Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara

INNOVATION & COLLABORATION

Photons exchanging information between optical microcavities containing individual electron spins.

Professor Harry Nelson, right, a mile underground at the Homestake Mine near Lead, SD, readying the LUX experiment

Assistant Professor Ben Mazin wins Presidential Early Career Award

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Atomic Force Microscope image of bone revealing collagen fibrils with and without mineral plates.

Optical network of core-shell quantum dots communicating quantum spin information between nodes.

Grad student Kurt Soto reflected in the 10 meter mirror of the Keck telescope, used to gather data for his PhD thesis.

A graduate student in Professor Bouwmeester’s lab measures optical properties of photonic crystal microcavities.

Imaging and manipulating arrays of single spins in semiconductors.

Scanning Electron Microscope (Hansma lab) measuring bone strength.

Professor Ben Mazin's lab specializes in the development of superconducting detector and instruments for Astrophysics.

$A prototype Reference Point Indentation instrument developed in the Hansma lab measures bone fracture resistance$

A prototype Reference Point Indentation instrument developed in the Hansma lab measures bone fracture resistance

Professor Joe Incandela, spokesperson for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at LHC, in front of the CMS detector during construction.

Professor Elisabeth Gwinn working with graduate students.

Latest News

2019 Hertz Fellow - Dolev Bluvstein

Senior Physics major, Dolev Bluvstein, named a 2019 Hertz Fellow

UCSB PHYSICS ALL GAUCHO REUNION

We are excited to welcome our alumni back to Broida Hall during the 13th Annual All Gaucho Reunion on April 26, 2019! On the agenda will be a presentation from award winning physics professor Cristina Marchetti, a panel discussion with UCSB physics alumni, and tours of our physics research labs in which exciting and innovative science is performed every day.

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Open Faculty Positions in Physics

Beth Gwinn Lab Photo - Graduate Education

Top Five Ranking

We are now ranked among the top five graduate research physics programs according to the 2010 National Research Council rankings.

Our department has outstanding students, postdocs, researchers, staff, and faculty, many of whom have garnered prestigious awards.

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Phone: 805-893-3888, Fax: 805-893-3307
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Department of Physics
Broida Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530

Upcoming Event

2019 Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium-- Friday, September 6, 2019-- Apply by August 12

The annual Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium will be held on September 6, 2019. Please apply by August 12, 2019!

August 12, 2019
September 6, 2019

Physics Research Symposium