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Physics Colloquium: Thursday, 8/30 at 4:10 PM in Lewis Lab 316. Refreshments available at 3:45 PM in the nearby coffee room. Speaker: Rajarshi Roy; Random Numbers from Light: Photons, Chaos and Entropy. Click for Announcement
Faculty Search. Stay tuned...
Stay Tuned for announcements of other upcoming activities in the Department of Physics.
Department of Physics at Lehigh University
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Our Department offers programs leading to the B.A. in Astronomy, the B.S. in Astrophysics, and to the B.A., B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics, as well as a summer research program for undergraduates.
Research Opportunities are available in the following areas...
- Accelerator Physics
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Biophysics
- Computational Physics
- Condensed-Matter Physics
- Cosmology and String Theory
- High Energy Physics
- Nano Science
- Non-Linear Optics and Photonics
- Plasma Physics
- Soft-Condensed Matter and Complex Fluids
- Statistical Physics
The Department of Physics is housed in the Sherman Fairchild Center for the Physical Sciences, containing Lewis Laboratory, the Sherman Fairchild Laboratory for Solid State Studies, and a large connecting research wing.
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Fall 2017. Welcome to the Fall Semester 2017. We are well into fall semester and the colors are changing on the Lehigh campus. The department is also full of changes, among them exciting ones such as the arrival of a new faculty member to Lehigh. In August, Ariel Sommer joined us from MIT.
His field is Atomic and Molecular Physics. His lab is currently under construction and will offer exciting research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Unfortunately, Slava Rotkin, has decided to leave for a new opportunity at Penn State University. A search for his replacement is currently underway. You can see our advertisement for the new faculty position by clicking here.
This fall, we have already hosted a symposium in honor of Professor Gunton which highlighted his accomplishments. An article detailing the event can be found here and a video of the whole event can be viewed on youtube.
Volkmar Dierolf