Faculty: 15
Staff: 2
Post Docs: 0
Grads: 12
Under Grads: 90
Research Areas:
Modern Optics:Cooling and trapping of atoms,
Quantum Computing and Information,
Photonic Bandgap Materials,
Nanoscale Lasers.
Condenesed Matter:Properties of Ceramic Materials,
Magnetic Multilayers,
Phase Transition Simulations.
Astrophysics: Planetary Formation.
Physics Education:
Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory development,
Physics With Toys,
Innovations in the Introductory Course.
Facilities:
Observatory,
3 Optics Labs,
2 Condensed Matter Labs,
2 Computer Labs,
NSF supported facilities for advanced undergrad
labs in laser physics, spectroscopy, materials
physics, and electronics.
'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... '