Fall 2024: Physics 9HA
Winter 2024: Physics 110A “Electricity and Magnetism”
Fall 2023: Physics 112 “Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics”
Winter 2023: Physics 110A “Electricity and Magnetism”
Fall 2022: Physics 9HA
Spring 2022: Physics 140B “Introduction to Solid State Physics”
Winter 2022: Physics 110A “Electricity and Magnetism”
Fall 2021: Physics 9HA
Winter 2021: Physics 140A “Introduction to Solid State Physics”
Fall 2020: Physics 9B
Winter 2020: Physics 140A “Introduction to Solid State Physics”
Fall 2019: Physics 9B
Winter 2019: Physics 140A “Introduction to Solid State Physics”
Fall 2018: Physics 9B
Winter 2018: Physics 140A “Introduction to Solid State Physics”
Fall 2017: Physics 9B
Winter 2016: Physics 250 “Crystal growth and phase diagrams”
Fall 2016: Physics 9B
Outreach:
April 2024: Valentin gave a series of lectures at the Spring School and Educational Courses (SSEC) ahead of the 9th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (ICSM2024) and the 2nd International Conference on Quantum Materials and Technologies (ICQMT2024) in Turkey
1 – Basics on how to read compositional phase diagrams
2 – Basics of common single crystal growth techniques: solution growth, Czochraski, Bridgman, chemical vapor transport, etc.
3 – Basics of material exploration and discovery: how to choose/select a material, a chemical composition, a structural family, etc. (theoretical input, material informatics)
Winter 2024: Freshman Seminar “Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics with no prerequisites”
January 2024: Valentin gave a lecture at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School: “How to grow a magnetic single crystal and kill its magnetism” (video link)
Spring 2023: Andrea Lopez Arguello is featured in our lab in this video!
Winter 2023: Freshman Seminar “Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics with no prerequisites”
Winter 2023: A video of our collaborator Andriy Palasyuk on the gap magnets!
Summer 2022: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE): building rockets, building drones with the River City High summer school students
Winter 2022: Valentin gave a recorded talk at the ICAM meeting on LaNiGa2.
Summer 2021: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE): building rockets, building drones with the River City High summer school students (website link)
Winter 2021: Metzli Montero’s video trailer for the Undergraduate Research Conference was selected among the top 3 videos! Check-it out!
Fall 2019: 150th anniversary of the periodic table: our crystals of LaCrGe3 are featured in this video!
Summer 2019: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE): building a superconducting levitation demo with the River City High summer school students (website link)
Spring 2019: Freshman Seminar Mathematical and Physical Science (MURPPS)
Winter 2019: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) course “Physics of New Materials”
Winter 2019: Freshman Seminar Mathematical and Physical Science (MURPPS)
July 2018: invited tutorial at the International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM2018): “How to Grow a Magnetic Single Crystal and then Kill its Magnetism” (video link: the beginning wasn’t recorded)
Winter 2018: Freshman Seminar Mathematical and Physical Science (MURPPS)
Fall 2017: Freshman Seminar Mathematical and Physical Science (MURPPS)
Winter 2016: lecture in the lower division Mathematical and Physical Science seminar: “Creating and Tuning Materials”
Physics News:
November 2024: Evidence of a new type of superconductor
August 2023: A new type of metal is now even more anomalous
September 2022: A new method to accelerate material discovery
September 2022: Critical Material Institute Highlight: Database-driven method for discovering new ferromagnets
February 2022: NMR in a Superconducting Vortex
January 2022: Critical Material Institute Highlight: Our former undergraduate student Nathan Soland!
July 2021: A new type of superconductor
May 2021: Spatial Map of Magnetization with Sagnac-Interferometry-Based Microscopy
March 2021: Critical Material Institute Highlight: Discovery of new high Curie temperature ferromagnets from database analysis
August 2020: Critical Material Institute Highlight: Potential Alnico-surpassing gap magnet
July 2020: Critical Material Institute Highlight: Critical materials periodic table
Links:
Our Department is on Facebook: UC Davis Physics
Ever wondered how much a certain chemical element costs? Which countries produce them? Check our Periodic Table of Elements, Their Abundances, Prices, Global Sources
Watch Metzli’s award-winning video trailer for the 2021 Undergraduate Research Conference! And this one about her research!
Watch Stelo’s performance as Joulie-iet in the Physics Club Picnic Day Show 2023: R-Ohm-eo and Joule-iet
Watch Stelo as Dor0thogonal and Justin as Cheeto, Tim the Tornado in the Physics Club Picnic Day Show 2024: THE WIZARD OF OHMS
The Journal Club of Quantum Materials Synthesis is on Facebook