Faculty: 28
Staff: 9
Post Docs: 4
Grads: 12
Under Grads: 300
Research Areas:
Solid State Physics;
Optical Spectroscopy;
Materials;
Nanophysics;
Biophysics;
Acoustics;
Facilities:
Facility for Optical Characterisation and Spectroscopy (FOCAS.dit.ie);
Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics (IEO.dit.ie)
'The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poets, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.'