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Reading in Fall 2008'S Inside Physics F A L L 2 0 0 8 It has been another busy year; among these is the prestigious Dirac Medal year for us, with a number to Professor Joe Polchinski. See pages two and of new people joining the three for more details on this and other awards. Department. These include A major event that received worldwide attention Pierre Wiltzius, the new Susan recently was the startup of the Large Hadron & Bruce Worster Dean of Math- Collider (LHC) at the European Organization ematical, Life, and Physical for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Swit- Sciences at UCSB. Pierre was zerland. More than forty UCSB Physics faculty selected through a compre- members, graduate students, postdoctoral hensive international search researchers, engineers, technicians, and under- co-chaired by Jim Allen, my graduates have worked for eight years to help predecessor as Department construct part of the experimental apparatus Chair. We are very fortunate to that will be used in an international effort to try have been able to recruit Pierre away from the to answer fundamental questions about the uni- Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. We verse. The UCSB group has played a key role in warmly welcome him back to UCSB; at an early constructing the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), stage of his distinguished career, he worked as a complex array of instruments for detecting sub- a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor atomic particles that weighs more than 12,000 David Cannell. tons and is as tall as a four-story building. See We also welcome four other new faculty: Assistant page three for more details. Professors Ben Mazin and Ben Monreal, Adjunct While we should certainly take note of our Assistant Professor Andy Howell (also a member successes, many challenges remain for the of the scientific staff of Las Cumbres Observa- Department. We continue to burst at the seams tory), and Lecturer Doug Folsom. Recruitment in Broida Hall, and expanded space for our of top quality faculty is one of our highest priori- research and teaching efforts is a top priority. From the Chair ties, as we strive to maintain the highest levels of Complicating planning for this is the unfortunate excellence in research, education, and outreach. fact that the fiscal situation of the University, You can read more about our new appointments and the state of California as a whole, remains on page two. unsettled; we are certainly not immune to the This year, we will continue searches for new fac- financial turmoil that has been so prominent in ulty. The areas of research that we are targeting the news. Nevertheless, given the prodigious include experimental biophysics and experimen- talent, dedication, and expertise of our faculty, tal condensed-matter physics. Recruitment of staff, and students, we can only be optimistic as a senior faculty member in these areas will be we look towards a future of exciting new scien- greatly aided by the newly endowed June and tific developments to be explored. Guenter Ahlers Chair in Experimental Phys- ics (see page seven). The Department and I are enormously grateful to the Ahlers’ for the high level of confidence they have expressed in our future through this generous gift. Mark Srednicki We are pleased to note that our current faculty Department Chair continued to receive numerous awards this past UCSB Physics Faculty News Appointments Awards and Honors Pierre Wiltzius was named Dean Joseph Polchinski, Professor of of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Physics and permanent member Sciences at UCSB. Previously, he was of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical director of the Beckman Institute for Physics, has been awarded the 2008 Advanced Science and Technology Dirac Medal, one of the world’s most at the University of Illinois at Urbana- prestigious prizes in physics. Champaign. Wiltzius is a highly re- garded researcher and pioneer in Polchinski is one of three scientists to share the 2008 award, the areas of soft-condensed matter, colloidal self-assembly, which was announced by the Abdus Salam International photonic crystals, and microphotonics. Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. Polchin- Ben Mazin, Assistant Professor at ski will travel to Trieste in March 2009 to accept the medal UCSB Physics, attended Yale Univer- and cash prize. sity, graduating in 1997. Ben went to the California Institute of Technology, Guenter Ahlers received the graduating with a doctorate in Astro- 2007 Fluid Dynamics Prize from the physics in 2004. After a short postdoc American Physical Society for “pio- at Cal Tech, Ben worked as a scientist neering experimental work on fluid at Jet Proplusion Labs. instabilities, low-dimensional chaos, pattern formation, and turbulent Ray- Benjamin Monreal is an Assistant leigh-Benard convection.” The prize, Professor. He received his BS from Yale awarded by the American Physical Society, is for outstand- in 1999 and his PhD from MIT in 2004. ing contributions to fundamental fluid dynamics research. He works on experimental problems on the intersection of nuclear and 2 particle physics and astrophysics, with The UCSB Academic Senate has a particular interest in new detector bestowed its highest honor on David technologies. Awschalom, who was named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2008. Andy Howell is an Assistant Adjunct The Senate noted that Awschalom Professor and member of the Las Cum- “has made remarkable contributions to bres Obervatory (LCO). A supernova our campus in the fields of physics and observer, he received his BS in Astron- engineering.” Awschalom’s research omy at the University of Florida in group explores magnetic and electron spin dynamics within 1995, his MS in Astronomy at the Uni- a variety of semiconductor-based nanoscale systems. versity of Texas, where he also received his PhD in Astronomy in 2000. Tommaso Treu received UCSB’s Doug Folsom, Lecturer, is a UCSB 2007-08 Harold J. Plous Award, one graduate, receiving his MA in Phys- of the University’s most prestigious ics in 2000 and MS in Media Arts faculty honors. The award was estab- and Technology in 2004. He was a lished to honor Harold J. Plous, an Lecturer for the Department for two Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Depart- quarters before accepting a teach- ment of Economics until his untimely ing position in the College of Creative death in 1957. The award is presented annually to an Studies from 2004-2006. Doug returns Assistant Professor based on outstanding performance to UCSB after a two year hiatus, which he spent as a profes- and promise as measured by creative action and contribu- sional guitar player. tion to the intellectual life of the college community. Faculty News Awards and Honors continued News The silicon tracker of the Compact David Gross, director of UCSB’s Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics – of which Joseph Incandela is the and co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, received the follow- US Project Leader – has been installed. ing honors in the past academic year: In December 2007, scientists of the US Associate Fellow, TWAS (Academy of CMS collaboration joined colleagues Sciences for the Developing World), around the world in announcing the elected 2007; Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Univer- successful installation of the world’s largest silicon track- sity of the Philippines, Manila, 2008; Doctor Philosophiae ing detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Just before Honoris Causa, De La Salle University, Manila, 2008; Doc- midnight on December 12, the six-ton CMS Silicon Strip tor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Cambridge, Tracking Detector began a ten-mile, three-hour journey England, 2008; Buhl Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, from the main CERN site to the CMS experimental facility. 2007; Rothschild Lecture, Cambridge University, 2007; Later that day, workers carefully lowered it 90 meters into Brickwedde Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, 2007; Van the underground collision hall for the CMS experiment at Vleck Lecture, Minnesota, 2008. the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. Mark Sherwin (left) and Of the CMS collaboration’s approximately 2,300 physicists, collaborators (including about 500 are US scientists, from more than 45 U.S. uni- Phil Lubin, right) were versities and Fermilab, supported by the Department of awarded a $1.75M grant Energy and the National Science Foundation. The US is from the Keck Foundation the largest single national group in the experiment, and to use the Free Electron US scientists have built and delivered several key elements Laser (FEL) to study the motion of proteins. of the CMS detector to CERN. Daniel Hone was awarded the 3 Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Profes- Hubble Telescope Helps Physicists sorship for 2007-08 by the Council of Find ‘Double Einstein Ring’ UC Emeriti Associations. The award recognizes academic emeriti who Assistant Professor Tommaso Treu and former UCSB continue to make significant con- Physics postdoc Raphael Gavazzi (now at the Institut tributions in the areas of university d’Astrophysique de Paris) have made an impressive astro- service, teaching, and research. nomical discovery -- a form of gravitational lensing called a “double Einstein ring.” This phenomenon has never UCSB Physics ranked among the Top Ten Graduate been observed before. The discovery was made using the Schools in US World News and Report. These data come Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Lens Advanced from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and some Camera for Surveys (SLACS) program. 14,000 academics and professionals that were conducted in fall 2007. In gravitational lensing, light from distant galaxies is • Number 10: Best Graduate School -- Physics deflected on its way to Earth by the gravitational field of • Number 4: Best Graduate School -- Condensed Matter any massive object that lies in the way. Because of this • Number 7: Best Graduate School -- Elementary Particles/Field/ light bending, the galaxy is distorted into an arc or multi- String Theory ple separate images.
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