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Research
Departmental faculty have a variety of research interests:
- High-Energy Particle Astrophysics— Gran, Habig
- Computational Particle Physics— Hiller
- Theoretical Cosmology— Vanchurin
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics— Jordan
- Physical Limnology and Oceanography— Austin, Katsev
- Experimental Condensed-Matter Physics— Maps, Sydor
- Atomic absorption and emission in trace elements — Sorensen, Sydor
- Environmental Optics — Sydor
Research Opportunities and Resources
- UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
- Olson and Hanson Scholarships for support of undergraduates or high school students working on a research project supervised by a Physics faculty member.
- Research facilities at UMD
- Other research facilities used by faculty:
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
MINOS and the Soudan Underground Laboratory
The NOvA experiment at Fermilab and Ash River Falls
- CUR - Council on Undergraduate Research
- NCUR - Conferences on Undergraduate Research
