FROM THE LARGEST TO THE SMALLEST:
THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT
The areas embraced by UCLA physics research span the range from the well-established disciplines of "big science," e.g. studying the Higgs Boson at the LHC, and frontier plasma science underpinning fusion energy to newly emerging fields such as the physics of neuroscience and quantum science.
In astronomy, UCLA faculty are pioneers in the areas of extra-solar system planets, galactic astronomy, and cosmology. This effort is uniquely enabled by the world-renowned
capabilities in design and construction of infrared instrumentation by our Infrared Laboratory.
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Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Eric Becklin, in recognition of his election to the National Academy of Sciences!
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The department congratulates Professor Thomas Dumitrescu on his naming as a 2026 Laureate of the New Horizons in Physics Prize for his discovery and development of the theory of “generalized symmetries” in quantum field theory.
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Eric Hudson has published his article "Using atomic nuclei could allow scientists to read time more precisely than ever – what this research could mean for future clocks” on The Conversation.
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Michalis Bachtis just published a Nature paper with the CMS experiment on a high precision measurement of the mass of the W boson, that required to calibrate the largest silicon detector ever made to a level of 0.01%.
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1:00PM to 2:00PM
PAB 4-330
3:30PM to 4:30PM
PAB 1-434
Dust enshrouded eruptions from planets to supermassive black holes
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
4:00PM to 5:00PM
PAB 1-434
The Statistical Physics of Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
12:00PM to 1:00PM
Knudsen 4-134 and Zoom
Low-Background Shielding and Cryogenic Design for Future Liquid-Xenon Detectors
HEAP Seminar