Stay informed about our group's research highlights, notable achievements, and key activities. Below, you'll find news from 2023.

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2023

• 12/12/2023
  Our undergraduate student, Congyue Zhang, has been selected for the 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP).

  
• 12/07/2023
  Today, Jared Reiten successfully defended his thesis "Statistical aspects of jets containing heavy quarks".

  
• 12/04/2023
  We were delighted to welcome John Terry from Los Alamos National Laboratory back for a visit this week.

  
• 12/01/2023
  Zhongbo, the current director of the UCLA-APS Physics Bridge Program, organized a delightful lunch gathering with all the bridge students. Joining the event were department chair Prof. Stuart Brown, DEI committee chair Prof. Smadar Naoz, graduate advisors Brenda Buenrostro and Francoise Queval (our program administrative director), as well as the program's previous director, Prof. Josh Samani. It was a wonderful opportunity to foster community and celebrate the program's efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

  
• 09/18/2023
  We successfully held the "50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics" conference at UCLA, to celebrate the asymptotic freedom of the strong interaction, that was discovered in 1973 by David Gross, Frank Wilczek, and David Politzer, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004. See more information on the indico page. Prof. Frank Wilczek gave the opening speech at the meeting, while Prof. David Gross gave a public lecture. All the talks at the conference are outstanding and are available at Bhaumik Institute YouTube channel. Zhongbo has served as the organizing committee chair.

  
• 09/05/2023
  Dr. Jani Penttala has joined our group as a postdoctoral scholar, jointly with DOE's Saturated Glue (SURGE) topical collaboration. Welcome, Jani!

  
• 09/01/2023
  Zhongbo was invited to give four lectures on "TMD Theory and Phenomenology" at the TIDC Autumn School on Electron-Ion Collider held at National Taiwan University in Taipei from August 28 - 30, 2023.

  
• 08/22/2023
  Several of our group members, Andrew Larkoski, Farid Salazar, Yiyu Zhou, Jared Reiten, Mishary Alrashed, Rares Fota, Congyue Zhang, and Zhongbo Kang, attended the California EIC Consortium Collaboration Meeting held at UC Berkeley during August 21 - 22.

  
• 07/11/2023
  Zhongbo was invited to give two lectures on "QCD Factorization and Nucleon Structure" at the 2023 National Nuclear Physics Summer School held at UC Riverside from July 10 - 21.

  
• 07/01/2023
  Thanks a lot to BNL EIC Theory Institute for generous support, Zhongbo attended the CFNS Workshop - TMDs: Towards a Synergy between Lattice QCD and Global Analysis held at Stony Brook University during June 21 - 23, participated in the 25th year anniversary of RIKEN BNL Research Center on June 22, and SURGE collaboration meeting held at Brookhaven National Laboratory during June 28 - 30.

  
• 06/18/2023
  Today, Fanyi gave a student speech representing the Ph.D. community at the department commencement ceremony. Congratulations!

  
• 06/16/2023
  Fidele attended the HUGS 2023 summer school held at Jefferson Lab during May 30 to June 16. The program is designed for experimental and theoretical nuclear and particle physics.

  
• 05/30/2023
  Today, we had farewell lunch for our postdoc Farid Salazar. Farid will leave UCLA to spend half a year at Berkeley (the Berkeley portion of his joint postdoc appointment) before he heads to UW Seattle. We are really happy to have Farid with us and good luck for his future career.

  
• 05/25/2023
  Congratulations to incoming graduate students, Tanner Janda and Diego Padilla, for receiving UCLA's Competitive Edge Fellowship from the Graduate Division, which supports them to start research in the year-zero summer.

  
• 05/18/2023
  It’s really nice to chat with Prof. Ivan Deutsch from the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), University of New Mexico and to listen to his great seminar.

  
• 05/15/2023
  Zhongbo has been invited to serve on the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award Selection Committee.

  
• 05/11/2023
  Zhongbo had a great time visiting Stony Brook University and giving a seminar at the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science.

  
• 05/03/2023
  We were delighted to host Prof. Alexei Prokudin, who delivered an insightful seminar at UCLA.

  
• 04/13/2023
  A heartfelt thank you to Zhite Yu from Michigan State University for an engaging visit and an insightful seminar. We greatly appreciated the productive discussions and the exchange of ideas.

  
• 04/12/2023
  We are thrilled to announce that our work on jet charge, led by Andrew, Jinghong, and Zhongbo, has been honored as an Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review Letters. By starting with four fundamental assumptions about nonperturbative QCD, we've gained new insights into the classic observable, jet charge, which successfully explains prior collider experimental observations. [Link to Paper]

  
• 04/11/2023
  Congratulations to Rares Fota and Congyue Zhang, who have just received the department REU fellowship to work on the research projects with us in the summer.

  
• 03/20/2023
  Zhongbo attended the first BNL EIC Theory Institute Advisory Board meeting today.

  
• 03/17/2023
  Jared Reiten received a department's Outstanding Teaching Award as a teaching assistant. Zhongbo received the Teacher of the Year Award or the Abelmann Prize for Teaching Excellence.

  
• 03/14/2023
  Congratulations to our postdoc, Farid Salazar, who has received a remarkable offer from the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) at UW Seattle to become a research assistant professor or an INT junior fellow, one of the most prestigious opportunities in the field of nuclear theory.

  
• 03/13/2023
  Many thanks to Prof. Yang-Ting Chien from Georgia State University for giving an excellent seminar today.

  
• 03/09/2023
  Prof. Haiyan Gao, associate lab director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke University, gave today's department colloquium titled "The Structure of the Nucleon."

  
• 02/22/2023
  Prof. Bernd Surrow of Temple University had a short visit to our group today.

  
• 01/30/2023
  We had a successful and productive California EIC Consortium Collaboration Meeting. The next in-person collaboration meeting will be held at the Berkeley campus in the summer of 2023.

  
• 01/13/2023
  Zhongbo has been appointed to the SURGE Steering Committee and will additionally take on the role of convener for the Working Group on Small-x evolution and NLO calculations. Saturated Glue (SURGE) is a Topical Theory Collaboration supported by the DOE Office of Science.

  
• 01/02/2023
  Proud to showcase our framed group picture—a wonderful memory of our team's collaboration and achievements.

  
• 01/01/2023
  We are thrilled to announce that in the Fall of 2023, Fanyi Zhao will be joining the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations, Fanyi! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.