Physics
Physics provides research opportunities in many subfields of physics, including
- applied physics: this effort has spawned a number of spin-off companies.
- medical physics: be involved in a broad range of medical physics research in the areas of radiation therapy, medical imaging, biomedical optics and radiation biophysics.
- biophysics: the application of quantitative principles and methods to biological systems.
- nuclear and particle physics: the aim of subatomic physics is to understand matter and the fundamental forces in the universe and ultimately form a Theory of Everything.
- astronomy and astrophysics: study stars, galaxies, the material in between, and the Universe as a whole.
- atomic, molecular, and optical physics: this field is rapidly expanding and serves as the basis for many modern technological innovations.
- condensed matter physics is concerned with understanding and exploiting the properties of solids and liquids and the large area that this covers makes it the largest field of contemporary physics.
- theoretical physics: Gravity and Relativity, String Theory, High Energy Physics, and Condensed Matter Theory, to Quantum Information and Biophysics
Explore our Programs in Physics
Faculty Members in Physics
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Aronson, Meigan | heavy-ferromagnetic compounds; charge density waves; magnetic nanoparticles |
| Berciu, Mona | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Physical sciences; condensed matter theory; polarons, bipolarons; strongly correlated systems |
| Boley, Aaron | Astronomy and Astrophysics; Planet formation, protoplanetary disk evolution, formation of meteorite parent bodies |
| Bonn, Douglas Andrew | Condensed matter, high temperature superconductors, microwave measurements, crystal growth |
| Bryman, Douglas | Particle physics, experimental; Experimental Particle Physics; Applied physics; physics |
| Burke, Sarah | Scanning probe microscopy, organic materials, nanoscale materials, surface physics, photovoltaics |
| Choptuik, Matthew | Theoretical physics, Relativity/Computational Physics |
| Damascelli, Andrea | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials |
| Dierker, Steve | Physical sciences; Collective dynamics of condensed matter systems; Dependence on reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, disorder, and mesoscale structure |
| Folk, Joshua | Physical sciences; 2D materials and Vanderwaals heterostructures; Quantum electronics; Thermodynamics of quantum systems; Strongly correlated phenomena; Topological phenomena; Quantum transport |
| Franz, Marcel | Condensed matter theory |
| Gay, Colin | Experimental subatomic physics, Beyond Standard Model physics, Extra dimensions |
| Gladman, Brett | Astronomy, Planetary Science, meteorites, astrobiology, Solar system formation and evolution |
| Hallas, Alannah | Condensed matter experiments; Solid state chemistry; Quantum materials; Materials design and discovery; magnetism; Disorder; superconductivity |
| Halpern, Mark | Cosmology, Cosmic background radiation, history of star formation, measuring the geometry and contents of the Universe, satellites, balloon-borne telescopes, the physics of music, Physics of music, Cosmic Microwave Background, Physical Cosmology, Star formation history |
| Hasinoff, Michael | Low-energy particle physics |
| Hearty, Christopher | Particle physics, experimental; Experimental Particle Physics; e+e- collider; Physics beyond the Standard Model; Dark sector; dark matter |
| Heyl, Jeremy | Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Astrophysics; Black Holes; Neutron Stars; quantum phenomena; Quantum-Field Theory; Stellar; Stellar Physics |
| Hickson, Paul | cosmology, galaxies, telescopes, adaptive optics., Astronomy, astrophysics, Galaxies, clusters, instrumentation, adaptive optics |
| Hinshaw, Gary | cosmology, cosmic background radiation, Cosmology, Measuring diffuse background radiations |
| Jones, David | Atomic, optical and molecular physics,Ultrafast Optics, Spectroscopy |
| Karczmarek, Joanna | Physical sciences; Emergent spacetime and gravity; Matrix models; Noncommutative geometry; String theory |
| Kunimoto, Michelle | exoplanet detection, characterization, and demographics |
| Leslie, Sabrina | |
| Lister, Alison | Particle physics, experimental; Large Hadron Collier (LHC); ATLAS experiment; Search for physics beyond the standard model; top quarks; dark matter; Machine Learning; Long-lived particles |
| Madison, Kirk | Condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical physics |
| Marziali, Andre | Teaching methods, pedagogy, Robotics in education, Nanotechnology, Engineering Physics, Genomics, Biophysics, Genomics Technologies |
| Mattison, Thomas | Subatomic physics, Particle & Nuclear Physics, Applied Physics |
| McIver, Jess | General relativity and gravitational waves in astronomical and space sciences; Gravitational wave astrophysics; Multi-messenger astronomy; Characterization of large-scale physics instrumentation; data science |
| McKenna, Janis | Physical sciences |
| Michal, Carl | Soft condensed matter; Development and applications of spectroscopic and structural techniques; Solid-state NMR; NMR and MRI of brain tissue; NMR methods and instrumentation; Biological and functional materials |
| Milner, Valery | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics; Ultrafast Quantum Coherent Control; Ultrafast Spectroscopy |
| Oser, Scott | Physical sciences; dark matter; Elementary Particles; neutrinos; particle physics; statistical methods for physics; gravitational wave astronomy; LISA |
| Plotkin, Steven | Biophysics theory and computation |
| Potter, Andrew | Condensed matter theory, Atomic, molecular, and optical theory, Quantum information science and quantum computing, Topological phases of matter, Strongly correlated quantum materials, Quantum dynamics, thermalization, and localization, Quantum criticality |
| Rahmim, Arman | Clinical oncology; Medical physics; Physical sciences; Image Reconstruction; Machine learning and radiomics; medical physics; Molecular imaging; Quantitative Imaging; Theranostics |
| Rauscher, Alexander | Other physical sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; magnetic resonance imaging; physics; quantitative susceptibility mapping; myelin water imaging; brain; maschine learning |
| Reinsberg, Stefan | Medical physics, MRIs |
| Rottler, Joerg | Physical sciences; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; Nanomaterials; Polymers; Soft Matter; Solids |
| Rozali, Moshe | String theory, high energy physics, quantum field theory, cosmology and classical gravitational physics |
| Schleich, Kristin | Theoretical physics, general relativity |
| Scott, Douglas | Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Cosmology; Science and Knowledge |
| Semenoff, Gordon Walter | Particle physics theory (including aspects of field theory and string theory); Physical sciences; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics; Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics |
| Sigurdson, Kris | The Universe, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmic 21-cm Fluctuations, Radio Astronomy, CHIME |
| Sossi, Vesna | Medical Imaging, Brain imaging |
| Stairs, Ingrid | pulsars, gravity, general relativity, radio astronomy, radio pulsars, pulsar searches and long-term timing, Radio astronomy |
| Stamp, Philip C | Theoretical physics, strongly-correlated condensed matter systems, quantum magnetism, decoherence, quantum information, gravity |
| Unruh, William | black holes; cosmology; quantum computers; theory of gravity |
| Van Raamsdonk, Mark | elementary particle theory, high energy theory. , String theory, quantum field theory, quantum gravity |
| Van Waerbeke, Ludovic | astrophysics, cosmology, dark energy, universe, gravitational lensing, galaxy, galaxies, Cosmology, dark matter, galaxy formation, structure formation |
