Warner A. Miller, Ph.D. and collaborators found that light’s polarization, the direction it vibrates as it travels, can behave in an unexpected way when passing through curved space. Read More.
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 Ph.D. degrees, the Professional MS in Medical Physics, and Medical Physics Certificate for PhD holders.
Our active research areas include Classical and Quantum Gravity, Astrophysics, Physics of Materials and Biological Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Neuroscience, Nonlinear Systems, and Medical Physics.
Gianni Sims had her stellar research on one of the most mysterious objects in the observable universe—supermassive black holes—featured in Nature, as part of Black Space Week 2025. Read more.
“One of the greatest strengths of our study is the amount of data we were able to collect,” said Christopher Beetle, Ph.D., senior author and an associate professor of physics, FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.“ Read more.
Eric Vandernoot, Astronomy and Physics Lab Coordinator, and Observatory Manager, was a guest teacher for a full day packed with learning, demonstrations and the chance to view the Sun safely through a solar telescope. Read more.
Congratulations to four outstanding Schmidt College of Science, Department of Physics, Professional Science Master in Medical Physics (PSMMP) graduate students who were admitted to medical physics residencies this year. Read more.
Assistant Professor of Physics Yichen Hu, Ph.D., has been named as a visiting scholar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), at the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the world's leading institutes for fundamental research in physics. Read more.
Ananya Adhikari, M.S. '18, is working toward his second Florida Atlantic degree as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics. His dissertation spans the topics of computational general relativity, gravitational wave physics, and multimessenger astrophysics. Read more.
Qiaoyin Pan, Ph.D., gave a seminar at Beijing Normal University on Aug. 2 about the quantum gravity research she is currently conducting as a Schmidt College of Science Jumpstart Postdoctoral Program member. Read more.
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