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Faculty's main research areas

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Astrophysics
Observational Cosmology and Instrumentation, 21cm Cosmology, Radio Astronomy, Cosmic Microwave Background C. Chiang
Exoplanets, Atmospheres, Planetary Climate, High-precision Photometry, Inverse Methods, Remote Sensing N. Cowan
High Energy Astrophysics, Compact Objects, Nuclear Astrophysics, Astrophysical Fluids, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Extrasolar Planets, Statistical Methods A. Cumming
Experimental Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background, Astro-particle Physics M. Dobbs
High Energy Astrophysics, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, Sgr A* and the Galactic Center, accretion onto compact objects, accretion-driven outflows, multi-wavelength and time domain surveys D. Haggard
High-energy astrophysics, Transient astrophysics, Radio astronomy, Neutron stars, Fast radio bursts, Pulsars, Magnetars, X-ray binaries J. Hessels
Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars, Magnetars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae, Supernova Remnants, Radio Astronomy, X-Ray Astronomy, Time Series Analysis. V. Kaspi
Exoplanets, Planet Formation, Star Formation, Dynamics E. Lee
Observational and Theoretical Cosmology, First-generation Stars and Galaxies, Intensity Mapping, 21cm Cosmology, Astrostatistics and Data-Driven Cosmology, Radio Astronomy A. Liu
Neutron Stars, X-ray Binaries, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Pulsars, X-ray Astronomy, Ultra-Cool Dwarfs, Time Series Analysis B. Rutledge
21cm Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmic Dawn, Galaxy Clusters, Observational Cosmology, High Performance Computing, Data Analysis J. Sievers
Galaxy formation and evolution, star-burst and infrared galaxies, galaxy clusters T. Webb
Biological Physics
Nanofluidics, Nanoconfined Polymers, Single Bio-molecule Detection and Manipulation W. Reisner
Cellular Biophysics, Image Correlation Spectroscopy,
Fluorescence and Nonlinear Microscopy, Technique Development
P. Wiseman
Condensed Matter: Experiment
Metallic Multilayers, GMR, Supermagnets, Glassy Metals, Magnetocaloric Materials (Condensed Matter Experiment) Z. Altounian
Quantum optics, defect-based spin systems, magnetic sensing, quantum information science L. Childress
Low-Energy Ultrafast Phenomena in Condensed Matter, Ultrafast TeraHertz Spectroscopy, Conductivity of Disordered Materials, THz Wave Photonics, Nonlinear THz Interactions D. Cooke
Quantum Matter on-a-Chip: Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids, Fractional Quantum Hall Effects, Non-Abelian Quantum Statistics. 2D Atomic Crystals: Post-Graphene Materials and Devices (e.g. Black Phosphorus, Antimony, Bismuth). Device prototyping: All-Electrical Nano-Thermoelectrics and Solid State Cooling G. Gervais
Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy P. Grütter
Low Dimensional Systems and Quantum Structures, Superconductors, Quantum Computing M. Hilke
Mössbauer spectroscopy, Frustrated Spin Systems, Neutron Scattering, μSR, Magnetic Materials D. H. Ryan
Optomechanics, Quantum Motion, Sensing, Photonics, Nanotechnology, spin transfer, nanomagnetism J. Sankey (Childress)
Transient structures of molecules and materials, Ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging, Ultrafast laser spectroscopy, Nanocomposite and functional materials B. Siwick
X-ray Diffraction, Non-equilibrium Structures M. Sutton
Quantum photonics, topological photonics, metasurfaces and metamaterials, nanophotonics, nonlinear optics K. Wang
Condensed Matter: Theory
Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Dynamics, Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetism B. Coish
Non-equilibrium Structures M. Grant
Nanoelectronics Theory, Ab-initio Modeling, Soft Matter H. Guo
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Unconventional Superconductivity, Topological Insulators, Graphene T. Pereg-Barnea
Computational Materials Science, Non-Equilibrium Phase Transformations, Phase Field Molding, Solidification, Dendritic Growth, Solid State Transformations, Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Flame Fronts N. Provatas
High Energy: Experiment
Deep Inelastic Scattering, Photoproduction, Particle Jets, Proton and Photon Structures, ZEUS F. Corriveau
Top Quark, Physics Beyond the Standard Model, DZero and ATLAS Experiment, Trigger System B. Vachon
Heavy-Quark Production, High-Energy Hadron-Hadron Collisions, CDF and ATLAS A. Warburton
High Energy: Theory
Inflationary Cosmology, Theory of Cosmological Perturbations, Superstring Cosmology, Baryogenesis R. Brandenberger
Particle Physics, Scattering Amplitudes, Solvable Models S. Caron-Huot
Particle Physics and Cosmology J. Cline
String Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Physics K. Dasgupta
String Theory, Cosmology, and Black Holes A. Maloney
Particle Astrophysics, Astrophysical and Laboratory Probes of Dark Matter, Cosmological Structure Formation, Galactic Dynamics, Early Universe Cosmology, Gravitational Waves K. Schutz
Nonlinear Physics and Atmospheric Physics
Nonlinear Variability in Geophysics S. Lovejoy
Nuclear: Experiment
Heavy-ion Collisions (Nuclear Experiment) J. Barrette
Neutrino-less double beta decay, Physics beyond the Standard Model, EXO-200 and nEXO, Spectroscopy of radioactive isotopes with TITAN T. Brunner
Spectroscopy of Exotic Nuclear Isotopes F. Buchinger
Nuclear: Theory
Heavy-ion Collisions (Nuclear Theory) S. Das Gupta
Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions C. Gale
Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions S. Jeon
Particle Astrophysics
Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy D. Hanna
Ground-based Gamma-ray Astrophysics K. Ragan