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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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The UC Santa Barbara Physics Department would like to congratulate Professor Timothy Brandt on his fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Virtual Department Colloquium: Tues, April 13, 2021 - Collision Course: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning

Jesse Thaler (MIT)

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