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... '