802-9e18-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 <a href="/Announcements/Newsletter/Vol06Num01.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/Announcements/Newsletter/newsletter-frontpage.png" style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; float:left; height:388px; margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px; ... Han wins Ig Nobel Prize /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ccc65454-9bc1-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Physics Major Jiwon "Jesse" Han has won a 2017 Ig Nobel Prize for his paper on "<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2078152015300377">A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomena in the Low Impulse ... Origin of Long Lifetime of Charge Carriers in Solar Cell Perovskites /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=01f21b4e-61d0-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 When sunlight shines on a semiconducting material, electrons in the material can be excited from their original states to higher energy states, forming photo-excited electrons and leaving empty states (called holes) in the original states. Usually ... 2017-18 Deaver Scholarship Application Form for Physics Majors /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=310568f4-3c06-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 The Deaver Scholarships were established to honor Bascom S. Deaver, a retired physics department professor, and are awarded to students who have declared or are intending to pursue an undergraduate major in physics. They are competitive and awarded ... A novel quantum phase transition and super-entangled states /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d7c2bf92-3bf8-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 One of the main quests of many-body physics and quantum information is to understand quantum phases and in particular the entanglement present in them. In this work, Zhao Zhang and Amr Ahmadain, working with Prof. Klich, have uncovered a novel ... Chen wins Best Poster Award at MRS Spring Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=da473924-3bd4-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Tianran Chen received the Symposium ES1 Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting.  The award was based upon technical content, graphica excellence, and presentation quality. For more see <a ... Wright wins IT Excellence Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=71fbf89c-3674-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Bryan Wright is one of three 2017 IT Excellence Award winners.  This well earned award recognizes individuals who demonstrate outstanding service in support of the Information Technology needs of their organization. For more, see ... Observing the Universe with Physics: National Physics Day 2017 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0be67bd2-31d7-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 <img alt="" src="/images/npd-2017-400.png" style="float:left; height:400px; margin-left:5px; margin-right:5px; width:259px" />An article in UVaToday describes this year's annual National Physics Day Show, which was held on April 26.  From ... Katya Gilbo Featured in UVaToday /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=aa49014a-2904-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Physics major Katya Gilbo is featured in an article in this week's edition of UVaToday.  Katya says “nature is stuffed to the brim with dramatic processes, and we humans aren’t bystanders.” <a ... Andersen wins Goldwater Scholarship; Gupta gets Honorable Mention /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a763685c-1947-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Bridget Andersen has won a 2017 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering in America.  Arvind Gupta was given an Honorable Mention. For a nice ... Pennies from Heaven /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=4c6a2bda-0b8b-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 From USA TODAY: "There's a tale we've all heard: A penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building would fall at such a rate it would impale and kill anyone it hit down below. The myth somehow weaseled its ... Louca Elected President of NSSA /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fe48c220-01f0-11e7-a7fc-d067e5f349a5 Prof. Despina Louca has been elected to serve a four year term as President of the Neutron Scattering Society of America. See  <a href="http://neutronscattering.org">http://neutronscattering.org</a> and <a ... DeZoort Wins Best Poster Award at 2016 PhysCon /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=50c7f344-e19f-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Gage DeZoort's poster,  Anomalous Signal Reduction in the CMS ECAL Trigger, won a Best Poster award at the  2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon) held November 3-5, 2016, in San Francisco, CA.  The ... Liuti to serve on Physical Review C Editorial Board /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fe4b63ce-df61-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Prof. Simonetta Liuti has been selected to serve on the Physical Review C Editorial Board for a three years term beginning on January 2017. See <a href="http://journals.aps.org/prc/staff">http://journals.aps.org/prc/staff</a> UVa's SPS Chapter Recognized as Outstanding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6892bd08-d360-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 UVa's SPS chapter has been named a 2015-16 SPS Outstanding Chapter.   This honor is only given to the top 10% of all SPS chapters in the country.   The Director of the Society of Physics Students & Sigma Pi Sigma ... 'Hoo You Gonna Call /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=05a1b00c-bbd5-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 UVa Physics alumnus (graduate and undergraduate) James Maxwell played an important technical role in the recent Ghostbusters movie.  His research apparatus served as a model for the movie's laboratory and he served as ... Cox Named 2016 AAAS Fellow /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7cc86d3e-b8af-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Brad Cox's election as AAAS Fellow is celebrated in <a href="https://www.news.virginia.edu/content/accolades-scientists-bloom-brautigan-cox-named-2016-aaas-fellows">UVAToday</a>.  From the article: "Cox was honored for his ... 2016 SESAPS Conference /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1538c084-ad05-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 From November 9-12, 2016, the UVa Physics department hosted the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS):         http://sesaps2016.phys.virginia.edu ... Lee's Work on a Novel Solar Cell Material Highlighted in UVAToday /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cfb39360-97d1-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 From UVaToday: "... scientists and engineers at the University of Virginia, with colleagues at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Cornell University, have made new inroads on understanding the ... Dukes Describes Cosmic Pain /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=bd43bc26-949a-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 According to Prof. Craig Dukes, "Cosmic rays can be a real pain."  Dukes contributed a Fermilab "News at work" article discussing the work that he and his collaborators are doing to mitigate the adverse effects of cosmic ray ... Negative Refraction of Electrons in Graphene Observed /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e9c12d4a-8ccc-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Negative refraction for electrons passing a boundary has been observed by a team including Avik Ghosh, an Affiliated Professor of Physics.  The results have been published in Science. For more, see the SEAS Press Release: <a ... Memories and energy landscapes of magnetic glassy states /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6524c196-89a2-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Understanding how memory emerges from a complex network of neurons in our brain remains a challenging task in cognitive science.  Memory also arises in physical systems with complex energy landscapes such as glasses, disordered magnets, and ... Cates' Group Develops Novel Imaging Technique /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=095caf12-866f-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 From UVAToday: <blockquote> A unique new imaging method, called "polarized nuclear imaging" - combining powerful aspects of both magnetic resonance imaging and gamma-ray imaging and developed by physicists in the University of ... Chakdar Wins UVa Wide Postdoctoral Poster Competition /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6eb1b65a-800c-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Shreyashi Chakdar has been awarded the First Place and the Audience Choice awards for the poster presentations in the "Physical Science and Engineering category" of University of Virginia Postdoctoral Research Symposium held on Tuesday, ... NOvA shines new light on how neutrinos behave /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=be73fc40-7c4a-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 NOvA issued a <a href="http://news.fnal.gov/2016/08/nova-shines-new-light-neutrinos-behave/">press release</a> and announced new results on the disappearance of muon neutrinos at the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics.  From ... Bloomfield Explains Olympic Freestyle /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1011226a-5ef7-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 UVA physics professor Lou Bloomfield explains some of the fundamental forces at work in Olympic freestyle swimming, and how swimmers can use science to get ahead. <a ... DeZoort Elected SPS Associate Zone Councilor /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=bbc892ba-3264-11e6-8827-d067e5f349a5 Gage DeZoort has been elected to serve as Zone 4 Associate Zone Councilor (AZC) for the 2016-2017 school year. His term began on June 12, 2016. On the SPS National Council, Gage will be a representative and a voice for students’ opinions and ... Day Interviewed on Future of Nuclear Energy /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e340a562-235a-11e6-875f-d067e5f349a5 From CBS19: "I really don't think there is much future for Nuclear energy," said Donal Day, a Nuclear Physicist who teaches at University of Virginia. "I don't think it's because people are opposed to it, ... Principato Meets Italian Prime Minister /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d12e5f10-0670-11e6-8ef5-d067e5f349a5 Earlier this month, Cristiana Principato, a UVa graduate student in the Physics Department, had the opportunity to meet with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi when he visited the Fermi National Laboratory where Cristiana conducts her research. ... Bixel, Diehl, and Slomka Elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e88074fa-f699-11e5-8ef5-d067e5f349a5 David Bixel, Adam Diehl, and Matthew Slomka were elected to the Beta Chapter of Virginia of Phi Beta Kappa. Prof. Carrie Douglass, President, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of Virginia, writes: "As the oldest and most ... Special Physics Department Medical Physics Scholarship! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ef001d80-da79-11e5-a442-d067e5f349a5 The Department has a $5,000 Scholarship available for this summer, 2016, to support a declared physics major to work with a faculty member on a medical physics project. The faculty member is not required to be member of the Physics Department, but ... UVa's SPS Chapter Again Recognized as Distinguished /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c583d5a8-d0e9-11e5-a442-d067e5f349a5 For the third straight year UVa’s SPS chapter has been recognized as “distinguished”. This honor is only given to the top 20% of all SPS chapters in the country. For more about SPS Outstanding Chapter Awards, see: Michael E. Mann,  Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, spoke on The Physics of Climate Change at the UVa Physics Department on Friday, February 5.  A video of Prof. Mann's talk can be ... Mitchell Scholarship Deadline Approaching /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2a994954-c6dc-11e5-a442-d067e5f349a5 Mitchell and other Scholarships are available to support declared undergraduate physics majors in their third or fourth year of study at UVa in the academic year 2016-17. They are competitive and awarded annually by the Department to ... Deaver featured in Physics Focus /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=10e329ac-b30f-11e5-a442-d067e5f349a5 <div> Deaver's seminal work with William Fairbank on magnetic flux quantization is featured in a Physics Focus: Landmarks article (<a href="http://physics.aps.org/">Physics</a> is an American Physical Society site that provides ... Sackett Viewpoint featured in Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=26e88058-8d62-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 <div> Cass Sackett wrote a Viewpoint, "Cool Physics with Warm Ions", for <a href="http://physics.aps.org">Physics</a>, an American Physical Society site that provides daily on-line news and commentary about papers from the APS journal ... Zheng Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1eed290a-78e8-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 Upon the recomendation of the Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP), Xiaochao Zheng has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  The citation reads: "For advancing the measurement of parity ... Alumnus Tanner Awarded APS Isakson Prize /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1ab2076e-7822-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 <div> UVa Physics Alumnus David Tanner (B.A. 1966, M.S. 1967), now Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Florida, has been awarded the 2016 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids by the American Physical Society.</div> ... Liuti and Rajan U.Va. recipients of DOE Topical Collaboration Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d98e59c8-773f-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 <div> Simonetta Liuti and her student Abha Rajan are the U.Va. recipients of DOE Topical Collaboration Award entitled "Coordinated Theoretical Approach to Transverse Momentum Dependent Hadron Structure in QCD (TMD Collaboration)".</div> ... Robert Mina: Sushi and Sliding Doors /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=edfd5e8e-7106-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 <div> Robert Mina's article on the 2015 CHEP (Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics) was featured in <a href="https://www.spsnational.org/the-sps-observer" target="_blank">The SPS Observer</a>.</div> <div>  </div> ... Xiaochao Zheng Featured in UVaToday's "U.Va. Faculty Will Realize Their 'Dream Ideas,' Thanks to Mead Grants" /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=f4cf4b58-66e0-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 From UVa Today: "...Xiaochao Zheng, associate professor of physics Because 3-D printing is a relatively new field, many undergraduate physics students have not been exposed to this increasingly useful tool. ... Love triangles, quantum fluctuations and spin jam /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2ff76ca4-5194-11e5-a6ce-d067e5f349a5 Lee's group presented experimental evidence for the existence of a topological spin state called spin jam. When magnetic moments are interacting with each other in a situation resembling that of complex love triangles, called frustration, a ... Carr and Sperling Receive Dean's Scholarships /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ec38c1e8-0bbb-11e5-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 Peter Carr received the <a href="http://college.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/kilmon">Lawrence Harrison Kilmon and May Lewis Kilmon</a> Liting Xiao received the International Studies Office From UVaToday:</div> <div>  </div> <div> "... the fateful combination of being encouraged to undertake interdisciplinary study and a chance encounter with a professor led to an internship in Paris and eventually to curating an ... Group wins 2015 Cory Family Teaching Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c27c3146-ff1d-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 Assistant Professor Craig Group has won the 2015 Cory Family Teaching Award. This is a prize presented annually to two untenured tenure-track professors in the ... Moran Chen Featured in UVaToday Series on Class of 2015 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1cbed4aa-f6a0-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> From UVaToday:</div> <div>  </div> <div> “During Moran Chen’s time as a University of Virginia  physics doctoral student, she helped set a world record in an area of physics that could play a crucial role in giving ... Yanchenko Wins Outstanding Undergraduate Physics Major Research Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3f9a7f34-f5a5-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 The winner of this year's Outstanding Undergraduate Physics Major Research Award is Anna Yanchenko, whose research was entitled "THz Field Enhancement and ... Jones Elected Vice Chair of DAMOP /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=eeec9414-f3a1-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> Bob Jones has been elected Vice Chair of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP) starting in June. This is a four year service commitment to the division with consecutive single year terms as Vice Chair, Chair Elect, ... Wong Wins Gwathmey Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3aa359e2-e902-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> Dear All,</div> <div>  </div> <div> Please join me to congratulate Gabriel Wong for receiving one of this year's Allan T. Gwathmey Memorial awards.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The Gwathmey award is an honor reserved for ... Chatterjee Garners NSF Career Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3878db5a-d95e-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> From UVAToday:</div> <div>  </div> <div> NSF’s Early Career Development Program supports junior faculty who perform outstanding research, are excellent educators and integrate education and research into their academic ... Yanchenko and Harris Elected to Phi Beta Kappa /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=710eb120-d7e6-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> Anna Yanchenko and Benjamin Harris were elected to the Beta Chapter of Virginia of Phi Beta Kappa.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Prof. Carrie Douglass, President, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of Virginia, writes:</div> <div> ... UVa's SPS Chapter Recognized as Distinguished /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0e5145a6-aaf6-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> For the second straight year UVa's SPS chapter has been recognized as "distinguished".   This honor is only given to the top 20% of all SPS chapters in the country.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The Director of the ... McDonald Wins APS Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ec2ff23e-a0bd-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 Dear Faculty and Undergraduates, Please join me to congratulate Brigid McDonald for being recognized for giving one of the three best research presentations at the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (<a ... I Want The ILC! by P. Q. Hung /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a273a878-9b6f-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 "The ILC Blues", by P. Q. Hung and Duong Quoc Dat, is featured in the Newsletter of the Linear Collider Comunity: <a ... Arnold and Louca - APS Fellows 2014 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=77b52d9a-7ff5-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> Dear Colleagues,</div> <div>  </div> <div> Peter Arnold and Despina Louca have been elected 2014 APS Fellows. Please join me to say “congratulations” to these two brand new APS Fellows in our department.</div> <div> ... Cox and Hawley Named U.Va.â€™s 2014 Distinguished Scientists /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7d26dc78-65c5-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <h3> From UVa Today:</h3> Two of the University of Virginia’s most accomplished faculty researchers ... Kamat Wins at Three Minute Thesis Competition /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c0ae7b50-48e1-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 Ajinkya Kamat’s entry, “Can we solve the mystery of ‘Neutrinos’ at Large Hadron Collider?”, took third place at the 2nd Annual UVa Three Minute Thesis competition. For more, ... November SESAPS Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=fd76b606-434b-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> It is my pleasure to invite you to the SESAPS Meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, November 13-15, 2014.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Our scientific program will focus on some of the year's outstanding research results across all ... Wong Selected to be Kavli Institute Graduate Fellow /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=912fbc6c-02e7-11e4-8e6e-d067e5f349a5 <div> Gabriel Wong, a PhD student working with Profs. Israel Klich and Diana Vaman, has been selected as a KITP (the Kavli Institute For Theoretical Physics at UCSB) Graduate Fellow for the fall of 2014. Gabriel's "Local Advisor" will ... Amy Rodgers to Speak at Valedictory Exercises /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e9f3a985-4b57-40f5-b82b-8a7ec0754585 The 2014 Valedictory Exercises will take place on Saturday, May 17 at 11:00 am on the lawn. This year's welcome speaker is fourth year Physics Major and Class of 2014 Trustee Amy Rodgers. Rodgers' address will be followed by the presentation of ... Lindgren, et al., Win Grants to Boost STEM Education /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a0d30fb6-c3f0-4d3e-b612-b92f1baa3641 From UVaToday:The Virginia Department of Education has awarded faculty members in the University of Virginiaâ€™s Curry School of Education teacher education program and colleagues in U.Va.'s College of Arts & Sciences two grants to support Virginia ... Moran Chen Wins 2014 Allen T. Gwathmey Memorial Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=66178457-6633-46cd-a39b-3906fc9596e1 Moran Chen is one of two recipients of the 2014 Allen T. Gwathmey Memorial Award, an honor reserved for the most accomplished graduate students in the sciences at the University of Virginia in recognition of a distinguished scholarly publication. Her ... 'Universal' Property of Metamagnets Identified by Shivaram, et al. /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cde517c8-689a-424d-842d-84d54fee1578 From UVaToday:(A University of Virginia-led team) discovered that the magnetic effect of apparently all metamagnets is that it is non-linear. When these metamagnets are placed in an initial magnetic field and the field is doubled, they more than ... Gilbo and Xiao Featured at UVa's Public Day /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d366c2ba-e097-4781-8001-c618c4613d3c Two of our undergraduates students and Physics majors, Yekatarina Gilbo and Liting Xiao, were selected to showcase their research at UVa's recent public day. Gilbo was Undergraduate Research Symposium Winner while Xiao exhibited Dark Matter search ... Klich and Lee Solve Longstanding Condensed Matter Physics Problem /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=9ca9c72b-7924-494e-93c9-ec24d3c4c991 Our theorist, Israel Klich, and experimentalist, Seung-Hun lee, have worked together to solve a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics regarding a glassy state in some frustrated magnets. When spins are arranged in a lattice of triangular ... Triple-Emmy-Winning "Professor Lou" /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=af837fbb-3562-44f6-9832-52939a9c27e6 From UVaToday:"Professor Lou," as he is called on TV, is science central on a feature segment called "Forces of Hockey," which is produced by the Capitals and aired on the team's associated cable networks, on the NHL Network, and shown during breaks ... Hoxton Lecture: Quantum Networks in Quantum Optics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=99f21dd2-dd5b-4ba0-9ffd-48379b707652 Professor Jeff KimbleThis talk will discuss the opportunities for the exploration of physical systems that have not heretofore existed in the natural world. A reception will be held following the talk in the Chemistry Building atrium.Thursday, ... Janet Rafner wins Small Research and Travel Grant /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ce7d6262-8f59-4bd3-935a-2a88bc1ed3f2 Janet Rafner, one of our SPS officers, received a Small Research and Travel Grant in the amount of $1,500. She will travel to Orsay, France, to work with a team of physicists and designers to advance both public and academic understanding of the ... Cates Elected Vice Chair of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=8d7a474b-c846-46a2-b40c-85055e5c5ba0 Gordon Cates has been elected Vice Chair of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP), the beginning, in April 2014, a four year commitment in which he will next be the Chair Elect, then Chair, and finally Past Chair. Zheng, et al., Report Electron-Quark Parity Violation in Nature /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=1d8b83fb-5dd8-4c91-aa50-26083e4215b2 From Science:"... electrons also interact with the nuclei through the weak force, which violates parity and is not mirror symmetric. As a result, right-spinning and left-spinning electrons ricochet off the target differently, creating a slight ... INPP 2nd Annual Lecture: Gordon Kane /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a1d610cf-a62f-4de4-9f38-142934f1bbb6 *** Please note: The following lecture has been rescheduled for April 18, 2014 ****Prof. Gordon L. Kane will lecture on "String Theory, Our Real World, and Higgs Bosons" in Physics 203 on Friday, April 18, 2014.For more, ... Brad Cox Named Outstanding Virginia Scientist /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3a539231-2f67-4325-885e-760a9b38f3c6 On January 15, 2014, UVaToday reported:"In recognition of Cox's contributions to the search for and discovery of the Higgs, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the Science Museum of Virginia today named him as one of two Virginia Outstanding ... Third Annual Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c4db149f-6b29-4fe9-b966-078578e9d326 The Third Annual Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium was held on November 1, 2013. Six undergraduates presented their physics-related research at the event. Topics presented were as follows:Yekaterina Gilbo "The Role of Solar Wind in ... Fendley, Lee, Pfister, Thacker - APS Fellows 2013 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=3ac8416e-c86d-4c66-a63f-1c7cf24e7d00 Dear Colleagues,We have learned from APS that four of our colleagues - Paul Fendley, Seunghun Lee, Olivier Pfister and Hank Thacker have been elected APS Fellows 2013. Please join me in congratulating all of them for this well-deserved ... Third Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b7072da4-5db9-4903-87c7-8668c88672e6 On Saturday, November 2, 2013, Diana Vaman and UVa's Physics Department will again play host to the Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting.The invited speakers are:Justin Khoury (University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia) Igor ... U.Va. Physicists Celebrate Their Role in Nobel-Winning Higgs Discovery /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2942261e-8a5e-4936-9374-c655484bfb63 From UVa Today:"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work in developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives ... Joe Poon Serves on Excellence in Faculty Hiring Panel /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d149a8f2-faef-49f9-b5a0-360835042cb8 From UVaToday:"A panel of U.Va. faculty members and a Human Resources consultant experienced in faculty searches shared a range of recruiting strategies. Dr. Sim Galazka, professor of family medicine in the School of Medicine; Joe Poon, William ... Pam Joseph Highlighted in Dean Woo's Zintl Award Acceptance Speech /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a3db750a-8ee8-428f-b44d-7f73eade19a9 In accepting this year's Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award, presented by the Women's Center, Meredith Woo, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, mentioned our own Pam Joseph:"Pamela Joseph is the research administrator in our Physics Department. For over ... Hung Awarded Vietnam's Medal for the Cause of Science and Technology /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=edb2168e-dff0-4993-a989-e9c33f7b3607 On Monday, August 12, 2013, P.Q. Hung was decorated by S.E. Nguyen Quan, Vietnam's Minister of Science and Technology, for his important contribution to the advances of Science and Education in Vietnam.A nice photo of the ceremony can be seen ... Pfister Wins Distinguished Research Career Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b9cde0da-534b-4a06-bda4-3ef9e803650d From UVa Today:"Pfister, professor of physics in the College, is a noted researcher in quantum information and quantum computing. The development of quantum computers, one of the most challenging but promising areas of information science, would ... Summer Edition of the "Physics Day Show" /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=15adaea9-116f-4042-a781-aca52c350678 To support our recruiting efforts, and for the fun of it, physics students teamed up with faculty and staff to organize two summer physics shows on July 9 and July 30 at 7 pm in room 203 in the Physics building. Spectacular and pedagogical demos will ... Pam Joseph Receives 2013 Outstanding Contribution Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=509dfb07-ff7e-4fef-b241-36d343a419a4 From UVaToday:"Do you know which department in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences is best grant-funded?The Department of Physics claims that distinction. And several faculty members there say it's due to the work of research ... Hoxton Lecture: The World According to Higgs /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=4847399b-42b3-4067-973f-7f03c6e8bc41 Professor Chris QuiggNew developments in particle physics offer a new and radically simple conception of the universe. Fundamental particles called quarks and leptons make up everyday matter, and two new laws of nature rule their interactions. Until ... Eleventh Physics Department Research Poster Competition Winners /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ce6c29aa-7c76-4df1-9d23-12a881895988 During the week of April 1 through April 5, 2013, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and ... UVa Featured on APS TV at March Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=94688e52-3304-4461-9be8-2a319706d3e0 UVa's is one of the physics programs featured on APS TV at the March Meeting:http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/services/apstv.cfmFrom the APS TV page:"The University of Virginia is ranked #2 in the U.S. for public universities and has one the ... Hirosky Participates in "Science Straight Up" Public Outreach /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=df85d6b2-04d8-44fe-bcdf-c593e6f605fd From UVa Today: "Have you ever wondered what, exactly, a Higgs boson is? Or what a future quantum computer might be able to do? Or if climate change is real?Then ask a scientist. Maybe with a drink in your hand.You can Thursday evening at 7:30 ... Bloomfield's "Vistik" Highlighted in UVaToday /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=17111fda-9ea4-4a65-b916-a1bfdbd9d35b From UVaToday:"If anything bothers University of Virginia physicist Lou Bloomfield, it's a wobbly table. So much so that he actually invented a material to eliminate the problem. The material, a type of silicone rubber that is both rigid and fluid ... Day PRC Paper Included as Editors' Selection /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=62ed2bfa-1f34-4dff-b368-e268dd449869 A PRC paper presenting the results of Prof. Donal Day's work with John Arrington (our recent colloquium speaker), Nadia Fomin (his former graduate student), and a few others on the EMC effect has been included as an Editors' Selection for the month of ... Cates Highlighted for Diquark Work /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=8b0dcbb4-d29d-4725-b624-a6fb2608a4b1 From DOE Pulse:... researchers have found intriguing new evidence on how the different kinds of quarks behave inside protons and neutrons. The data and insights, which were published in the journal Physical Review Letters, have recently received ... UVa Physics Majors: Funding Available for Summer Research! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a1f5c315-e13b-471d-9d2f-7fc5d4c794a5 The UVa Physics Department is pleased to announce the availability of a number of Mitchell and other Summer Research Scholarships to support declared undergraduate physics majors to do research with a Physics Department faculty member next summer ... Bloomfield Invents "Molecular Velcro" /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=95125bfd-b529-4455-b63a-b007cb19527f From NewsPlex.com:Dr. Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at UVa, describes the material as being the "molecular equivalent of Velcro." The material bounces like a ball, stretches like silly putty, and sticks like glue but it's hard to describe ... Day Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=8deda517-584d-41a9-abdf-d5c922dc5130 In recognition by his peers of his outstanding contributions to physics, Professor Donal Day has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His Fellowship Certificate will read:"For his studies of high momentum transfer quasielastic ... Liuti Elected Vice Chair of SESAPS /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=65004c34-665c-4189-b0ff-a46f17c26e38 From the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society:"In the 2012 election, Professor Simonetta Liuti of the University of Virginia was elected Vice Chair. She will serve in the Chair line for the next four years."See ... Zukai Wang Wins URA Visiting Scholars Program Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e8265316-ff52-4be6-ac3d-55f31ecb5359 The URA Visiting Scholars Program at Fermilab has awarded Zukai Wang $20,452 to work on the â€œSearch for Magnetic Monopoles in the NOvA Far Detectorâ€For more information on the program, ... Second Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e157b94f-5d21-491b-a24d-482f943e6884 On Saturday, October 6, 2012, Diana Vaman and UVa's Physics Department will again play host to the Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting.The invited speakers are: Shinsei Ryu (U. Illinois, Urbana) Misha Stephanov (U. ... Bloomfield Explains Physics of Heroic Catch /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=26367c8f-3893-4e89-860a-62c21ecbd77b From MSNBC:"The girl fell about 25 feet, which took about 1.25 seconds. The man stopped her fall in about 3 or 4 feet, which took about 0.1 second, depending on the stopping distance and how he supported her. So, she accumulated downward momentum ... UVa's Higgs Effort Highlighted in Press /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=44404d2a-984d-40ee-8f7c-446a8a3f48ce From UVa Today:"We've had an observation that very likely is the Higgs," said University of Virginia physicist Brad Cox in the College of Arts & Sciences, who has been involved with the Higgs search at the Large Hadron Collider. "With more ... Jesse W. Beams Published in July 2012 Scientific American /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=bd0ea6a1-e9c2-4a70-ac84-b69f7b817cf9 An excerpt of an article by Ernest O. Lawrence and J. W. Beams in the July 2012 issue of Scientific American:"Light is one of the most familiar physical realities. All of us are acquainted with a large number of its properties, while some of us who ... Mitchell Summer Research Scholarships Awarded! /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=42c56dac-310b-49b9-a236-4594004af995 Three of our physics majors have been awarded Mitchell Scholarships to do research with physics faculty this summer. Peter Breiding has been awarded $5,000 to work with Professor Gallagher designing and building a new tunable laser, Davis van ... Loomis and Popovic Win Presidential Research Poster Competition /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=da096db9-2ba1-498c-b1c2-b1db8dda2673 From UVaToday:"University of Virginia student researchers offered unique perspectives on the physical, legal and political worlds Friday as they presented their findings in the second annual Presidential Research Poster Competition at the Rotunda. ... UVa Credited with Originating National Physics Day /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=a2ea456b-0fe5-4e65-955d-7ac81d0e9ed1 From physicscentral:"Physics fans, rejoice! April 24th is National Physics Day, and physics enthusiasts across the country are celebrating with fun physics demonstrations, public lectures, and other science events.But National Physics Day isn't ... Tenth Physics Department Research Poster Competition Winners /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c22ee49c-e3ec-4909-812e-999083b4929c During the week of April 2 through April 6, 2012, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and ... Jefferson Lab Searches for Heavy Photons Highlighted in Nature /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=76ced330-8ba5-4ff0-8daf-0d53bf65c9ee From Nature News in Focus"In a three-week experiment due to start on 24 April, the electrons will crash into a thin tungsten target at 500 million times a second, creating a cascade of short-lived particles. Amid the debris, physicists with the ... National Physics Day /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=dfdae170-2030-4602-a1fe-c4d4816f4dfe In celebration of National Physics Day, the 18th annual University of Virginia physics demonstration show will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evening, April 25, 2012, in room 203 of the Physics Building, 382 McCormick Road. This highly anticipated ... Tenth Physics Department Research Poster Competition /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=bc015deb-b7fd-4b4b-adbd-c5c541e12780 During the week of April 2 through April 6, 2012, the Physics department will hold a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition will be open to all students who have entered their third year in the graduate program and ... Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=9d3773d9-d7f3-4c52-b9e8-48f94e883bf9 On Saturday, March 31, 2012, Diana Vaman and UVa's Physics Department will play host to the Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting.For more see: http://www.phys.virginia.edu/Announcements/Meetings/Particle2012/ UVa Researchers Featured in APS Synopses /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ea53da8d-f099-458f-a03b-8bd37a0a5409 From APS Synopsis: Getting Under the Neutron SkinHeavy nuclei are believed to have a neutron-rich skin on the surface, and the thickness of this skin may have important implications for the physics of neutron stars.Now the Lead Radius Experiment ... Cox Highlighted in Virginia Magazine /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=eb3006a6-a2a5-4e65-ab72-00f24d514328 Brad Cox comments upon the LHC's search for the Higgs boson. For more: http://uvamagazine.org/university_digest/article/picking_up_the_subatomic_pieces Bloomfield Makes Cents in Huffington Post /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ca72f99b-6847-4e38-95c3-84be085b1d71 Prof. Bloomfield considers pennies from heaven (AKA the Empire State Building):'If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead â€” "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. ... UVa team and collaborators measure ultra-fast protons in nuclei /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7315312d-64b9-48aa-802e-8d1ac66737de The atomic nucleus is made of confined nucleons in constant motion dominated by their interactions with the mean field of the nucleus - that is the average potential generated the many body system. This mean field spawned motion is called the Fermi ... 2012 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics Annual Lecture /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=29e783f9-afaa-42a7-9ec5-7760c0a6fe74 The 2012 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics Annual Lecture, which will be held in the Physics Department, Room 203, on Thursday, March 15, at 3:30 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by Professor William Marciano, a prominent theoretical ... Dukes' NOvA Work Highlighted in A&S Magazine /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=8f2721f9-143d-4d3e-93af-b07b262176a3 From the Fall 2011 Arts and Sciences Magazine, "Toward a New College":"Without this asymmetry, without this slight abundance of matter over antimatter, there would be nothing," says Craig DukesFor more, ... UVa CMS Team Highlighted for Higgs Search /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=aa1144eb-ea84-4e09-85ae-6cf32ba77d2f From The Daily Progress:A team of scientists that includes a group from the University of Virginia may have seen a glimpse of a subatomic particle that, in theory, is the key to holding together everything from atoms to airplanes.Scientific teams ... Yohay Wins US LHC Users Organization Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=940dbda5-6a7e-4955-8a4a-b2fc5f23e908 Per Sridhara Dasu for the US LHC Users Organization Executive Committee:The Young Scientist talks at the USLUO, especially the lightning round, was a grand success. Everyone liked the talks, and our NSF representative sent a special congratulatory ... UVa to Dedicate New Physical and Life Sciences Research Building /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cff7c003-d835-4e4a-afce-3c8f35a1ef8c From UVaToday:October 17, 2011 â€” The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia will dedicate its new, state-of-the-art Physical and Life Sciences Research Building on Friday at 3 p.m.The five-story, ... Pocanic and Baessler Receive NSF MRI Funding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=70be3262-8df0-44bd-aa37-acc43b167618 Dinko Pocanic and Stefan Baessler, in collaboration with colleagues from Arizona State University and Oak Ridge National Lab, have received funding for the development of a spectrometer optimized for precise measurements of correlations in neutron beta ... Pfister Highlighted in Quantum Computing News /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7c607dbf-fdff-45fc-885d-d5563eb1ceed From Network World:"My work with optical fields has demonstrated good preliminary control over 60 qubit equivalents, which we call 'Qmodes' and has the potential to scale to thousands of Qmodes," Pfister says. "Each Qmode is a distinctly specified ... Louca, et al., Awarded NSF MIRT /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d946715c-2a33-4710-b212-5e78137b01f4 Despina Louca, with her colleagues at UT Austin, received one of the three MIRT awards made by the National Science Foundation this year among high competition.The Materials Interdisciplinary Research Team (MIRT) grant, which was awarded for the ... Pfister Accomplishes Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=d7f65492-985f-4163-842d-d6b8551a0d6f From UVaToday:Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has just published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of ... Wolf Instrumental in Creation of the Virginia Nanoelectronics Center /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=88aacbf0-2080-4f6e-a8b3-cec8004407cc From UVaToday:The University of Virginia, in partnership with the College of William & Mary and Old Dominion University, has launched the Virginia Nanoelectronics Center, or ViNC, to advance research aimed at developing next-generation ... Neu Awarded FEST Funding /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=462a4611-e01a-4391-830c-fecc185df61c Christopher Neu has been named a Distinguished Young Investigator this year through the University of Virginia's Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the fund - now in its seventh ... Ninth Physics Department Research Poster Competition /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ce82d491-bfbf-4538-a885-5b239236937b During the week of March 28 through April 1, 2011, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and ... Gallagher receives 2010-11 Distinguished Scientist Award /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=cc5c6ae3-0c27-498f-8d84-683f69981f12 Three pre-eminent researchers â€“ Thomas F. Gallagher, Patrice G. Guyenet and Kodi S. Ravichandran â€“ have been chosen to receive 2010-11 Distinguished Scientist Awards from the University of Virginia.This award from the Office of the Vice ... Rachel Yohay has been awarded the ARCS Fellowship /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=0aa73ebf-bd65-4bb5-9795-82c9298076e4 The Metro Washington Chapter of ARCS selected Rachel Yohay as a fellowship recipient for the 2011-2012 academic year. ARCS stands for Achievement Rewards for College Scientists and only 1 nomination was allowed out of UVa for the $15,000 scholarship. ... Wu and Yohay Honored /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b6e12711-3b6d-4941-836f-60b988a6bc70 Chaolun Wu has been awarded a dissertation year fellowship and Rachel Yohay has been selected from UVa this year to be nominated for the ARCS Foundation. ARCS stands for Achievement Rewards for College Scientists and only 1 nomination is ... Ninth Physics Department Research Poster Competition /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=c696beeb-4f9a-4a81-80eb-3b84ecbe6e48 During the week of March 28 through April 1, 2011, the Physics department will hold a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition will be open to all students who have entered their third year in the graduate program and ... Bloomfield wins Jefferson Scholars Faculty Prize /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=045131f8-7cb3-4317-a614-12048f8688f6 From UVaToday:The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia has awarded Louis A. Bloomfield its 2011 Faculty Prize. Bloomfield, a physics professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been a member of the faculty since ... Congratulations to Kelsie Betsch and Jirakan Nunkaew /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=316aea86-e188-42c8-b224-827468842c00 Congratulations to Kelsie Betsch and Jirakan Nunkaew on receiving an Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences and Engineering! This award recognizes excellence in original scholarship by PhD students at the University and rewards ... Poon Group's Work on Thermoelectric Materials Recognized /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=ef6c57fd-3a9a-4201-9b8c-69845c38219d Researchers in the US, including U.Va., have unveiled a new high-temperature material that is 60% better at converting heat to electricity than comparable "thermoelectrics". The material, which is a nanocomposite, could potentially be used to boost the ... Memorial Resolution for Klaus Ziock /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6e2e15f3-b9d2-4035-8159-66eb9343bbec Memorial Resolution for Klaus O. H. Ziock, read to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 9, 2010, by Prof. Ralph Minehart:Klaus Otto Heinrich Ziock, an experimental physicist and Physics Professor Emeritus, died on November 5, 2010, from ... Dukes' NOvA Work Highlighted in UVaToday /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=703adeb5-6fbc-4607-9a34-7f5bd342add4 One of the great and fundamental questions in physics is: Why is there matter? Physicists theorize that in the instant after the Big Bang created the makings of the universe, there were nearly equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, protons and ... Lamacraft named a Cottrell Scholar /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=b1154c67-2b44-47bc-9205-d2e4326d6ec9 Dear Colleagues,I have just received word that Austen Lamacraft has been named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. This is an honor for Austen and the announcement of the award was made to the UVa President's ... HEP Group Seeks New Physics at the LHC /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=93876dc7-3da3-490b-b653-0c0a0c830521 As reported in UVaToday:"International teams of scientists working on an array of high-energy physics research projects with the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva â€“ including several physicists from the University of Virginia's College of Arts & ... Quark Momentum Distributions Beyond the Free Nucleon Limit /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=e3b5880d-7677-440f-9ba4-4a715f133223 This paper, coauthored by Nadia Fomin, a former UVa graduate student (and now a research associate at the University of Tennessee), Donal Day (her advisor at UVa), John Arrington of Argonne National Lab and others, provides for the first time a direct ... Fishbane Defends Einstein /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=2f1aba48-4e57-47dc-93d3-a05c2c142154 Professor Emeritus Paul Fishbane was noted in UVa Todayhttp://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/headlines.phpfor Salon's ... Lee Group Paper a J. Phys. Soc. Jpn TOP 20 /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=901be276-dfc9-4bd4-947e-612256acf022 The paper "Investigation of the Spin-Glass Regime between the Antiferromagnetic and Superconducting Phases in Fe1+ySexTe1-x" was one of the top twenty papers downloaded from the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan's ... Lee Highlighted in APS News /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=362a7142-9203-4767-bccc-69b5c90886a6 In the October 2010 APS News:"To me, this challenges the integrity of science... They say they reached these conclusions that have enormous consequences on the political and international stage. As a scientist and scholar, I felt it was my ... Smola Wins Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=88e46271-329c-4368-9dba-d461461703a5 Raymond Smola, a 2008 graduate of our Master of Arts in Physics Education program, recently was one of the winners for the 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science. This is the highest award that a K-12 ... Breaking through to the other side /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=7c4f7784-e472-4f03-b55a-a1a0efe017fc The highest temperature superconductivity has been found when a small fraction of electrons was added or removed from Mott insulators where strong electron-electron repulsion prevents electrons from moving freely. To dissect a Mott insulator ... Invitation - Deaver Retirement /Announcements/News/ViewPost.asp?UUID=6fb51f68-6b55-4a0a-b4d2-6d65dbab4f0f Honoring 45 years of service in the UVA Physics Department . . .A Retirement Symposium and Reception Celebration for Bascom Deaver on May 12, 2010 at 1:00pm Room 204, Physics BldgOur colleague Bascom Deaver will be retiring this ...