UC Merced Physics

Fellow Mercedians, please join us for a public lecture and stargazing event on October 23. We are honored to have the lecture will given by the director of UC Observatories, Dr. Bruce Macintosh! All details can be found here: ucm.edu/e49fvk @bmac_astro @UCObservatories

Professor Anna Nierenberg has become the campus's 42nd recipient of the @NSF CAREER Award, a grant she will use to continue her studies into dark matter in the universe. 🔗 ucm.edu/us6mkz

Announcing @ucmerced's 42nd NSF CAREER award winner Physics Professor @annanierenberg. Nierenberg received this award for her research on dark matter using strong gravitational lensing. UC Merced has the most active CAREER awards in the UC system! news.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/nsf-…

Need a break from world events? Come to "Celestial Tales: Stars, Exoplanets, and the Myths that Connect Us". A FREE public lecture by two researchers from Kyoto University, followed by stargazing with the UCM astronomy club! Thursday March 6 at 7 PM. news.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/star…

Our colloquium speaker this Friday is Eleanor Tubman, who will give a talk entitled “Accelerating background ions in magnetised, collisionless shocks". Time and Location: Friday 31 Jan, 10:30 am; Granite Pass 135

Today's SLAAM seminar will be given by Dr. Yael Avni (University of Chicago) at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern time (US). Title: Statistical Physics of Multicomponent Systems with Non-Reciprocal Interactions

Join us today for a SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr. Helen Ansell (Emory University) at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern time US. Title: Tunable rheology in models of dense cellular tissue

Join us today for a SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr. Suchismita Das (ENS Paris) at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. Title: Flocking by turning away

Join us today for a SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr.  K. R. Prathyusha (Georgia Institute of Technology) at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. Title - Collective Dynamics of Active Polymers: From Clusters to Tangles Sign up to our mailing list here: sites.google.com/view/slaamsemi…

Today's SLAAM seminar will feature Dr. Ferdinand Greiss from the Weizmann Institute of Science at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET (US time). Title: Living matter from the bottom up with single DNA molecules

Calling all friends of physics: Join us for our famous pumpkin carving contest next Wednesday 10/30 in the physics lounge (ACS 238) starting at 6 PM:

We are delighted to announce the next SLAAM seminar, to be given by Dr. Roman Belousov (EMBL Heidelberg) today, at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET US. Title: Poissonian Cellular Potts Models

Our colloquium speaker this week is Dr. Joseph Wang from Oak Ridge National Laboratory who will give a talk titled "From quantum simulation to universal quantum computation" All are welcome, refreshments provided! Where: GRAN 135 When: Friday 10/18 10:30am

Happening today: Join us for a Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM) seminar, to be given by Dr. Sam Wilken (University of California, Santa Barbara) at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern time US. Title- Phase-separated DNA liquids: spatial organization and reaction control

Our colloquium speaker this week is Dr. Frank Narducci who will give a talk titled "Novel Atom Interferometer Sensors". All are welcome! Where: GRAN 135 When: Friday 10/4 10:30am

That feeling when you arrive in the morning and the department whiteboards are covered in work for your homework. Proud of our @UCMercedPhysics first year grad students for their hard work!!!

Physics seminar today! Our speaker is Dr. Carl B. Schroeder who will give a talk titled "Compact accelerators and photon sources using laser-driven plasma acceleration". All are welcome! Where: GRAN 135 When: Friday 9/27 10:30am

Join us for today's SLAAM seminar, will be given by Dr. Emiliano Perez Ipiña (Johns Hopkins University) at 10 am PT. Title: Cells in Motion​: The Interplay between Motility, Migration, and the Environment

Our seminar speaker this week is Dr. Quan Wang who will give an in-person talk titled "High-precision single-molecule spectroscopy and charge sensing in solution with an anti-Brownian trap". All are welcome! Where: GRAN 135 When: Friday 9/20 10:30am

Seminar time! This week we will hear from Dr. Barry Sanders of the University of Calgary on "Quantum Computation". All are welcome! Where: GRAN 135 When: Friday 9/13 👻 10:30am