Faculty: 50
Staff: 16
Post Docs: 32
Grads: 70
Under Grads: 174
Research Areas:
Astrophysics Experiment,
Biological Physics,
Condensed Matter Experiment,
Condensed Matter Theory,
High Energy Experiment,
High Energy Theory,
Medium Energy Experiment,
Medium Energy Theory,
Physics Education,
Quantum Theory
Facilities:
computer cluster,
X-ray scattering facility
'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... '