Physics & Astronomy at University of Pittsburgh

Address:

3941 O'Hara Street, 100 Allen Hall
Pittsburgh, PA
15260
USA

Phone:

412-624-9000

Fax:

412-624-9163

Email:

hma2@pitt.edu

Website:

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/

Chair:

Dr. David Jasnow

General Department Info

Degrees
Offered:

Bachelors Masters Doctorate

Staff & Student
Numbers:

Faculty: 33

Staff: 22
Post Docs: 22

Grads:
Under Grads:

Research
Areas:

Astrophysics and Astronomy, Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO), Condensed Matter Physics, Hadronic Particle Physics, High Energy Physics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computational Physics

Facilities:

Allegheny Observatory, Affiliated with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Electronics Shop, Machine Shop

'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... '

Michio Kaku
(1947-)