Teaching and Outreach

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:
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:

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
The Journal Club of Quantum Materials Synthesis is on Facebook