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News and Events

UMass physicists in the news!

The Large Hadron Collider came on line again this week, and the UMass ATLAS group of Brau, Dallapiccola, and Willocq are back in the hunt for the Higgs boson and for other new physics.
Link to news release.

Andrea Pocar and UMass colleague Krishna Kumar have been funded by the NSF to work on the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) experiment, to study neutrinoless double beta decay deep in a salt mine in New Mexico.
Link to news release.

UMass theorists Prokof'ev, Svistunov and their student Gunes Soyler have recently proposed a dislocation-mediated mechanism for the supersolid properties of Helium. Soyler has gone on to a prestigious postdoc at ICTP, Trieste.
Link to news release that discusses this and related work by UMass experimentalist Bob Hallock and graduate student Michael Ray.

More news and events

Santangelo wins CAREER award

New super-resolution microscopy facility for biophysics funded

Welcome to the new graduate class!

Adrian Parsegian joins the department as first incumbent of Gluckstern Chair

College of Natural Sciences Outstanding Research award goes to computational physics duo

Dean's Service award to Ryan and Hertzbach

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Upcoming Seminars

Departmental Colloquium
Discovering Extra Dimensions and Black Holes with Early LHC Data
Greg Landsberg
Wed, Feb 10 at Hasbrouck 124
Condensed Matter Seminar
Energy Transport in One Dimensional Systems
Onuttom Narayan
Thu, Feb 11 at LGRT 1033
Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Review on New Massive Gravity
Luca Grisa
Thu, Feb 11 at LGRT 1634
High Energy/Nuclear Seminar
Teaching Quantum Tunneling
Guy Blaylock
Fri, Feb 12 at LGRT 1033
Condensed Matter Seminar
Mechanical unfolding of single RNA molecules at non-equilibrium
Pan Li
Thu, Feb 18 at LGRT 1033

more seminars...



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