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The bright yellow forklift crept forward, gracefully maneuvering the 20-ton steel tank through the entrance of Etcheverry Hall’s basement with only two millimeters to spare. Relying on the expertise of Berkeley Lab riggers, this tight squeeze was by design to maximize the size of the outer vessel of the Eos experiment. “Named for the Titan goddess of dawn, Eos represents the dawn of a new era of neutrino detection technology,” says Gabriel Orebi Gann, a Berkeley Physics associate professor, Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, and the leader of Eos, an international collaboration of 24 institutions jointly led by UC Berkeley Physics and Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science....

Eos: The Dawn of a New Era of Neutrino Detection The bright yellow forklift crept forward, gracefully maneuvering the 20-ton steel tank through the entrance of Etcheverry Hall’s basement with only two millimeters to spare. Relying on the expertis…

Pamela Caton (BA ’92) has always been a “maker.” As a young person, she took jewelry, machining, and programming classes. When her radio broke, her dad suggested, “Try to fix it. It’s already broken, so what’s the worst that can happen?” Working on hardware brings her joy, and she is especially drawn to multi-disciplinary projects. Caton has primarily worked on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)....

Alum Pamela Caton likes to get her hands dirty Pamela Caton (BA ’92) has always been a “maker.” As a young person, she took jewelry, machining, and programming classes. When her radio broke, her dad suggested, “Try to fix it. It’s already broke…

Despite gravity being the dominant force on large scales, the quantum nature of gravity remains elusive. Now, Berkeley Physics Professor Holger Müller’s group has built the most accurate instrument for measuring gravitational attraction between atoms and a small mass—enabling the search for deviations from Newtonian gravity due to quantum effects or hypothetical “fifth-force” dark energy. This novel lattice atom interferometer exploits both the particle-like and wave-like properties of matter....

Measuring Gravitational Attraction with Incredible Precision Despite gravity being the dominant force on large scales, the quantum nature of gravity remains elusive. Now, Berkeley Physics Professor Holger Müller’s group has built the most accurate instrument…

AS AN UNDERGRADUATE at UC San Diego, I knew I wanted to work in science or engineering but I wasn’t sure what I specifically wanted to do “when I grew up.” That’s why I majored in physics–it’s versatile. After earning a PhD in physics at UC Santa Barbara, I worked for years as an academic researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)....

Thinking Like a Physicist AS AN UNDERGRADUATE at UC San Diego, I knew I wanted to work in science or engineering but I wasn’t sure what I specifically wanted to do “when I grew up.” That’s why I majored in physics–it’s vers…

Berkeley Physics was delighted to host the 2023 Rising Stars in Physics Workshop this spring, sponsored by the Heising-Simons Foundation. This event brought together 24 outstanding women physicists and astronomers for two days of scientific talks and informal discussions aimed at helping them navigate the early stage of their academic careers. The workshop was led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, associate professor of physics at MIT and founder of the workshop series, and Alessandra Lanzara, professor and Charles Kittel Chair in Physics at UC Berkeley....

Highlighting Rising Stars in Physics Berkeley Physics was delighted to host the 2023 Rising Stars in Physics Workshop this spring, sponsored by the Heising-Simons Foundation. This event brought together 24 outstanding women physicists…