Tanmaya Mishra, UF Physics graduate student, received the top award in the category of Mathematical and Physical Sciences for his presentation at the Conference of Florida Graduate Schools (CFGC) 2022 Statewide Graduate Research Symposium held at the University of Central Florida. Tanmaya collaborates with Professor Sergey Klimenko on applying machine learning […]
UF Physics is pleased to announce that three graduate students, Nathaniel Strauss, LingQin Xue and Ioannis Michaloliakos, were all recipients of the UF Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2021-2022. Graduate teaching assistants make a major contribution to teaching and learning at the University of Florida. Each academic year, the UF Graduate School recognizes the best, brightest […]
Congratulations to UF Physics undergraduate student, Bridgette Gifford, one of three graduating seniors who has been named a winner of the 2022 CLAS Excellence Award. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) initiated these awards in 2017, given out in a variety of categories including undergraduate, to those who […]
UF Physics is pleased to announce that recent Ph.D. recipient and AAUW American Dissertation Fellow Alexandria Tucker has been selected for the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend). This prestigious fellowship provides $300,000 to fund Dr. Tucker’s three-year postdoctoral research position with Professor Nicolas Yunes at the Illinois Center for Advanced […]
UF Physics professor Imre Bartos and collaborators provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now published in Nature, involves a chaotic triple drama inside a […]
On February 24 the physics department hosted an event in recognition of Professor Kevin Ingersent’s eight years of service as department chair. Kevin’s leadership was recognized by CLAS Dean David Richardson, physics chairman Stephen Hagen, and Professor John Yelton, who all thanked Kevin for his contributions throughout the years. The […]
Image: A still image from a numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only 3% more massive than the other. The simulated gravitational wave signal is consistent with the GW190521 observation made by […]
Professor Peter Hirschfeld is one of three winners of the 2022 John Bardeen Prize. The Bardeen Prize honors theoretical work in the field of superconductivity. The citation for the three winners, Jörg Schmalian, Mohit Randeria, and Peter Hirschfeld, reads, “For pioneering theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the […]
On December 20, the department celebrated the retirement of three long-serving physics faculty members, Distinguished Professor Art Hebard (1996), Professor Bernard Whiting (1989), and Professor Charles Thorn (1990). We wish them the best in their retirement, even though they all plan to continue working on physics projects.
On Friday, December 10, the physics department hosted a graduate student event to announce physics graduate student award recipients for 2021. Congratulations to all award recipients (listed below). Charles F. Hooper Jr. Memorial Award This award is made annually to senior graduate students in physics who have shown distinction […]