New group picture taken today! 😁😁😁

Scientists working on the MicroBooNE experiment announced that they have found no evidence for a fourth type of neutrino.

Our neighborhood is having another power outage tonight — the third in two weeks. Hard to believe this keeps happening in a “modern” city like Los Angeles @ladwp.com 😱

Finishing a proposal on my birthday… but at least Starbucks gives a free birthday drink! 🎉☕️ Thank you!

I’m grateful to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from @humboldt-foundation.de. I look forward to visiting DESY and other institutes in Germany in summer 2026, and to learning from and collaborating with many wonderful colleagues 🙏🤝😁 newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty...

Huge thanks to Nathaniel Craig @physicsnate.bsky.social for a beautiful and truly inspiring colloquium at UCLA today! I also really enjoyed our discussions and lunch together 👏👏👏

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Today’s fortune cookie basically said: “You work too much. Go to the beach.” 😂

The Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications conference has concluded today, and recorded talks are now available to watch at buff.ly/2lD7WTC and buff.ly/AXJjS4e Watch more talks from the associated program online at buff.ly/QHE8YtH 🧪

Good morning, everyone! Wishing you a bright and peaceful day ahead ☀️

Halloween is just around the corner!

Chen-Ning Yang, one of the giants in theoretical physics and Nobel laureate, passed away in Beijing on Saturday at 103 🙏🙏🙏 www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/18/...

We’re excited to launch the Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UCLA! 🌟 Open to outstanding candidates in Physics, Astronomy, or Chemistry. Nominations due Oct 31, 2025 — help us spread the word! physicalsciences.ucla.edu/bhaumik-priz...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits? Here it is: ($) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Friday night at UCLA — full of energy 💪💪

Back in the City of Angels — feeling great!

Just landed in Seattle! Excited for a short visit to the Institute for Nuclear Theory at University of Washington — here until Friday 💪💪

Fall quarter starts next week, and summer is over. Just in time for great news: I’ve been promoted to Professor at UCLA Physics & Astronomy, effective July 1, 2025. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues, students, postdocs, and collaborators who made this possible 😀 Thank you all!

Excited to welcome Carlos Lamas Rodríguez, a graduate student from @igfae.gal working with Prof. @casalgado.bsky.social. He’ll be joining us for the Fall quarter - looking forward to great collaborations ahead 🤝📷🤝

Got this from Panda Express today 🥢✨ “I wish this would be true literally…” 🍀

Having lunch at UCLA Anderson Cafe @uclaanderson.bsky.social

A caramel latte with a Bruin foam on top 🐻☕. Only one staff makes it … feels like UCLA’s secret menu 😄😄😄

A beautiful Labor Day — couldn’t ask for a better sky ☀️☁️💙

Had a chance to stop by UCLA South Bay Campus. Amazing spot—right up on the hill with the Pacific Ocean below. It really does feel like the campus sits above the clouds. ☁️🌊

Found my homework from 20 years ago. Who would have expected that the energy–energy correlator we studied then would still be a widely discussed observable in QCD today? 😂😂

The Music Library has one of the most beautiful views — a perfect backdrop for reading and thinking. 📚🎶

✨ Preparing a nomination package takes patience and care — polishing every detail until it shines. Fingers crossed it pays off, because our young scientists truly deserve the recognition. 🌟

Our departmental 10-week REU program wrapped up with all students giving 10-minute talks. Curtis and Brian presented their projects on global analysis and tensor networks—both did a great job. Seeing students grow so much in a short time is truly rewarding 👏👏👏

At the UCLA Faculty Center ☕🐻 — ordered my usual caramel latte, and the new staff put a little Bruin on top. Absolutely adorable. 😂

Spending the afternoon working with my daughter at the public library. How’s your Saturday going?

Just got back from a 6-week visit to the DESY theory group. Huge thanks to Markus Diehl and everyone for their warm hospitality. It was a wonderfully productive stay, made even better by Hamburg’s long summer days—plus the joy of meeting new friends and reconnecting with old ones 🙏🙏🙏

Having a wonderful time in Tübingen—just attended my first-ever workshop held inside a castle! Such a charming and lively town. Grateful to my host, Prof. Werner Vogelsang, for the warm hospitality 😁😁

Staying at DESY in Hamburg, Germany until early next month—a wonderful place with a calm, focused vibe. Sunrise around 5 am, sunset near 10 pm. Feels safe walking outside even at midnight (McDonald’s is still busy at 11 pm!). Such a different experience from the US 😅

Many thanks to Henry Hirvonen from Vanderbilt University for giving a great seminar at UCLA on Thursday: Neural Network Enhanced Bayesian Analysis of Heavy-Ion Observables 👏👏

Many thanks to Prof. Leo Zhou @leologist.bsky.social from UCLA’s ECE Department for a great seminar on Friday: Exploring Quantum Advantages in Optimization: Theory and Practice 👏👏

2025 Saturated Glue (SURGE) Collaboration Meeting at UCLA — thank you all for making it so productive! Great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Exciting progress, new energy, and a bright future ahead. Let’s keep moving forward together 💪💪🙏🙏

Never had a cortado until today. A small cup, a big moment 😂

Dinner? Delicious. Post-dinner coffee? Not so easy. Turns out even in ‘Sleepless in Seattle,’ the coffee shops sleep by 8pm 😂😂

It’s always a pleasure to visit the Institute for Nuclear Theory at UW Seattle—a truly inspiring place for discussions and collaboration 👏👏

Last week was packed with quantum computing talks—learned a lot and left inspired. Grateful for the long weekend to catch up on some long-overdue tasks. Hoping this week brings a bit more calm and focus. 💡⚛️📚

How’s everyone doing in these uncertain times? I keep telling myself to stay positive and optimistic… but even my coffee seems skeptical lately.

Big thanks to Joao Barata from @cern.bsky.social for a fantastic lunch seminar at UCLA—great insights and great discussion!

I’m joining about 80 of my colleagues this week to meet with congressional offices, as private citizens and scientists, to advocate for continued investment in basic scientific research and supporting particle physics research. There’s urgency to the message. #HEPOnTheHill2025

ChatGPT now offers Ghibli-style portrait generation—so fun, you have to try it! 😂 Just a heads-up: it struggles with groups over 10, hilariously adding or dropping people. 😰 Works best with smaller groups—here’s a pic from when our postdoc first joined!

I am having a good lunch today 😂

I recently heard a student say, “Hard work is a kind of talent.” Simple, true, powerful. I couldn’t agree more. 💪💪💪

🎉 Big congrats to Brian Chang and Curtis Zhou on receiving the UCLA Physics & Astronomy REU Fellowship! Their summer research in our group is now underway—we’re thrilled to have them aboard and excited to see where their work leads! #UndergradResearch #UCLA #Physics

“The beginning of the end to an era!” Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Enters 25th and Final Run @brookhavenlab.bsky.social www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...