UCI Physics and Astronomy

CUWiP: APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

UCI hosted the Conference for Undergraduate

Women in Physics [CUWiP], January 18-19, 2020.

It was attended by more than 300 students.
American Academy Membership

Professor Clare Yu is

named a member by the

American Academy of Arts & Sciences
FASER Collaboration

UCI-initiated hunt for

new particles at the

Large Hadron Collider

gets underway
Peer Mentoring

Success Through

Peer Mentoring:

The Physics & Astronomy

department has introduced

peer mentoring for

all students!

News & Events

Wed, 05/19/2021

UCI-led team challenges existence of recently proposed exoplanet at Barnard’s star

Tue, 05/18/2021

The singing UCI Nobel Laureate who nearly bombed Nevada

Tue, 05/18/2021

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument team begins 3D mapping of universe

Wed, 05/05/2021

UCI Professor Huolin Xin Receives MRS and MSA Awards

Fri, 04/30/2021

UCI Professor Huolin Xin Receives 2021 Beall Innovation Award in the Physical Sciences

Thu, 04/29/2021

Professor Zuzanna Siwy Recipient of the Inaugural 2021 Carol Connor Equity Advisor Impact Award

Seminars, Colloquia & Faculty Meetings

Tue, 10/19/2021

7:30 pm

Samuel C. C. Ting

MIT, Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor of Physics

2021 Reines Lecture: Title TBN

Physics Department Colloquium

Thu, 10/21/2021

3:30 pm

Samuel C. C. Ting

MIT, Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor of Physics

Special Colloquium by Professor Sam Ting

Physics & Astronomy Event

Tue, 04/05/2022

7:30 pm

Donna Strickland

University of Waterloo

Reines Lecture: Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses

Physics & Astronomy Event

Thu, 04/07/2022

3:30 pm

Donna Strickland

University of Waterloo

Special Colloquium by Professor Donna Strickland: From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics

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