Department of Physics at UC Santa Cruz

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AT UCSC offers students an outstanding academic experience. A national survey ranked the overall satisfaction with the physics graduate program at UCSC the highest in the nation. [More]

In a report by the Institute for Scientific Information, UCSC Physics' professional papers had the highest citation rate of any university physics department in the country. With a strong condensed matter physics group and with our close connection to the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) and scientific associations with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) at Stanford, the UC Observatories, and various x-ray and neutron scattering centers at national laboratories we continue to provide exceptional research opportunities to our students.

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Black Holes + Dark Matter = Light. Stefano Profumo of the UC Santa Cruz Physics Department, and his colleagues calculated how electrons in jets spat out of a suppermassive black hole would interact with any surrounding dark matter. [More]

20 Grads in 20 Days: Saahil Shenoy [More]

President Obama Celebrates Laser Anniversary [More]

Gey-Hong Gweon to receive 2010 UCSC Teaching Excellence Award [More]

Michael Dine elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences [More]

Spring Quarter Astronomy Research Social, Tuesday, June 1, 2010 [More]

UC Santa Cruz is hosting the 5th Annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, 15-17 January 2010 [More]

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2010-2011 [More]

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211 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
University of California
1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone: 831-459-3744
Fax: 831-459-3043
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