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💫 Meet Postdoctoral Scholar Anto I. Lonappan 💫

Highlight your postdoc colleagues at the link in our bio, and don't forget to check out the @ucsandiego #Postdoctoberfest events calendar. by @ucsdphysics

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🌟Meet Postdoctoral Scholar Emilio Escauriza🌟

Emilio is in the Shpyrko Group, headed by the Department of Physics Chair Oleg Shpyrko.

All month long, UCSD is celebrating our wonderful postdocs with Postdoctoberfest! Head to the link in bio to highlight your favorite Physics postdoc here or to check out the @ucsandiego Postdoctoberfest events calendar! by @ucsdphysics

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🌟Congratulations, Professor Pat Diamond!💎👏

Distinguished Professor Pat Diamond has been named the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2026 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics.

Pat Diamond was selected for "theoretical contributions to the statistical dynamics and self-organization in plasmas, especially experimentally confirmed predictions of predator-prey interactions between turbulence and emergent zonal flows near the LH transition and the ExB staircase in confined magnetized plasmas."

#physicsdepartment #plasmaphysics by @ucsdphysics

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🔬✨ Upcoming Events in Physics! 🌟
🧑‍🔬 Condensed Matter Seminar - Tuning Quantum Materials with Extreme Pressure and Magnetic Field by UCSD Project Scientist Yuhang Deng
🌍 Physics Colloquium - Modeling density variations in microtubule-based two-dimensional active nematics by UC Merced Professor Kevin Mitchell by @ucsdphysics

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Celebrating 🍎back🎓to 🔬school📝 at the Dept. of Physics Welcome Back Party💫 by @ucsdphysics

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🔬✨Upcoming Events in Physics!💫
🚀Astrophysics & Cosmology Seminar: A Birefringence-Blind Consistency Test of the Planck Cosmic Birefringence Hint by Anto I. Lonappan

(Inlaid photo cr.: Anto I. Lonappan and Brian Keating, made with AI assistance) by @ucsdphysics

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Welcome back, UCSD! We’re excited to see all that you achieve this academic year (and we hope you’ll share it with us)! Swipe for a reminder of what you can find on our social media throughout the year — and send to your classmates and lab partners so they don’t miss a thing either. Happy new school year! by @ucsdphysics

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Happy Friday from the Physics Business & Student Affairs Offices! Each week this summer, our staff has added a drawing to our community mural following a prompt. We have had so much fun watching it grow (we already had to add the second panel!) and reflect our team. Read our prompts below!

1. Draw something you are looking forward to this summer.
2. Draw something that represents or reminds you of where you’re from.
3. Draw your favorite food or meal.
4. Draw your favorite dinosaur: real, cartoon, imagined, etc.
5. What do you do after work?
6. Draw yourself as a superhero.
7. First letter of your first name: matches with a physics related adjective. Day you were born: matches with an animal. Draw a literal or creative interpretation of this.
8. Draw your favorite flower or plant.
9. (Preview of next week’s prompt!) Draw something in your favorite color.

#physicsdepartment by @ucsdphysics

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Congratulations to Professor Dan Arovas on his advancement to Professor Above Scale, also known as Distinguished Professor of Physics! This highest title of Professor rank is reserved for those "scholars and teachers of the highest distinction, whose work has been internationally recognized and acclaimed and whose teaching performance is excellent."
Please join us in congratulating Dan on reaching this well-deserved career milestone 👏 by @ucsdphysics

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Join us for Tea Time on Thursdays at 1pm all summer long! ☕️ Physics Tea Time is open to the Physics and A&A communities to meet and get to know your colleagues a little better over free coffee, tea, and snacks.

The Mayer Hall Student Success Center is located on the first floor of Mayer Hall next to the lawn. We hope to see you soon! by @ucsdphysics

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Join us at the Qualcomm Institute on the campus of UC San Diego from August 31 to September 4, 2026, for the 7th Annual Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference! The conference will bring together over 100 researchers developing and applying real-time or accelerated artificial intelligence for high-energy physics, astronomy, fusion, materials science, quantum computing, neuroscience, biology, and other fields for five days of presentations, tutorials, poster sessions, hackathons, and topical birds-of-a-feather sessions. Register or submit an abstract today at indi.to/fastml26 (linked in stories)! by @ucsdphysics

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Congratulations to Prof. Suckjoon Jun's research group on the publication of their latest paper in Science: "Decoupling of Global Metabolic Flux and Proteome Partitioning in Bacteria"

This study looks at how bacteria under stress have to balance their internal chemistry against their capacity to build proteins, set by how many ribosomes they carry, specifically in E.coli vs. Bacillus subtilis, which as Thiermann and colleagues discover, behaves very differently.

A special congratulations to lead author Ryan Thiermann, Ph.D. student in UC San Diego Physics, and co-authors Aniket Zodage, Taylor Rytlewski, Fangzhou Xiao, John Sauls, Sarah Cox, Zulfar Ghulam-Jelani, Victoria Castillo, and Prof. Suckjoon Jun.

We're proud to celebrate this remarkable achievement and the impact of their work on advancing our understanding of bacterial biology.

Congratulations to the entire team! 👏 by @ucsdphysics

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