Physics & Astronomy at University of British Columbia

Address:

6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6T 1Z1
Canada

Phone:

604-822-3853

Fax:

604-822-5324

Website:

http://www.physics.ubc.ca

Chair:

Dr. Jeff Young

General Department Info

Degrees
Offered:

Bachelors Masters Doctorate

Staff & Student
Numbers:

Nobels: 1
Faculty: 57

Staff: 43
Post Docs: 33

Grads: 150
Under Grads: 450

Research
Areas:

Particle Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Laser Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Gravity and Relativity, Biophysics, Medical Physics, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics, Engineering Physics

Facilities:

Student Machine Shop, Machine Shop, Electronic Shop, Student Computer Labs, AMPEL, TRIUMF, Videoconference Facility, He3/He4 Refrigerators, Molecular Beam Epitaxy Facility, Scanning Tunnelling Microscope, Xray Difractometers, NMR and ESR Spectrometers, Magnetron Sputtering Facility, Microwave and mm-wave Facilities, Far-infrared Fourier Spectrometers, Raman Spectrometer, High Resolution Infrared Interferometers, Tuneable Ring Dye Laser, Hypervelocity Impact Facility, Galactic Radio-Patrol Image Processing Facility, Ultrafast Plasma Diagnostics Facility, Next Linear Collider Accelerator R&D Facility, UBC Hospital, DNA Sequencing Instrumentation Facility, Beowolf Supercomputer Cluster, Subatomic Computing Server, Liquid Mirror Telescope Instrumentation Facility, Theory Center Computing Cluster