INNOVATION & COLLABORATION

UCSB Graduate student Jack Bargemann lays down sheet metal to smooth the ride of the LZ Detector as it comes underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo by Matthew Kapust.

At work in the Class 7 cleanroom in Broida Hall are from left to right Will Ortez operating the gantry robot, Onofre Jauregui modifying tooling, Susanne Kyre at the measuring microscope, and Alethea Butler-Nalin on the wirebond machine.  The team is made up of engineers, technicians, graduate students, and undergraduates.

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Beyond Boundaries
  • Jean Carlson, from The Current

Physicist Jean Carlson is selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society

  1. American Physical Society
The Current: Working Through a Mental Bloch
  • Sherwin Group - Photo credit: CHANGYUN YOO, The Current

Sherwin Group published in Nature - Scientists experimentally reconstruct Bloch wavefunction for the first time.

  1. Article

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Upcoming Event

Department Colloquium: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - The New Era of Stellar Physics
  • Dr. Matteo Cantiello, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Inst, New York

Dr. Matteo Cantiello, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Inst, New York

  1. December 7, 2021 - 3:45pm
  1. Physics Department Colloquium