There are many opportunities for research in Physics and Astronomy in six general areas of research. Use the menu on the left to view the current research groups.
Current Projects
Here is a sample of some specific research projects going on in our department.
- Acoustics
- Active control of jet engine noise
- Astronomy
- Finding low amplitude short-period variable stars in star clusters
- Identifying marginally or completely unresolved brown dwarfs
- Remote-controlled observational astronomy
- Modeling of active galactic nuclei
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical
- Soft x-ray lasers
- Multilayer mirrors for soft x rays
- Femtosecond high-power laser pulses for nonlinear optical spectroscopy
- Cold Atoms Lab
- Atom Interferometry
- High-harmonic generation
- XUV optics
- PIXE
- Quantum Optics
- Condensed Matter
- Fabrication and manipulation of nanometer-scale structures
- Design of new scintillating materials
- Davis Group
- Plasma
- Micro-Kelvin strongly coupled plasma
- Experimental studies of non-neutral plasmas
- Numerical simulation of non-neutral plasmas
- Theoretical and Mathematical
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