Mark your calendars! UF Physics is inviting everyone to attend one or both of our “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” events next week on February 10 & 11. • Friday, Feb. 10: Public Lecture by Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul, Director of the UF Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, […]
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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 […]
‘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 […]
Kathryn McGill receives CLAS Teaching Award
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 […]
Astrophysicist Laura Blecha aids in discovery at the heart of a galactic merger
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 […]
First results reveal dark matter search power of Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills experiment
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 […]
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 […]