Professor David Hofman joined other faculty from UIC, Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern and University of Chicago to discuss their research at Bar Louie. Professor Hofman talked about the “State of the Universe, Less Than a…
Physics postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yadav Pandit led an analysis published in Physical Review Letters 112, 162301 (2014) that ?found evidence consistent with a first-order phase transition from hadronic matter to the quark gluon…
On April 2, 2014, Professor Dirk Morr gave a Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) talk at UIC comparing the “futuristic” technology featured on the TV series Star Trek to what real…
Professor Dirk Morr was featured in an interview on the Chicago Tonight program talking about the real physics behind star trek and how science fiction can become science fact. You can view his…
Professor Nikos Varelas has been named a LAS Distinguished Professor in the 2014-2015 academic year. The award “recognizes exceptional faculty for their contributions to the LAS and UIC communities, as well as for…
Graduate student John Van Dyke, his advisor professor Dirk Morr, and collaborators have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAOS) entitled “Direct evidence for a magnetic f-electron-mediated pairing mechanism…
Graduate student Canhui Wang and Professor Robert Klie have captured atomic-level photos of the molecule ferritin in its natural state. According to Wang, they found a way to “encapsulate” the molecule between two…
Professor Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi is among the first large-scale users of UIC’s new Extreme High Performance Computing Cluster that officially opened in February 2014. At a cost of $2.4 million and stored in the Roosevelt…
Congratulations to Professor Misha Stephanov, who was elected as an American Physical Society Fellow! Professor Stephanov’s citation reads: “For seminal contributions to the theory of high energy density strongly interacting matter, and to the…
Professor Nikos Varelas joined Urbana-Champaign’s Associate Professor Mark Neubauer in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the U.S.’s contribution to particle physics (the discovery of the Higgs boson, in particular) and to generally spread awareness…
Professor W. Andreas Schroeder, along with graduate students Ben Rickman, Joel Berger, and collaborator Alan Nicholls (UIC-RRC), has published a significant study in Physical Review Letters on the effect of electron effective mass on the divergence of electrons…
On December 3, 2013, LAS Distinguished Professor Siva Sivananthan gave an hour-long webinar hosted by American Physics Society (APS) and moderated by Georgia State University’s Professor Unil Perera dissecting the trials and tribulations…
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Nikos Varelas has been named a 2013 AAAS Fellow for his contributions to the field of experimental particle physics. One of only 388 American Association for…
Professor Cecilia Gerber is a manager on the project for a brand-new pixel detector designed and built by a team at Fermilab in collaboration with 19 U.S. universities (including University of Illinois at…
The department of physics welcomes new faculty member Assistant Professor Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi to the Department and to UIC. Professor Khalili-Araghi earned her PhD in computational biological physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and did her postdoctoral work…
Professor Nikos Varelas has been selected as a University Scholar for 2013. The University Scholars Program was created to honor and reward outstanding teachers and scholars. In 2013, 14 awards were made, with…
Professor Ho-Ung Yee is one of four co-editors of the new book “Lecture Notes in Physics: Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields” out in 2013 from Springer Publishing. The book is described as…
On June 25, UIC Physics Professor Nikos Varelas participated in the user facilities panel discussion at the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) Leadership Forum Series with Reps. Hultgren, Lipinski, and Foster. The…
LAS distinguished professor Sivalingam Sivananthan was one of eleven people named as Immigrant Innovator “Champions of Change” by the White House. The Champions event highlights immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs-the best and brightest from…
LAS distinguished professor Siva Sivananthan was elected SPIE Fellow for his contributions to the development of II-VI photovoltaic materials. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving…