Physics & Astronomy at University of British Columbia

Address:

6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6T 1Z1
Canada

Phone:

604-822-3853

Fax:

604-822-5324

Website:

http://www.physics.ubc.ca

Chair:

Dr. Jeff Young

General Department Info

Degrees
Offered:

Bachelors Masters Doctorate

Staff & Student
Numbers:

Nobels: 1
Faculty: 57

Staff: 43
Post Docs: 33

Grads: 150
Under Grads: 450

Research
Areas:

Particle Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Laser Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Gravity and Relativity, Biophysics, Medical Physics, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics, Engineering Physics

Facilities:

Student Machine Shop, Machine Shop, Electronic Shop, Student Computer Labs, AMPEL, TRIUMF, Videoconference Facility, He3/He4 Refrigerators, Molecular Beam Epitaxy Facility, Scanning Tunnelling Microscope, Xray Difractometers, NMR and ESR Spectrometers, Magnetron Sputtering Facility, Microwave and mm-wave Facilities, Far-infrared Fourier Spectrometers, Raman Spectrometer, High Resolution Infrared Interferometers, Tuneable Ring Dye Laser, Hypervelocity Impact Facility, Galactic Radio-Patrol Image Processing Facility, Ultrafast Plasma Diagnostics Facility, Next Linear Collider Accelerator R&D Facility, UBC Hospital, DNA Sequencing Instrumentation Facility, Beowolf Supercomputer Cluster, Subatomic Computing Server, Liquid Mirror Telescope Instrumentation Facility, Theory Center Computing Cluster

'The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poets, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.'

Godfrey Hardy
(1877-1947)