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 […]
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Mark Meisel is recognized as Physics Teacher of the Year
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 […]
Graduate Student Awards 2022
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 […]
NSF renews funding for UF Physics’ Mag Lab
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. […]
Exoplanets Research Team wins Machine Learning Data Challenge
The UF Physics exoplanets research team wins the Ariel Machine Learning Data Challenge, an official event at the NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference this year (https://nips.cc/). Ariel is the next large European Space Agency mission to be launched in 2029, which will observe the atmospheres of thousands of extrasolar […]
Physics undergraduates win first place in AI Hackathon
Congratulations to Physics undergraduate students Sydnee O’Donnell and Oscar Barrera who recently participated in UF’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Days 24-hour Hackathon and won first place! As part of UF’s AI Days initiative, teams were assigned the task of developing a software application to develop a solution for greater global awareness and […]
Neil Sullivan wins Jesse W. Beams Award of the American Physical Society
UF Physics Professor Neil Sullivan has been awarded the 2022 Jesse W. Beams Research Award of the American Physical Society. Since 1973, the Jesse Beams Award has been given annually by the Southeastern Section of the APS (SESAPS), to recognize especially significant or meritorious research carried out by a physicist […]
Spring 2023 CLAS Dissertation Fellowship Recipients
Each fall the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) awards approximately fifteen one-semester dissertation fellowships to deserving graduate students whose projects are judged by the selection committee to be highly meritorious. Successful applicants receive a stipend and paid tuition during the following spring semester. The following physics graduate students […]
UF Physics Professor receives grant to study molecules involved in key cellular processes
Source: UF Health Cancer Center Juan Guan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of physics in the University of Florida College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to explore the mechanisms behind the assembly and regulation of non-canonical biomolecular condensates. […]
Recent Physics Graduate Wins UF’s AI Competition
Fire Neural Network, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup co-founded by Dr. Istvan Kereszy (UF Physics PhD Fall 2021) and Physics faculty Imre Bartos, won 1st Prize at the University of Florida’s AI days pitch competition, having been selected out of 28 startups. Fire Neural Network (FNN) uses artificial intelligence along […]