Research in Physics and Astronomy
Outstanding faculty members are found in all
research areas of the Department. Atomic,
Molecular, Optical & Plasma (AMOP) Physics, and Condensed Matter & Materials Physics (CMMP) & Nanotechnology are nationally and internationally competitive, both in size and external funding.
Faculty in High Energy Physics (HEP) hold leading responsibilities in the DZero Experiment at Fermilab and the CMS Experiment at CERN. They also obtained NSF funding for the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project currently underway.
Astronomy & Astrophysics faculty actively pursue research in a variety of areas.
Click on the headings or group names below to explore research areas in Physics and Astronomy.
Click Here for detailed research interests of the department faculty members.
AMOP Physics
- Quantum optics
(Batelaan Group) - Ultrafast Dynamics
(Centurion Group) - Theory of electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions
(Fabrikant Group) - Polarized electron collisions with atoms and molecules
(T. Gay Group) - Theory of intense laser-plasma interactions
(Shadwick Group) - Theory of intense laser-atom interactions
(Starace Group) - Femtosecond laser processes; optical vortices
(Uiterwaal Group) - Nonlinear optics of high-intensity laser light in relativistic plasmas
(Umstadter Group)
High Energy Physics
- DZero experiment at Fermilab and the compact muon solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN
(Bloom Group)
(Claes Group)
(Dominguez Group)
(Kravchenko Group)
(Snow Group)
CMMP & Nanotechnology
- Novel interactions in thin film magnetic systems
(Adenwalla Group) - Electronic structure and transport in magnetic materials and nanostructures
(Belashchenko Group) - Magnetic heterostructures
(Binek Group) - Changes in electronic (band) structure across electronic phase transitions
(Dowben Group) - Design and study of polymers
(Ducharme Group) - Self-assembled magnetic nanostructures
(Enders Group) - Fundamental studies of nanoscale physical phenomena in electronic and polar materials
(Gruverman Group) - Statistical mechanics; computer simulations
(R. Hardy Group) - Magnetism in nanostructured materials
(Kirby Group) - Magnetic domain imaging; magnetic nanostructured materials and complex oxides
(Liou Group) - Nanoscale magnetic materials, self-assembled dots
(Sellmyer Group) - Theory of spin-dependent electronic transport in magnetic nanoscale systems
(Tsymbal Group)
Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Variable star photometry and image processing
(Lee Group) - Binary systems
(Leung Group) - Variable star observations
(Schmidt Group)
