High energy experimentalists are leading an international team to develop systems to detect new elementary particles at the highest man-made energies at CERN in Geneva. High energy theorists are leaders in developing fundamental unifying principles to describe elementary particles. The Quantum Theory Project dedicated to high power computational problems in molecular properties, nanoclusters, and chemical physics is one of only a few of its kind in the world. Physics research involves both large interdisciplinary teams and small groups centered around a single professor. All groups include students at several levels, from high school to undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral.
Teamwork is critical.
The importance of physics in everyday life cannot be underestimated. Ultimately, they have had tremendous impact on improving our way of life. Some of today's experiments testing quantum mechanics will lead to tomorrow's breakthrough technologies, and only the most foolhardy would predict which ones. The new Physics Building has been a crucial factor in developing our new frontier research and educational programs. Without the additional space we could not have developed the new experimental research efforts or modernized our instructional programs.