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 full-time faculty members assisted by a varying number of adjunct instructors. The department offers a bachelor of science degree, a minor in physics, a Master of Science in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Physics. The members of support staff manage 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: Members of the astronomy group have interests including the structure and evolution of close-binary systems, VLA radio observations of dwarf galaxies, and multi-frequency observations of quasars and active galactic nuclei.
Atomic and Molecular Physics: An experimental group specializing in atomic and molecular interactions, the interactions of atoms and molecules with intense radiation fields, and the development of narrow line width diode lasers system.
Biophysics: Experimental studies of temporal processing in the human eye. Theoretical studies of phase transitions in amorphous system and electron transfer in protein
Experimental Nuclear Physics: A experimental group exploring the quark and gluon substructure of matter at accelerators including the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
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.
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