IN THE NEWS
Magnetic disorder of Uranus and Neptune explained
UC Berkeley Professor Burkhard Militzer shares great news: “Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune.”
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HONORIFIC AWARD
Kyla de Villa won the 2024 John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
Kyla de Villa, a Ph.D. student in the Earth and Planetary Science Department at UC Berkeley, received the John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award in the 2024 Mineral and Rock Physics section.
Events
Probing Extreme States of Matter Using High-Resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at Hard X-Ray Free Electron Lasers
Adrien Descamps
Queen’s University Belfast
September 13, 2024
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET
HONORIFIC AWARD
Sara Seager won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
Sara Seager, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, “for their ground-breaking work on the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres.”