Check out some of our outstanding graduates from the College of Science! Check out our graduates!
Third place went to “Drone-based Quantum Communication,” a team that included students from FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Alexandra DeCesare, Daniel Carvalho, and Robert Snyder. Read More.
Undergraduate Student Researchers in the Quantum OWLS Lab launches Company QCSwarm, Inc. Read More.
Undergraduate students in the Quantum Information Science class led by Warner Miller, Ph.D., are in drone flight school, training to conduct quantum experiments. View photos.
Afrouz Ataei, Maryam Ghonchehnaz, and Panagiota Galanakou won awards at the FL Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine! Read more.
SPS National Office recognizes FAU student chapter. Read more.
Professor of Medical Physics elected 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Read more.
The Physics Department is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching immersed within a multidisciplinary science environment. At the undergraduate level we offer BS and BA degrees. Our graduate program leads to MS and PhD degrees, and a new Professional MS in Medical Physics.
Our active research areas include Classical and Quantum Gravity, Astrophysics, Physics of Materials and Biological Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Neuroscience, Nonlinear Systems, and Medical Physics.
Remembering Professor Emeritus Clyde BurnettClyde Ray Burnett, Ph.D., a longstanding faculty member in the Department of Physics at Florida Atlantic University, died peacefully in his mountain home near Rollinsville, Colorado on May 27, 2020, after a short illness. Read more.
Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., Installed as Inaugural Bjorn Lamborn Endowed Chair in AstrophysicsLamborn’s philanthropic dream came to fruition on July 1, 2020, with the installation of Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., as the inaugural chair holder of the Bjorn Lamborn Endowed Chair in Astrophysics. Read more.
Medical Physics Alumna Maryam Ghasemi Ghonchehnazi Accepted into a Radiation Oncology Residency ProgramMaryam Ghasemi, an alumna of the Professional Science Master in Medical Physics was admitted into a residency program at the University of California at San Diego Department of Radiation Oncology. Read more.
