| Ample opportunities exist for research in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy. At the present, the
faculty perform research in diverse areas, such as
experimental biophysics, lasers, theoretical condensed
matter physics, experimental advanced materials physics, theoretical particle physics,
astrophysics and cosmology,
mathematical physics, computational physics, and space
physics. Research is
carried out by tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure
track faculty, often in conjunction with undergraduate
students. The Graduate
Programs, which started operations in the Fall
2005, have
greatly expanded the research capabilities of the
Department with the addition of new faculty members and
laboratories, scientists
from the Space Science and Engineering Division at
Southwest Research Institute, postdoctoral researchers,
and graduate students.
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Theoretical
Physics (Liao
Chen,
Zlatko
Koinov,
Rafael Lopez-Mobilia,
Patrick
Nash)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Theoretical Particle
Physics
- Cosmology
- Astroparticle Physics
- Mathematical physics
- Computational Physics
- Semiconductor
Nanostructures
- Plasma physics
- Chemical Physics
- Radiative transfer
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| Space
Physics and Astrophysics (theoretical,
observational, computational, and applied)
(Frédéric
Allegrini,
Daniel Boice, Geoffrey Crowley,
Mihir Desai,
Jerry Goldstein,
Jorg-Micha Jahn, Stefano Livi,
David McComas, Craig Pollock, Eric
Schlegel,
Philip Valek, J. Hunter Waite)
- Space Weather
-
Ionosphere-thermosphere-mesospheric Physics
- Plasmaspheric Physics
- Magnetospheric Physics
- Heliospheric Physics
- Cometary Physics
- Space Physics
Instrumentation
- Computational Space
Physics
- X-ray Astrophysics
- Cataclysmic Variable
Stars and Supernovae
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Laboratories and Centers
Photos copyrights: Oak Ridge National
Labs (Molecular motor), NASA (Cosmic Background
Anisotropies, Curvature of Universe, Jupiter Auroral
Flare, New Horizons Mission), SwRI (Scientist holding
instrument), Science Magazine (Earth's magnetosphere). |
