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Speaker: Kate Scholberg
Arts and Sciences Distinguished professor at Duke University
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
How to see a star explode from underground
Speaker: Kate Scholberg
Arts and Sciences Distinguished professor at Duke University
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
How to see a star explode from underground
Introductions by Nobel Laureate Barry Barish, Chancellor Hu, and CNAS Dean Atkinson
Date: October 17th, 2025
Location: University Theater , Reception: 5:00 PM -- Lecture: 6:00 PM
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"When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it collapses and then explodes as a supernova, which can shine as brightly as an entire galaxy for a brief time. Right before the explosion, the collapsed star emits a brilliant (but almost invisible) flash of neutrinos. Neutrinos are ghostly particles that can fly through matter as if it were transparent. I will described how we can catch some of these neutrinos in vast underground detectors. The dying star will also send out a burst of gravitational waves -- ripples in space-time. These astrophysical messengers will give us an early warning of the impending supernova. They will also give us an unprecedented inside view of the collapse and explosion in real time, and potentially even allow us to witness the birth of a black hole."
News and past events
News and past events
July 23, 2025
July 23, 2025
Farewell dinner for CECI Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Michela Lai, who is leaving UCR to begin a faculty position at Queen's University, and CECI undergraduate Sarah Howick, who is starting grad school at Illinois Institute of Technology. Both worked in Shawn Westerdale's lab, doing research in dark matter and neutrino detection. Michela helped design the Outer Veto of DarkSide-20k and led the DarkSide-20k multi-messenger astronomy working group, led data analysis for the DEAP-3600 dark matter detection experiment, and worked on R&D for future low-threshold detectors. Sarah built a small liquid argon time projection chamber for R&D purposes, characterized materials for the detector, and made technical drawings of the future DarkSide-LowMass experiment.
Speaker: Ramamurti Shankar
Speaker: Ramamurti Shankar
When you come to a fork in the road take it: Yogi Berra's guide to quantum mechanics.
When you come to a fork in the road take it: Yogi Berra's guide to quantum mechanics.
Opening statements by UCR Professor & Nobel Laureate Barry Barish.
Date: June 13th, 2025
Location: School of Business Auditorium (SB165)
The Frontiers of Cosmology Lecture.mp4May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
Congrats to CECI undergraduate researchers Shane Levin for winning the 2024/25 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement and the 2025 CNAS Academic Excellence Award and Sarah Howick for winning the 2024/25 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement!
April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025
CECI Undergraduate Researchers present their work at the UCR Undergraduate Research Symposium
March 17–22, 2025
March 17–22, 2025
CECI members present at the American Physical Society Global Summit in Anaheim
Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture by Michael Turner
Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture by Michael Turner
What we know about the Universe, the big mysteries confronting us, and why it all matters
What we know about the Universe, the big mysteries confronting us, and why it all matters
Date: March 14th, 2025
Location: School of Business Auditorium (SBB 165)
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Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture by Brian Keating
Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture by Brian Keating
Was There A Big Bang?
Was There A Big Bang?
Date: November 6th, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture
Location: Watkins Hall 1000
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Dark Matter Day
Dark Matter Day
Date: October 29th, 2024
Time: 6:30 -- 8:30 PM
Location: Physics Building, Reading Room
June 7, 2024
June 7, 2024
Congratulations to CECI undergraduate researcher Aiden Wilkins for winning the Bieniek Award for excellence in undergraduate research in experimental cosmology! Aiden's research project developed new optical technology for the LIGO gravitational wave observatory with Prof. Jon Richardson, and he is now pursuing his PhD at Stanford University.
Congratulations to CECI undergraduate research Peter Carney, as well. Peter won the CNAS Academic Excellence Award (2023 and 2024), CNAS Rosemary S.J. Schraer Award (2024), and the Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2023) for his work. Peter is now pursuing his PhD at Caltech.
Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture by Laura Sales
Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture by Laura Sales
Galaxies as Astrophysical Laboratories for Dark Matter
Galaxies as Astrophysical Laboratories for Dark Matter
Date: June 7th, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture
Location: Watkins Hall 1000
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