Notre Dame offers the research opportunities of a large university coupled with the environment of a small university. In physics, cutting-edge research is carried out in astrophysics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, condensed matter and biophysics, and atomic physics. Graduate and undergraduate students work with the faculty using local facilities as well as research facilities located in places such as Arizona (the Large Binocular Telescope on Mt. Graham), Illinois (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory), and Europe (CERN and Grenoble, France). Some of the facilities available on campus include the Nuclear Structure Laboratory with its three Van de Graaff accelerators, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory, and the Molecular Beam Epitaxy facility.
Degrees Offered
Applicants are admitted primarily to the Ph.D. program
Ph.D. in Physics
M.S. in Physics
Contact Info
Department of Physics
225 Nieuwland Science Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0369
(574) 631-4001
physics.nd.edu
email: Shelly Goethals
Department Chairperson:
Christopher Kolda
Director of Graduate Studies:
Chris Howk
Research Centers, Institutes and Programs
- Center for Astrophysics at Notre Dame University (CANDU)
- Center for Complex Network Research
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute (EMSI)
- Institute of Theoretical Sciences: Notre Dame/Argonne (ITS)
- Joint Institute of Nuclear Astrophysics
- Laboratory for Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Semiconductor Nanostructures (MBE)
- Nuclear Structure Laboratory: ISNAP (NSL)
- QuarkNet Center at Notre Dame