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Welcome to the website of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside.
The Department has an established undergraduate program with 60 students majoring in physics and a very active research program with 30 postgraduate researchers and over 100 graduate students. There are 29 faculty active in research, 12 emeritus faculty, and 5 adjunct, visiting, and cooperating faculty. Our department is expanding and increasing the number of its students and faculty, as is UCR as a whole. We have programs in Astrophysics and Space Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics, High Energy Physics, Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, and Surface Physics. These programs use facilities located on the campus and at national laboratories and facilities located around the world.
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Voice: (951) 827-5331
Fax: (951) 827-4529
The 68th Physical Electronics Conference, including the prestigious Nottingham Prize Competition for best presentation based on doctoral research, will be held at the University of California, Riverside. This topical conference provides an annual forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research results in the physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces.
Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, who joined UCR in 2004 as
an assistant professor of physics, has been awarded a
CAREER award, the National Science Foundation’s
prestigious honor for new faculty researchers. Lau’s
research focuses on novel electrical properties that arise
from the quantum confinement of atoms and charges to
nanoscale systems.
Her research helps physicists gain fundamental understanding of how atoms and electrons behave when they are ruled by quantum mechanics. The 5-year, $500,000 CAREER award will support Lau’s study of the electrical properties of graphene, which is a single layer of graphite.
On June 17, 2008, Dr. Gary Zank, Professor of Physics, will be giving the Distinguished Lecture on heliospheric science at the 2008 AOGS meeting.
The AOGS is an international community of scientists who will be discussing research in geosciences at the fifth meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Scientists studying Atmospheric Science, Hydrological Science, Planetary Science, Solar Terrestrial Science, Solid Earth Science, Ocean Science or Interdisciplinary Working Groups were invited to this assembly of intellectual exchange.
Solar Terrestrial lecturers were selected by the AOGS council. This invitation is based upon exemplary track record of excellent science on heliospheric science, plasma turbulence, and particle acceleration.
Not only does Prof. Zank teach Physics, but is also involved in several experimental and observational programs, both directly and as a guest investigator. These are the Voyager Interstellar Mission (magnetometer), European Space Agency (ESA) ROSETTA ORBITER plasma package (ROPP), two proposed small explorer (SMEX) satellites, one called IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) with Southwest Research Institute and the other called PATH (Particle Acceleration in Turbulent Plasmas) with the University of Michigan, the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) (as a guest investigator) and Ulysses (as a guest investigator), and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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