Our astrophysics and cosmology group explores such areas as the formation of galaxies; the production of dark matter in the early universe; and the properties, evolution, and death throes of massive stars.

Our condensed matter group explore such fields as ultrafast processes, quantum computation, composite particle states, large-bandgap semiconductors, and the physics of biological systems.

Our physics education researchers study the cognitive mechanisms that aid or hinder the learning of physics, in order to create and assess techniques for improving physics education.

Our particle physics group seeks to understand the fundamental constituents of matter by searching for new subatomic particles and by measuring the properties of known particles and interactions.