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 LATimes Sunday, April 13, 2008 "New atom-smasher could fill gaps in scientific knowledge..." article
"Deep in a dim cavern, UCLA physicist Bob Cousins scrambled onto a catwalk straddling the six-story detector known as the Compact Muon Solenoid,...." CMS Research
More information on atom-smashers (pg 6)
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April 8 - UCLA Today
• Cover "The Power of Wow" Mar 30/08 Families at César Chavez Day celebration watch Manuel Urrutia demonstrate air flow.
• Art meets science: For a class called "Media Archeology" that examined vision technology devices, a first-year graduate student in Design | Media Arts sought the aid of optics experts from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Marty Simon,....see amazing Teslathon demonstration held on 11.02.07 |
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 Apr. 8, 2008
Arrangement of microscopic particles into letters is featured in Museum of Modern Art. Daily Bruin |
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March 26, 2008: 150 Students from Paul Revere Science Magnet came to UCLA Physics and Astronomy for a day of activities. See pictures |
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Mar 4,2008 
Research Conducted using the UCLA Physics Saxon Cluster: A team of UCLA particle physics researchers (led by Charles Plager), which has been searching for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) decay of the top quark, announced a breakthrough on Feb. 14, 2008. Read more |
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The 8th symposium on Dark Matter and Dark Energy was the best so far. The latest news on dark energy is that the data better fits the cosmological constant all the time. No theorists seem to understand why now.The discovery of
dark matter could be near in this field.If you would like to view any of the presented talks please go to: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/dm08/talks.html |
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 Jan 28, 2008 A team of researchers from UCLA, Argonne National Lab and the Australian Synchrotron, led by John Miao, have demonstrated, for the first time, that resonant X-ray diffraction microscopy can be used to image buried structures with nanoscale resolution.
Microscope sees with Nanoscale Resolution
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February 25,2008 Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter. Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment today announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. |
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February 2008:
Professor Yaroslav Tserkovnyak was just awarded a Sloan Research Fellowships. He is one of two UCLA scientists to receive one of the 2008 fellowships (see write-up).
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