UCI Physics and Astronomy

News & Events

Fri, 10/24/2025

UC Irvine astronomers discover nearby exoplanet in habitable zone

Fri, 10/24/2025

UC Irvine physicists help unite “rival” neutrino experiments in breakthrough global study

Thu, 10/09/2025

Howard Lee selected as Moore Experimental Physics Investigator to develop revolutionary nanoscale electron accelerator

Mon, 09/29/2025

UCI Physicist William Heidbrink Honored with 2025 Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics

Fri, 08/15/2025

Professor Franklin Dollar receives AISES Professional of the Year award

Thu, 08/14/2025

Professor Howard Lee receives Proof of Product award from UCI Beall Applied Innovation

Seminars, Colloquia & Faculty Meetings

Condensed Matter Seminar

Tue, 12/02/2025

11:00 am

Kwanpyo Kim

Yonsei University of Korea

Identification and Engineering of Interlayer Stacking Configurations in van der Waals Crystals

PhD Thesis Defense

Tue, 12/02/2025

5:00 pm

Wataru Hayashi

UCI

PhD Thesis Defense

Thu, 12/04/2025

9:00 am

Ryan Rice-Smith

UCI

PhD Thesis Defense

Physics Department Colloquium

Thu, 12/04/2025

3:30 pm

Luis Jauregui

UCI

Discovering and Manipulating Exotic New States in Layered Quantum Materials

Particle Physics Seminar

Wed, 01/21/2026

11:00 am

Nitish Nayak

Brookhaven National Laboratory

TBA

Support Physics & Astronomy

Scientists in the Department of Physics & Astronomy are working to expand our knowledge of the Universe, the laws of physics, and the behavior of matter and energy by examining everything from the smallest particles to the vast expanses of the cosmos. Your support will help continue impactful research and education. For more information on supporting the department's research programs contact Marijana Lekousis at marijana@uci.edu.