UCLA and the James Webb Space Telescope Revolution
This new technology, combined with some of UCLA’s most creative and imaginative researchers, is leading to a new understanding of the universe and everything in it.
Division of Physical Sciences
Sorting through the data avalanche
Multi-institute group including a UCLA mathematics professor held its inaugural meeting about using AI to make sense of an overabundance of scientific data.
Interstellar curiosity led Pradip Gatkine to UCLA
Gatkine’s research focuses on astrophotonics, a cutting-edge field that applies photonic technologies to enhance astronomical instrumentation and observations.
UCLA Physical Sciences-developed AI System to Support Humanities Course
Kudu, developed by professor Alexander Kusenko, can help generate resources that allows teachers to focus on the most important aspects of teaching.
Pri Narang and the Emergence of a New World
A $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supports the researcher’s development of the very first quantum entanglement probe
Space Waves Team Up to Heat Solar Wind Particles
The improved understanding of how waves work in space could help scientists better predict space weather and advance the development of fusion energy.
Exploring Your Universe 2024
The region’s largest science fair returns to the UCLA campus with more backing than ever before.
UCLA Ph.D. Candidate Awarded 2024 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize
Jiayi Li, from the Department of Statistics and Data Science, is the first student from UCLA’s Division of Physical Sciences to receive the prize
A Simple Equation
Inside the Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle, the next generation of great math minds is taking shape.
Prineha Narang elected an American Physical Society Fellow
Narang, who holds UCLA’s Howard Reiss Career Development Chair, was selected for her approaches to nonequilibrium dynamics and the control of condensed matter, and her public advocacy for quantum sciences.