Physics Graduation

We are holding our annual Physics graduation ceremony on June 14, 2013 from 1-3 pm in the ISB courtyard. We will be holding a reception following the ceremony.  If you are graduating this year and would like to participate, please complete the short survey posted on our events page.

Photo Journal

This is a test payload for the BARREL balloon campaign, designed to study particles from Earth's radiation belts.  The full BARREL campaign will launch a total of 40 balloons in 2012-2013.Grad student Bryna Hazelton (2009) and engineer Forest Martinez-McKinney checking parts for the ADELE gamma-ray detector about to be flown above thunderstorms in the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V jet shown in the back.Laying out the payload and flight train for launch outside McMurdo. Mt. Erebus in the background.GLASTFermiPhysics students participate in UCSC BallonfestPerovskite nanostructures grown by Alice Durand at UC Santa CruzProtein structure imaged by X-ray scattering at a synchotron accelerator. (Credit: SLAC)Aleph silicon microstrip vertex detector