• The Reines Lecture Series honors Frederick Reines, UCI's Founding Dean of Physical Sciences and co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for discovering the neutrino. The 2024 Reines Lecturer will be Professor Andrea Ghez of UCLA, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for her transformative research on the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Please join us for this public event on March 12, 2024 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

  •  

    UCI hosted the Conference for Undergraduate

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

    It was attended by more than 300 students.

  •  
    Professor Clare Yu is
    named a member by the
    American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  •  

    UCI-initiated hunt for

    new particles at the

    Large Hadron Collider

    gets underway

  •  
     
    Success Through
    Peer Mentoring:
     
    The Physics & Astronomy
    department has introduced
    peer mentoring for
    all students!
  • Steven White, an expert in

    quantum and computational physics,

    is one of the latest researchers from the 

    University of California, Irvine to be

    elected to the prestigious 

    National Academy of Sciences.

  • From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics

    Thursday, April 07, 2022 | 03:30 pm

  • Franklin Dollar, assistant professor of physics & astronomy, grew up on a reservation in a home with no electricity. Now he studies ultra-high-intensity laser-plasma interactions and works to increase diversity in scientific fields. 

  • Professors Jonathan Feng and Tim Tait have shown that puzzling data in nuclear physics can be explained by a fifth fundamental force of nature with implications for the unification of forces and efforts to understand the dark matter that pervades the universe.

  • A model showing the earth, center, and the surrounding galaxies frames the UC Irvine Observatory and portable telescopes set up to view the transit of Venus on June 5, 2012.

  • Energetic light seen radiating from the center of the Milky Way may be the best evidence yet of dark matter.

    SPACE.com

  • With his power tools, physics and chemistry professor Wilson Ho

    sheds light on molecules and atoms in action.

    Touring his lab is like a trip to Radio Shack,

    a high school metalworking shop and the set of

    "Battlestar Galactica" all rolled into one.

  • UC Irvine cosmologist James Bullock helps people see the

    really big picture — from the Milky Way to the

    farthest reaches of the universe.

     

    Professor Bullock starred as a co-host for the

    National Geographic television special, "Inside the Milky Way."

Seminars, Colloquia & Faculty Meetings

Tue, 09/24/2024
11:00 am
Han Htoon
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wed, 10/02/2024
11:00 am
Takeo Moroi
Tokyo University
TBD
Wed, 10/02/2024
Takeo Moroi
University of Tokyo
Thu, 10/03/2024
11:00 am
Arnas Volcokas
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Wed, 10/09/2024
11:00 am
Katie Frazer
UC Berkeley
TBA

Support Physics & Astronomy

Scientists in the Department of Physics & Astronomy are working to expand our knowledge of the Universe, the laws of physics, and the behavior of matter and energy by examining everything from the smallest particles to the vast expanses of the cosmos. Your support will help continue impactful research and education. For more information on supporting the department's research  programs contact Marijana Lekousis at marijana@uci.edu.