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Department of Physics

Welcome to the NC State Department of Physics. Our award-winning researchers and teachers guide students through a broad, rigorous curriculum, and our graduates have been highly successful in both academia and industry. Our research programs cover a diverse spectrum including astrophysics, general relativity, condensed matter theory and experiment, computational physics, biophysics, nanoscale science, physics education, experimental nuclear physics, particle and nuclear theory, experimental optics, and atomic and molecular theory. Total funding for our research programs ranks in the top three among departments at NC State University and in the top twenty-five of physics departments in the nation.

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Department Head: John Blondin
Riddick Hall, Suite 421, Box 8202
2401 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695-8202

Phone: (919) 515-2521
Fax: (919) 515-6538

Comments: webmaster Last updated: May 29, 2012

News:

Eli Owens
Graduate student's paper named in EPL's "Best of 2011". - 2012.05.28
Eli Owens and Karen Daniels paper on Sound propagation and force chains in granular materials was named one of the "Best of 2011" articles published in EPL. [More]

Prof. Davide Lazzati
Lazzati quoted in Nature News - 2012.05.08
New results on the physics of gamma-ray bursts were described in a Nature News article:
Cosmic blasts powered by a hot glow

Michael Collins assembling part of his gas diffusion apparatus
Physics Senior wins at annual university-wide research poster competition - 2012.04.30
Michael Collins was a winner at the 21st Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium...
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Professor Thomas Russell to give NC State Physics' Derieux Science Lecture for 2012 - 2012.04.25
Click below for more information on the Derieux Lecture and this year's speaker...
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Organic Film Rendering
Ade group publishes full article in Nature Materials - 2012.04.17
Dr. Brian Collins, of the Ade research group, along with collaborators have published a full article in Nature Materials... [More]

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