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Recent News Around the Department

The little black box that could

<b>The little black box that could</b> […]

Alex Demkov receives 2011 IBM Faculty Award

UT Physics Professor Alex Demkov has received a 2011 IBM Faculty Award. He is one of only two physicists to receive it this year. […]

Cécile DeWitt-Morette named Officer in French Legion of Honor

Cécile DeWitt-Morette, the Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics, was recently promoted to the rank of Officer in the French Legion of Honor. The Order is the highest decoration in France, and her promotion within the Order is a major honor. While the exact reasons for receiving the honor are never specified, it recognizes Cécile’s continuing contribution to French science and culture. […]

Texas students explore nanoworld at UT

The 5th Annual Summer Nanoscience Academy took place July 7–9 in the Center for Nano-Molecular Science and Technology building for a hands-on approach to learning about nanoscience. […]

Professor Downer joins UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers

The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Dr. Mike Downer has been elected to the UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers. This is one of the highest awards this University offers for teaching excellence. […]

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February 23 11:00 RLM 7.124
Neutrinos, Eigenmaps, and Hedge Funds
February 23 12:00 RLM 11.238
Optically Induced Spin Hall Effect
February 23 12:30 RLM 9.202
Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
February 23 15:30 RLM 9.202
Members of the Center for Relativity meet to discuss their work
February 24 14:00 RLM 5.124
Energy transfer in double layer Graphene
February 24 14:00 RLM 11.204
Plasma effective charge (Z_eff): What it is? Why it is hard to measure it? And how to get it if you can't measure it?
February 24 16:00 RLM 7.104
Toward single-cycle pulse generation in synthetic single-crystal diamond
February 28 14:00 RLM 7.104
Flavored Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Collider Signals
February 28 15:00 RLM 11.204
Megagauss, MegaAmps for Magnetized Plasma Experiments
February 28 17:00 RLM 7.104
Epi-Optics!
February 29 12:00 RLM 9.166
Topics of interest to Physicists and Mathematicians
February 29 16:15 RLM 4.102
The Impacts of Space Weather on Society and the Economy
March 1 12:30 RLM 9.202
Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
March 1 15:30 RLM 7.104
Shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum devices
March 1 15:30 RLM 9.202
Members of the Center for Relativity meet to discuss their work
March 2 14:00 RLM 11.204
Magnetic reconnection in high energy density laser produced plasmas
March 2 15:00 ENS 16N
Diphoton Physics at the LHC with the ATLAS Experiment
March 5 16:00 RLM 11.204
Neutrino Oscillations: An Important Crack in the Standard Model
March 6 14:00 RLM 7.104
Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian
March 6 16:00 ENS 16N
Constraining Electron Neutrino Background for Low Energy Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
March 6 17:00 RLM 7.104
Using physics to probe multicellular biology: bacterial biofilms!
March 7 16:15 RLM 4.102
Quantum Mechanics and Space-time in the 21st century
March 8 14:00 RLM 5.112
Effects of initial wave function on non-gaussianity during inflation
March 8 15:00 ENS 16N
Looking for the Higgs in WW decays at ATLAS
March 9 15:00 RLM 11.204
The Higgs Search at the Large Hadron Collider