About Us
Program
The Department of Physics at Florida International University is dedicated to excellence in research, teaching and service to the scientific and university communities. At present, there are twenty-three full-time faculty members assisted by a varying number of adjunct instructors. The department offers degrees of Bachelor of Science in Physics, Bachelor of Science with Honors in Physics, Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Master of Science in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Physics. We also offer Minors in Physics and in Astronomy. The department operates a fully equipped machine shop and an electronic design and repair facility.
Facilities
The Department of Physics occupies half of the Physics and Chemistry building providing generous space allowances for all laboratories and activities of the Department. The research laboratories include solid state physics laboratories for surface studies of crystals and nanomaterials, a nonlinear optics facility, a biophysics laboratory specializing in the study of physics of the human eye, and an experimental nuclear physics laboratory for the preparation of experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
The University is a member of Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of universities which operates a 1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Research Groups
Astronomy: Interests of the group include the structure and evolution of close binary stars, VLA radio observations of dwarf galaxies, and multi-frequency observations of quasars and active galactic nuclei.
Biophysics: Experimental studies of temporal processing in the human eye; theoretical studies of phase transitions in amorphous system and electron transfer in proteins.
Experimental Nuclear Physics: Explores the quark and gluon substructure of matter at accelerators including the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Laser and Optical Physics: Atom optics and quantum optics including laser cooling and trapping of rubidium atoms, dark-hollow-beam manipulations of cold atoms, and nonlinear optical phenomena manifested by atomic coherence and interference.
Nuclear, Medium Energy, and Particle Theory: A theoretical group working in weak interactions, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear reactions, and lattice field theory of quarks and gluons, QCD.
Physics Education Research: A coordinated program of research, curriculum development, and, instruction to improve the teaching and learning of physics.
Solid State Surface Physics: An experimental and theoretical group specializing in the study of the structural and electronic properties of crystals and crystal surfaces with variety of techniques (LEED, AES, UPS, XPS, TDS and SEM).
Address
Department of Physics, CP 204
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, Florida 33199