We are the astrophysics group in the UC Merced Department of Physics.
Joined July 2020
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Awesome eclipse viewing event on campus yesterday. Including a solar telescope and sightings of sun spots, organized by Professor @sloebman
What is one of the best parts of being a @UofCalifornia astronomer? Access to @UCObservatories including @keckobservatory! Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible. Special shoutout to @astronomeara and @richmatsuda for showing us around.
That feeling when you're seeing one of the 10 meter telescopes @keckobservatory.
We had an incredible visit with @ChancellorMunoz sharing the exciting science being done by @ucmerced at @UCObservatories, and opportunities for our campus.
With @sloebman, @MarjorieZatz
Big congratulations to graduate student @MicahOeur for receiving an honorable mention from the extremely competitive @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Reminder to join us tomorrow for the 2022 @ucmerced astrophysics symposium.
@UCMerced_NatSci
We welcome everyone to the 2022 Astrophysics Symposium on Wednesday, March 30!
We look forward to many exciting talks throughout the day from Dr. @Kate_Daniel_Gxy , Dr. Noemie Globus, Dr. Tara Fetherolf, Dr. Kris Pardo, Dr. Rodolfo Duran and Dr. Gabriela González @UCMerced_Astro
ALT We welcome everyone to the 2022 Astrophysics Symposium on Wednesday, March 30! We look forward to many exciting talks throughout the day from Dr. @Kate_Daniel_Gxy , Dr. Noemie Globus, Dr. Tara Fetherolf, Dr. Kris Pardo, Dr. Rodolfo Duran and Dr. Gabriela González @UCMerced_Astro
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Announcing the 2022 @ucmerced Astrophysics Symposium. Join us on Wednesday March 30th to learn about cutting edge research across a broad range of topics. @UCMercedPhysics @UCMerced_NatSci
Very fun times at the @UCMercedPhysics pumpkin carving contest. Below are the winners in the categories of 'traditional', 'physics themed' and 'best use of googley eyes'.
A really nice article about our Space Telescope Awards!
bit.ly/3BPxhVz
@NASA @UCMercedPhysics @UCMerced_NatSci @ucmerced @NASAWebb @NASAHubble #WomenInSTEM #astrophysics
We are so proud that @ucmerced will be hosting this awesome conference!
CA undergrads: The UC Merced Department of Physics invites you to apply to the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) happening January 21-23, 2022.
Apply at my.aps.org/cuwipapply by the October 4, 2021 application deadline.
More info: sites.ucmerced.edu/cuwip
Huge congrats to @sloebman for the award of a @NASAHubble grant. Her program will provide new insight into how stars form in clustered environments, and develop new tools to help other researchers interpret @NASAHubble data. Go @sloebman!
Edit!!! @sloebman will also be teaching a new machine learning class this fall, so that makes THREE NEW COURSES taught by our astro faculty: "Machine Learning" Fall 2021, "Solar System and ExtraSolar planets", and "Cosmology" in Spring 2022.
We are proud to be in the @ucmerced news. The first of our new astronomy courses, created by @sloebman is happening now, and there will two more new astro courses offered in Fall and Spring next year. Take a look at the course catalog to learn more!
.@UCMercedPhysics professors Sarah Loebman (@sloebman) and Anna Nierenberg (@annanierenberg) have launched a new introductory course in astrophysics open to students of all majors this spring. bit.ly/3rx7drW
ALT Astrophysics professors Sarah Loebman and Anna Nierenberg have launched a new introductory course in astrophysics open to students of all majors this spring.
Our department’s THIRD CAREER award this year!!! We are so proud!!! 👏👏🎉🍾
.@UCMercedPhysics Professor Dustin Kleckner has received an @NSF CAREER award for his research. He studies how optical and acoustic binding controls interactions between/among particles and how it manipulates them into self-organizing structures. bit.ly/3lieN8o
ALT Professor Dustin Kleckner
Good luck today @NASAPersevere !! We are cheering for you, you’ve got this 👍😍😍😍
LIVE: #CountdownToMars
Watch live coverage of @NASAPersevere's landing. The rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1PlJQPZqL… xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1PlJQPZqL…
We are very proud of @maverick_sh_oh for his cool new paper showing how deep learning can uncover unknown forces in classical mechanics problems.
arxiv.org/abs/2011.13726
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We are so lucky to have @CarrieMenke as our colleague. She teaches us so much about how to be good teachers.
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What telescope is needed to observe the faintest, most distant galaxies that are speculated to exist? This paper co-authored by ucm prof. @annanierenberg investigates!!
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UC faculty Andrea Ghez is honored with the Nobel Prize for her work using @keckobservatory to study the supermassive blackhole at the center of our galaxy.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
Exciting new measurement of Venus!
It's 4pm! Time to explain what we've been so excited about - here's your 60 second overview of #VenusNews. Don't forget you can watch our press conference featuring the lead author of the study, Professor Jane Greaves of @cardiffuni, getting started: youtube.com/watch?v=y1u-jlf_…
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Now with two new astrophysics faculty to work with!
Applications for our graduate program are now open for Fall 2021:
graduatedivision.ucmerced.ed…
Learn more about the exciting research that goes on in the UC Merced Physics department here:
physics.ucmerced.edu/