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Berkeley physicist Saul Perlmutter and Berkeley Lab colleagues helped spark the idea behind NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Now, Roman could uncover thousands of planets, hundreds of black holes, and new clues to dark energy.
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10/19 Physics Colloquium: MIT physicist Long Ju explores how rhombohedral graphene—a simple form of carbon—can host chiral superconductivity, novel electron crystals, and exotic quantum states. events.berkeley.edu/physics/…
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10/19 Condensed Matter Seminar: Alexander Weber-Bargioni explores how engineering materials atom by atom can create quantum emitters and pave the way toward entangled quantum states. events.berkeley.edu/physics/…
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Nobel laureate Francis Halzen, principal investigator of IceCube, comes to Berkeley Nov. 16 for the Emilio Segrè Lecture! Discover how a telescope buried beneath Antarctic ice is opening a new window on the universe. #BerkeleyPhysics #Neutrinos
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11/02/26 Basic Science Lights the Way presents: More than the Sum of Its Parts: "Emergence" in Physics and Mathematics. This conversation features several Berkeley Physics scientists. Register here to join via Zoom: basicscience.berkeley.edu/
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Berkeley physicists helped turn a bold idea into IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino telescope central to Nobel Prize-winning science.
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Where will the Higgs boson take us? Join UC Berkeley physicist Haichen Wang for a Physics Colloquium exploring the latest in Higgs physics—and how new technologies and quantum effects could reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. events.berkeley.edu/physics/…
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How do liquids move at the mesoscale? Join Alfred Q.R. Baron of RIKEN SPring-8 Center on 10/12 for a Condensed Matter Seminar on probing liquid dynamics with high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering.
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A new chapter begins for the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Berkeley, as Hitoshi Murayama takes the helm as the institute’s new director. #TheoreticalPhysics #BerkeleyPhysics #LITP
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Berkeley Physics is conducting a broad open search for Assistant Professor in space sciences, astrophysics, and experimental nuclear and particle physics. Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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Berkeley Physics is conducting a search for Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Experiment. Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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Berkeley Physics is conducting a search for Assistant Professor in Atomic, Molecular, & Optical (AMO) Physics Theory. Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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Could exotic fields be hiding in plain sight? 10/05 Derek Jackson Kimball explores how spin-based quantum sensors could detect ultralight fields such as axions—and potentially uncover signals from black holes across our galaxy. events.berkeley.edu/physics/…
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What happens when light meets matter at the nanoscale? Monday, October 5 Johannes Lischner explores light–matter interactions in twisted multilayers and plasmonic nanoparticles—from trapped excitons to energetic “hot carriers.” events.berkeley.edu/physics/…
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Congratulations to Professor R. Ramesh, who has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering! raeng.org.uk/about-us/fellow…
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Hernan Garcia, recipient of a 2026 Schmidt Polymaths Award! The award recognizes bold science and funds ambitious new directions beyond researchers’ established areas of expertise. physics.berkeley.edu/news/he…
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Monday, September 28 the Physics Condensed Matter Seminar will be presented by Evyatar Tulipman of Stanford University. Join us for his lecture: Bad metallicity in the semi-quantum regime of the Hubbard model. events.berkeley.edu/physics/…
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Join us Monday, September 28 as Assistant Professor Chiara Salemi presents: Tuning in to axion dark matter: How we search for an “invisible” particle with powerful magnets and quantum sensors.
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Berkeley Physics faculty Mike Crommie and Feng Wang are part of a Berkeley Lab-led team getting a remarkable close-up look at electrons inside ultrathin semiconductors. newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/09/1…
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Can particles separated by micrometers still be indistinguishable? Join us Monday, September 21 at 4:15 in #1 Physics North for the Physics Colloquium featuring Hartmut Haeffner as he explores trapped-ion quantum statistics and exchange phases.
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