Faculty: 5
Staff: 0
Post Docs: 0
Grads: 0
Under Grads: 12
Research Areas:
cosmology, and large scale structure; radio astronomy and galaxy formation; interstellar medium, stellar evolution, stellar remnants and binary
star systems; plasma physics and fusion energy; solid state physics, materials science,
optical and electrical characterization of semiconductors, photovoltaics (solar cells); and nuclear physics.
Facilities:
Morehead Radio Telescope (see web page), pulsed dye lazer, 1 Tesla magnet
'There is no inductive method which could lead to the fundamental concepts of physics. Failure to understand this fact constituted the basic philosophical error of so many investigators of the nineteenth century.'