Department News

The all-sky map of carbon monoxide will be presented at the Planck Collaboration

Seth Meeker from the Mazin group presents results from their MKID array at Palomar Observatory

The YIP is open to scientists and engineers who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research.

Hubble Space Telescope uncovers distant galaxies under construction

Atomic scale defects have long-lived spin states at room temperature

Department Events

Observations of Pulsars, Quasars and Interstellar Scattering on the Long Baselines to Radioastron
Speaker: Carl Gwinn & Michael Johnson
Event Date: February 22, 2012 - 4:00pm

Astro Seminar

The “Ultimate State” in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection
Speaker: Guenter Ahlers - UCSB
Event Date: February 21, 2012 - 4:00pm

Refreshments served at 3:40

The Prion Protein -- More structure than you think…
Speaker: Dr. Glenn Milhauser - UCSC
Event Date: February 16, 2012 - 12:30pm

Refreshments served

Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics
Speaker: Prof. Frans Pretorius, Princeton University and KITP
Event Date: February 14, 2012 - 4:00pm

Physics Department Colloquium - Refreshment served at 3:40!

Toward Miniaturization of NMR and MRI
Speaker: Prof. Alexander Pines - Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Event Date: February 13, 2012 - 4:00pm

Refreshments served