Prof. Bigelow is the Chair of the Fundamental Physics Discipline Working Group in the NASA Microgravity Physics Program and he has been the organizer and co-organizer of various research meetings and conferences. Prof. Bigelow has served as an invited researcher in the laser cooling groups at the the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel in Paris, France, the Institude d'Optique in Orsay, France and at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Prof. Bigelow concurrently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and as the Chair of the Board on Academic Honesty for the College. Bigelow's research interests are in the areas of Quantum Optics and Quantum Physics. Bigelow's current experimental research activities center around the creation and manipulation of ultracold atomic vapors which are mixtures of atoms of distinct atomic species.
Experiments are also underway on quantum noise in atomic measurement.
More details about the activities of Prof. Bigelow's research group can be found here . Professor Bigelow is a member of the Rochester Quantum Information Center and the Univesity of Rochester's Materials Science Program and is a cohort of the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering.