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UC Irvine Giving Day
Physicists and astronomers at UC Irvine’s Center for Cosmology are using the world’s most powerful instruments to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. With your gift, you can help support this science by sponsoring a graduate student’s attendance to an advanced summer school, or by supporting fellowships for local cosmologists.
UCI Astronomers have time on the first cycle of observations with the sophisticated infrared detectors and spectrographic instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope: Prof. Kev Abazajian is part of a team looking to find the smallest structures of dark matter in order to unravel its fundamental properties and particle nature, while Dr. Vivian U leads a team that will use JWST to peer through the dust in colliding galaxies to see how these cataclysmic events influence black hole dynamics, star formation and other phenomena. Observations start in October!
The Large Hadron Collider
UCI Physicists, led by Profs. Jonathan Feng and David Casper, are using a UCI-developed detector to search for neutrinos and new light particles with the FASER experiment. The LHC is undergoing startup operations now, and will be in full run this summer.
As the LHC starts up this summer, UCI Physicists, led by Profs. Daniel Whiteson, Anyes Taffard, and Andy Lankford will be using the LHC’s ATLAS collider detector to discover the basic building blocks of the Universe around us, hoping to find new kinds of particles or interactions and reveal a deeper and simpler layer underlying our reality.
