• colloquium: Thoughts about Animal Motion from a Physicist's Perspective: Epidemics Spread and Related Problems
  Dr. V. M. Kenkre, University of New Mexico

05/01/2008, Thursday 3:30 pm, NSC 220


• seminar: Coherence Time in Open Quantum Dots
  Dr. Mike Grobis, Stanford
  04/22/2008, Tuesday 3:30 pm, NSC 220



• High Energy/Cosmology Buffalo-Rochester Journal Club

• 2008 Rustgi Lecture: (Poster)
  
  Using the universe as a microscope to probe the micro-structure of space and time
  Dr. Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  04/04/2008, Friday 4:30 PM
  225 Natural Sciences Complex Amherst Campus



• Professor Rustgi and the Rustgi Lectures

We have vigorous cutting-edge interdisciplinary research programs in new materials, nanoscience, quantum devices, biomolecular physics, complex systems, cosmology, and high-energy physics.

• Department in the News
  
  
• The Department is growing with 16 new faculty members joining us since 2002.
  
  
• 5 NSF Career Awards have been awarded recently.
  
  
• The Department has been ranked 16th in the country in a recent study by Academic Analytics.
  
  
• The department has opened a permanent Physics and Arts exhibition with a Reception on May 5, 2006 in the foyer of Fronczak Hall !
  
  
• Prof. Jorge Jose has been named a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS ). Link to the news.
  
  
• Linux cluster "Quantum" (~ 200 GFLOPS) has arrived!