Faculty: 30
Staff: 62
Post Docs: 16
Grads: 59
Under Grads: 101
Research Areas:
Astronomy/Astrophysics, Atomic & Molecular Physics,
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics, Elementary Particle
Physics, Medical Imaging Physics & Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Physics, Nuclear Physics, Photonics and Quantum
Electronics, Plasma Physics, Space Physics
Facilities:
The Department is home to the interdisciplinary Optical Science
and Technology Center (OSTC) located in the state-of-the-art Iowa
Advanced Technology Laboratories (IATL). Facilities in the IATL include ultrafast lasers, two molecular beam epitaxy machines for III-V semiconductor growth, and systems for organic semiconductor growth. The students and faculty
also use off campus facilites at CERN, SLAC, Fermilab, and the Very
Large Array radio telescope. The Department has student-run,
computer controlled, optical observatories in Arizona and on the roof
of Van Allen Hall.
'There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap. The important thing is not to stop questioning.'