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Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy. Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration.

UF Researchers Reveal the Hidden Hum of a Cosmic Symphony

Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences News Aculmination of 15 years of data, observed by over 190 scientists from the US and Canada, has resulted in a remarkable discovery: the first evidence for gravitational waves at very low frequencies. UF astrophysicist LAURA BLECHA and graduate student ANALIS EVANS contributed their expertise to the […]

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Upcoming NANOGrav announcement

Upcoming NANOGrav announcement

For the last 15 years, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Collaboration has been using radio telescopes to time an array of ultra-precise millisecond pulsars and search for correlated delays caused by low-frequency gravitational waves. Such gravitational waves could be produced by orbiting pairs of supermassive black […]

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UF Physics Steigleman Family Fellowship Recipients

UF Physics Steigleman Family Fellowship Recipients

Photo of Landen Conway (left) and Roy Forestano (right). Congratulations to Landen Conway and Roy Forestano, two outstanding graduate students in UF Physics who have recently been awarded the esteemed Steigleman Family Fellowship. Their notable achievements in the field of theoretical astrophysics are commendable as they pursue their respective research […]

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Physics celebrates the retirement of Professors Avery and Ramond

Physics celebrates the retirement of Professors Avery and Ramond

On April 28th, UF Physics celebrated the retirements of Professors Paul Avery and Pierre Ramond with over seventy colleagues and friends at the Sweetwater Branch Inn in Gainesville. Pierre Ramond arrived at the University of Florida in 1980 as one of a group of young Full Professors recruited to found […]

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UF physics startup finds Florida wildfires lightning fast

UF physics startup finds Florida wildfires lightning fast

Image:  UF News This week’s UF News featured a report on Fire Neural Network  (FNN), a startup founded by UF physics PhD student Istvan Kereszy and associate professor Imre Bartos. As a follow-up of FNN winning 1st prize at UF’s AI days pitch competition, the report was filmed during the installation […]

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Physics IDEA wins CLAS Excellence Award

Physics IDEA wins CLAS Excellence Award

The department is pleased to announce that the UF Physics IDEA (Inclusion Diversity & Equity Alliance) is a winner of the 2023 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences CLAS Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Award.  This CLAS award recognizes a department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee that has made […]

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herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material

UF, Stanford researchers make new type of quantum material with dramatic pattern

Image: This illustration depicts a herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material created by researchers at SLAC and Stanford. An electronic tug-of-war between its layers has dramatically warped the lattice. Researchers are just staring to explore how this ‘huge’ distortion affects the material’s properties. Source: College of Liberal Arts […]

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UF Students Earn Honors at International Math Challenge

UF Students Earn Honors at International Math Challenge

Image: UF Physics and Math majors Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences news feature Two University of Florida teams of undergraduate students have received Meritorious Awards for their participation in the SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations Modeling (SCUDEM) VII, held in the fall of 2022. The SCUDEM VII is a […]

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One of two magnetic focusing horns that produces intense neutrino beams for MINERvA experiments. Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab.

‘Ghostly’ Particles Lead to Major Physics Discovery

Source: CLAS News Image: One of two magnetic focusing horns that produces intense neutrino beams for MINERvA experiments. Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab. Scientists from MINERvA, a collaborative experiment designed to study some of the most vexing puzzles in physics, revealed a groundbreaking new way to view protons. The discovery, published today(opens in […]

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