Faculty: 16
Staff: 9
Post Docs:
Grads: 26
Under Grads: 68
Research Areas:
Biophysics,
Computational Physics and
Astrophysics,
Defect Chemistry of Semi-
conductors,
Environmental Nuclear
Radiation,
Environmental Sensors,
General Relativity,
Health Physics,
Liquid Crystals,
Microelectronic Materials,
Nonequilibrium Statistical
Mechanics,
Observational Extra-galactic
Astronomy,
Pattern Formation,
Phase Transitions,
Physics and Astronomy
Education,
Statistical Mechanics,
Superconductivity,
Surface and Interface
Science,
Thin Films,
Tribology and Nanomechanics,
Variational Methods in
Quantum Mechanics
Facilities:
Maynard F. Jordan
Planetarium and
Observatory,
Laboratory for Surface Science
and Technology
'A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.'