Group photo of 2023 Boulder Summer School participants in front of Farrand Field

Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics concludes twenty-third summer

Aug. 23, 2023

The Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics recently concluded its twenty-third summer on the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder campus. With support from the National Science Foundation and the University of Colorado Boulder, the school brought 80 advanced graduate-level students and postdoctoral fellows and 19 lecturers from around the world to...

Yuan Shi

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Physics welcomes Assistant Professor Yuan Shi

Aug. 17, 2023

The Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder welcomes Assistant Professor Yuan Shi to the faculty in August 2023! A theoretical plasma physicist, Professor Shi’s research uncovers the synergy between plasma physics and quantum physics. He studies how magnetic fields change laser-plasma interactions for fusion and photonics applications...

Group photo of participants at Quantum Materials Synthesis Workshop

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder hosts Quantum Materials Synthesis Workshop

Aug. 16, 2023

The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder campus recently hosted the Quantum Materials Synthesis (QMS) Workshop organized by ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Physics Professor Gang Cao. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Colorado Boulder, the workshop drew over 100 participants including 32 invited speakers. The QMS Workshop brought together physicists, materials scientists,...

Aerial view of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder campus

Embark Startup Creator pairs entrepreneurs with ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder research inventions

Aug. 16, 2023

The Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator from Venture Partners at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder has announced the first cohort of entrepreneurs selected to launch companies from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder research inventions. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Physics Professor and JILA Fellow Jun Ye developed a breathalyzer capable of detecting molecules in breath or air samples which...

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Physicists featured in Washington Post superconductivity story

Aug. 15, 2023

Heather Lewandowski

Professor and JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski interviewed by 9NEWS

July 25, 2023

Chip Bollendonk and Norm Perish work with the Interstellar Dust Experiment

Professor Mihály Horányi's dust instrument testing for 2025 NASA mission

July 24, 2023

Image credit: Cliff Grassmick/Daily Camera

Alexander Staron, William McGehee, and Gabriela Martinez pictured with the chip-scale atomic beam clock.

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä PREP students help create chip-scale atomic beam device

July 10, 2023

Image of atomic beam device with a peanut for scale. Rb vapor in the source cavity feeds a buried microcapillary array and forms an atomic beam (indicated by a red-to-blue arrow) in the drift cavity. Credit: Nature Communications (2023) ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Physics graduate students Gabriela D. Martinez and Alexander Staron helped...

Illustration showing the electrons in a cloud of hafnium fluoride ions

Professors Cornell and Ye measure the asymmetric shape of the electron

July 7, 2023

James Faller

Physics Professor Adjunct James Faller passes away

June 19, 2023

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