Physics at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York


Contact Info

Address:		239 Fronczak Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-1500 USA
Phone:		(716) 645-2017
Fax:		(716) 645-2507
Email:		ubphysics@buffalo.edu
Website:		http://www.physics.buffalo.edu/
Chair:		Dr. Richard J. Gonsalves

General Department Info

Degrees Offered:		Bachelors Masters Doctorate

Staff & Student Numbers:		Faculty: 20 Staff: 5 Post Docs: 2 Grads: 72 Under Grads: 53

Research Areas:		condensed-matter physics (experimental and theoretical); high energy and particle physics (experimental and theoretical); computational physics; medical physics; matrtials physics; astrophysics

Facilities:		Cryogenics facility; Materials Research Instrumentation Facility; faculty members and grad students participate in interdisciplinary research as part of the Center for Computational Research and the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics.

'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-)