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THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT

The areas embraced by UCLA physics research span the range from the well-established disciplines of "big science," e.g. studying the Higgs Boson at the LHC, and frontier plasma science underpinning fusion energy to newly emerging fields such as the physics of neuroscience and quantum science.

In astronomy, UCLA faculty are pioneers in the areas of extra-solar system planets, galactic astronomy, and cosmology. This effort is uniquely enabled by the world-renowned capabilities in design and construction of infrared instrumentation by our Infrared Laboratory.

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Browse our latest Annual Report: Reflections

Watch Prof. Alice Shapley's Faculty Research Lecture

Physics & Astronomy Commencement 2023


Latest News

GLASS-JWST team, led by Prof Tommaso Treu confirms most distant cosmic structure known
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Following his election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Karoly Holczer delivered his acceptance lecture on April 26, 2023.
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Undergraduate Amanda Younes has been interviewed by New Scientist about her project 'cooling by heating'.
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Congratulations to Stephen Ebert, Tiema Qian, and Zhiwan Xu, who were each awarded a UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
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Events

FRI
JUN
09
  • 11:30AM to 12:30PM
  • PAB 4-330 / Via Zoom
Bruce A. Remington
National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

New regimes of materials science at ultrahigh pressures and densities*
Plasma Seminar