Department of Physics
Welcome to the U-Albany Physics Department. Our department has about a dozen faculty, 45 graduate and 140 undergraduate majors. Faculty and students in the department carry out research in a broad range of fields - from a new understanding of quantum mechanics to the search for fundamental particles to robotics and medical imaging. Fundamentally, physicists develop models for understanding how the world works. The training is a basis for a broad range of careers that rely on analytical problem solving. These fields are as diverse as cosmology, engineering, software development, and financial analysis.
We are currently seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Experimental Physics with a focus in Bayesian and/or Information-theoretic methods. Click here for more information.
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News & Announcements
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Symposium in Honor of Professor Tara Prasad Das
On October 26th 2012, the Department hosts a special symposium to honor Professor Das’s more than five decades of contribution to the understanding of the electronic structure and hyperfine properties of atoms, molecules and condensed matter systems. Please click here for more information.
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Albany physics is number 1!According to 2011 data released by the National Research Council, the physics department at UAlbany was #1 amongst 161 physics programs nationally in the number of published articles per faculty member, #2 in the number of doctoral graduates per faculty member and #17 in the number of citations per faculty member.
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New Faculty Position now open
The Department seeks applicants with expertise in experimental physics with a focus in Bayesian and/or Information-theoretic methods. The position is tenure track and open rank, starting Fall 2013. Click here for more information.
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Prof. Philip Goyal publishes new article "Information Physics—Towards a New Conception of Physical Reality"
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STUDENT SUCCESS
Maggie Lovell awarded a 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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