Faculty: 17
Staff: 4
Post Docs: 9
Grads: 51
Under Grads: 563
Research Areas:
Nuclear Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Lasers and Photonics
Instrumentation and Sensor Development
High Speed Data Acquisition
Signal Processing
Neural Networks
Man Machine Interface
Artificial Intelligence
Facilities:
6 teaching and research laboratories on campus
Hunter Creech Computer Lab (UNIX)
2 Multimedia Labs
Engineering Electronics Lab
Engineering Projects Lab
Information Systems Lab
3 modern research laboratories at the nearby Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Laser and Photonics Lab
Solid State Sensor Lab
Advanced Circuits and Multimedia Lab
'The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative... '