Research

Astrophysics and Geophysics

Astrophysical-geophysical fluid dynamics, atmospheric dynamics/physical oceanography/climate, compact objects and astrophysical disks, turbulence/vortex dynamics/nonlinear waves, radio astronomy

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Condensed-Matter and Biophysics Experiment

Liquid crystals, self assembly, microfluidics, colloids, chromosome biophysics

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Condensed-Matter and Biophysics Theory and Computation

Granular materials, confined polymers, virus assembly, quantitative biology, active materials and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

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High-Energy Experiment

Higgs boson, electroweak symmetry breaking, supersymmetry, Large Hadron Collider

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Quantum and Gravitational Theory

String theory, black holes, quantum field theory, quantum information and computation, cosmology

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Centers

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Active liquid crystals, Belousov-Zhabotinsky emulsions, axoneme mechanics, hydrogels for cancer treatment, DNA transcription factors

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“We know that 85 percent of the mass of the universe comes from something known as dark matter … We need to find new particles — and new theories — to explain it. … What we’ve seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Gabriella Sciolla

Professor of Physics