Dr. Keith Boyer has been selected as a recipient of the 2006 Los Alamos Medal Award. The Los Alamos Medal is the highest honor and most prestigious award given by the Los Alamos…
The January 13, 2006 issue of the Science magazine contains an article by Professor Mark Schlossman showing strong evidence that the interfacial liquid structure alters the ion distributions near a charged interface. You can read more…
The Sep 2005 issue of Physics Today contains an enthusiastic review of a much-anticipated book “The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics: From Confinement to Extreme Environment” by John Kogut and Professor Misha Stephanov. The reviewer…
Professor Juan Carlos Campuzano is on the International Organizing Committee for Mottness and Quantum Criticality Workshop to be held June 8-19, 2005 in Tobago, West Indies.
Stephen Shing Fan Yip, a junior in physics, has been awarded national Goldwater Scholarship for the 2005/2006 year. The scholarships are awarded to outstanding college sophomores and juniors studying mathematics, natural sciences or…
“Fermilab results of the week” describes work of Professor Cecilia Gerber and her research group (see the group photograph to the right), which resulted in developing a clever way to identify top quarks based on the spatial…
Three major UIC awards has been received in 2005 by our colleagues Juan Carlos Campuzano (University Scholars Award), W, Andreas Schroeder (UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching) and Dirk Morr (Teaching Recognition Program Award) In addition, Clive Halliwell was awarded 2004-2005…
Recent Ph.D. graduates Richard Hollis and Aneta Iordanova celebrated their wedding in England, with best-man and Thesis advisor Prof. David Hofman. The wedding came just days after their successful Thesis defenses. The day…
Physics Today, March 2005 issue, contains an article entitled “Extreme Nonlinear Optics: Coherent X Rays from Lasers” which on page 40 makes a reference to the first High-Harmonic Generation experiments performed by Professor Charles…
Fermilab Today from January 19, 2006 mentions studies made by Dzero collaboration of the products of extremely hard collisions between protons and their antimatter counterparts, antiprotons, at the Tevatron Collider. A measurement of the…
Shing Fan Yip was among 330 students nationwide to receive the 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This is a second year in a row, a physics undergraduate student…
The International Workshop on Lasers and Nuclei held in Karslruhe, Germany on 13-15 September, 2004 was devoted to Professor Charles Rhodes’ 1988 discovery of laser light induced nuclear fission. Through this development, nuclear reactions can now…
Professor Cecilia Gerber was featured in the July/August 2004 issue of the UIC Alumni Magazine in the article entitled “When Atoms Collide“. Here is an excerpt: “At the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia,…
Professor John Marko has agreed to join editorial board of the Physical Review E. He will handle submissions dealing with bio-materials, polymers and membranes.
Professor Nikos Varelas has agreed to take on the responsibility of overall coordination of Fermilab’s DZero trigger effort. He will serve as an associate to the DZero collaboration spokespersons and will guide the triggering effort…
An interview with Professor Siva Sivananthan, director of the microphysics laboratory, about the night-vision sensor manufacturing process, was featured in the April 2004 issue of Armed Forces Journal.
Professor Dirk Morr has been awarded a Research Fellowship from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Professor Morr is working on theories for strongly interacting electron systems, such as high-temperature superconductors, and quantum (zero temperature) phase…
Vladimir Skavysh, who is pursuing a dual major in mathematics and physics, was among 310 students nationwide to receive the award from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The…