Still waiting on what the "criminal activity" was. Assumed the dogs brought in were of the bomb sniffing variety... #UCSB #SantaBarbara

https://www.edhat.com/news/ucsb-police-evacuate-henley-hall-amid-criminal-threats-investigation-public-asked-to-avoid-area/

Having lunch in the sun. Sitting next to three students from Sweden. Really enjoying the "sing song" cadence to their language. 🇸🇪

#UCSB #NotAfraidofPeopleTalkingInADifferentLanguage

🏆 UCSB is the #1 public university in the U.S. for scientific impact (#3 overall) per the CWTS Leiden Rankings! 🎓 In the elite "Top 1%" tier, we trail only MIT and Harvard.

In Engineering & Physical Sciences, UCSB is the #1 U.S. public university for impact across the Top 1%, 10%, and 50% categories. 🥇

Read more: https://bit.ly/4kAsRZF

Go Gauchos! 💙💛 #UCSB #Engineering

Any #SantaBarbara locals who remember Frank Frost, this is a great article and remembrance of a real pioneer. RIP Frank
#UCSB

https://www.independent.com/2026/01/21/angry-poodle-how-the-legendary-frank-frost-saved-more-mesa-played-cole-porter-played-rugby-and-wrote-books/

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Quantum vorticity: A not so effective field theory

Gabriel Cuomo, Fanny Eustachon, Eren Firat, Brian Henning, Riccardo Rattazzi
SciPost Phys. 20, 018 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.1.018

#Princeton #NYU #CPHT #CNRS #ÉcolePolytechnique #IPParis #EPFL #KITP #UCSB
#SwissMAP

Three academics affiliated with U.S. universities have been awarded the
2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit,”
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcedTuesday morning.

British physicist John Clarke, a professor of experimental physics at the University of California, Berkeley;

French physicist Michel Devoret, professor emeritus of applied physics at Yale and a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara;

and John Martinis, also a physics professor at UCSB,
will share the nearly $1.2 million prize.

They won for performing a series of experiments using an electronic circuit made of superconductors, which can conduct a current with no electrical resistance,
demonstrating
“that quantum mechanical properties can be made concrete on a macroscopic scale,”
according to the announcement.

“It is wonderful to be able to celebrate the way that century-old quantum mechanics continually offers new surprises.

It is also enormously useful, as quantum mechanics is the foundation of all digital technology,”
said Olle Eriksson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
#NobelPrize #physics #clarke #devoret #martinis #ucsb
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/07/3-academics-share-nobel-prize-physics