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Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Moeller!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Congratulations to Anthony Moeller for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Forward Physics in CMS:...

Breaking ball

What’s the science that makes a slider slide and a curveball curve? Ken Gayley, associate professor of physics and ardent Dodgers fan, says it’s a basic fluid dynamics question, just like what makes a plane fly or a sailboat slip through the waves or an empty plastic bag on the side of the road fly up in the air when a car drives by.

UI researcher Kai Yi named Large Hadron Collider Physics Center Fellow

Monday, January 13, 2014
Dr. Kai Yi, an assistant research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a Large Hadron Collider Physics Center Fellow. One of 22 Fellows, Dr.