All Projects
Our faculty are engaged in research across a wide spectrum of physics and astronomy subfields. A complete list current projects appears below.
Astrophysics Projects
- Computational Stellar Evolution
- Distances to the Remnants of Recent Supernova Explosions in the Milky Way
- Exploring the Connection Between Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes
- Fundamental Astronomy of Cataclysmic Binaries
- High Altitude Aerial Platforms for Astronomical Research
- Ionized Nebulae in AGN: Cosmic Fluorescent Lamps Powered by Massive Black Holes
- Searching for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dwarf Starburst Galaxies
- Stellar Populations
- The Evolution of Blue Spectral Features in Late-Time Type Ia Supernova Spectra
- The Expansion Kinematics of High Mass Supernovae
- The Most Extreme Starburst Galaxies in the Universe
- Uncovering Powerful Obscured Quasars
Quantum and Condensed Matter Projects
- An Analog Circuits Approach to Quantum Systems
- Dynamics and Control of Open Quantum Systems
- Engineering Quantum Dynamics of Low Dimensional Spin Networks
- Entanglement and Quantum Correlations
- Generation of Quantum States of Light with a Josephson Laser
- Gravitationally Induced Decoherence
- High-Fidelity Control and Readout of Spins in Semiconductors
- Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Quantum Thermodynamics
- Measurement of Single Phonons with Single Photons
- Optimizing Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
- Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms in Engineered Optical Potentials
- Quantum-Classical Correspondence for Strongly Nonlinear, Circuit QED Based Systems
- Readout of Spin Qubits in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots Using a Cavity Embedded Cooper Pair Transistor
- Symmetry Breaking and Critical Scaling in Ultracold Quantum Gases
- Topological Quantum Matter
Plasma and Space Physics Projects
- BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses)
- Characterizing the out-of-ecliptic solar wind
- Computer simulations of stellar winds interacting with the interstellar medium
- Evolution of the Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts
- Green Cube
- Isinglass
- ISINGLASS: 2016
- Magnetic Reconnection
- Measuring Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Using Transmitters of Opportunity
- Mechanism for higher harmonic radio emission from aurorae
- Plasma Turbulence
- Polarization, fine structure and occurrence rates of ground-level AKR
- Seeking the generation mechanism for Bursty radio emissions from Earth's ionosphere
- Simulating trajectories of interstellar atoms measured by the NASA/IBEX satellite
- Simulations of whistler chorus waves
- Understanding wave-particle interactions in Earth's polar cusps