Faculty by Research Interests

Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Observational: Ahluwalia, Diels, Duric, Gregory, Henning, Matthews, McGraw, Price, Rand, Zeilik
• Theoretical: Prasad, Zeilik
  • Adaptive optics and interferometry: Diels, Duric, McGraw, Prasad
  • Cosmic-ray and high-energy astrophysics: Ahluwalia, Duric, Matthews
  • Extragalactic astronomy: Duric, Gregory, Henning, Rand
  • Galactic astronomy: Duric, McGraw, Zeilik
  • Radio astronomy: Duric, Henning, Price, Rand
  • Solar and space physics: Ahluwalia

Condensed Matter Physics

• Experimental: Duncan, Panitz
• Theoretical: Beckel, Dunlap, Kenkre
  • Chemical and molecular physics: Beckel, Kenkre
  • Low-temperature physics and critical phenomena: Duncan
  • Magnetic materials and magnetic resonance: Duncan, Kenkre
  • Materials theory: Dunlap, Kenkre
  • Surface physics: Panitz
  • Transport phenomena: Duncan, Dunlap, Kenkre
  • Tunneling Phenomena: Dunlap, Kenkre, Panitz

Information Physics

• Theoretical: Caves, Deutsch

Optics

• Experimental: Diels, Rudolph, Sheik-Bahae
• Theoretical: Caves, Deutsch,McIver, Prasad
  • Atomic physics: Deutsch
  • High-resolution spectroscopy and imaging: Diels, Prasad, Rudolph
  • Laser physics and nonlinear optics: Diels, McIver, Rudolph, Sheik-Bahae
  • Quantum optics: Caves, Deutsch, McIver, Prasad
  • Ultrafast phenomena: Diels, Rudolph, Sheik-Bahae

Nuclear and Particle Physics

• Experimental: Bassalleck, Fields, Gold, Matthews, Seidel
• Theoretical: Cahill, Chandler
  • Particle Astrophysics: Matthews
  • Collider physics: Gold, Matthews, Seidel
  • Fundamental interactions and supersymmetry: Cahill, Gold
  • New particle searches: Bassalleck, Gold
  • Particle Physics instrumentation: Bassalleck, Fields, Gold, Matthews, Seidel
  • QCD: Bassalleck, Cahill, Fields, Seidel
  • Rare decays: Bassalleck, Gold, Seidel
  • Scattering theory: Chandler

Other Research Areas

• Experimental: Duncan, Panitz, Rudolph
• Theoretical: Cahill, Caves, Chandler, Deutsch, Finley, Kenkre, McIver, Moore, Prasad
  • Atomic physics: Chandler, Deutsch
  • Biophysics: Beckel, Panitz, Rudolph
  • Computational Physics: Cahill, Moore
  • General relativity: Finley
  • Granular materials: Kenkre
  • Information physics: Caves, Deutsch, Prasad
  • Nonlinear science: Caves, Duncan, Finley, Kenkre, McIver
  • Statistical physics: Caves, Duncan, Kenkre