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This year's alumni weekend will have a Physics open House scheduled. It will be on April 25th from 12:00pm to 4:30pm.

Banner image of redwood trees. Text includes: Reception for Physics Graduating Seniors, Friday June 14th from 4pm to 5pm at 2300 Delaware Avenue.

NSF Funding for UCSC Laboratories

Alumni now working at Facebook

The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale dark matter structure of the Universe yet made.

Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) consist of a waveguide coupled with photovoltaic cells. UCSC's design, targeting greenhouses, utilizes fluorescent dyes that convert light unused by plants to wavelengths suitable for photosynthesis.

The Materials Synthesis Lab, includes molecular beam epitaxy, pulsed laser deposition, and sputtering thin film growth equipment. The Lederman group in the seeks to understand the fundamental properties of materials in reduced dimensions. Of particular interest are properties resulting from interfaces between dissimilar materials.

The Velasco Group: nanodevices, low temperature transport, and STM. At the nanoscale, quantum mechanical effects reign supreme and when disorder is subdued many-body physics emerges, leading to new and unexpected physical phenomena. Low temperature transport, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and the development of new nanofabrication techniques will be employed to perform these studies.

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LECTURER POSITION NOW OPEN

REGISTER NOW FOR SUMMER SESSION 2019

2019 RECEPTION FOR PHYSICS GRADUATING SENIORS

UPCOMING PHYSICS COLLOQUIA

UPCOMING PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER SEMINARS

Senior Thesis Info and Deadlines

Department News

January 28, 2019Save the Date for the Fusion of Art & Physics
January 28, 2019Sriram Shastry Mentioned in Quanta Magazine
February 8, 2019Jake Pasner Written About in Symmetry Magazine

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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.

GLAST

Fermi

Physics students participate in UCSC Ballonfest

Perovskite nanostructures grown by Alice Durand at UC Santa Cruz

Protein structure imaged by X-ray scattering at a synchotron accelerator. (Credit: SLAC)

Aleph silicon microstrip vertex detector

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