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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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Two Assistant Professors in Department of Physics Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
  • This year's Sloan Research Fellows are: Sagar Vijay (left), and Tejaswi Nerella, both theorists in the Department of Physics

UC Santa Barbara assistant professors Sagar Vijay and Tejaswi Nerella have been selected to receive prestigious research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  1. Award
APS 2023 Einstein Prize Recipient: Gary T. Horowitz
  • Gary T. Horowitz, taken from APS website

"The biennial Einstein Prize recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics."

  1. Award

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