Faculty: 18
Staff: 13
Post Docs: 7
Grads: 22
Under Grads: 92
Research Areas:
Subatomic Physics
Astrophysics and Gravitation
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Chemical Physics
Biophysics
Applied Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Facilities:
The faculty in the Physics Department
are active members of the Canadian
Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded
Centre for Food and Soft Material
Science, the Shared Hierarchical
Academic Research Computing Network
SHARC-Net) and the National Proton
Microprobe Facility for Environmental
Analysis. Associated with these centres
there will be an infusion of new
equipment including 500 and 600
MHz NMR spectrometers, a modern
proton accelerator, scanning probe
microscopes, an X-ray generator and
a 500 node Beowulf supercomputer
cluster. Guelph faculty members
collaborate with many off-campus
research facilities, including the
Neutron Beam Facility at Chalk River,
the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)
and the TRIUMF particle and nuclear
physics facility.
'The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative... '