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• Jan. 04-08, 2010: CMPD/CMS 2010 Winter School
• Nov. 16-19, 2009: High Brightness Electron Beams Workshop
• Nov. 14-15, 2009: Quantum Field Theory and Beyond: Celebrating John M. Cornwall 75^th Birthday
• Nov. 14, 2009: The UCLA Physics and Astronomy and Earth and Space Sciences Departments are putting on an exciting free public event on Saturday Nov. 14th. The event celebrates the International Year of Astronomy and the launch of Astro Live!, an outreach effort of Astronomy graduate students. Read more...
• Quantum field theoretic extensions of Einstein’s theory of gravity tend to suffer from incurable infinities, but a theory called N=8 supergravity may actually avoid them - against expectations held for almost 30 years. Read more...
• P&A Open House! As part of True Bruin Welcome Week Activities, the Physics & Astronomy Department invites you to their Open House on Wednesday, September 23, 2-3PM, 3^rd Floor Patio, Physics & Astronomy Building. All are welcome!
• Lensless diffractive imaging, pioneered by John Miao and colleagues in 1999, has now become super-fast! Read more...
• Can Gravity and Quantum Particles Be Reconciled After All? Read more...
• Professor Pietro Musumeci is receiving a 2009 Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award. Read more...
• VLBA Locates Origin of Superenergetic Bursts Near Giant Black Hole. Read more...
• Radio Telescope Images Reveal Planet-Forming Disk Orbiting Twin Suns. Read more...
• WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for Launch. Read more...
• Unlikely Suns Reveal Improbable Planets. Read more...
• Graduation Day 2009, June 13, 2009, 4:00pm, Schoenberg Music Building. Grads assemble at 3:30PM. Graduation Speaker is Bill Prady, the creator, executive producer and writer of "Big Bang Theory".
• Former high energy scanner describes her job in the UCLA Physics department of the 1960's. Read more...
• Brent Corbin was awarded one of UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Awards for non-senate faculty. Read more...
• Yaroslav Tserkovnyak has just received news that he was awarded a NSF career award ($585K) for five years. This is a major accomplishment given the present financial climate.
• Scientists create world's smallest light bulb. The new filament, created at UCLA, is 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter than those made by Edison.
• Eric Becklin, professor emeritus was among 6 UCLA professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year, in recognition of their "preeminent contributions to their disciplines and to society at large".
• March 9, 2009: Rainer Wallny - Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark - This discovery was a large part of Rainer Wallny's tenure case. Single top production is a long expected process, so it is not yet the discovery which topples the Standard Model - something hopefully the Large Hadron Collider will achieve. With its discovery however the Fermilab research program reaches another important milestone in its quest for the Higgs boson, and UCLA physicists had a large involve-ment in it.
• March 9, 2009: USA Today - The evidence for the single top quark production was shown at Fermilab at a special seminar to a standing-room only crowd
• February 26, 2009: Making a 'Big Bang' on TV: 10 questions with David Saltzberg. See UCLA Today
• February 15, 2009: From 8:00pm-11:00pm ET/PT as a three-part special on the National Geographic Channel, "Known Universe". Rene Ong is interviewed during the third hour.
• Februrary 20, 2009: Listen/Read - Physics & Astronomy faculty brief President Obama on scientific needs for the future.
• Join us to celebrate the 2nd Teslathon at UCLA Physics & Astronomy - 50th anniversary of the invention of laser.
• January 2009: Sitcoms Consult Scientists For Accuracy NPR's Scott Simon talks to astroparticle physicist David Saltzberg, who is a consultant to the CBS sitcom, "The Big Bang Theory."
• New Fellows of the American Physical Society: Thomas Mason and Alexander Kusenko
• ACIPA Distinguished Scholar Prize awarded jointly to Sudip Chakravarty, UCLA, and Chandra M. Varma, UC Riverside, for their wide ranging contributions to condensed matter physics, in particular to strongly correlated electron systems. The American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association
• UCLA INVENTS-OIP, VOL III 2008 George Gruner,Ph.D., is a one-man technological revolution.Since his arrival at UCLA in 1980, Gruner, a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has created two startup companies - Read Article - page 14
• UCLA INVENTS-OIP, VOL III 2008 In a UCLA lab, JohnMiao, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, andhis graduate student, Ben Fahimian, are developing new techniques that dramatically cut the radiation that CAT scans produce. Read Article - page 9

• November 6, 2007: High-end computation alters the research landscape. The Institute for Digital Research and Education joins with UCLA researchers in high-end computation work. See article.
• November 2, 2007 6:30 -- 9 pm Day of the Dead 3-D Teslathon – A shocking display of high voltage electricity UCLA Knudsen Hall Outdoor Patio 2-222. Read more.
• October 9, 2007: In collaboration with Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn and colleagues from the University of Colorado at Boulder and LBNL, CNSI member John Miao and his postdoc, Changyong Song, report the first experimental demonstration of tabletop diffraction microscopy by using high harmonic soft-x-ray beams. Read More.
  
• August 30,2007: Prof. James Rosenzweig has been awarded, along with Prof. Ilan Ben-Zvi of
  SUNY-Stonybrook, the 2007 Free-electron Laser Prize. Read citation.
• August 16, 2007: Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Stars, UCLA Astronomers Report. See article.
• ProfessorKusenko showed some time ago that, if super-symmetry exists in nature, the non-topological
  solitons called Q-balls could form in the early universe and could presently exist as a form of dark matter. Read more.
• Pietro Musemici who joined the UCLA physics faculty in January 2007 has obtained a very good result on ultra-fast electron diffraction using picosecond long electron bunches. This is the first result from his new lab. This opens a new area of research, in which there is now a lot of interest nationwide.
• May 31, 2007: Global warming A stairway to heaven? Invited talk by Alfred Wong at recent International Joint Assembly in Mexico. See Science & Technology article.
• May 14, 2007: read the article in The New Yorker, Annals of Science: "Crash Course" regarding the Large Hadron Collider at Cern and has a couple of paragraphs in which the author talks to Bob Cousins
• May 7, 2007: New York Times "Getting the most bang out of Quarks and Gluons" - STAR experiment at Brookhaven and George Igo
• May 2007: Issue of Physics Today the UCLA Physics Dept. is featured on the back cover. This segment of the publication is called Back Scatter and it consists of a full page print of a photo from the PHYS 180E course (experimental plasma physics lab) Physics Today - members Article for - NonMembers
• Apr 30, 2007: Edward L. Wright was among the 203 new Fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read about 2007 class of Fellows at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Apr 20, 2007: Physics Review Lettrs, Volume 98, Number 16 - "Cancellations Beyond Finiteness in N=8 Supergravity at Three Loops" by Prof. Zvi Bern and UCLA graduate students John Joseph Carrasco, Henrik Johansson and others. (view image)
• Nature Physics - Citation of PRL - Prof. Robijn Bruinsma's paper was highlighted by Nature Physics in the News and Views section
• May 2, 2007, 1:00-5:00pm - Finkelstein Symposium will be held in recognition of his 90th birthday last year. More Information (see pictures)
• February 27, 2007_ Brian Kappus UCLA graduate student in Seth Putterman's lab in NY Times. See article

• 2005-2006 Physics & Astronomy Annual Report
• Ned Wright -UCLA Astronomer Named to NASA Mission to Scan Stars
• Jianwei Mia - New Microscope takes 3D nano pictures. Reported in UPI November 29, 2006
• December 14-25 "Metrology for Beyond CMOS", to be held in San Francisco
• Andrea Ghez will be on Nova this coming Tuesday, October 31^st at 8:00pm, PBS
• Ned Wright, UCLA astronomer is lead investigator for NASA space mission
• Ned Wright received a share of this year's Gruber Cosmology Prize
• Physics & Astronomy - Pictures from Graduation June 17, 2006
• Dept of Physics & Astronomy Saxon Memorial - June 10, 2006
• Thomas Mason: Creating a New Field is Just the Start
  (UCLA College Report, Jun 2006)... read more
• UCLA physicists controlled enzyme complex Protein Kinase A PKA’s regulatory subunit through a molecular spring. Under tension the spring leads to a change in the regulatory unit, causing the catalytic subunit to separate, activating the enzyme... read more
• PAAL Award Dinner - May 06, 2006: Ben Holmes (pictures)
• Scientists Discover Double-helix Nebula (Daily Bruin, 05.02.06)
• UCLA Astronomers activate link to world's largest telescope (UCLA Today, 04.11.06)
• Dark Matter Lighting up the First Stars, Alex Kusenko (UCLA) & Peter Bierman (MPIFR)
• Research from the beginning of time (Economist, 03.23.06)
• Sterile neutrinos unravel astrophysics (CERN Courier, 03.23.06)
• 'Sterile' neutrinos may solve cosmic conundrums (New Scientist)
• Research Highlights (Nature, 03.23.06)
• Special Event: In celebration of Richard Feynman's Birthday, come see Genghis Blues
• New Humanities Building: NOW and THEN ...see movie
• Getting the ball rolling on science: Graduate students take their education downtown and teach physics to children from low-income families (more...)
• DNA Nebula Found in Milky Way
  "Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm," said Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles. (more...)
• "The Ghost Particle" on NOVA Feb. 21, 2006 at 8 p.m. (more...)
• A speckle pattern from Miao’s group is highlighted on the American Physical Society 2006 calendar. (more...)
• Remembering a UCLA icon - Former UC president, professor, active at UCLA until his death last week at 85
• December 8, 2005: We sadly report the passing of David Saxon, Professor Emeritus of the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy and past president of the University of California (more...)
• New book release: "Physics in Molecular Biology", by Kim Sneppen and Giovanni Zocchi is now available through Cambridge University Press or Amazon.com.
• Physical Review Letters - Nov. 18, 2005: "Multiple Phases with the Same Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Subband System", X. C. Zhang, D. R. Faulhaber, and H. W. Jiang
• Science News: Deciphering the Code of Viral Geometry
• December 3, 2005: PAAL 2005 Fall Lecture, "Nanoscience with proteins and DNA" by Giovanni Zocchi, UCLA (further information) - (cancelled)
• Criticality in correlated quantum matter, Nature, October 2005:
  ANGELA KOPP AND SUDIP CHAKRAVARTY
• Quantum Criticality reviewed in News and Views
• Physics: far from the frontier
• Sergio Ferrara chosen to receive the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (more...)
• Winter School for the Fusion Science Center
• 2^nd Southern California String Seminar
• The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams Workshop
  Erice, Sicily, October 9-14, 2005
• International Confrence on Strangeness in Quark Matter to be held at UCLA
  March 26-31, 2006
• Graduation on June 18 2005:
  - movie clip
  - pictures
• "Come one, come all" - Commencement Ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 18 at 4:30PM in Schoenberg Hall.  Information for ordering tickets can be found at www.commencement.ucla.edu
• AP Associated Press: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 UCLA Researchers Produce Nuclear Fusion
• April 22, 2005 - Alexandra Lampert, an undergraduate physics student at UCLA was presented a scholarship honoring the memory of Dr. Waldo Lyon ....more
• Career Day 2005 - (Sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Alumni Alliance) - Wed., April 20, 6:00 - 8:30pm, 4th Floor Conference Room (4-330 and 4-340), Physics & Astronomy Building
• Vern Knudsen Remembered - Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
• Scientists have created a mechanism at the nanoscale to externally control the function and action of a protein...
• Nanomix Inks License for UCLA Biomolecule Detection Technology
• Feb 28- Mar 1, 2005 - 3rd BNL/UCLA Workshop on Multipurpose Detectors for Proton Decay and VLBL Neutrino Physics (poster)
• Visit the Skirball Cultural Center Exhibts:
  "Einstein" through May 29, 2005 and "Time/Space, Gravity and Light" through Feb 27, 2005 (www.skirball.org)
• Christmas Party 2004
• November 13, 2004 - Pictures from the building inauguration
• The end of Kinsey Hall: Loss of name signals loss of history... (pictures)
• Kinsey Hall Reconstruction
• UC Regents Lectures by Sackmann can be accessed at Physics 243F
• Joint CNSI-Physics & Astronomy Position at UCLA
• 2003-2004 Annual Report
• Saxon Lecuture: Sept. 30, 2004
• Building Inauguration and PAAL Awards Dinner taking place November 13^th
• Notice of Open Fall-Quarter GE course in Astronomy! (more details)
• Power Workshop on High Power Average Power & High Brightness Beams:
  November 8 - 10, 2004
• Job Opportunity in Lecture Demonstrations (more...)
• 2005 Aspen Winter Conference in Condensed Matter Physics: High-Temperature Superconductivity
• Leonard Lounge Renovation (July 2004)
• Leonard Lounge Renovation Plans
• Physics & Astronomy New Building
• Graduation 2004 Pictures
• Andrea Ghez elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in April 2004 (more...)
• Quantum Computing, Secure Communications Closer to Reality; UCLA Scientists Control a Single Electron’s Spin (more...)
• Nick Magnone\'s retirement party
• LANN Workshop Friday, July 23, 2004 (more...)
• Astronomer Andrea Ghez has been awarded the 2004 Gold Shield Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence (more...)
• The TA Tutoring Center, located in A-212 Knudsen, will be open beginning June 30, 2004
• Party on June 11, 2004 for Douglas Durian and Steven Kivelson
• June 11, 2004
  4-6pm at Sunset Rec Center Upper Field -”UCLA PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 2nd Annual Faculty vs grad vs undergrad volleyball game”
• May 27, 2004 - Washington, DC
  The Department of Energy has selected the University of Maryland/University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Rochester to host two new Fusion Science Centers. DOE funding for the University of Maryland, UCLA-led Fusion Science Center will total $6.4 million over five years. (more...)
• Summer Research/Study Program:
  Locations in Los Angeles or Fairbanks in Alaska (ALL EXPENSE PAID and weekend excursions to Denali Park and Arctic Circle, for Alaska location ONLY!!!). Experience will compose of innovative, HANDS-ON science and engineering research related to environmental and communication technologies using entire spectrum frequency which includes lasers and microwaves. Both undergrad and graduates welcome, SEND resumes to SummerUCLARes@IFSHE.org
• Workshop on Molecular Machines at our neighbour the Institute of Pure and Applied mathematics (IPAM) starting Monday, May 24.
  General Information
  Schedule
• Commencement Cerimony: All 2004 Physics graduates will be honored at our department celebration on June 19, 2004, 4PM, Schoenberg Hall. Reception will follow. You will need a ticket to attend this year celebration. More information at www.commencement.ucla.edu
• Postdoctoral Fellow Peter Armitage is one of the 33 selected researchers across all science disciplines to receive this year\'s National Science Foundation International Research Fellows Award. Dr. Armitage will conduct research at the Université de Genève concerning the nanoscale electrodynamic response of various complex solid-state quantum systems
• Reception in honor of Professor Andrea Ghez\'s recent election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences
• Professor George Grüner is serving as chief scientist at Nanomix Inc. (more...)
• Stuart Brown and Rene Ong have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society this year.
• Andrea Ghez elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2004-04-20). Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. Scientist or engineer. (Reception)
• Andrea Ghez is co-winner (along with Adam Reiss of Space Telescope) of the Sackler Prize for outstanding research in astrophysics. This was a world-wide competition for astronomers under 40, and she gets $20,000 + a trip to Israel. Academic Senate Committee on Teaching has awarded
• Mark Morris a Distinguished Teaching Award.
• March 4, 2004 in Nature: "An explanation for a universality of transition temperatures in families of copper oxide superconductors", by Sudip Chakravarty, H-Y Kee and K. Völker. Also, News & Views - "Superconductivity: Turn up the Temperature" by Piers Coleman.
• Spring 04 - Physics C185: Physics Beyond Physics
  MWF 12pm - 1pm, 3-145U Knudsen Hall, J. M. Cornwall
• SEL Reconfiguration:
  Kinsey location to close permanently on December 12, 2003, at 5 pm
• Oxford University Press has just published a senior-level text book" Fundamentals of Beam Physics", which was written by Prof. James Rosenzweig during the teaching of Physics 150, The Physics of Charged Particle and Laser Beams
• PAAL Award Dinner (Nov. 11, 2003)
• UCLA Astronomers Obtain "Molecular Fingerprints" for Celestial "Brown Dwarfs," Missing Link between Stars and Planets (more...)
• UCLA researchers have received a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award from the National Science Foundation (more...)
• Offices of Plasma Physics have been relocated
• Spring Quarter 2003 - PSTI is proud to announce The Distinguished Research Lectures by Dr. Robert Strangeway on "Space Plasmas as a Natural Laboratory", Wednesdays, 3130 Hershey Hall (more information)
• Now accepting applications for the 2003 Research Experience for Undergradutes Summer Progam (REU). Application deadline is April 15^th, 2003.
• New Physics & Astronomy Building Website
• Plasma Science and Technology Institute News
• Lawrence Aller, 89 passed away at his home in Malibu March 16, 2003. Professor Aller helped build UCLA Astronomy Department.(Obituary) Lawrence Aller Memorial Service - April 12th
• Academic Senate:
  June 4, 2003 - UCLA Today Vol. 23 No.16
  For the first time in UCLA history, two women faculty members have been chosen by an Academic Senate committee to deliver Faculty Research Lectures in the same academic year: Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy, and Margaret C. Jacob, professor of history. Ghez is one of the world\'s foremost observational astrophysicists in the field of high-precision infrared imaging and spectroscopy. Jacob, in her distinguished career in Britain, France, Holland and this country, has a unique record of achievements.
• Cluster Discovered - June 5 issue of Nature
  A small, bizarre cluster of a million young stars, enshrouded in thick gas and dust in a nearby dwarf galaxy, has been confirmed by Jean Turner, professor of physics and astronomy, and her colleagues in the June 5 issue of Nature. The cluster contains more than 4,000 massive "O" stars, each a million times brighter than the Earth\'s sun, with more than 30 times its mass. "O" stars blow off violent winds and are the most luminous of all known stars. These "O" stars will become supernovae and explode at the end of their lives, but none have done so yet. "This is the first time such a large cluster of O stars, bound with its natal gas, has been observed anywhere in the universe," Turner said The stars are packed tightly in a region that\'s less than the distance between the Earth\'s sun to its closest neighbor star. The astronomers used the Keck Observatory\'s Near Infrared Spectrometer, built by Turner\'s UCLA astronomy colleague, Professor Ian McLean, to study the star cluster. The research is being funded by the National Science Foundation.
• Kenneth MacKenzie, 90 passed away July 3, 2002. Click here for Obituary
• UCLA Dept of Physics & Astronomy 2002 Saxon Lecture - Thurs May 23 @ 3:30 (more details)
  Professor Wolfgang Ketterle (Nobel Laureate in Physics 2001) Nina Byers has been elected Vice Chair of the Forum on History of Physics. Her term as Vice Chair begins immediately following this year\'s April APS meeting and extends through the April 2003 meeting. She will be Chair Elect in 2003-2004 and Chair in 2004-2005. As Past Chair in 2005-2006,she will continue to serve on the FHP Executive Committee through the April 2006 meeting
• Remembering Tim Smart
  It is with great sadness that I must inform you that Tim Smart, our Facilities Coordinator, passed away Tuesday, April 9. He was 51 years old. Tim joined the David Cline group at the University of Wisconsin as an Engineering Technician in 1978 and worked on High Energy Physics projects in Wisconsin, Utah and Italy with the Cline group before joining the UCLA staff 1987. Since 1991 he served the Department of Physics and Astronomy as our Facilities Coordinator and played a major role in numerous lab and office renovations, the seismic upgrade of Knudsen Hall and in planning the new Physics and Astronomy building which is now under construction. He will be greatly missed. Tim is survived by his wife, Carol.
• National Academy of Science Honors 14.... Arctowski Medal for outstanding contributions to the study of solar physics and solar-terrestrial relationships -- goes to Roger K.Ulrich, professor, department of physics and astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles.
• UCLA receives 4.8 million grant to support research at the world\'s best plasma physics facility
• Gil Clark makes dramatic measurement at high magnetic field
• Physicists explore plasma\'s mysteries ( UCLA Today - December 11, 2001)
  Vist the Basic Plasma Science Facility website
• Photos from the Physics & Astronomy Alumni (PAAL) Annual Barbeque
• A visit to the Electric Tokamak & the Large Plasma Device Lab (LAPD) at the Science and Technology Research Building (STRB) at UCLA
• Remembering Professor John M. Dawson of the UCLA Physics Department
• "CP Violation: Past, Present and Future", Celebration in honor of Roberto Peccei\'s 60th Birthday Conveying the fun, beauty of science

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