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Mitchell Summer Research Scholarships Awarded!
Three of our physics majors have been awarded Mitchell Scholarships to do research with physics faculty this summer. Peter Breiding has been awarded $5,000 to work with Professor Gallagher designing and building a new tunable laser, Davis van Petten ... More >
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Loomis and Popovic Win Presidential Research Poster Competition
From UVaToday: "University of Virginia student researchers offered unique perspectives on the physical, legal and political worlds Friday as they presented their findings in the second annual Presidential Research Poster Competition at the Rotunda. ... More >
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UVa Credited with Originating National Physics Day
From physicscentral: "Physics fans, rejoice! April 24th is National Physics Day, and physics enthusiasts across the country are celebrating with fun physics demonstrations, public lectures, and other science events. More >
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Tenth Physics Department Research Poster Competition Winners
During the week of April 2 through April 6, 2012, the Physics department held a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition was open to all students who had entered their third year in the graduate program and beyond. ... More >
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Jefferson Lab Searches for Heavy Photons Highlighted in Nature
From Nature News in Focus "In a three-week experiment due to start on 24 April, the electrons will crash into a thin tungsten target at 500 million times a second, creating a cascade of short-lived particles. Amid the debris, physicists with the Heavy ... More >
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National Physics Day
In celebration of National Physics Day, the 18th annual University of Virginia physics demonstration show will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evening, April 25, 2012, in room 203 of the Physics Building, 382 McCormick Road. This highly anticipated ... More >
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Tenth Physics Department Research Poster Competition
During the week of April 2 through April 6, 2012, the Physics department will hold a poster competition to highlight graduate student research. The competition will be open to all students who have entered their third year in the graduate program and ... More >
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Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting
On Saturday, March 31, 2012, Diana Vaman and UVa's Physics Department will play host to the Virginia and Maryland String and Particle Theory Meeting. For more see: http://www.phys.virginia.edu/Announcements/Meetings/Particle2012/ More >
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UVa Researchers Featured in APS Synopses
From APS Synopsis: Getting Under the Neutron Skin Heavy nuclei are believed to have a neutron-rich skin on the surface, and the thickness of this skin may have important implications for the physics of neutron stars. More >
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Cox Highlighted in Virginia Magazine
Brad Cox comments upon the LHC's search for the Higgs boson. For more: http://uvamagazine.org/university_digest/article/picking_up_the_subatomic_pieces More >
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Introductory Lab Instructor
The Department of Physics at the University of Virginia invites applications for a Faculty position with the academic rank of Lecturer to serve as Introductory Lab Instructor. This is a non-tenure-track academic position, beginning Spring 2012. The ... More >
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Bloomfield Makes Cents in Huffington Post
Prof. Bloomfield considers pennies from heaven (AKA the Empire State Building): 'If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead — "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And ... More >
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UVa team and collaborators measure ultra-fast protons in nuclei
The atomic nucleus is made of confined nucleons in constant motion dominated by their interactions with the mean field of the nucleus - that is the average potential generated the many body system. This mean field spawned motion is called the Fermi ... More >
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2012 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics Annual Lecture
The 2012 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics Annual Lecture, which will be held in the Physics Department, Room 203, on Thursday, March 15, at 3:30 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by Professor William Marciano, a prominent theoretical ... More >
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Dukes' NOvA Work Highlighted in A&S Magazine
From the Fall 2011 Arts and Sciences Magazine, "Toward a New College": "Without this asymmetry, without this slight abundance of matter over antimatter, there would be nothing," says Craig Dukes More >
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Random Roads Less Travelled
A uniform city street plan may produce heavy traffic everywhere, whereas a random network of road connections leaves some roads open, according to a mathematical model.
Image: A. Chesseron & I. Neri/Univ. of Montpellier 2
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Ultrasound Cleans with a Twist
A rapidly expanding and collapsing microbubble in a fluid exerts forces strong enough to roll submerged particles stuck to a solid surface, which may explain how ultrasonic cleaning of jewelry and silicon wafers in a liquid removes dirt.
Image: C.-D. Ohl/Nanyang Tech. Univ.
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Pioneer Anomaly is Fading
Analysis of newly retrieved navigational data for the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft suggests that an anomalous acceleration in their motion is steadily decreasing, pointing to asymmetric radiation of heat as the likely cause, rather than the more exotic explanations previously proposed
Image: NASA
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