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 […]
Join UF Physics for Science Day at Depot Park with STEM demos and activities hosted by UF student organizations on April 8, from 10:00am to 12:00pm. This event is one of two International Day of Women and Girls in Science events hosted by University of Florida’s Department of Physics. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Kathryn McGill has been selected for a 2022-2023 Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. These awards encourage and reward excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in teaching. Although many excellent teachers are nominated, only about five or six faculty are selected for the CLAS Teaching Award each […]
Image: An artist’s conception of the late-stage galaxy merger and its two central black holes. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF) Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences news feature Scientists Find Black Holes Tangled in Cosmic Dance Adark secret has been uncovered: Not one, but two supermassive black holes hide […]
Image: Image: Inside of the newly constructed CCM200 detector showing the 200 PMT light sensors (circles) and the interior walls coated with a special material to convert the argon scintillation light into visible light that can be detected by the photo-multiplier tubes. Dark sector particles that are produced in the beam […]
Professor Mark Meisel is the recipient of the UF Physics Teacher of the Year award for 2022. The award recognizes Prof Meisel for his commitment to engaging and inspiring his students and creating a positive and inclusive learning environment. In nominating Prof Meisel, students praised him for caring genuinely about […]
On Friday, December 9, the physics department hosted a graduate student pizza and poster event to announce physics graduate student award recipients for 2022. Congratulations to all the award recipients (listed below). Charles F. Hooper Jr. Memorial Award This award is made annually to senior graduate students in physics […]
Photo: UF Physics graduate student Alex Donald, who is mentored by Dr. Lucia Steinke, conducts the final review of the Bay 3 instrument in the MagLab HBT Facility in the Microkelvin Lab at UF, before adding the heat shields and vacuum cans and installing the superconducting magnets and cryogenic vessel. […]