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UK Physics and Astronomy Receives Prestigious REU From NSF

May 14, 2020, 8:32 AM

UK Physics and Astronomy has received its first Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This highly competitive program will help provide research opportunities for students from regional colleges.

UK Professor Leads Effort to Develop World’s Largest, Most Inclusive 'Stellar Library'

Jan 10, 2019, 10:06 AM

Renbin Yan, an associate professor of physics and astronomy in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, is the principal investigator of the MaNGA Stellar Library project — the biggest and most inclusive star library ever made.

UK Physics Contributes to Groundbreaking Experiment

Dec 21, 2018, 8:32 AM

Christopher Crawford, associate professor of physics & astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences, along with many of his current & former students, are contributing co-authors on a groundbreaking experiment recently featured as the Editor’s Choice in Physical Review Letters.

Physics Professor Working to Break Boundaries

Oct 5, 2018, 10:04 AM

UK physics Professor Brad Plaster’s research on the tiniest particles has potentially massive repercussions.

Caltech Physicist to Deliver Public Lecture on Quantum Computing

Mar 28, 2018, 9:22 AM

The talk, “Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier,” will take place 4:15 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the Jacobs Science Building auditorium. The talk is jointly sponsored by the UK Department of Physics and Astronomy, the UK Department of Computer Science and the UK Graduate School.

UK Physics Researchers Highlighted by American Physical Society

Jan 23, 2018, 8:49 AM

The research of UK faculty members Keh-Fei Liu and Terry Draper and postdoctoral researcher Yi-Bo Yang and their collaborators was featured.

Researchers Attempt to Answer Fundamental Questions About Our Universe

Aug 24, 2017, 8:56 AM

The team hopes to observe violations of time reversal symmetry in outer space, which would indicate the laws of physics behave differently when the arrow of time runs “forward” versus “backward."

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