First Tea 2017 v5 - UC Berkeley Physics

• State of the Department

• 2016-17: Year in Review

– Faculty News, Faculty Awards

– New Appointments & Staff News

– New Postdocs and Visitors

– New Graduate Students

• 2017-18: A Look Ahead

Outline

State of the DepartmentBerkeley Physics continues to lead the way as one of the top research Departments in the world. By the numbers, in 2016-17

• approximately 35 graduate and 120 undergraduate students completed their degrees

• approximately 350 undergraduates, 300 Intended Majors, and 270 graduate students reside in Physics

Our professional ranks include •63 active faculty members •2 active Nobel Laureates •37 emeritus faculty •19 members of the National Academy •43 staff members.

2016-17 Year in Review

New Faculty

Chung-Pei Mai Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics

Faculty Promotions

Feng Wang to Full Professor

Hitoshi Murayama to Professor Above Scale

Faculty Retirements

Genzel Reinhard Emeritus Professor of Physics

Spring 2017

our first colloquium of 2017/18

Genzel Reinhard Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial

Physics (MPE), Garching, Germany Depts of Physics and Astronomy, UC Berkeley

“Testing General Relativity with Infrared Interferometry of the Massive Black Hole

in the Galactic Center: An Homage to Charles Hard Townes”

Mina Aganagic Fellow, American Physical Society 2016 Simons Investigator Award 2016 Miller Institute Research Professor 2016-17

Bob Birgeneau NSF Vannevar Bush Award 2016

John Clarke Member, American Philosophical Society 2017

Marvin Cohen The Franklin Medal 2017

Roger Falcone Fellow, Amer. Academy of Arts and Sciences 2017

Mary K Gaillard Fellow, Amer. Ass. Advancement Science 2016

Hernan Garcia Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship 2016

Naomi Ginsberg Camill Dreyfus Teacher School Award 2016 Miller Professorship 2017-18 Erwin Hahn (dec.)International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Gold Award 2016 Lawrence Hall Simons Foundation Fellow 2016

Oskar Hallatschek NSF Career Award 2016

Wick Haxton Simons Foundation Fellow 2016

Faculty Awards 2016-2017

Petr Horava Simons Foundation Fellow 2016 Barbara Jacak American Academy of Arts & Science Fellow 2016

Robert Jacobsen UC Berkeley Faculty Service Award 2016

Adrian Lee Fellow, American Physical Society 2016

Steve Louie The H.C. Oersted Lecture 2017 Kam-Biu Luk Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016

Christopher Mckee AAS Henry Norris Russel Lectureship 2016

Hitoshi Murayama Genius Contributor, in100th Anniversary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016 Gabriel Orebi Gann Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016

Surjeet Rajendran Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship 2016 New Horizons in Physics Prize 2017

Art Rosenfeld (dec.) Tang Prize 2016


Irfan Siddiqi UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award 2016 Herbert Steiner Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016

Feng Wang Fellow, American Physical Society 2016

Michael Witherell Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2017

Ahmet Yildiz Fellow, American Physical Society 2016 Biophysical Society 2016 Barany Award Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 2017


Naomi Ginsberg Miller Professor 17-18

UC Berkeley AMO Physics & Chemistry

Talat Rahman Visiting Miller Professor

Spring 2018 University of Central Florida

Host: Prof. Steve Louie

Mina Aganagic Miller Professor 16-17

UC Berkeley BCTP Physics

Louis Kang Miller Fellow 2017-2020

Physics/HWNI Host: Prof. Mike DeWeese

Grant Remmen Miller Fellow 2017-2020

Physics Host: Prof. Yasunori Nomura

In Memory Of…

Leroy Kerth1928-2016

1993 Berkeley Citation

Bevatron

BaBar Silicon Vertex Detector

Art Rosenfeld1926-2017

2006 Enrico Fermi Award National Medal of Technology and

Innovation, 2012

In Memory Of…

California’s “Godfather” of Energy Efficiency

Erwin Hahn 1921-2016

1984 Wolf Prize NAS Comstock Prize

In Memory Of…

“There is nothing nuclear spins will not do for you, as long

as you treat them as human

beings.”

Staff NewsWe will miss you!

Thanks & congratulations to Eleanor, Ann, and Mary

on their retirements

Eleanor Crump 54 yrs @ UC

Mary Minch 6 years

Anne Takizawa 33 yrs @ physics

NEW PHYSICS CHAIR

Staff NewsNew Appointments! Jon Deasy, Faculty Administrative Support (Zettl/Analytis) Amanda Dillon, Undergraduate Advisor Joelle Miles, Lead Graduate Advisor Stephen Pride Raffel, Financial Analyst Monica Warde, Academic Personnel Analyst

2016 – 2017 “Years of Service” Awards 15 Years: Thomas Gutierrez, Machine Shop Mechanician

New Postdocs and VisitorsAltman Group – Lukas Sieberer (Postdoc)

Analytis Group – Sooyoung Jang (Postdoc)

Berkeley Center of Theoretical Physics – Dmitrii Galakhov (Postdoc) Dorota Grabowska (Postdoc) Filip Kos (Postdoc) Marcin Badziak (Postdoc) Ian Moult (Postdoc) Ning Bao (Postdoc) Grant Remmem (Miller Fellow) Benjamin Mosk (Marie Curie Fellow) Harikrishnan Ramani (Postdoc) Jeff Dror (Postdoc- through LBNL) Michael Fedderke (Postdoc)

Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Kara Ponder (Postdoc/LBNL) Sukhdeep Singh (Postdoc) HongMing Zhu (Postdoc) Marcelo Alvarez (Project Scientist) Vanessa Boehm (Postdoc)

Birgeneau Group – Shan Wu (Postdoc) Yu Song (Postdoc)

Budker Group – Metin Kayci (Postdoc)

Cohen Group – Sehoon Oh (Postdoc) Mehmet Dogan (Postdoc)

New Postdocs and VisitorsCrommie Group – Charlotte Herbig (Postdoc) Wei Ruan (Postdoc) Ting Chen (Visiting Scholar) Gaoqiang Wang (Visiting Scholar)

DeWeese Group – Louis Kang (Postdoc)

Falcone Group – Michael Macdonald (Postdoc)

Haeffner Group – Clemens Matthiesen (Postdoc) Yi Zhou (Jr. Specialist)

Hallatschek Group – Benjamin Good (Postdoc) Jayson Paulose (Postdoc)

Haxton Group – Peter Jacobs (Visiting Researcher) Ken McElvain (Postdoc) Christian Drischler (Postdoc)

Jacak Group – Miguel Arratia Munoz (Postdoc)

Kolomensky Group – Luigi Cappelli (Postdoc) Louie Group – Andrea Cepellotti (Postdoc) Yea-Lee Lee (Postdoc) Yang-hao Chan (Visiting Scholar)

McKinsey Group – Junsong Lin (Postdoc) Scott Kravitz (Postdoc - LBNL)

New Postdocs and VisitorsMoore Group – Thomas Scaffidi (Postdoc) Qimiao Si (Visiting Professor) Xingyu Cao (Postdoc)

Mueller Group – Joyce Kwan (Visiting Student Researcher)

Neaton Group – Se Young Park (Postdoc)

Orebi-Gann Group – Cecile Kefelian (Postdoc)

Qiu Group – Mengmeng Yang (Postdoc)

Seljak Group – Elena Massara (Postdoc) Vanessa Boehm (Postdoc) Suhkdeep Singh (Postdoc) Hungming Zhu (Postdoc)

Shapiro Group – Cesar Gonzalez Renteria (Jr. Specialist)

Stamper-Kurn Group – Shantanu Debnath (Postdoc) Kyungnoon Lee (Postdoc)

Wang Group – Chan Yang (Postdoc) Gregory Meyer (Jr. Specialist)

Zettl Group – Hu Long (Postdoc) Amin Azizi (Postdoc)

Sign up on the postdoc email list ([email protected]) to hear about special events—for networking, career, education, family, and fun—hosted by VSPA and its affiliated programs.

Students: Undergraduate Physics Degrees

• Total Number of AB Degrees Granted 2016/17: 113 • Total Number of current Physics Majors: 344

• Total Number of AB Degrees Granted 2016/17: 113 • Total Number of current Physics Majors: 344

Students: Undergraduate Physics Degrees

Identifying potential majors and bringing them into the department early.

Students: Undergraduate Majors

Identifying potential majors and bringing them into the department early.

Students: Undergraduate Majors

New Graduate Students



Society of Women in the Physical Sciences (SWPS) encourages women and minorities to study the physical sciences and

creates a friendly, supportive environment. • Launch Day • Mentoring Program • SPWS dinners

Student Organizations

IGenSpectrum aims to strengthen a sense of community for LGBT+ physicists and reach out to future generations of students.

Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional, national organization for all physics students.

• Faculty-Student Lunches• Career Seminar Series• Field Trips

The Career Development Initiative for the Physical Sciences (CDIPS) aims to expose graduate and postgraduate students to careers outside academia and strengthen ties between academic science and industry.

The Compass Project supports diversity, community, and pedagogy in the physical sciences.

• Summer Program for Freshman • Courses • Mentoring Program

Physics Graduate Student Association (PGSA) is a

governing and advocacy body for graduate students.

Respect is Part of Research provide in-person gender bias and sexual

harassment prevention and awareness education to fellow graduate students.

Professor Steve Boggs Department Chair

July 2013 – Dec 2016

Outgoing Department Chair

Dean of Physical Sciences

Professor Joel Moore Spring 2017

MANY THANKS!!

Interim Department Chair

As part of a university-wide initiative to strengthen the undergraduate experience, Berkeley Physics has launched a new laboratory curriculum as of Spring 2017. Designed specifically for freshmen interested in majoring in Physics, the new laboratory courses, Physics 5BL and Physics 5CL, offer students significantly better exposure to experimental physics techniques than the worksheet-based labs that are currently being used.

Physics Launches New Series 5 Lab Courses

As part of our effort to strengthen career development opportunities and research partnership for our students and faculty, in Spring 2017, Berkeley Physics has launched a new program enhancing collaboration with industry. This new program, Berkeley Physics Partners (BP2) offers students and faculty significantly better exposure to potential career and research opportunities.

BP2 includes two components, BP2: Recruit and BP2: Access, focusing respectively on student recruitment and support for faculty collaboration and department priorities.

Thanks, Rachel Schafer!

PHY 198: Transfer Course for Physics MajorsFor some students, the transition may not be academically challenging and for others, it may be. As a community of physics transfer students, this class is designed to support all students independent of their academic foundation. The course will address common anxieties such as hearing “You don’t already know that?” from other students, or thinking, “Maybe I don’t belong here?” after your first midterms. It is designed to encourage and to help you prepare for physics at Berkeley.

Thanks, Claudia and Amanda!

2016-17 Lectures

October 2016 Rainer Weiss: Beginning the Exploration of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Emilio Segre Lecture Monday, October 3, 2016

Rainer Weiss, MIT, representing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Zellerbach Auditorium.

February 2017 John Preskill: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier

J. R. Oppenheimer LectureMonday, February 27, 2017

John Preskill, California Institute of Technology

Chevron Auditorium.

2016-17 Lectures

Events: CalDay April 22, 2017

Events: Graduate Student Poster Session

Event:Undergraduate Poster Session

Event: Commencement 2017!

Infrastructure: The Machine ShopThank you to

Warner Carlisle, Abel Gonzalez,

Tommy Gutierrez, Joseph Kant,

& Gordon Long

Introducing new 3D Print technology to the Student Machine Shop.

Infrastructure: Construction Projects

Siddiqi Lab Renovation

Old Le Conte Spall Repair

Some science milestones 2016-17ASTROPHYSICS

ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

BIOPHYSICS

ASTROPHYSICS


BIOPHYSICS

ASTROPHYSICS


BIOPHYSICS

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

NUCLEAR PHYSICS

PARTICLE PHYSICS


NUCLEAR PHYSICS

PARTICLE PHYSICS


NUCLEAR PHYSICS

PARTICLE PHYSICS PLASMA AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

EMERITUS FACULTY

USEFUL LINKS

Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP)

Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP)

Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Precision Antihydrogen Physics

Record 33 antihydrogen trapped in one attempt(Berkeley UG Dana Zimmer at the controls)

Record 161 antihydrogen simultaneously in the trap. (Berkeley GS Celeste Carruth at the controls)

Antihydrogen 1s to 2s state excitation Nature 2016 Antihydrogen hyperfine spectrum Nature 2017

M Ahmadi et al. Nature 548, 66–69 (2017)

Fajans/ Wurtele

CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF EXCITED-STATE PHENOMENA IN ENERGY MATERIALS

Mission: To develop and implement new theories, methods, algorithms, and computer codes to explain and predict excited state phenomena in energy materials.

A multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary DOE center• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory• UC Berkeley• UCLA• University of Texas, Austin

C2SEPEM includes theoretical physicists, chemists, computational scientists, applied mathematicians, & experimentalists.

Berkeley physics faculty PIs: Steven Louie (Director), Jeffrey Neaton, Feng Wang

LEARN MORE AT: C2SEPEM.LBL.GOV

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• First science run: May 2017• Preliminary results: July 2017

• Most stringent limit on the 0𝜈𝛽𝛽 half-life of 130

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70 CUORE: Start of Operations and First Results

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UC Berkeley and LBNL group J. Beeman, J. Benato, L. Cappelli, A. Drobizhev,

S.J. Freedman†, B.K. Fujikawa, E.E. Haller, R. Hennings-‐Yeomans, R. Huang, R.W. Kadel, Yu.G. Kolomensky, C. Li,

Y. Mei, B. Schmidt, B. Sheff, V. Singh, A.R. Smith, S.L. Wagaarachchi, J. Wallig, B. Welliver, S. Zimmermann

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Jan 2017: Noise reduction + subsystems optimization

Last phase of cool down using Dilution Unit (DU) down to base temperature

26.01.2017: Reached base temperature ~7 mK

/20A. D’Addabbo - INFN LTD17 - Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, 18th July 2017

CUORE cooldown (Dec 2016-Jan 2017)

60Co Q𝛽𝛽

Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries NSF & Heising-Simons Foundation

KentuckyLANL MinnesotaNC StateNorthwestern Notre Dame Ohio UWisconsin

UC San Diegoand CASS

UC Berkeleyand TAC

U Washingtonand INT

Our Science Collaborations and Mentoring

The Hub will be built around established collaborations involving leaders of the field,with strong records in mentoring young researchers:

Neutrino Astrophysics Nucleosynthesis Dense Matter Dark Matter

neutrinosnucleosynthesis

simulationsdark matter

nucleosynthesis

dense matterneutrinos

Berkeley-‐organized (WH, Kasen) https://n3as.wordpress.com

https://n3as.wordpress.com

How do inhomogeneous, nanostructured, materials function?

transform imaging science and technology of functioning nanosystemsNSF STC on Real-Time Functional Imaging (STROBE)

center awarded Fall 2016

Berkeley partners with multiple research and education institutions

combining electron, X-ray, and nanooptical imagingteam includes Ginsberg

and Falcone from Physics

SNO+ full of ultra-pure water & taking physics data

ExaStarThe ECP application in astrophysicsLead Institution: Berkeley LabPI: Daniel Kasen Partners: Oak Ridge, Argonne, Stony Brook

Developing codes for multi-physics astrophysics simulations at the exascale, ExaStar will study stellar phenomena to understand the origin of the elements, the sources of gravitational waves, and the physics of matter at Nature’s most extreme.

3D simulation fo a core collapse supernova using the Chimera code

DOE’s major initiative in high-performance computing, the ECP plans to maximize scientific and national security benefits by developing systems and application codes at least 50 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today.

EXASCALE COMPUTING PROJECT

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Holger Müller Group

2017-18 Looking Ahead …

• current deficits → sustainability • public relations → more constructive partnerships

w with the governor, the press • administrative inefficiency → affecting research and r

r day-to-day operations • free-speech conflicts → civilized dialog • Berkeley costs → expanded student housing • diversity (3% AA) → a university that mirrors society

We are embedded in the world’s finest public research university — one facing challenges*

A new team: Chancellor Carol Christ EVP and Provost Paul Alivisatos they will need our strong support

* Mary Sue Coleman and Bob Birgeneau: The Lincoln Project

• research initiatives: Big Data, quantum computing, further development of BCCP, international partnerships, …

• new faculty recruitment: one offer in play, a new search getting underway,…

• fundraising, revenue generation ‣ maintaining staff services, so faculty can focus on research and

student mentoring ‣ new “junior chairs,” to help recruiting ‣ grad student fellowships ‣ endowments to continue modernization of our instructional labs

Physics can contribute by moving its priorities forward

• administrative efficiency: make it easier to do physics ‣ in-house administrative team has helped buffer us ‣ Division + Chemistry: new CSS regional center rollout

• helping our new team do well* ‣ key positions in instructional services, HR, space

• equity and inclusion: today’s national political climate, our position on the Pacific Rim give us advantages

*Including my training! In addition to our patient staff, ‣ Irfan Siddiqi: Vice-Chair and Summer Chair ‣ Joel Moore: Advisor for Faculty Affairs

THANK YOU!!

2018 FACULTY RETREAT PROPOSAL: RESEARCH

‣ Identifying new directions we should be pursuing

‣ Identifying opportunities for partnerships with other Departments, other institutions

‣ Providing world-class lab and research experiences for our students

2018 Faculty RecruitmentThe Physics Department is conducting an open search to fill a tenure-track faculty position for an Assistant Professor in Experimental Particle Physics or Experimental Astrophysics with an expected start date of July 1, 2018.

We welcome applications from candidates across all areas of subatomic and astro physics. This includes but is not limited to programs currently established at UC Berkeley, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other collider physics, long-baseline neutrinos, low-energy tests of fundamental symmetries, dark matter searches, gravity and cosmology, compact objects, and space physics. This position may have the opportunity for research collaborations with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). Preference will be given to candidates who have promise in teaching, demonstrated originality and productivity in research, and the potential to advance the physics department’s goal of a more equitable and diverse scholarly environment.

Dan McKinsey has agreed to chair the search

2017 Emilio Segre Lecture Monday, October 30th

Takaaki Kajita Nobel Laureate Special University Professor –University of Tokyo Director of the Institute of Cosmic Ray Research

Looking forward to the new year…

Looking forward to the new year…

Thank You!Please join us

for refreshments in the Courtyard

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First Tea 2017 v5 - UC Berkeley Physics