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Zhongbo Kang

10 months

🎉📽️ Big reveal! Dive into the insights from the "50 Years of QCD" conference held at @UCLA ! All presentation videos are now LIVE on YouTube! Don't miss out! #50YearsOfQCD 🚀🎙️ via @YouTube

QCD at 50 2023

Talks from "QCD at 50." Held at UCLA (September 11-15, 2023). https://indico.cern.ch/event/1276932/overview

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1 year

Apparently “The Feynman Lectures on Physics” are now completely online. Read it here:

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2 years

Wow 🤩 @BostonLogan airport, I am really impressed! - Feynman Lectures on Physics!!!

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2 years

I often demonstrate “magnetic induction" in general physics class, but never realized “wireless charging” e.g. to iPhone is precisely using this effect. I finally learned this when a student wants to charge phone on demo coils. What a great moment for me, learning via teaching😁

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2 years

My Ph.D. advisor shared with me today what his Ph.D. advisor used to tell him: try your best to give more credits to young people, respect, support, and promote junior ones when you are more senior. I will try my best to implement these values 🤝✊👍

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Zhongbo Kang

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3 months

Trying my best to teach a graduate level particle physics course: it should cover QCD and Higgs. I am doing a lot of reading and refreshing my mind, too 😂😂😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

What do you think of this clock?

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

8 months

Exciting times ahead! 🌟 Welcomed my baby into the world yesterday - a bundle of joy and sleepless nights 😊 facing a challenging week with numerous writing deadlines for recommendation letters and the quarter's end looming. Balancing parenthood with work - here we go! 💪 💪

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

We got this year’s Teacher of the Year Award, or the Abelmann Prize for Teaching Excellence! Thanks a lot to all the students, teaching assistants, learning assistants, colleagues and mentors! They believed in me, provided a lot of feedback allowing me to improve the teaching 🙏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

3 years

Very happy to receive a department outstanding teaching award, for teaching undergrad course “A Modern Introduction to Nuclear Physics” [taught Fall 2020]. Right now teaching it again but in-person. Thanks a lot for lots of great advice from students, that help us to improve.

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

OMG😍😍😍 This is the sweetest comment I have ever gotten in my entire career! I am truly touched. I will work hard to improve the course next year❤️ "Everyone in the first-year cohort sees Zhongbo as something like our dad. He really cares about us, and we all love him a lot."

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Someone asked my opinion about the pros and cons of working in a national lab vs academia. I once asked the same question, and my mentor pointed me to this presentation, including also industry. Would appreciate others share their opinions on this 🤝🙏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

I am teaching a lower division general physics course: electrodynamics, optics and special relativity. We have 180 students. Our TAs have to grade two midterms and a final exam, also quizzes. I can definitely see this. Truly appreciate their efforts …

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2 years

Teaching 150 students vs Grading 150 assignments

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2 years

A lot of discussions 😂

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3 years

An undergraduate student just told me that she changed her major to physics after taking my class. That made my day 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

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3 years

“Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing woman in nuclear physics, was my grandmother. I wish I knew more about her private universe.” A nice story from the granddaughter ⁦⁦ @jadabird ⁩!

Perspective | Discovering Dr. Wu

The world reveres Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma — and I long to know more about her.

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

10 months

Daughter is five years old. Recently she told me she wants to be a scientist. I asked why, she kept telling me because she watched the science experiment, super cool. Today I finally found out she was referring to Emily’s Wonder Lab by @TheSpaceGal thank you for inspiration 👏👏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

It’s a long day with many meetings. But the day ended well: we installed a blackboard outside our student office (before it was a wood board for posters). Blackboard is just great for discussions. What do you think?😂

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Zhongbo Kang

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1 year

Today, I finished teaching physics 1C (a lower division undergrad course) - Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity. I am so happy 😁

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Physics and Astronomy building 3rd floor patio: quiet and peaceful!

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

So many people are talking about LK-99, I couldn’t help asking an expert opinion from my wife, who is a condensed matter experimentalist working on SC. Here is what I got (with permission to share😂)

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

Sunset at @UCLA

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

What do you tell your Ph.D. students during your last lunch with them before they move to new places for postdocs? Students, what do you expect your advisor to tell you? Ask seriously 😁 answers are appreciated 🙏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Seeing the coffee shop full of students on campus always makes me feel motivated and excited 😆

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

don’t want to be negative. But it makes me upset when many universities do not even notify “interviewed candidates” that their application did not work out. Come on, most times you just interview 4 or 5 candidates for a faculty job. How much efforts do you need to write an email?

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Conferences are mostly back to in-person. I run into anxiety: (1) wife also in academia, with two kids (4 and 10), have to coordinate travel plans, (2) have to say a lot of Nos, feeling bad, (3) students need to go in-person, concerned about funding, (4) still worry about covid😰

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Guess who I run into today! So great! @MartinJarmond

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Peace is so precious 🙏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

Great sunny day @UCLA

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

I used REDUCE often, a nice algebra tool to compute Feynman diagrams (like FeynCalc in Mathematica). I don't use it anymore since it is difficult to install on Mac. Today, I found that they developed a web version that allows us to run the code directly. Such great development😁

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Previous years, our undergrad level nuclear physics would get complaints that homework were too easy. This quarter, even though we didn’t change problems, I constantly get requests for hw extension. I know that these are extraordinary times. But I am still very frustrated😰

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

11 months

The conference "50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)" has just started @UCLA this morning. Looking forward to an exciting week 👏👏👏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Yes, yes, my Covid test is now negative, I can finally go back to my office 😂🙏

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

One poster in our department! Probably we should have replaced "atomic physics" in the bottom to "nuclear physics"! Do you agree? 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

taught general physics 5 times, so made a plot. Shown here is the average score for the instructor [1 lowest, 9 highest]. I urged students to provide feedback via a google form throughout the entire quarter, used to adjust teaching. Apparently, students really help us improve 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

9 months

My colleague Prof. Huang turns 60 this year. Look at his former and current students and postdocs made it for him 🤩🤩🤩🎊🎊🎊

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

We are very happy that our work on the jet charge with Andrew Larkoski and former undergrad Jinghong Yang (now a graduate student at Maryland @UMDPhysics ) has been selected as Editors’ Suggestion at Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett 🤩🤩

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

11 months

I really enjoyed the outstanding talks at our conference "50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics". We will soon post all the talk videos once our secretary splits the videos for individual speakers 😂 Stay tuned.

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Morning has to start with a good espresso 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Good morning, a new day! Come to work with us 🤩 @UCLA campus is one of the most beautiful one in the US. Our department is located in the Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB) and Knudsen Hall complex! Next to us is the music cafe where I get my morning coffee ☕️

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

This is even better, our paper is tweeted by @PhysRevLett directly 😂😂. Thank you, @PhysRevLett !

Physical Review Letters

@PhysRevLett

1 year

Starting from four simple assumptions about nonperturbative QCD, new insights concerning an old observable, jet charge, are obtained which explain previous observations in collider experiments #OpenAccess

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

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

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

I feel I am committed to too many tasks at the moment, trying so hard to meet the expectations 😮‍💨

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Have taught a lower-division undergrad course, general physics, for several years and each time ~180 students. I have a much larger probability of bumping into students, who wave hi to me. What a good feeling: you can claim more and more students to be my students 🤣

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

In graduate school, to calm and focus, I print papers and start to read with a highlighter marker. Now we don't do that anymore since we read papers on iPad. A new method is to write iPad notes. I get focused after some pages of writing. What's your trick to get focused😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

Finally TMD Handbook is done 😂 Very happy to be part of it 💪💪💪

arXiv hep-ph

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1 year

[2304.03302] Renaud Boussarie, Matthias Burkardt, Martha Constantinou et al.: TMD Handbook

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2 years

Haven’t had such a good feeling for a long time! Super excited when students fully occupied my office during today’s office hour 🤩

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2 months

Highlight of my day: a student brought his entire family to my office. Such a heartwarming surprise!

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1 year

This is @UCLALibrary in the evening 🌙

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

I took this picture when I was teaching our undergrad level nuclear physics "in person" at the beginning of the quarter. Then I got covid and had to switch to zoom for the past two weeks! I cannot wait to teach it in person again next week 😄

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

Some MIT buildings can be very confusing, especially inside the building, it’s like a maze! Then you find Center for Theoretical Physics @MIT_Physics , looking really nice 🤩

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2 years

I framed a group picture 😂🤩

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2 years

Today, our Physics 201Q - faculty seminars for first-year graduate students, starts with a nice breakfast. Waiting for students to join 😁

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Guess where am I?

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

3 years

When I was a postdoc @BrookhavenLab , all my European colleagues would insist to have coffee after lunch. Over the years, I finally understand and appreciate how important is to have a coffee after lunch. Without it, you are ruining your afternoon efficiency 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

This year for @EYU_UCLA , I teamed up with my son. I presented a public lecture on Electron-Ion Collider, then he helped kids to try a particle collisions VR. Kids were extremely excited and we had to step outside the lecture hall to finish. All kids told us: it was so cool🤩

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

3 years

Well deserved! Congratulations!

Einstein Foundation

@Einstein_Berlin

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Paul Ginsparg, founder of the first open access preprint server , receives the €200,000 Individual #EinsteinFoundationAward . The Professor of Physics & Information Science @Cornell pioneered the use of new technologies in automated quality control...⬇️

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2 years

We had mid-term today. I had thought nobody would show up during office hours, which is right after the exam. Guess I was completely wrong 🤩

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

11 months

Welcome, Jani Penttala! Jani will be our postdoc at UCLA, jointly with Saturated Glue (SURGE) collaboration @BrookhavenLab , supported by @doescience . 💪💪💪👍👍👍

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

Had a great lunch with colleagues and colloquium speaker Kathryn Zurek @Caltech . An interesting joke from lunch conservation -> A colleague was giving an "in-person" lecture, and during the first class, he started with: "Can you hear me? Can you see me?" 🤣🤣

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

3 years

An extremely exciting week. Meet old and new friends. Outstanding talks. Above all, my chair informed me that my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure has been approved, effective July 1, 2021. Greatly appreciate all the support from mentors, collaborators, and students.

QCD Evolution Workshop

@qcd_evolution

3 years

We thank the participants of the 2021 QCD evolution workshop. This year was particularly productive and we are looking forward to seeing what the future brings to the field of QCD. - the local organizers: @ZhongboK , @lee_kyle_ , Jared Reiten, @DingYuShao , John Terry, @Fanyi_Zhao

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Zhongbo Kang

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1 year

It was really fun to attend UCLA College Commencement 2023 Ceremony 🤩🤩🤩Congratulations, graduates! Go Bruins 💪💪💪

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

After “knowing” her for quite some time on Twitter, it feels great to finally meet @ClaudiaRatti in person 😄

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

We are extremely happy and thankful for being awarded a UC Southern Hub Seed Grant from UCLA Office of Vice Chancellor for Research @RogerWakimoto to initiate collaborative research among @UCLA , @UCRiverside , @Livermore_Lab and @LosAlamosNatLab on Electron-Ion Collider Physics.

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

We are looking for graduate students to join our group working in QCD and strong interactions. To apply, follow our department graduate admission: . Check our group at and also the tab in the bottom "join our group" for guidance.

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Zhongbo Kang

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3 years

Finally I had my 1st dose! Very good experience. I went to Pharmacy inside Walgreens at my appointment time. Very few people were there. No waiting in getting my shot ...

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

Flying to Boston, attend and give talks at pre-town hall meeting on EIC theory, and hot and cold QCD town hall meeting. This is long range planning in nuclear physics, aka Snowmass in particle physics. This would be the very last travel before I start teaching next week.

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

It was great to see Raju Venugopalan  @BrookhavenLab . We had a great lunch together and had of course very nice physics discussion😁

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1 year

#NewProfilePic

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Zhongbo Kang

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11 months

This morning we have @FrankWilczek @MIT_Physics , Michael Creutz @BrookhavenLab , and Leonard Susskind @Stanford give outstanding talks as always 🤩🤩🤩

Zhongbo Kang

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11 months

The conference "50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)" has just started @UCLA this morning. Looking forward to an exciting week 👏👏👏

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2 years

This is absolutely true. If you have doubts, try to teach for a few years 😂

Prof. Feynman

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2 years

The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another.

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

Recently I found myself really love Indian cuisine 🤩

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

3 years

Finally finished submitting all the recommendation letters for the season: graduate school application, fellowship application, postdoc job application and faculty job application. Feel relaxed now. I wish all of them best of luck!

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Zhongbo Kang

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4 years

Deeply honored to receive department’s Teaching Innovator of the Year award. Thank you!

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

So just like that, I finished lunch with our student John Terry. He is leaving next week and will join @LosAlamosNatLab as a Director’s Postdoc Fellow! I wish him best of luck and I am going to miss him 😁

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Zhongbo Kang

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3 years

Submitted grades for my course. Reading students’ feedback. One caught my attention: “Sadly I will not study physics anymore, but his lectures almost made me reconsider my decision to continue my physics learning.” I wonder: had I tried harder, maybe he would have stayed …

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2 years

It feels great to end the day with lots of good vibes 😎

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2 years

Finished teaching today for this quarter 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

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1 year

I finally tried smoothie made by this robot @UCLA

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Zhongbo Kang

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3 years

After more than a year, I got back to office to work today. did remote teaching there. very mixed feelings: had expected to be super excited, but no. didn't run into any of my colleagues. I guess office/building becomes attractive because of the people/friends in the building 🙏

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Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

Worked whole night yesterday until 6:56 AM. haven't worked the entire night for a long time. Looked at all the documents I worked on overleaf and had felt pretty good. Only problem is that it did not work out the way I have expected … disappointed. Need some good vibes 😎

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2 years

Having been at New Orleans for four days, I found that my favorite local food is “New Orleans–Style Red Beans and Rice” 😂

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5 months

It’s nice to take the postdocs in our nuclear group to have lunch together 💪💪💪 @zhyiyu @ZhonglingJi , and Jani

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

1 year

Continuing staying at New York, next week will be mainly @BrookhavenLab . My Saturday dinner: let us have some Japanese food 🤩

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

don't know if this is true for every university. Here, we assign two senior professors as mentors for assistant prof. In my case, it is Profs. Zvi Bern and Huan Huang. They have been tremendously supportive, giving guidance on almost everything. I continue asking for advice 😂

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2 years

Lots of recommendation letters need to be constructed before next week 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

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5 months

Evening at campus! Have a good night!

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

2 years

Let me take this opportunity to advocate our Schwinger lounge, an informal discussion place for Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics in the department. We greatly appreciate the support from Mani L. Bhaumik!

Zhongbo Kang

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2 years

A lot of discussions 😂

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1 year

Finished my lectures at the 2023 National Nuclear Physics Summer School #NNPSS held at @UCRiverside . I had thought Los Angeles is hot (84 F) is hot … then I drove to Riverside, found that I can barely walk outside (98 F) 😁

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2 years

Our undergrad @gracegarmire is presenting her poster. Several friends said that she did a good job explaining it 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

@ZhongboK

3 years

"Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect" - super cool. We are keen on the Aharonov-Bohm effect, because: in QCD, quite a few people would regard the so-called Sivers effect as similar to a non-abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect 😂

Observation of a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect

Atom interferometry was used to detect a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect.

www.science.org

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Zhongbo Kang

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1 year

Cleaned my workplace at home, hopefully working efficiency can be increased 😂💪

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Zhongbo Kang

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1 year

For those who haven't visited @BrookhavenLab recently, let me advocate for them. Now there is a nice community right outside the lab, with a hotel (Home2 by Hilton), restaurant/bar, and grocery (Walmart). This makes the lab much more user friendly than before 💪💪🤩

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11 months

Had a short but great visit to Taipei

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Zhongbo Kang

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1 year

Farewell lunch for our postdoc Farid Salazar, who will be leaving UCLA tomorrow and will spend half a year at Berkeley before he heads to UW Seattle 🤩 We are really happy to have you here. Good luck for your future career 💪💪

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1 year

Attending department commencement ceremony. @Fanyi_Zhao gave a student speech! Congratulations, everyone 🤩🤩💪💪

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1 year

My daughter shared her tea set with me, so now we are drinking tea together since it’s such a chilly day 😂

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Zhongbo Kang

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3 years

To make students more engaged in class, [having finished two vaccine shots], I did remote teaching from classroom. Showed demos on magnetic force, induction, electromagnetic wave. Finally I thought the students must miss the classroom, so I showed them the “empty” classroom 😂