November 1, 2018
…in the Department of Physics and at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. “I’m especially excited about being able to take this to communities where it is difficult for people to travel to see the night sky.” Astrophysicist and UC San Diego faculty member Shelley Wright. Photo courtesy of…
July 2, 2021
The American Physical Society has designated UC San Diego’s Mayer Hall as a historic site in recognition of the groundbreaking accomplishments of UC San Diego physicists Walter Kohn and Lu Sham and their development of the “Kohn-Sham equation.”
February 7, 2017
Sheldon “Shelly” Schultz, one of the founding members of the physics faculty at UC San Diego, who received world-wide acclaim for his contributions to the discovery of “metamaterials,” died on January 31 at his home in La Jolla, CA. He was 84.
April 22, 2021
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a theoretical model that describes how pelicans take advantage of wind updrafts generated by breaking waves to glide in a practice the scientists call wave-slope soaring.
August 21, 2017
…rest of us, seven physics professors from UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences became amateur daytime sky watchers on Monday, flying to different states to experience firsthand the wonders of the first total eclipse in the United States since 1979. Amazing! Totality in Rickreall, OR. The crickets…
October 31, 2019
…day is Halloween for physicist George Fuller, director for the Center of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego and one of the world’s leading “ghost” hunters. Fuller, a distinguished professor of physics at the university, has made his life’s work chasing down subatomic particles called neutrinos that are…
January 31, 2011
…received his doctorate in physics in 1964. He was one of the fortunate few students who worked alongside our world-renowned founding faculty and administrators in the early days, including the university's first chancellor, Herb York, and oceanographer Walter Munk. They had a tremendous influence on his career path, leading him…
May 24, 2018
…graduate student here in physics, and my Ph.D. was in space physics. While working as an associate researcher in physics, I met astronaut and educator Sally Ride who was also a physicist here on campus. I co-founded a STEM education company with her, Sally Ride Science, in 2001. The company…
December 17, 2019
Building upon decades of research on how to make boron carbide even more efficient, an engineering team at the University of Florida (UF) has been conducting simulations using SDSC’s Comet supercomputer to better understand the nanoscale level of this important material.
September 24, 2014
Keith Brueckner, University of California, San Diego’s founding physicist, died September 19. He was 90.
