Faculty: 11
Staff: 5
Post Docs: 2
Grads: 18
Under Grads: 40
Research Areas:
Experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics.
Surface physics. Neutron physics.Nonlinear dynamics. Biological and Medical physics.
Facilities:
Sensors and Surface Technology Partnership.
Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center (research reactor).
Small animal imaging center. Spectroscopy and microscopy laboratory.Planetarium.
Observatory.
'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... '