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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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Kathryn McGill receives CLAS Teaching Award

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 […]

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ALMA Scientists Find Pair of Black Holes Dining Together in Nearby Galaxy Merger
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— and international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)— scientists discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest together that scientists have ever observed in multiple wavelengths. What’s more, the new research reveals that binary black holes and the galaxy mergers that create them may be surprisingly commonplace in the Universe.

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 […]

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