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  • Pam Joseph Receives 2013 Outstanding Contribution Award
    Posted Tue, 21 May 2013 09:44:52 -0400
    From UVaToday: "Do you know which department in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences is best grant-funded? More >
  • Hoxton Lecture: The World According to Higgs
    Posted Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:54 -0400
    Professor Chris Quigg New developments in particle physics offer a new and radically simple conception of the universe. Fundamental particles called quarks and leptons make up everyday matter, and two new laws of nature rule their interactions. Until ... More >
  • Eleventh Physics Department Research Poster Competition Winners
    Posted Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:54:42 -0400
    During the week of April 1 through April 5, 2013, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and beyond. ... More >
  • UVa Featured on APS TV at March Meeting
    Posted Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:06:34 -0400
    UVa's is one of the physics programs featured on APS TV at the March Meeting: http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/services/apstv.cfm More >
  • Hirosky Participates in "Science Straight Up" Public Outreach
    Posted Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:40:12 -0400
    From UVa Today: "Have you ever wondered what, exactly, a Higgs boson is? Or what a future quantum computer might be able to do? Or if climate change is real? More >
  • Bloomfield's "Vistik" Highlighted in UVaToday
    Posted Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:43:30 -0500
    From UVaToday: "If anything bothers University of Virginia physicist Lou Bloomfield, it's a wobbly table. So much so that he actually invented a material to eliminate the problem. The material, a type of silicone rubber that is both rigid and fluid – ... More >
  • Day PRC Paper Included as Editors' Selection
    Posted Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:07:25 -0500
    A PRC paper presenting the results of Prof. Donal Day's work with John Arrington (our recent colloquium speaker), Nadia Fomin (his former graduate student), and a few others on the EMC effect has been included as an Editors' Selection for the month of ... More >
  • Cates Highlighted for Diquark Work
    Posted Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:37:02 -0500
    From DOE Pulse: ... researchers have found intriguing new evidence on how the different kinds of quarks behave inside protons and neutrons. The data and insights, which were published in the journal Physical Review Letters, have recently received ... More >
  • UVa Physics Majors: Funding Available for Summer Research!
    Posted Tue, 4 Dec 2012 13:57:46 -0500
    The UVa Physics Department is pleased to announce the availability of a number of Mitchell and other Summer Research Scholarships to support declared undergraduate physics majors to do research with a Physics Department faculty member next summer ... More >
  • Bloomfield Invents "Molecular Velcro"
    Posted Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:35:49 -0500
    From NewsPlex.com: Dr. Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at UVa, describes the material as being the "molecular equivalent of Velcro." The material bounces like a ball, stretches like silly putty, and sticks like glue but it's hard to describe ... More >
  • Day Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
    Posted Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:31:06 -0500
    In recognition by his peers of his outstanding contributions to physics, Professor Donal Day has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His Fellowship Certificate will read: "For his studies of high momentum transfer quasielastic ... More >
  • Liuti Elected Vice Chair of SESAPS
    Posted Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:07:10 -0400
    From the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society: "In the 2012 election, Professor Simonetta Liuti of the University of Virginia was elected Vice Chair. She will serve in the Chair line for the next four years." More >
  • Zukai Wang Wins URA Visiting Scholars Program Award
    Posted Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:03:16 -0400
    The URA Visiting Scholars Program at Fermilab has awarded Zukai Wang $20,452 to work on the “Search for Magnetic Monopoles in the NOvA Far Detector” For more information on the program, see: ... More >
  • Second Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting
    Posted Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:27:23 -0400
    On Saturday, October 6, 2012, Diana Vaman and UVa's Physics Department will again play host to the Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting. The invited speakers are: Shinsei Ryu (U. Illinois, Urbana) Misha Stephanov (U. Illinois, ... More >
  • Bloomfield Explains Physics of Heroic Catch
    Posted Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:56:54 -0400
    From MSNBC: "The girl fell about 25 feet, which took about 1.25 seconds. The man stopped her fall in about 3 or 4 feet, which took about 0.1 second, depending on the stopping distance and how he supported her. So, she accumulated downward momentum ... More >
  • UVa's Higgs Effort Highlighted in Press
    Posted Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:33:22 -0400
    From UVa Today: "We've had an observation that very likely is the Higgs," said University of Virginia physicist Brad Cox in the College of Arts & Sciences, who has been involved with the Higgs search at the Large Hadron Collider. "With more ... More >
  • Jesse W. Beams Published in July 2012 Scientific American
    Posted Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:32:05 -0400
    An excerpt of an article by Ernest O. Lawrence and J. W. Beams in the July 2012 issue of Scientific American: "Light is one of the most familiar physical realities. All of us are acquainted with a large number of its properties, while some of us who ... More >
  • Mitchell Summer Research Scholarships Awarded!
    Posted Thu, 10 May 2012 11:20:27 -0400
    Three of our physics majors have been awarded Mitchell Scholarships to do research with physics faculty this summer. Peter Breiding has been awarded $5,000 to work with Professor Gallagher designing and building a new tunable laser, Davis van Petten ... More >
  • Loomis and Popovic Win Presidential Research Poster Competition
    Posted Tue, 8 May 2012 14:11:51 -0400
    From UVaToday: "University of Virginia student researchers offered unique perspectives on the physical, legal and political worlds Friday as they presented their findings in the second annual Presidential Research Poster Competition at the Rotunda. ... More >
  • UVa Credited with Originating National Physics Day
    Posted Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:18:59 -0400
    From physicscentral: "Physics fans, rejoice! April 24th is National Physics Day, and physics enthusiasts across the country are celebrating with fun physics demonstrations, public lectures, and other science events. More >
  • Tenth Physics Department Research Poster Competition Winners
    Posted Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:59:40 -0400
    During the week of April 2 through April 6, 2012, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and beyond. ... More >
  • Jefferson Lab Searches for Heavy Photons Highlighted in Nature
    Posted Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:40:11 -0400
    From Nature News in Focus "In a three-week experiment due to start on 24 April, the electrons will crash into a thin tungsten target at 500 million times a second, creating a cascade of short-lived particles. Amid the debris, physicists with the Heavy ... More >
  • National Physics Day
    Posted Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:24:51 -0400
    In celebration of National Physics Day, the 18th annual University of Virginia physics demonstration show will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evening, April 25, 2012, in room 203 of the Physics Building, 382 McCormick Road. This highly anticipated ... More >
  • Tenth Physics Department Research Poster Competition
    Posted Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:14:14 -0400
    During the week of April 2 through April 6, 2012, the Physics department will hold a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition will be open to all students who have entered their third year in the graduate program and ... More >
  • Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting
    Posted Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:33:40 -0400
    On Saturday, March 31, 2012, Diana Vaman and UVa's Physics Department will play host to the Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting. For more see: http://www.phys.virginia.edu/Announcements/Meetings/Particle2012/ More >
  • UVa Researchers Featured in APS Synopses
    Posted Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:26:48 +0000
    From APS Synopsis: Getting Under the Neutron Skin Heavy nuclei are believed to have a neutron-rich skin on the surface, and the thickness of this skin may have important implications for the physics of neutron stars. More >
  • Cox Highlighted in Virginia Magazine
    Posted Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:05:59 -0400
    Brad Cox comments upon the LHC's search for the Higgs boson. For more: http://uvamagazine.org/university_digest/article/picking_up_the_subatomic_pieces More >
  • Introductory Lab Instructor
    Posted Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:11:13 -0400
    The Department of Physics at the University of Virginia invites applications for a Faculty position with the academic rank of Lecturer to serve as Introductory Lab Instructor. This is a non-tenure-track academic position, beginning Spring 2012. The ... More >
  • Bloomfield Makes Cents in Huffington Post
    Posted Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:24:06 -0500
    Prof. Bloomfield considers pennies from heaven (AKA the Empire State Building): 'If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead — "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And ... More >
  • UVa team and collaborators measure ultra-fast protons in nuclei
    Posted Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:25:19 -0500
    The atomic nucleus is made of confined nucleons in constant motion dominated by their interactions with the mean field of the nucleus - that is the average potential generated the many body system. This mean field spawned motion is called the Fermi ... More >
  • 2012 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics Annual Lecture
    Posted Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:18:37 -0500
    The 2012 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics Annual Lecture, which will be held in the Physics Department, Room 203, on Thursday, March 15, at 3:30 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by Professor William Marciano, a prominent theoretical ... More >
  • Dukes' NOvA Work Highlighted in A&S Magazine
    Posted Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:46:56 -0500
    From the Fall 2011 Arts and Sciences Magazine, "Toward a New College": "Without this asymmetry, without this slight abundance of matter over antimatter, there would be nothing," says Craig Dukes More >
  • UVa CMS Team Highlighted for Higgs Search
    Posted Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:52:17 -0500
    From The Daily Progress: A team of scientists that includes a group from the University of Virginia may have seen a glimpse of a subatomic particle that, in theory, is the key to holding together everything from atoms to airplanes. More >
  • Yohay Wins US LHC Users Organization Award
    Posted Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:09:55 -0500
    Per Sridhara Dasu for the US LHC Users Organization Executive Committee: The Young Scientist talks at the USLUO, especially the lightning round, was a grand success. Everyone liked the talks, and our NSF representative sent a special congratulatory ... More >
  • UVa to Dedicate New Physical and Life Sciences Research Building
    Posted Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:24:14 -0400
    From UVaToday: October 17, 2011 — The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia will dedicate its new, state-of-the-art Physical and Life Sciences Research Building on Friday at 3 p.m. More >
  • Pocanic and Baessler Receive NSF MRI Funding
    Posted Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:35:50 -0400
    Dinko Pocanicćand Stefan Baessler, in collaboration with colleagues from Arizona State University and Oak Ridge National Lab, have received funding for the development of a spectrometer optimized for precise measurements of correlations in neutron ... More >
  • Pfister Highlighted in Quantum Computing News
    Posted Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:59:06 -0400
    From Network World: "My work with optical fields has demonstrated good preliminary control over 60 qubit equivalents, which we call 'Qmodes' and has the potential to scale to thousands of Qmodes," Pfister says. "Each Qmode is a distinctly specified ... More >
  • Louca, et al., Awarded NSF MIRT
    Posted Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:14:08 -0400
    Despina Louca, with her colleagues at UT Austin, received one of the three MIRT awards made by the National Science Foundation this year among high competition. The Materials Interdisciplinary Research Team (MIRT) grant, which was awarded for the ... More >
  • Pfister Accomplishes Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing
    Posted Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:05:30 -0400
    From UVaToday: Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has just published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of ... More >
  • D. Louca, O. Pfister, and M. Williams Promoted
    Posted Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:52:31 -0400
    Despina Louca and Olivier Pfister have been promoted to Full Professors and Mark Williams to Research Professor of Physics and Professor of Radiology, effective August 25, 2011. More >
  • Wolf Instrumental in Creation of the Virginia Nanoelectronics Center
    Posted Wed, 25 May 2011 11:32:53 -0400
    From UVaToday: The University of Virginia, in partnership with the College of William & Mary and Old Dominion University, has launched the Virginia Nanoelectronics Center, or ViNC, to advance research aimed at developing next-generation electronics. ... More >
  • Neu Awarded FEST Funding
    Posted Tue, 24 May 2011 13:51:16 -0400
    Christopher Neu has been named a Distinguished Young Investigator this year through the University of Virginia's Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the fund - now in its seventh ... More >
  • Ninth Physics Department Research Poster Competition
    Posted Wed, 11 May 2011 10:55:44 -0400
    During the week of March 28 through April 1, 2011, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and beyond. ... More >
  • Gallagher receives 2010-11 Distinguished Scientist Award
    Posted Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:23:24 -0400
    Three pre-eminent researchers – Thomas F. Gallagher, Patrice G. Guyenet and Kodi S. Ravichandran – have been chosen to receive 2010-11 Distinguished Scientist Awards from the University of Virginia. This award from the Office of the Vice President for ... More >
  • Rachel Yohay has been awarded the ARCS Fellowship
    Posted Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:47:13 -0400
    The Metro Washington Chapter of ARCS selected Rachel Yohay as a fellowship recipient for the 2011-2012 academic year. ARCS stands for Achievement Rewards for College Scientists and only 1 nomination was allowed out of UVa for the $15,000 scholarship. ... More >
  • Wu and Yohay Honored
    Posted Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:55:04 -0400
    Chaolun Wu has been awarded a dissertation year fellowship and Rachel Yohay has been selected from UVa this year to be nominated for the ARCS Foundation. ARCS stands for Achievement Rewards for College Scientists and only 1 nomination is allowed out ... More >
  • Ninth Physics Department Research Poster Competition
    Posted Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:34:43 -0500
    During the week of March 28 through April 1, 2011, the Physics department will hold a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition will be open to all students who have entered their third year in the graduate program and ... More >
  • Bloomfield wins Jefferson Scholars Faculty Prize
    Posted Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:12:12 -0500
    From UVaToday: The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia has awarded Louis A. Bloomfield its 2011 Faculty Prize. Bloomfield, a physics professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been a member of the faculty since 1985. ... More >
  • Congratulations to Kelsie Betsch and Jirakan Nunkaew
    Posted Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:14:30 -0500
    Congratulations to Kelsie Betsch and Jirakan Nunkaew on receiving an Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences and Engineering! This award recognizes excellence in original scholarship by PhD students at the University and rewards those ... More >
  • Poon Group's Work on Thermoelectric Materials Recognized
    Posted Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:51:34 -0500
    Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson University and the University of Virginia have used nanotechnology to achieve a 60-90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heusler, a common bulk semiconductor compound, the ... More >
  • Memorial Resolution for Klaus Ziock
    Posted Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:05:48 -0500
    Memorial Resolution for Klaus O. H. Ziock, read to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 9, 2010, by Prof. Ralph Minehart:Klaus Otto Heinrich Ziock, an experimental physicist and Physics Professor Emeritus, died on November 5, 2010, from ... More >
  • Dukes' NOvA Work Highlighted in UVaToday
    Posted Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:43:44 -0500
    One of the great and fundamental questions in physics is: Why is there matter? Physicists theorize that in the instant after the Big Bang created the makings of the universe, there were nearly equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, protons and ... More >
  • Lamacraft named a Cottrell Scholar
    Posted Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:55:19 -0500
    Dear Colleagues,I have just received word that Austen Lamacraft has been named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. This is an honor for Austen and the announcement of the award was made to the UVa President's ... More >
  • HEP Group Seeks New Physics at the LHC
    Posted Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:29:46 -0500
    As reported in UVaToday:"International teams of scientists working on an array of high-energy physics research projects with the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva – including several physicists from the University of Virginia's College of Arts & ... More >
  • Quark Momentum Distributions Beyond the Free Nucleon Limit
    Posted Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:20:37 -0500
    This paper, coauthored by Nadia Fomin, a former UVa graduate student, Donal Day (her advisor at UVa), John Arrington of Argonne National Lab and others, provides for the first time a direct connection between inclusive electron-nucleus data taken at ... More >
  • Fishbane Defends Einstein
    Posted Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:01 -0500
    Professor Emeritus Paul Fishbane was noted in UVa Todayhttp://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/headlines.php More >
  • Lee Group Paper a J. Phys. Soc. Jpn TOP 20
    Posted Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:07:53 -0500
    The paper "Investigation of the Spin-Glass Regime between the Antiferromagnetic and Superconducting Phases in Fe1+ySexTe1-x" was one of the top twenty papers downloaded from the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan's website. ... More >
  • Lee Highlighted in APS News
    Posted Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:50:47 -0400
    In the October 2010 APS News:"To me, this challenges the integrity of science... They say they reached these conclusions that have enormous consequences on the political and international stage. As a scientist and scholar, I felt it was my duty to ... More >
  • Smola Wins Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
    Posted Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:16:14 -0400
    Raymond Smola, a 2008 graduate of our Master of Arts in Physics Education program, recently was one of the winners for the 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science. This is the highest award that a K-12 teacher can ... More >
  • Breaking through to the other side
    Posted Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:03:41 -0400
    The highest temperature superconductivity has been found when a small fraction of electrons was added or removed from Mott insulators where strong electron-electron repulsion prevents electrons from moving freely. To dissect a Mott insulator and ... More >
  • Invitation - Deaver Retirement
    Posted Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:22:52 -0400
    Honoring 45 years of service in the UVA Physics Department . . .A Retirement Symposium and Reception Celebration for Bascom Deaver on May 12, 2010 at 1:00pm Room 204, Physics Bldg More >

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