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. […]
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 […]
Dr. Ethan Siegel, a 2006 UF Physics PhD graduate (Prof. Jim Fry’s former student), will give a special event talk on Friday, October 21 at 4:05pm in NPB 1001. This talk, Bringing the Universe to the World, explores Dr. Siegel’s personal journey in building a career out of communicating science across the globe. Dr. Siegel’s publications […]
On October 5, the Physics Department recognized Custodian Appreciation Week with a small event to honor our custodial team. The Physics Building is large and complex, with laboratories, conference rooms, offices and classrooms that are used by thousands of students as well as faculty, staff and visitors. The Physics department […]
UF Physics graduate student, Antonios Kyriazis, has been awarded the Onassis Foundation Scholarship for 2022. As part of the scholarship, Antonios will earn $10,800 over the course of three years to concentrate on his research into particle physics and cosmology of axion dark matter. The Onassis Scholar’s Association first emerged […]
Source: UF News The Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials at the University of Florida has received a $12.6 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue its work developing next-generation quantum materials for advanced applications in computing and energy. UF Professor of Physics Hai-Ping Cheng leads the center […]
Source: UF News As part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (September 19-23), UF highlighted the research of a number of postdoctoral scholars and how they are affecting Florida and the future. UF’s feature included UF Physics postdoctoral associate, Marek Szczepanczyk, who is presently collaborating with Professor Sergey Klimenko. In the […]
Via UF News: The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day, 2021, and the instrument was so complex that it took months for us to peer through the new telescope. >> Read More
Professor Xiao-Xiao Zhang has been awarded the Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Award for 2022. Xiao-Xiao’s project, Optical manipulation of magnetic order in van der Waals heterostructures, will be funded by the DOE for five years. Xiao-Xiao is one of 83 US scientists who will receive this highly competitive award […]
Vishvas Pandey, a UF physics postdoc who has been collaborating on the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills at Los Alamos (CCM) and Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab (SBND) experiments with Professor Heather Ray, was recently awarded the Wilson Fellowship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. With the Wilson Fellowship, Vishvas will be taking an Associate […]