Faculty: 40
Staff: 20
Post Docs: 5
Grads: 15
Under Grads: 30
Research Areas:
Nanostructures,
Chemical Physics,
Condensed Mather Theoretical Physics,
Optical properties of materials
Surface Physics
Plasma Physics
Complex Systems
Facilities:
STM,TEM,SEM Microscopy Laboratory
EDS,LEED, AUGER,AES, XPS, UPS Espectroscopy Laboratory
Catalysis Laboratory
Thin Films Laboratory
2 High Tech Computing Laboratories
Access to Cray, Origin 2000 Supercomputers in CICESE and UNAM Mexico, DF
'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... '