SCIPP News

November 11, 2009: SCIPP Member Michael Dine is quoted in New Scientist, "In SUSY we trust: What the LHC is really looking for"

November 9, 2009: SCIPP Member Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz & UCSC astrophysicists have developed supercomputer simulations
of colliding white dwarfs, providing a new path to detonate "standard candle" type Ia supernovae. A new study published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and featured in a Scientific American  article.

"7.3 Billion Years Later, Einstein's Theory Prevails"
A New York Times article on 29 October features a result from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope about interesting new limits on models of quantum gravity using faraway gamma-ray bursts.  The results are published in Nature.

UCSC/SCIPP Associate Director Robert Johnson to give a talk on Fermi at the SFAA on 16 September 2009

September 15, 2009: SCIPP Member, UCSC physicist Anthony Aguirre highlighted in Discover and Astronomy magazine feature stories on the possibility that we inhabit just one of many 'universes' -- and that we might actually be able to detect the presence of others. (Discover online, November 4, 2009)

August 27, 2009: SCIPP Member, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCSC astrophysicist, has an article published
this week in Nature discussing the origin of short gamma-ray bursts.

August 24, 2009: SCIPP Member Michael Riordan, elected to represent the Forum on the History of Physics(FHP) on the APS Council for a 4-year term as Forum Councilor beginning 1 January 2010.

August 2009: 30 Grads in 30 Days: Nina McCurdy

August 14, 2009: Fermi featured on the cover of SCIENCE Magazine and UCSC physicists and astronomers are coauthors of three major papers reporting scientific results from Fermi in this issue of the journal. ... (UCSC Story) (complete article)

August 5, 2009: SCIPP Member Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz established John Bachcall Award...

July 21, 2009: SCIPP Member Joel Primack: The new High Performance AstroComputing Center (HIPACC) will focus on computational astrophysics—using the growing power of supercomputers to address the most difficult problems in astrophysics and cosmology.