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.

UCI-initiated hunt for

new particles at the

Large Hadron Collider

gets underway

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."