Dr. Sotir Chervenkov receives Fulbright Fellowship – joins Popmintchev LABS
Congratulations to Fulbright Fellow Dr. Sotir Chervenkov on his project Coherent X-rays for Semiconductor Metrology and Imaging of Advanced Quantum Materials!
Awards
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 – Attosecond Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
UC San Diego Rises to No. 4 Among U.S. Public Universities in Academic Ranking of World Universities
The 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has recognized the University of California San Diego as No. 4 among public universities in the United States, rising one spot from last year. UC San Diego also jumped two spots to No. 19 in the world in the latest edition of the annual ranking released by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
UC San Diego Ranks 7th in the World for Most Influential Researchers
The University of California San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and ranks 7th highest among universities worldwide, according to Clarivate.
Sirius Song Receives 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Congratulations to Sirius Song on his project related to generation of coherent attosecond X-rays with orbital angular momentum, selected to receive the 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research Award!
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 – Chirped Pulse Amplification
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”, the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
Ziyi Zhao – William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Fellow!
Ziyi Zhao, B.Sc. candidate in Physics, receives William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Scholarship to work on coherent X-ray generation with arbitrary angular momentum properties! Congratulations! The William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Scholarship provides competitive funding for University of California San Diego undergraduates majoring in the Physical Sciences to conduct research projects[…]
Promise of UC San Diego Junior Faculty Gains Attention of Sloan Foundation
Four early-career scientists at the University of California San Diego have been recognized for their outstanding promise in the fields of physics and computational and evolutionary molecular biology.