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Research

The Department of Physics and Astronomy conducts forefront research in a variety of areas in contemporary physics. Research expenditures exceed $6 million annually. Additionally, faculty from the department play a leadership role in several interdisciplinary centers and institutions. The faculty consists of 30 professors with Physics and Astronomy as their home department, and 28 research faculty and associates.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Theoretical Astrophysics Berlind, Holley-Bockelmann Astronomy Stassun, Weintraub Particle Astrophysics Csorna Condensed-Matter, Materials, and Optical Physics Carbon Nanotubes/Graphene Bolotin, Xu Free Electron Lasers Brau Nanocrystals and Thin Films Dickerson Condensed Matter/Materials Bolotin, Feldman Applied Optical Physics Haglund Molecular and Atomic Studies at Surfaces Tolk Theory Pantelides, Varga

Biological and Medical Physics Biophotonics Hutson Cell Physics Rericha Living State Physics Wikswo Magnetic Resonance Imaging Gore, Gochberg Medical/Health Physics Coffey, Stabin Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Piston Nuclear Physics Theory Ernst, Oberacker, Umar Nuclear Structure Hamilton, Ramayya Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics Greene, Maguire, Velkovska Particle Physics, Cosmology Experimental Particle Physics Johns, Sheldon, Webster Particle Theory, Cosmology Kephart, Scherrer, Weiler

Interdisciplinary Centers

• Advanced Computing Center for Research & Education (ACCRE)
• Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-Intensive Astrophysics (VIDA)
• Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE)
• Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)
• Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Science (VUIIS)

On-Campus Facilities

• 300kV Accelerator Lab
• Arthur J. Dyer Observatory
• Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer
• Keck Foundation Free-Electron Laser
• VINSE Core Laboratories
• VINSE Affiliated Laboratories
• Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer
• Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes
• Ultrafast Tunable Lasers
• Physics Analysis Cluster

Off-Campus Facilities

• Brookhaven National Laboratory: PHENIX at RHIC
• CHESS (Cornell)
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• CERN: CMS at the Large Hadron Collider
• Marshall Space Flight Center
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• SMARTS Telescopes (Chile)
• KELT-South Telescope (South Africa)

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